The health of nations : medicine, disease, and development in the Third World
- Title
- The health of nations : medicine, disease, and development in the Third World / edited by B. Folasade Iyun, Yola Verhasselt, J. Anthony Hellen.
- Published by
- Aldershot ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Avebury, ©1995.
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- Additional authors
- Description
- xx, 295 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
- Subject
- Public health > Developing countries > Congresses
- Environmental health > Developing countries > Congresses
- Medical care > Developing countries > Congresses
- World health
- Global Health
- Developing Countries
- 44.10 public health service: general
- World health
- Environmental health
- Medical care
- Public health
- Gezondheid
- Gezondheidszorg
- Developing countries
- Genre/Form
- Congress
- proceedings (reports)
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Actes de congrès.
- Contents
- 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.).
- 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.).
- 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
- Princeton University Library
- Note
- The outcome of a conference held at the University of Ibadan.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.