This text analyzes the disappearance of public health in the form of state services in Africa, and the growth of a private market in health care that will serve primarily an urban elite. It provides a case study of Zimbabwe and comparative material from Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia.
This is an introduction to the women's health movements and what is being accomplished by women organizing to achieve better health care around the world.
Considers the impact of public policy on various aspects of women's lives, including sex and birth, marriage and death, work and child rearing. The work spans the First and Third Worlds, with several chapters providing case illustrations from Latin America, Asia and Africa.
This is the first book to describe and analyze the experience of women of African civil wars. A mixture of reportage, testimony and scholarship, the book includes contributions from women in Chad, Liberia, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa and Sudan. The political context of these conflicts is outlined in an introduction to each chapter. ...
For Turshen, public health workers need a broad social and international perspective to understand current health problems, and they need to build international coalitions to address the global health crisis. Mass mobilization of people and their empowerment will bring about the structural reforms and transform the social relations that are the ...
What happens to women in the aftermath of war? This book asserts that for women there is no aftermath - a truce does not end gender violence. It asks how transitions from war to peace and from authoritarian to democratic regimes can become opportunities for real social transformation. It presents an honest accounting of what women lose and gain in ...
The book is divided into four parts. Part 1 outlines current and alternative approaches to health, theories of disease causation, the policies and practices that follow from these theories, and issues of equity and access to health care. A chapter of women's health in three African countries illustrates these concepts. Part 2 describes limits to ...
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