User configuration and perspective - Hepatitis B introductory trial in East Delhi

The aim of this paper is to delineate the different user representations of a new EPI vaccine. Among the range of users, the mother of the child in a distinctive local world emerges as the target riser The East Delhi Introduc tory Trial constitutes the ethnographic site for an understanding of user c onstructions among various public health officials. Corresponding to these user representations are the lived experiences of actual users negotiating with health problems in their everyday lives in specific local settings. Th e concluding section of the paper will compare and contrast providers' repr esentations of the user with the users' self-representations as appropriato rs of child health services in both the community and biomedical spaces.