Questioning the solution : the politics of primary health care and child survival with an in-depth critique of oral rehydration therapy / David Werner and David Sanders, with Jason Weston, Steve Babb, and Bill Rodriguez ; original drawings by Alicia Brelsford
Introduction. Unfulfilled promise : the failure of international health and development strategies to protect children's lives and health -- Pt. 1. The rise and fall of primary health care. Ch. 1. The life and death of one child : Rakku's story -- Ch. 2. The historical failures and accomplishments of the Western Medical Model in the Third World -- Ch. 3. Alma Ata and the institutionalization of primary health care -- Ch. 4. The demise of primary health care and the rise of the child survival revolution -- Ch. 5. Health care as if people mattered -- Pt. 2. Oral rehydration therapy a solution to death from diarrhea? Ch. 6. Diarrhea : a leading killer of children -- Ch. 7. The oral rehydration debate : ORS packets or home fluids -- Ch. 8. Controversial issues affecting the success of ORT initiatives -- Ch. 9. Food as a key part of ORT -- Ch. 10. Food based ORT -- Pt. 3. What really determines the health of a population? -- Ch. 11. Health status in different lands at different times in history : a comparative perspective -- Ch. 12. Healthy profits in a dying world : three "Killer Industries" and their impact on children's health and survival -- Ch. 13. Turning health into an investment : the World Bank's death blow to Alma Ata -- Ch. 14. A look at the situation today : equity as a determinant of health -- Ch. 15. Equity as the sustainable solution to population growth and AIDS -- Pt. 4. Solutions that empower the poor : examples of equity-oriented initiatives. Ch. 16. Health care, empowerment, and social change -- Ch. 17. Community based diarrhea control in Mozambique -- Ch. 18. Zimbabwe's National Children's Supplementary Feeding Program -- Ch. 19. From village health care to the struggle for land and social justice : an example from Mexico -- Ch. 20. Health care in the context of social revolution : the example of Nicaragua -- Ch. 21. Health for no one, or health for all : the need for a unified effort from the bottom up
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