Health & The Developing World

Book : Health & The Developing World

Author : * John Bryant, M.D.

Language : English

Library : Social Phsician

Publish Place : New York

ISBN : 8014-0533-5

Publish Date : 00 1969

Publisher : Cornell University Press

Book Type : Book

Book Number : 3251

INDEX


CONTENTS
Foreword Preface
I Impressions II The Problems Countries Face
The Meaning of Being "Less Developed" Regional Profiles of Health The Changing Picture The Burden on Children Problems of Quantity
III How Countries Are Meeting Their
Health Problems
Malawi
Senegal
Sudan
A Latin-American Country
Thailand
Colombia
Summary
IV Health, National Development, and
Managerial Methods
The Interaction of Health and National DevelopmentThe Dilemma of Health Care and Population
Growth
Health as an Investment Problems of Managing Health Systems How Much Will a Dollar Buy? Summary
V Providing Health Care: Constraints and Consequences
The Quantitative Determinants
From the Constraints, the Consequences
VI The Health Team
The Roles of Physicians The Roles of Nurses The Roles of Auxiliaries
VII Education of the Health Team
Relevance and Reality Educating Physicians Educating Professional Nurses Educating Auxiliaries
VIII On the Economics of Medical Education
The Dilemma of Quality, Quantity, and Cost Are Economies Possible in Medical Education? The Experiment: High-Quality, Low-Cost Medical
Education Summing Up
IX The Donor Agencies
The Difficulties of Giving University Development The Churches
X Overview
The Links in the Chain The Search for Solutions
Glossary of Health Workers Index