This text focuses on the international humanitarian efforts in crisis zones such as Zaire, Somalia, and Chechnya, discussing crisis assessment, intervention, human rights issues, and the role of the military.
In this volume, scholars, policy-makers and women's health advocates suggest a new consensus on population policy directions for the 21st century, centred on health, women's empowerment, and human rights. They argue that public policy should assure the rights and well-being of people, rather than simply attempting to limit the ultimate size of the ...
In all poor countries, malnutrition and infectious diseases are the major biological processes leading to child deaths, but the social, economic, and environmental determinants of the variations in these conditions in different societies are poorly understood. This volume contains papers by specialists within the two separate disciplines - ...
A comparative study of fertility declines occurring in India and Brazil. It consists of 11 papers by well-known scholars from various disciplines, among them demographers, anthropologists, and economists. This book is intended for scholars of social science, public health, demography, economics, regional studies, gender studies. Policy-makers in ...
Just as trade, finance, information, and technologies are moving rapidly across borders, so too have labour markets and transnational migrant communities. Migrants are sending large quantities of money back to their countries of origin in the form of philanthropy, remittances, and commercial investments. They are also sharing knowledge and skills ...
Aims to advance understanding of diaspora philanthropy in the Chinese American and Indian American communities, especially the implications for development of the world's two most populous countries.
"Health and Social Change in International Perspective" brings together an interdisciplinary series of approaches to understanding the social dimensions of health change around the world. The contributors - demographers, epidemiologists, economists, anthropologists and public health scientists - are among the intellectual leaders of efforts to ...
What is the relationship between social science research and public health policy, particularly in the developing world? This question is at the heart of this collection of essays drawn from Rockefeller Foundation-sponsored conferences at Harvard University. The book examines the theoretical impact of social science research as well as specific ...
This volume contains a selection of research papers discussing the health situation in India. It explores the measurement of health status, the relationship of nutrition, health and socio-economic status, aspects of the political economy of health care, and future directions of health policy.
This study examines women's health problems over the life-cycle of Indian women, from childhood through the productive and reproductive years to old age. A major focus is on reproductive health problems in the context of the disadvantaged position of women. It also looks at gender bias against female children and the position of older women and ...
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