| Description |
xv, 508 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Harvard series on population and international health |
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Harvard series on population and international health.
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| Contents |
Overview / Lincoln C. Chen, Arthur Kleinman and Norma C. Ware -- 1. Dynamics and Patterns of Mortality Change / Christopher J. L. Murray and Lincoln C. Chen -- 2. Elements for a Theory of the Health Transition / Julio Frenk, Jose-Luis Bobadilla, Claudio Stern, Tomas Frejka and Rafael Lozano -- 3. Social and Behavioral Pathologies / Jonathan A. Sugar, Arthur Kleinman and Kris Heggenbougen -- 4. Understanding Morbidity Change / Christopher J. L. Murray and Lincoln C. Chen -- 5. Objectivity and Position: Assessment of Health and Well-being / Amartya Sen -- 6. An Anthropological Perspective on Objectivity: Observation, Categorization, and the Assessment of Suffering / Arthur Kleinman -- 7. Moral Orientations to Suffering: Legitimation, Power, and Healing / Veena Das -- 8. Child Mortality Differences, Personal Health Care Practices, and Medical Technology: The United States, 1900-1930 / Gretchen A. Condran and Samuel H. Preston -- 9. The Value of Particularism in the Study of the Cultural, Social, and Behavioral Determinants of Mortality / Stephen J. Kunitz -- 10. Parallels between the Mortality Transition and the Fertility Transition / Joseph E. Potter -- 11. Illness Behavior and the Health Transition in the Developing World / Nicholas A. Christakis, Norma C. Ware and Arthur Kleinman -- 12. Schooling and Survival: The Impact of Maternal Education on Health and Reproduction in the Third World / Robert A. LeVine, Sarah E. LeVine, Amy Richman, F. Medardo Tapia Uribe and Clara Sunderland Correa -- 13. Patriarchy, Gender and Family Discrimination, and the Role of Women / John Caldwell and Pat Caldwell -- 14. Pragmatism, Robin Hood, and Other Themes: Good Government and Social Well-Being in Developing Countries / Nancy Birdsall -- 15. The Political Economy of Health Transitions in the Third World / Michael R. Reich -- 16. The Political Economy of Health Financing Strategies in Kenya / Goran Dahlgren -- 17. Promoting Health: Implications for Modern and Developing Nations / David Mechanic -- 18. Responding to Health Transitions: From Research to Action / David E. Bell and Lincoln C. Chen |
| Notes |
"April 1993." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Health transition.
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Medical policy.
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Social medicine.
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World health.
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| Author |
Chen, Lincoln C.
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Kleinman, Arthur.
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Ware, Norma C.
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| LC no. |
93001755 |
| ISBN |
0674385624 |
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