Global health in transition : a synthesis : perspectives from international organizations / John H. Bryant and Polly F. Harrison for the Board on International Health, Institute of Medicine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bryant, John H., 1925-2017.

Contributor:

Harrison, Polly F.

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on International Health.

Series:

Compass series (Washington, D.C.)

The compass series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World health.

Medical care--North America--Congresses.

Medical care.

Medical policy--North America--Congresses.

Medical policy.

Public health--International cooperation--Congresses.

Public health.

Medical care--International cooperation--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (96 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For many reasons, this decade is a time of rethinking many things. There is the impending turn of the millenium, an event packed with meaning. There is recent political history, which has changed the global structure of power in ways few could foresee, and there is an economic fluidity worldwide that makes every day unpredictable and the future uncertain. There are movements of people and surges of violence that seem unparalleled, and well may be. We are awash in change, and people everywhere are trying to understand that and read its implications. It is a time that provokes soul-searching: backward, into the lessons and achievements of the past, and forward, into ways for the future to be better. The fields of health and social development are no exception. More specifically, events and conditions in the health sector point to the need to rethink some large issues. Nations everywhere are grappling with the economic and ethical dilemmas of achieving and maintaining healthy populations, since these are both cause and consequence of true development. Increasingly, the thinking is global, because there are comparisons to be learned from, connections that have implications, obligations to fulfill, and costs that are somehow shared. As part of this dynamic, there has been an explosion of analytic documents, published since the start of this decade, that deal mainly, though not exclusively, with health in developing countries. The purpose of Global Health in Transition is to distill the essential elements from those efforts, discuss the major ideas they share and the thoughts they prompt, ask what those might mean for a next agenda in global health, and comment on the shifting context in which our current concepts of the ideal will proveor not provetheir adequacy for the future.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Introduction

I The Documents Reviewed: An Analysis

Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries

World Development Report 1993: Investing in Health

The Health of Adults in Developing Countries

Human Development Reports, 1993 and 1994

Ninth General Programme of Work, 1996-2001 and Intensified Cooperation with Countries in Greatest Need

The State of the World's Children, 1994 and 1995

Health Research: Essential Link to Equity in Development

Global Comparative Assessments in the Health Sector

Partnerships for Global Development: The Clearing Horizon

Strategies for Sustainable Development

II The Documents Considered: Reflections and Implications

The Documents Considered: Reflections and Implications

A Final Note.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9780309174954

0309174953

9780309523387

0309523389

OCLC:

56118579