Health and Development

by David Phillips (Editor), Yola Verhasselt (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134885886
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/11/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	348
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

David R. Phillips is Director of the Institute of Population Studies and Reader in Health Studies at the University of Exeter, and Chair of the International Geographical Union Commission on Health, Environment and Development. Yola Verhasselt is Professor of Geography at the Free University, Brussels, and was Chair of the International Geographical Union Commission on Health and Development.

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

Editorial Reviews

'This comprehensive and complete work will save many a researcher weeks of hunting around for the latest tables and figures (I checked to see if there were any more recent data for some key tables and found none). There are many issues dealt with in depth by the best of scholars, many with first-hand experience of the countries and health problems under discussion. ... this user-friendly mine of data is thematic and lucid.' - The Lancet

'Health and Development can be recommended as a source text for students ... an easily accessible book for the general reader, also, it should prove popular through the rest of the decade.' - International Journal of Edidemiology

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