Health and Development

David Phillips · Yola Verhasselt

sept 2002 · Routledge

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Health and Development presents a broad and detailed description of the multifaceted aspects of health and development across the globe. People are living longer, their lifestyles are changing and so too are the diseases from which they suffer. Recession in the North and debt servicing in the South have reduced public expenditure on health and welfare. The links between regional, economic and environmental factors and the health of a population are becoming clearer. Does development mean a longer life of lower quality? Always alive to both the global and the local implications, the authors focus in particular on the critical issues surrounding environmental impact, the interaction of poverty and health, socio-cultural factors in HIV/AIDS transmission, the use of traditional and community health care resources and women's health.

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David R. Phillips is Director of the Institute of Population Studies and Reader in Health Studies at the University of Exeter, and Chair of the International Geographical Union Commission on Health, Environment and Development. Yola Verhasselt is Professor of Geography at the Free University, Brussels, and was Chair of the International Geographical Union Commission on Health and Development.