Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 provided by Syndetics

• Preface (p. xiv)
• Part I Health and Development: Perspectives and Issues (p. 1)
• 1 Introduction: Health and Development (p. 3)
• Statistical Sources (p. 30)
• 2 Global Environmental Change and Health (p. 33)
• References and Further Reading (p. 49)
• 3 Economic Crisis, Adjustment and the Impact on Health (p. 50)
• 4 Traditional Medicine (p. 65)
• 5 Cultural and Developmental Factors Underlying the Global Pattern of the Transmission of HIV/AIDS (p. 83)
• References (p. 96)
• 6 The Global Pharmaceutical Industry (p. 97)
• Part II Development and the Health of Places and Groups (p. 109)
• 7 Cities and Health in the Third World (p. 111)
• References (p. 121)
• 8 The Health of Women (p. 122)
• References (p. 137)
• 9 Maternal and Child Health Care Strategies (p. 138)
• 10 Socio-Economic Change and the Health of Elderly People (p. 156)
• References (p. 167)
• 11 Caring for Elderly People (p. 168)
• 12 Primary Health Care and Selective Phc (p. 182)
• Part III Regional Issues in Health and Development (p. 197)
• 13 The Poorer Third World (p. 199)
• 14 Spatial Inequalities and Historical Evolution in Health Provision (p. 216)
• References (p. 233)
• 15 Health Care in Latin America (p. 234)
• 16 Health Care in the Third World: Africa (p. 249)
• 17 Health, Environment and Health Care in the People's Republic of China (p. 259)
• 18 Health and Development under State Socialism (p. 276)
• 19 Southern Europe: Health in Areas That Have Undergone Recent Development (p. 289)
• 20 Health and Development: Retrospect and Prospect (p. 301)
• Index (p. 319)