Geographies of Health and Development (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Kerr, Rachel Bezner; Luginaah, Isaac

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book begins by exploring some of the circumstances surrounding the distinctive health inequities currently facing many developing countries, including malaria, maternal mortality and HIV/AIDS. This is followed by a discussion of how matters of physical access and human resource issues and, perhaps most importantly, the challenges of financing, together shape the access and utilization of health care. Examining how the environment interacts to influence the health of the people that live there, the next section includes discussion around challenges of food (in)security, and the importance of clean and uncontaminated water for health. Finally, the book explores the influence of globalization on health, specifically within the urban environment, against the backdrop of global health policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317129226
• Artikelnr.: 44865194

Autorenporträt

Isaac Luginaah is at The University of Western Ontario, Canada and Rachel Bezner Kerr, Cornell University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; Introduction
Isaac Luginaah
Rachel Bezner Kerr and Jenna Dixon. Part I Disparities in Health Outcomes and the Challenges to Health Equity: Malaria risk profiles
treatment seeking practices and disease intervention efforts in poor communities: a case study in Sierra Leone
Florence M. Margai and Jacob B. Minah; The geography of maternal mortality in Nigeria
Joseph R. Oppong and Jane Ebeniro; Sex [work] and [structural] violence: a study of commercial sex workers in Budhwar Peth
Pune
India
Jacqueline P. Hellen and Vandana Wadhwa; Aboriginal health and development: two steps forward and one step back?
Kathi Wilson
Mark. W. Rosenberg and Ashley Ning. Part II Health Access and Utilisation in Developing Countries: The place of 'health' in social health insurance in developing countries: a study in Ghana's Upper West Region
Jenna Dixon and Paul Mkandawire; From effective cure to affective care: access barriers and entitlements to health care among urban poor in Chennai
India
Christina Ergler
Patrick Sakdapolrak
Hans-George Bohle and Robin Kearns; Human resources for health: challenges facing Sub-Saharan Africa
Gavin George
Candice Reardon and Tim Quinlan; Wanting to care: a comparison of the ethics of health worker education in Cuba and the Philippines
Robert Huish. Part III Environmental Influences on Health and Development: Living in the same place
eating in a different space: food security and dietary diversity of youth living in rural northern Malawi
Lauren Classen
Rachel Bezner Kerr and Lizzie Shumba; Resource depletion
peak oil
and public health: planning for a slow growth future
Michael Pennock
Blake Poland and Trevor Hancock; The water-health nexus
Corinne J. Schuster-Wallace
Susan J. Elliott and Elijah Bisung; Groundwater arsenic contamination and its health and social impacts in rural Bangladesh
Bimal Kanti Paul. Part IV Globalisation and Urbanisation: Global Policy Consequences on Local Health Problems: Tubercu