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Intensifying the Fight Against Malaria
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 150

Intensifying the Fight Against Malaria

control in Africa, will intensify its efforts to help more African countries to achieve and sustain large-scale impact on malaria." --Book Jacket.

India
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

India

India, long known for its huge population, religious conflicts and its status as not-quite best friend ally of the United States has moved from the backwaters of world attention to centre stage. Afghanistan and Pakistan with whom India is in almost conflict, are neighbours. India has developed a nuclear capability which also has a way of grabbing attention. This book discusses current issues and historical background and provides a thorough index important to a better understanding of this diverse country.

Curbing the Epidemic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 140

Curbing the Epidemic

Annotation. Addresses important economic and social issues confronting policymakers when dealing with the issue of tobacco control and its impact on the social and economic resources of both developed and developing countries.

No More to Spend
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 299

No More to Spend

Using the political and medical history of Malawi as a fundamental example, Luke Messac explains relationship between a nation's political history and its approaches to health care.

Medicine and the Market
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

Medicine and the Market

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-05-22
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

Outstanding Academic Title for 2007, Choice Magazine Much has been written about medicine and the market in recent years. This book is the first to include an assessment of market influence in both developed and developing countries, and among the very few that have tried to evaluate the actual health and economic impact of market theory and practices in a wide range of national settings. Tracing the path that market practices have taken from Adam Smith in the eighteenth century into twenty-first-century health care, Daniel Callahan and Angela A. Wasunna add a fresh dimension: they compare the different approaches taken in the market debate by health care economists, conservative market advo...

Improving Primary Health Care Delivery in Nigeria
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 122

Improving Primary Health Care Delivery in Nigeria

This paper, based on quantitative surveys at the level of primary health care facilities, health care personnel, and households in their vicinity, aims at understanding the performance of primary health care providers in four states in Nigeria. As possible ways to improve performance, the paper concludes that clearly defining lines of responsibility, implementing performance-based financing of local governments and providers, and collecting, analyzing, and sharing information are some options that can help realign incentives and improve accountability in the service delivery chain and service provision. This working paper was produced as part of the World Bank s Africa Region Health Systems ...

Improving Health, Nutrition, and Population Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

Improving Health, Nutrition, and Population Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa

Annotation This book takes an in-depth look at health, nutrition and population challenges faced by Sub-Sharan Africa, particularly how disease, malnutrition and high fertility affect poverty reduction.

World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2018
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 894

World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2018

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-05-29
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book (vol. 1) presents the proceedings of the IUPESM World Congress on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics, a triennially organized joint meeting of medical physicists, biomedical engineers and adjoining health care professionals. Besides the purely scientific and technological topics, the 2018 Congress will also focus on other aspects of professional involvement in health care, such as education and training, accreditation and certification, health technology assessment and patient safety. The IUPESM meeting is an important forum for medical physicists and biomedical engineers in medicine and healthcare learn and share knowledge, and discuss the latest research outcomes and technological advancements as well as new ideas in both medical physics and biomedical engineering field.

Plagues and the Paradox of Progress
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

Plagues and the Paradox of Progress

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-10-01
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

Why the news about the global decline of infectious diseases is not all good. Plagues and parasites have played a central role in world affairs, shaping the evolution of the modern state, the growth of cities, and the disparate fortunes of national economies. This book tells that story, but it is not about the resurgence of pestilence. It is the story of its decline. For the first time in recorded history, virus, bacteria, and other infectious diseases are not the leading cause of death or disability in any region of the world. People are living longer, and fewer mothers are giving birth to many children in the hopes that some might survive. And yet, the news is not all good. Recent reductio...

Social Development and Absolute Poverty in Asia and Latin America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 62

Social Development and Absolute Poverty in Asia and Latin America

"Using econometric techniques analyzes causes of widespread poverty in Latin America and the 10 largest East and South Asian countries. Concludes that slow economic growth is not the only explanatory variable, and cites importance of schools and health care"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.