Health and development [electronic resource] : toward a matrix approach / edited by Anna Gatti and Andrea Boggio.

There is a growing awareness of the crucial relationship between health and development. However, while the importance of this relationship may be obvious, scholars are still debating about the nature of it, and different assumptions on this crucial relationship have an impact on the agenda of inter...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Gatti, Anna (Editor), Boggio, Andrea (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Global health : getting it right / Laurie Garrett and Kammerle Schneider
  • The World Health Organization and its role in health and development / Riikka Koskenmaki, Egle Granziera, and Gian Luca Burci
  • Beyond the matrix : thinking three-dimensionally about social determinants of health / Ted Schrecker & Ronald Labonte
  • Research and innovation in health and development / Stephen A. Matlin
  • Health and evolution / Francesco Cavalli Sforza
  • Health and development : an economic perspective / David Evans
  • Health, development, and human rights / Stephen Marks
  • Health and development : an ethics perspective / Andrea Boggio
  • Health and development : the role of international organizations in population ageing / Chris Phillipson, Carroll Estes, and Elena Portacolone.
  • Child health and development / Linda Richter and Chris Desmond
  • Women health and development / Lenore Manderson
  • Long term impacts of leading chronic diseases in low and middle income countries : a comparative analysis / David Stuckler and Derek Yach
  • Strategies for financing universal access to health care and prevention : lessons learned and perspective for the 21st century / Sergio Spinaci and Valerie Crowel
  • HIV epidemic and response : social, economic, and development impact / Kerry A. Kutch, Dongbao Yu, and Yves Souteyrand
  • Global TB control : persisting problem, shifting solutions / Mukund W. Uplekar and Mario C. Raviglione.