ABSTRACT
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 |108 pages
Health and Development: Perspectives and Issues
chapter 4|18 pages
Traditional Medicine
part |88 pages
Development and the Health of Places and Groups
chapter 10|12 pages
Socio-Economic Change and the Health of Elderly People
chapter 12|15 pages
Primary Health Care and Selective PHC
part |121 pages
Regional Issues in Health and Development