The health of nations : medicine, disease, and development in the Third World

Title
  1. The health of nations : medicine, disease, and development in the Third World / edited by B. Folasade Iyun, Yola Verhasselt, J. Anthony Hellen.
Published by
  1. Aldershot ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Avebury, ©1995.

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Additional authors
  1. Iyun, B. Folasade.
  2. Verhasselt, Yola.
  3. Hellen, J. A. (John A.)
Description
  1. xx, 295 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
Subject
  1. Public health > Developing countries > Congresses
  2. Environmental health > Developing countries > Congresses
  3. Medical care > Developing countries > Congresses
  4. World health
  5. Global Health
  6. Developing Countries
  7. 44.10 public health service: general
  8. World health
  9. Environmental health
  10. Medical care
  11. Public health
  12. Gezondheid
  13. Gezondheidszorg
  14. Developing countries
Genre/Form
  1. Congress
  2. proceedings (reports)
  3. Conference papers and proceedings
  4. Conference papers and proceedings.
  5. Actes de congrès.
Contents
  1. Beyond health care delivery in Africa / Akin L Mabogunje (16 p.). -- Health consequence of environmental changes / Susana I. Curto de Casas (2 p.). -- Global distribution of American pathogenic complexes / Susan I. Curto de Casas (12 p.). -- Medico-geographical aspects of farming in Africa / S.M Malkhazova (8 p.). -- Effects of rural development on the decline of endemic disease incidence in Se-deficient areas in China / Tan Jian'an (12 p.). -- Water supply and guinea worm disease in O.C.C.G.E. countries : / Gustave Yameogo (6 p.). -- Urbanization and health / Rais Akhtar (2 p.). -- Urban environment health and physical planning / Layi Egunjobi (8 p.).
  2. Urban health hazards in Strinagar, India / Rais Akhtar (12 p.). -- Environmental health in low income settlements : / Y.A.D.S Wanasinghe (14 p.). -- Housing and health characteristics : / Tunde Agbola (12 p.). -- Transportation and health in the context of sustainable development : / Olabode O Alokan (12 p.). -- Changing lifestyles / J. Anthony Hellen (4 p.). -- Geopsychiatric problems in developing countries / Daniel Dory (8 p.). -- Health status and risk factors research in two East Asian populations : / Peter M Foggin (6 p.). -- Cardiac morbidity in Nigerian society : / B. Folasade Iyun (14 p.).
  3. Tourist health and tourist medicine in the tropics : / J. Anthony Hellen (24 p.). -- Lifestyle and cardiovascular disease : / O.O Akinkugbe (8 p.). -- Women and health / B. Folasade Iyun (2 p.). -- Agricultural development projects and women's quality of life in Nigeria : / Adedoyin Soyibo (14 p.). -- Child health in Ondo state : / Elizabeth Omoluabi (14 p.). -- Current adjustment patterns of elderly Yoruba women and their health implications / I. Bola Udegbe (8 p.). -- Health care provision in a Third World context / Elizabeth M Thomas-Hope (2 p.). -- Prescription for chldhood watery diarrhoea in Nigeria : / U.A Igun (8 p.). -- Primary health care and consumer behaviour in Kingston, Jamaica / Elizabeth M Thomas-Hope (10 p.). -- The population of mentally disadvantaged in Nigeria : / E.A Emeke (11 p.). -- Prevention of communicable diseases : / Dora Shehu (34 p.). -- Promoting rational drug use in developing countries / Richard O Laing (8 p.). -- Drug use in rural and urban Nepal / Kumud K Kafle (6 p.). -- Awareness and acceptability of the essential drugs list by doctors : / A.F.B Mabadeje (8 p.).
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. The outcome of a conference held at the University of Ibadan.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.