• Bikash Bage

Access to Health Services: A Case Study of Arunachal Pradesh Bikash Bage Department of Sociology Rajiv Gandhi University, Ronohills, Doimukh 791112Arunachal Pradesh bagebikash3@gmail.com ABSTRACT Health is a gift of nature and it is influenced by factors like food, housing, hygiene and sanitation, lifestyles, environmental hazards and diseases. Health is a person’s right which results of living in accordance with the natural laws pertaining to the body, mind and environment. WHO defineshealth as ‘a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being of the individual and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’. In relation to the present study it can be understood as every nation for its citizen, aim at a better standard of living with treatment and management of reproductive illness through various reproductive medical health services. The main thrust of health care is to facilitate complete health that is influencedby health care centres, their proper administration and management of health workers working in the field. The tribal societies in Arunachal Pradesh are aware that health is important for the well- being of the individual, family, clan, and tribe. Good health has since then has been well valued, even as the lack of good healthhas been understood and accepted. While the health status of the people of Arunachal Pradesh is not found great in terms of conventional indicators in comparison to other states and regions of the country in absolute terms, however, given the scarce reach of health facilities to the unreachable, the resilience and inherent natural strides that the people own, has held them in comparably better state of overall health. The state is exposed to a new advancement and new factors influencing the life style encompassed with new illnesses and diseases. This has also led to paradigm shift of health seeking behaviour of the society from traditional cureon sexual and reproductive health care. This further has poised the society for need of improved access and provision of more medical services to prove the test of actual preparedness of the health system in the state.

Key words: Health services, Accessibility, Reproductive health, Preparedness

"Access to Health Services: A Case Study of Arunachal Pradesh", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.2104-2117, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905T98.pdf

"Access to Health Services: A Case Study of Arunachal Pradesh", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp2104-2117, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905T98.pdf