Author: Sidney B. WestleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Child Survival and Healthcare in Developing Countries in Asia
Author: Sidney B. WestleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
The State of Asia-Pacific's Children 2008
Author: UNICEF StaffPublisher: UNICEF
ISBN: 9280642499
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Population and Health in Developing Countries
Author: Maryse GaimardPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400767935
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
This book provides an overview of the health of developing nations in the early twenty-first century. The basic assumption is that the health of a population is not independent of broader demographic trends, and does follow the health transition model. The coverage is broad, ranging from health transition in developing countries, to the health of women, to an analysis of morbidity. Population health is an essential component of human and social development. As both a means and an end of development, health lies at the heart of underdevelopment, and ranks first on the list of international priorities. The WHO slogan ‘Health for all in 2000’ reflects the spirit of a more general movement in favor of health promotion throughout the world. But the developing world is far from reaching this aim. The health of populations has improved in developing regions but there are still deep inequalities, and serious problems remain, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. After reviewing the core concepts of population health, the book examines health transition in developing countries, a process that has resulted in a double burden of diseases. A discussion of mortality in developing countries serves to highlight the high rates of child mortality in these regions. The book devotes a full chapter to women’s health, and its chapter-length analysis of morbidity highlights the double burden weighing down developing populations and concludes with an analysis of health systems in developing countries.
The State of the World's Children 2008
Author: UNICEF.Publisher: UNICEF
ISBN: 9280641913
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The 2008 report examines the state of child survival and primary health care for children, with a strong emphasis on trends in child mortality.
Health Care of Women and Children in Developing Countries
Author: Helen M. WallacePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
After an overview of women's health, including issues such as poverty, family planning programmes, and urbanization, this comprehensive volume features over 70 essays by doctors, health-care practitioners and policy-makers writing on sexual and reproductive health; maternal and child health and adolescent health. Bibliography; tables; graphs.
Human Development in South Asia 2004
Author: Mahbub ul Haq Human Development CentrePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Mahbub ul Haq's Human Development Centre's 2004 Report on the challenge of health underlies the imperative of focusing on a human-centred economic growth policy in South Asia that is based on improved health and education.
Policies and Strategies for Child Survival
Author: K. MahadevanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child health services
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Millennium Development Goals For Health In Europe And Central Asia
Author: World BankPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821358788
Category : Health planning
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Epidemiological Transition
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309048397
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This book examines issues concerning how developing countries will have to prepare for demographic and epidemiologic change. Much of the current literature focuses on the prevalence of specific diseases and their economic consequences, but a need exists to consider the consequences of the epidemiological transition: the change in mortality patterns from infectious and parasitic diseases to chronic and degenerative ones. Among the topics covered are the association between the health of children and adults, the strong orientation of many international health organizations toward infant and child health, and how the public and private sectors will need to address and confront the large-scale shifts in disease and demographic characteristics of populations in developing countries.
The Child in South Asia, Issues in Development as If Children Mattered
Author: David P. HaxtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child development
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Text of speeches, most by the author.