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Questioning the Solution

The Politics of Primary Health Care
and Child Survival

David Werner
author of Where There Is No Doctor
and David Sanders
author of The Struggle for Health.

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Title Pages — For Whom This Book Is Written — How This Book is Organized

Glossary — Expanded Table of Contents — Figures, Boxes, Maps — Abbreviations Used In This Book

Chapters 1 to 21:

Introduction: Part 1
Chapter 1: The Life and Death of One Child: Rakku's Story
Chapter 2: The Historical Failures and Accomplishments of the Western Medical Model in the Third World
Chapter 3: Alma Ata and the Institutionalization of Primary Health Care
Chapter 4: The Demise of Primary Health Care and the Rise of the Child Survival Revolution
Chapter 5: Health Care as if People Mattered

Introduction: Part 2
Chapter 6: Diarrhea: A Leading Killer of Children
Chapter 7: The Oral Rehydration Debate: ORS Packets or Home Fluids
Chapter 8: Controversial Issues Affecting the Success of ORT Initiatives
Chapter 9: Food as a Key Part of ORT
Chapter 10: Food Based ORT

Introduction: Part 3
Chapter 11: Health Status in Different Lands at Different Times in History--A Comparative Perspective
Chapter 12: Health Profits in a Dying World: Three "Killer Industries" and Their Impact on Children's Health and Survival
Chapter 13: Turning Health into an Investment: The World Bank's Death Blow to Alma Ata
Chapter 14: A Look at the Situation Today: Equity as a Determinant of Health
Chapter 15: Equity as the Sustainable Solution to Population Growth and AIDS

Introduction: Part 4
Chapter 16: Health Care, Empowerment and Social Change
Chapter 17: Community Based Diarrhea Control in Mozambique
Chapter 18: Zimbabwe's National Children's Supplementary Feeding Program
Chapter 19: From Village Health Care to the Struggle for Land and Social Justice: An Example from Mexico
Chapter 20: Health Care in the Context of Social Revolution: The Example of Nicaragua
Chapter 21: Health for No One, or Health for All: The Need for a Unified Effort from the Bottom Up

Appendix: The Role of UNICEF and WHO

Reading List: Key Reading Relevant to The Politics of Health
[Note: also see our sister site, www.politicsofhealth.org.]

Endnotes

Index

The Politics of Primary Health Care and Child Survival

The Politics of Primary Health Care
and Child Survival