Health Care Governance and Social Network of Women in India

Abstract

The study attempts to enquire into local action for civil society by examining the role of social network of SHGs in strengthening Local Agenda 21 for Health Care Governance. The study investigates problems, opportunities and benefits of forming social network of SHGs for planning needs assessment at village level by examining community participation, facility groups and availability of health care groups as components of governance. The study uses operationalisation of efforts by presenting results from a survey of 340 socially networked women by carrying out ordered logistic regression for effective use of resources. Four models of social networks have been considered for understanding health care governance. A communication strategy has been development and study identifies nine indicators for local authorities to think that society has started sustainability process  and concludes that such a participatory strategy leads to from mere ‘presentation' to ‘presence' of local people in health care governance.