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Item No Dignity, No Rights but Filth Forever: Manual Scavengers in Photographs(2019) Naomi Barton; Photographer-Sudhakar OlweThis Photo essay documents the state of manual scavengers at 16 locations across the states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh with a specific focus on women. It shows the deplorable condition of women and families trapped in the stranglehold and vicious cycle of caste based occupation of manual scavenging. Besides, it depicts systemic disempowerment and how we have become insensate to modern day slavery of manual scavenging.Item Tuberculosis Story(2021) Mohit GandhiThis is a story of Jeetan and Ram from Bihar, Vaishali district who migrate to Mumbai in search of work and start working at a construction site there in the stone crusher section. It highlights social and occupational risk factors of Tuberculosis and HIV and their interaction with the public health care delivery system. The case story highlights the journey of Jeetan and Ram from the development and manifestation of symptoms of TB to challenges in seeking treatment. The case study is divided into 9 sections, each section highlights some pertinent issues along with pointers for duscussion and some reflections.Item Women in the Lead- Monitoring Health Services in Bangladesh(2103) Samina Afrin; Sarita Barpanda; Abhijit DasA Series of case-studies that shows community organized efforts to negotiate better health care services from the State and women's fight for their reproductive rights and address gender based violence. Besides, it highlights the efforts of WHRAP initiative of Naripokkho to strengthen health systems accountability through its three pronged strategy viz. community monitoring of health clinics, training functionaries of its partnership organization and working in collaboration with member of parliament, local elected representative and members of hospital management to create a participatory review and planning mechanism.Item In the Nilgiris, an Inheritance of Malnutrition(2020) Priti DavidThe case study is a story of two women Kanaka and Suma from the tribal community in Gudalur that shows rising alcoholism, vicious cycle of severe malnutrition among women and children and its intergenerational transmission among the community members. The case study, also demonstrates how quantitative data or statistics in silos could be misleading and has the potential to mask the stark inequalities that might exist while simultaneously there could be an overall improvement in the health indicators of a community.Item The Long Road to the Sugarcane Fields(2017) M.N. ParthThe case study shows how agrarian crisis combined with lack of subsistence due to unavailability of work in villages of Beed District has induced mass migration of workers to seek work as an agricultural labourer in the Sugarcane fields. Besides, it highlights social disruptions and economic distress it has induced in workers lives and its consequences for their health.Item The Story of Selvi and Gopalan. The Last Resort: Why Patients with Severe Mental Disorders go to Therapeutic Shrines In India. From the Book- Restoring Mental Health in India: Pluralistic Therapies and Concepts(2009) Brigitte SebastiaThe case study explores various pertinent questions pertaining to people with mental disorders and the therapeutic route their family members choose. Besides, it explores when and why religious therapy is chosen for treatment of mental disorders and place of religious therapy. Why people visit therapeutic shrines and reasons for choosing religious therapy. The case study also deliberates upon the practice of Psychiatry and history of various treatment practices for patients with mental disorders involving double treatment combining religious therapy and medicine. It illuminates medical pluralism, stereotyping gender question, religion and science.Item Obesity Prevention in Children: Media Campaigns, Stigma and Ethics. (From the Book-Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe)(2016) Erika Blacksher; D.H. Barret et al. (Edited)This case study raises issues of vulnerability, stigma, State coercion and intrusion in personal choices in designing media campain and strategies for prevention of obesity among children. It highlights ethical issues and challenges of health communication.Item Voluntary or Regulated? The Trans Fat Campaign in New York City(2012) Lisa ArmstrongThis case study explores the details of how decisions are made on a specific policy intervention. Who all are the actors and stakeholders involved in the process. It shows the interaction of science, ethics, politics and ethical issues in policy making. It also highlights preventive, promotive and curative aspects of chronic illnesses.Item Empowering Marginalized Indigenous Communities through the Monitoring of Public Health Care Servies in Guatemala(2014) Walter Flores; Lorena RuanoThe case study shows how Participatory Action Research (PAR) can be used to involve excluded population in changing social conditions. It further shows how PAR can be used to make Health System responsive and provide better health care services in terms of availability and access to resources and reducing maltreatment.Item Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action (SNEHA): An Ethos of Care(2023) Menaka Rao; Shantanu Menon; Kushagra Merchant; Aruna PandeyThis case study documents the journey of SNEHA- a public health organization that works in dense poor and low income urban settlements. It emphasizes on prevention and adopting community based approaches to reduce excessive reliance on institution-led public health delivery. It also documents organizational culture of appreciative inquiry, and use of technology and community based models that has allowed SNEHA to flourish in a rapidly urbanizing agglomeration.