Judith Justice is Associate Professor of Health Policy and Medical Anthropology, University of California, San Francisco.

• AbbreviationsPreface1 IntroductionNepal: The SettingResearch Methods2 The Health Bureaucracies: Structure and Culture The Dynamics of Nepal's Bureaucracy Government Structure Traditional Patterns in Administrative Behavior The International Donor Agencies The World Health Organization (WHO) The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Interaction Between the Government and the Agencies Nepali Administrators and International Advisors 3 Policies and Plans International Health Policy and Nepal Hospital-Based and Vertical Programs The Shift to Integrated Basic HealthServices Integrated Community Health Program and Primary Health Care The Planning Process Country Health Programming Further Planning Efforts Planning for Community Participation: A Case Example 4 Delivering Services to Rural Villages A Partially Integrated Health Post A Fully Integrated Health Post The Local Panchayat Shortages The Villagers' Response to Services The District Health Office Problematic Roles of Health Workers The Invisible Health Worker: The Peon The Community Health Volunteer and the Village Health Worker 5 Sources and Channels of InformationSources of InformationReportsField TravelFormal and Informal MeetingsThe Flow of Information within Government Data, Plans, and Targets Vertical Barriers Horizontal Barriers Reliance on Quantitative Data 6 Sociocultural Information and the Health Planning Process The Anthropologist's Role in Planning Using Sociocultural Information toImprove Health Planning: A Case Study Some Suggestions for Changing the ANM's Role Overcoming Obstacles in the Health Bureaucracy Appendixes 1. A Chronology of Health-Sector Events in Nepal 2. Profile of Health Workers in ICHP 3. Job Descriptions for ICHP Functions of Community Health Volunteer Village Health Worker Assistant Nurse-Midwife (ANM) Notes Bibliography Index