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Current Catalog
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Community Health Workers
Community Health Workers: The Tanzanian Experience profiles the history, the present condition, and the future prospects of Tanzanian community health workers. Based on collaborative research and extensive surveys and interviews conducted by the authors from 1980 to 1983, this comprehensive work details the successes and shortcomings of Tanzania's program of primary health care, and provides a valuable example for the establishment of similar, and particularly larger, health care programs in East and South Africa and throughout the developing nations of the world. Primary health care professionals and students of public health administration will value this timely assessment of the state of Tanzania's community health services.
Reaching New Highs
The war on drugs is being lost. Vast sums are spent by the United States and other countries on preventing the flow of drugs, but drug supplies cannot be stopped while demand remains so high and the drug business continues to be so profitable. Despite national and international efforts, the drug tide seems unimpeded and no standard treatment/rehabilitation programme can claim particular success. Within the last several years, increasing interest is being shown in alternative and folk methods of treating addicts. While it is recongnized that no one therapeutic programme can be consistently the best or most appropriate for all addicts, the almost uniform lack of success of standard hospital-based addiction therapy programmes indicates a success rate far superior to that of orthodox methods.
Social Change and Health in Tanzania
Africa is experiencing dramatic processes of social change, with evident consequences for health. This collection of papers examines the impacts of modern developments on health in Tanzania with a view to establishing patterns at a continental level. The contributors consider how social change is impacting on young people's health, HIV/AIDS and mental health. It further considers the implications of poverty and social inequalities for health, concluding that the poorest suffer the adverse health effects of social change disproportionately; and that the effects of globalisation, if unchecked left, herald severe consequences for the health of poor countries.
Pathologies of Power
"Pathologies of Power" uses harrowing stories of life and death to argue thatthe promotion of social and economic rights of the poor is the most importanthuman rights struggle of our times.
Culture and Meaning in Health Services Research
Culture and Meaning in Health Services Research is a practical guide to applying interpretive qualitative methods to pressing healthcare delivery problems. A leading medical anthropologist who has spent many years working in applied healthcare settings, Sobo combines sophisticated theoretical insights and methodological rigor with authentic, real-world examples and applications. In addition to clearly explaining the nuanced practice of ethnography and guiding the reader through specific methods that can be used in focus groups or interviewing to yield useful findings, Sobo considers the social relationships and power dynamics that influence field entry, data ownership, research deliverables, and authorship decisions. Crafted to communicate the importance of culture and meaning across the many disciplines engaged in health services research, this book is ideal for courses in such fields as public health and health administration, nursing, anthropology, health psychology, and sociology.
