This book explores the ways that health and development are conceptualized and operationalized across different scales, and analyzes the range of tactics adopted by the World Bank, World Health Organization, ministries of health and community organizations.
This textbook examines strategies of investing in human health and investing in economic growth as distinct approaches to development. It explores the symbiotic relationship of these tactics, and considers the applications and outcomes from a global, national and community level perspective. Each chapter introduces concepts of economic development and population health, and uses case studies to illustrate the same. These case studies include program and policy examples from Bangladesh, Chile, Haiti, Rwanda, South Africa and Sri Lanka. The textbook also examines the impact of macroeconomic adjustment programs, health care restructuring, investment in primary health care, public-private partnerships, and the challenges of program coordination and up-scaling in stable and conflict-ridden countries. Discussion questions are provided at the end of each chapter to facilitate classroom activities. Solutions are provided at the end of the textbook.
Chapter One.- 1.1.Industrial expansion, globalization and population
health The cases of England and Panama.- 1.2 Comparative measurement of
health and development.- 1.3 A centurys worth of global change in
development and health.- 1.4 What accounts for the difference in regional
change?.- 1.4.1 Standard of living.- 1.4.2 Public investment, health
infrastructure, and public health campaigns.- 1.4.3 Medical innovations.-
1.4.4 Technological Innovation.- 1.4.5 Behavior change.- 1.4.6 Access to
care.- 1.4.7 Political will.- 1.5 A model for exploring health and
development.- 1.6 Conclusion.
Chapter Two.- 2.1 Health and development as
concepts in the international system.- 2.1.1 International health before
WWII.- 2.1.2 The United Nations and the modern story of health and
development.- 2.2 The World Health Organization.- 2.2.1 WHO early years:
Health as a biomedical condition.- 2.2.2Malaria and smallpox campaigns.-
2.2.3 WHO: Health as a human right.- 2.2.3.1 Primary Health Care.-
2.2.4Social determinants of health and the WHO in the 21st century.- 2.3 The
World Bank.- 2.3.1 The World Bank: Evolution of Development.- 2.3.1.1
Structural Adjustment Program.- 2.3.1.2 World Bank as a health authority -
World Development Report 1993.- 2.3.1.3 Towards change.- 2.4 The beginning of
convergence - State and human security.- 2.5 True convergence and the way
forward in the 21st Century.- 2.6 Conclusion.
Chapter Three.- 3.1 Trade-offs
between internal and external factors, social and economic out-comes.- 3.2
Health inputs.- 3.3 Chile Economic growth without equity.- 3.4 Sri Lanka
Equity without growth.- 3.5 Conclusion.
Chapter Four.- 4.1 The importance of
community.- 4.1.1 Community-based health care.- 4.1.2 Pholela Health Center -
An early innovator.- 4.1.3 Gonoshasthaya Kendra A continuing success.-
4.1.4 Implications for local health and national development.- 4.2
Microcredit and microfinance.- 4.2.1 Grameen Bank early innovator and
continuing success.- 4.2.2 Implications for development and well-being.- 4.3
Conclusion.
Chapter Five.- 5.1 Development, failed states and states in
conflict.- 5.1.1 Issues of health.- 5.1.2 Refugees and IDPs.- 5.1.3 Long term
impacts.- 5.2 The challenge of rebuilding.- 5.2.1 Building dependency.- 5.3
The pros and cons of scaled approaches.- 5.4 Haiti Partners in Health/Zanmi
Lasante.- 5.5 Rwanda rising from the ashes.- 5.6 Conclusion.
Chapter Six.-
6.1 Global Public-Private Partnerships.- 6.1.1 GPPPs, global research and
clinical trials.- 6.2 Methods of the GPPPs.- 6.3 Examples of Recent GPPPs.-
6.4 Pros and cons of GPPPs.- 6.5 Conclusion.
Chapter Seven.- 7.1
Conclusion.
Chapter Eight Answer key for discussion questions.
Chapter
One Questions.
Chapter Two Questions.
Chapter Three Questions.
Chapter
Four Questions.
Chapter Five Questions .
Chapter Six Questions.- Index.
Sandy Johnson holds a Ph.D. in Latin American Studies from Tulane University. Her research explores the interaction of environmental and social change on human well-being. She is the director of the B.A. Program in International Studies at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver.
