Development and Health
Published on 21. November 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
40 pages
978-0-340-55395-4 (ISBN)
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Description
This is the first book in a new series of resource books written for the revised Higher Grade in geography. It is written to cover the application "development and health" and the associated core area "population". The case studies and enquiry-based approach make this book suitable for A-level syllabuses, allowing students to develop an understanding of the concepts and issues involved in the topics of development and health in developing countries. What is meant by development, ways of measuring development, theories and applications are considered alongside a range of case studies. Population structure and change, migration and health are also investigated with the aid of a strong range of case studies.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hodder Arnold
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
College/higher education
Illustrations
b&w illustrations, glossary, bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 268 mm
Width: 200 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
125 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-340-55395-4 (9780340553954)
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Content
Part 1 What do we mean by development?: development indicators; economic; social; composite; PQLI index; who's who - the maze of terminology, the 36 LDCs, regional inequalities, case study - Brazil. Part 2 Measuring the population: problems with the census, case study - Peru, demographic transition, population pyramids. Part 3 Migration: types of migration; reasons for migration; effects on the population structure; effects of migration; case studies - rural/urban - Nigeria; refugees; Horn of Africa; spontaneous international; Southern Italy. Part 4 Health and the control of disease: contrasts between the developed and Third Worlds; physical factors affecting disease case study - water; schistosomiasis; malaria; diahorrea; United Nations drinking and sanitation decade; Tamil Nadu; wateraid; primary health care case studies - China; Mozambique; work of WHO; case studies - immunization; smallpox edadication; eradication of malaria; role of women. Part 5 Problems of development: the Rostow model; myrdal's multiplier theory; Frank and Blaut; case study - Brazil; the debt crisis; IMF; world bank; case study - Mexico; problems of development; case study - the volta dam.