Protecting the world's children : immunisation policies and practice / edited by Sidsel Roalkvam, Desmond McNeill, Stuart Blume.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roalkvam, Sidsel.

UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immunization of children--Developing countries.

Immunization of children.

Developing countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 233 pages.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Vaccination programmes now represent a major part of the effort devoted to improving the health of children in developing countries. These donor-funded programmes tend to be global in scope and focus on worldwide goals and targets such as 'polio eradication', and the Millennium Development Goals. Health policy makers at the national level are expected to implement these programmes in a standard manner and report progress according to standard indicators. Pressures and incentives to achieve the targets set are then transmitted down to the community level health worker who actually meets the parents and children to implement these programmes. Drawing on first hand, original research in India and Malawi carried out by the contributors, as well as existing literature, Protecting the World's Children: Immunisation policies and practices suggests that there is little or no scope allowed for the effects of variance in the way health systems work, the difficulties and tensions faced by health workers, or differences in the way people think about childhood illnesses that reflect cultural differences. The book argues that the need to show progress can create distortions and lead to the production of misleading data, and an unwillingness to report problems. It proposes that vaccines could more effectively serve children's health needs if the challenges facing immunisation programmes were better understood and acknowledged, and if local knowledge and realities were enabled to inform national and international health policy. Written by an international, interdisciplinary team, Protecting the World's Children is an integrative study of immunisation policy and practice at global, national and community levels, and is an essential resource for researchers and practitioners in international and public health, as well as professionals in international and development studies. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Saving children's lives: perspectives on immunisation / Stuart Blume Blume, Stuart, Jagrati Jani Jani, Jagrati, Sidsel Roalkvam Roalkvam, Sidsel 1

2 Concepts and approaches / Stuart Blume Blume, Stuart, Sidsel Roalkvam Roalkvam, Sidsel, Desmond McNeill McNeill, Desmond 31

3 The global politics of health: actors and initiatives / Desmond McNeill McNeill, Desmond, Steinar Andresen Andresen, Steinar, Kristin Sandberg Sandberg, Kristin 59

4 National commitments and global objectives / Kristin Sandberg Sandberg, Kristin, Judith Justice Justice, Judith 87

5 Rights and obligations in national health governance / Sidsel Roalkvam Roalkvam, Sidsel, Jagrati Jani Jani, Jagrati 115

6 'Immunisation is good for your children': local immunisation practices in India and Malawi / Arima Mishra Mishra, Arima, Rune Flikke Flikke, Rune, Cecilie Nordfeldt Nordfeldt, Cecilie, Lot Nyirenda Nyirenda, Lot 249

7 Have means become ends? Getting children's health back in focus / Stuart Blume Blume, Stuart, Sidsel Roalkvam Roalkvam, Sidsel, Desmond McNeill McNeill, Desmond 187.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

019164451X

9780191644511

Publisher Number:

99964912543

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.