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Over six decades, India's Five Year Plans have built up a vast health infrastructure and invested massive amounts of money in medical education, training, and research. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the current status of health and health-related services in India, and explains the procedures, objectives, achievements, and failures of the Five Year Plans. The main section contains extracts from each plan, detailing objectives, policies, programs, and achievements in the areas of public health, family planning and welfare, nutrition, sanitation, safe drinking water, environmental health, control of diseases, indigenous systems of medicine, medical education, training and research, and other health-related matters. A final section includes health-related statistics for India. Distributed in North America by ISBS. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)