Geographies of health and development - Luginaah, Isaac N.; Bezner Kerr, Rachel (Farnham, Surrey Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015)
Introduction / Isaac Luginaah, Rachel Bezner Kerr and Jenna Dixon -- Malaria risk profiles, treatment seeking practices and disease intervention efforts in poor communities : a case study in Sierra Leone / Florence M. Margai and Jacob B. Minah -- The geography of maternal mortality in Nigeria / Joseph R. Oppong and Jane Ebeniro -- Sex [work] and [structural] violence : a study of commercial sex workers in Budhwar Peth, Pune, India / Jacqueline P. Hellen and Vandana Wadhwa -- Aboriginal health and development : two steps forward and one step back? / Kathi Wilson, Mark. W. Rosenberg and Ashley Ning -- The place of "health" in social health insurance in developing countries : a study in Ghana's upper west region / Jenna Dixon and Paul Mkandawire -- An entitlements perspective on preferences for health care among slum-dwellers in Chennai, India / Christina Ergler, Patrick Sakdapolrak, Hans-George Bohle and Robin Kearns -- Human resources for health : challenges facing Sub-Saharan Africa / Gavin George, Candice Reardon and Tim Quinlan -- Wanting to care : a comparison of the ethics of health worker education in Cuba and the Philippines / Robert Huish -- Living in the same place, eating in a different space : food security and dietary diversity of youth living in rural northern Malawi / Lauren Classen, Rachel Bezner Kerr and Lizzie Shumba -- Resource depletion, peak oil, and public health : planning for a slow growth future / Michael Pennock, Blake Poland and Trevor Hancock -- The water-health nexus / Corinne J. Schuster-Wallace, Susan J. Elliott and Elijah Bisung -- Groundwater arsenic contamination and its health and social impacts in rural Bangladesh / Bimal Kanti Paul -- Tuberculosis : a scourge for development? / Jana Fried and John Eyles -- Globalization and the misplacement of health : an emerging agenda / Sarah Lovell and Mark M. Rosenberg -- Global reach, local depth, and new cartographies of metropolitan health / Ted Schrecker -- Medical migration from Zimbabwe : towards new solutions? / Abel Chikanda and Belinda Dodson -- Conclusion : healthy development, developing health / Robin Kearns and Pat Neuwelt.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Medical care -- Developing countries; Medical geography; Medical geography -- Developing countries; Economic development -- Developing countries; Medicine -- Developing countries