Synopsis This book examines Preventive and Promotive Services like-Administration of Rural Hospitals; Health Care Policy and Administration in India; The New Millennium Rural and Slums Health Care in India; Role of Hospitals in Primary Health Care; Primary Health Care Administration in a Hilly State; Urban Health: Healthy Cities; District Health System; Health Education in the Community; Establishment of Community-based Health Service; Evaluation in Health; Administration of Family Planning Programme; Reproductive and Child Health Services; Family Welfare in Punjab; Indian Systems of Medicine and Homeopathy; Role of World Health Medicine and Homeopathy; Role of World Health Organisation in the Promotion of Health; The Role of Informatics in Health Care and Hospital Administration; Health Care Delivery during Disaster. These services are more important and hospitals must play a positive role for them as prevention is better than cure. All the chapters have been written by experts based on their wide readings, personal experience and research. The chapters have been supplemented with constructive suggestions based on facts to improve the functions of hospitals. It is hoped that this book would be of great help to the policy-makers, planners and decision-makers as well as to those interested in hospitals administration for study and research. In his Foreword to this book Padmashree Dr. C.P. Thakur, has beautifully stressed the importance of this book.