
Health Intervention in Less Developed Nations
Stanley J. Ulijaszek(Editor)
Oxford University Press
Published on 10. August 1995
Book
Hardback
152 pages
978-0-19-852302-4 (ISBN)
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Description
This book examines the biological and social effects of various types of development-related health interventions on human groups and communities living in the less developed world. In particular, consideration is given to the relationship between economic factors, health interventions and health outcomes, the implementation of water and sanitation projects, health and immunization projects and their implications for human well-being. The questions of why expected
outcomes are not always achieved, and why achieved outcomes are often unpredictable, are also disussed.
This is an important volume for those involved in the design, and implementation of health intervention programmes in the developing world, as well as students and researchers of development economics, primary health care, nutrition, and anthropology. It is the first book to attempt a critical examination of the wider human implications of different types of health intervention, and draws together much material only otherwise available in policy documents and reports of international agencies
such as the World Health Organization.
outcomes are not always achieved, and why achieved outcomes are often unpredictable, are also disussed.
This is an important volume for those involved in the design, and implementation of health intervention programmes in the developing world, as well as students and researchers of development economics, primary health care, nutrition, and anthropology. It is the first book to attempt a critical examination of the wider human implications of different types of health intervention, and draws together much material only otherwise available in policy documents and reports of international agencies
such as the World Health Organization.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
line figures, tables
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
450 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-852302-4 (9780198523024)
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Editor
University Lecturer, Department of Biological AnthropologyUniversity of Cambridge
Content
1. Introduction ; 2. International aid to health schemes in the developing countries: the problem of recurrent costs ; 3. Nutrition intervention ; 4. International water decade and beyond: new public health interventions ; 5. Development, modernisation, and health intervention ; Index