Health and development
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Health and development
Routledge, 1994
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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ISBN 9780415085281
Description
Health is an elusive concept and environmental change is leading us to new health risks and exposure to new forms of danger. Development, in its many facets, can have very positive, but also negative, effects on physical and mental health. Poverty continues to afflict Third World cities and increasing numbers in the developed world. Meanwhile macro-economic policies, recession in the West, debt servicing in the Third World and the impacts of structural adjustment policies, often mean cutbacks in already poor health services, and increases in differential access to resources and health care. Yet people are living longer, their lifestyles are changing and so too are the diseases from which they suffer. Clearly structured, with regional and country case studies accompanying conceptual and thematic sections, "Health and Development" focuses on central issues such as the effects of economic adjustment and environmental change on health, the possiblity of extending health services, socio-cultural factors in HIV/AIDS transmission, and the health of women beyond that of maternal and child health.
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: pbk ISBN 9780415085298
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Health and Development presents a broad and detailed description of the multifaceted aspects of health and development across the globe. People are living longer, their lifestyles are changing and so too are the diseases from which they suffer. Recession in the North and debt servicing in the South have reduced public expenditure on health and welfare. The links between regional, economic and environmental factors and the health of a population are becoming clearer. Does development mean a longer life of lower quality? Always alive to both the global and the local implications, the authors focus in particular on the critical issues surrounding environmental impact, the interaction of poverty and health, socio-cultural factors in HIV/AIDS transmission, the use of traditional and community health care resources and women's health.
Table of Contents
Part I Health and development: perspectives and issues 1 INTRODUCTION: HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT 2 GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND HEALTH 3 ECONOMIC CRISIS, ADJUSTMENT AND THE IMPACT ON HEALTH 4 TRADITIONAL MEDICINE: ITS EXTENT AND POTENTIAL FOR INCORPORATION INTO MODERN NATIONAL HEALTH SYSTEMS 5 CULTURAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL FACTORS UNDERLYING THE GLOBAL PATTERN OF THE TRANSMISSION OF HIV/AIDS 6 THE GLOBAL PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY: HEALTH, DEVELOPMENT AND BUSINESS Part II Development and the health of places and groups 7 CITIES AND HEALTH IN THE THIRD WORLD 8 THE HEALTH OF WOMEN: BEYOND MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH 9 MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CARE STRATEGIES 10 SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHANGE AND THE HEALTH OF ELDERLY PEOPLE: FUTURE PROSPECTS FOR THE DEVELOPING WORLD 11 CARING FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE: WORKFORCE ISSUES AND DEVELOPMENT QUESTIONS 12 PRIMARY HEALTH CARE AND SELECTIVE PHC: COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT Part III Regional issues in health and development 13 THE POORER THIRD WORLD: HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE IN AREAS THAT HAVE YET TO EXPERIENCE SUBSTANTIAL DEVELOPMENT 14 SPATIAL INEQUALITIES AND HISTORICALEVOLUTION IN HEALTH PROVISION: INDIAN AND ZAMBIAN EXAMPLES 15 HEALTH CARE IN LATIN AMERICA 16 HEALTH CARE IN THE THIRD WORLD: AFRICA 17 HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH CARE IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA 18 HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT UNDER STATE SOCIALISM: THE HUNGARIAN EXPERIENCE 19 SOUTHERN EUROPE: HEALTH IN AREAS THAT HAVE UNDERGONE RECENT DEVELOPMENT: DEMOGRAPHIC AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ISSUES 20 HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT: RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT
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