Health and Development (Yearbook for the History of Global Development, 2) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 311101424X ISBN 13: 9783111014241

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter, 2023

Synopsis

Health and development require one another: there can be no development without a critical mass of people who are sufficiently healthy to do whatever it takes for development to occur, and people cannot be healthy without societal developments that enable standards of health to be maintained or improved. However, the ways in which health and development interact are complex and contested.

This volume unites eleven case studies from nine countries in three continents and two international organizations since the late-nineteenth century. Collectively, they show how different actors have struggled to reconcile the sometimes contradictory nature of health and development policies, and the subordination of these policies to a range of political objectives.

About this title

About the Author

Iris Borowy, Shanghai University, China; Bernard Harris, University of Strathclyde, UK.

From the Back Cover

Health and development require one another: there can be no development without a critical mass of people who are sufficiently healthy to do whatever it takes for development to occur, and people cannot be healthy without societal developments that enable standards of health to be maintained or improved. However, the ways in which health and development interact are complex and contested.

This volume unites eleven case studies from nine countries in three continents and two international organizations since the late-nineteenth century. Collectively, they show how different actors have struggled to reconcile the sometimes contradictory nature of health and development policies, and the subordination of these policies to a range of political objectives.

Edition details

• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 311101424X
• ISBN 13: 9783111014241
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 350
• Editor: Borowy Iris, Harris Bernard