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Questioning the Solution

Questioning the Solution
The Politics of Primary Health Care and Child Survival

by
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 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

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

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 Whom This Book Is Written </a> — <a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_book_organized.pdf" target="_blank">How
 This Book is Organized </a> 
 <a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_glossary.pdf" target="_blank">Glossary
 </a>— <a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_contents.pdf" target="_blank">Expanded
 Table of Contents </a>—<a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_figures.pdf" target="_blank">
 Figures, Boxes, Maps </a> — <a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_abbreviations.pdf" target="_blank">Abbreviations
 Used In This Book</a>
 Chapters 1 to 21:  
 <ul>
 <li> <a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_intro_part1.pdf" target="_blank">Introduction:
 Part 1</a></li>
 <li><a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_ch01.pdf" target="_blank">Chapter
 1: The Life and Death of One Child: Rakku's Story</a></li>
 <li><a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_ch02.pdf" target="_blank">Chapter
 2: The Historical Failures and Accomplishments of
 the Western Medical Model in the Third World</a></li>
 <li><a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_ch03.pdf" target="_blank">Chapter
 3: Alma Ata and the Institutionalization of Primary
 Health Care</a></li>
 <li><a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_ch04.pdf" target="_blank">Chapter
 4: The Demise of Primary Health Care and the Rise
 of the Child Survival Revolution</a></li>
 <li> <a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_ch05.pdf" target="_blank">Chapter
 5: Health Care as if People Mattered</a></li>
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 <ul>
 <li><a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_intro_part2.pdf" target="_blank">Introduction:
 Part 2 </a></li>
 <li><a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_ch06.pdf" target="_blank">Chapter
 6: Diarrhea: A Leading Killer of Children</a></li>
 <li><a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_ch07.pdf" target="_blank">Chapter
 7: The Oral Rehydration Debate: ORS Packets or Home
 Fluids </a></li>
 <li><a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_ch08.pdf" target="_blank">Chapter
 8: Controversial Issues Affecting the Success of
 ORT Initiatives</a></li>
 <li> <a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_ch09.pdf" target="_blank">Chapter
 9: Food as a Key Part of ORT</a></li>
 <li><a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_ch10.pdf" target="_blank">Chapter
 10: Food Based ORT</a></li>
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 <li><a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_intro_part3.pdf" target="_blank">Introduction:
 Part 3</a></li>
 <li><a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_ch11.pdf" target="_blank">Chapter
 11: Health Status in Different Lands at Different
 Times in History--A Comparative Perspective</a></li>
 <li><a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_ch12.pdf" target="_blank">Chapter
 12: Health Profits in a Dying World: Three "Killer
 Industries" and Their Impact on Children's
 Health and Survival</a></li>
 <li><a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_ch13.pdf" target="_blank">Chapter
 13: Turning Health into an Investment: The World
 Bank's Death Blow to Alma Ata</a></li>
 <li><a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_ch14.pdf" target="_blank">Chapter
 14: A Look at the Situation Today: Equity as a Determinant
 of Health</a></li>
 <li><a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_ch15.pdf" target="_blank">Chapter
 15: Equity as the Sustainable Solution to Population
 Growth and AIDS</a></li>
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 <li><a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_intro_part4.pdf" target="_blank">Introduction:
 Part 4</a> 
 <li><a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_ch16.pdf" target="_blank">Chapter
 16: Health Care, Empowerment and Social Change</a></li>
 <li><a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_ch17.pdf" target="_blank">Chapter
 17: Community Based Diarrhea Control in Mozambique</a></li>
 <li><a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_ch18.pdf" target="_blank">Chapter
 18: Zimbabwe's National Children's Supplementary
 Feeding Program</a></li>
 <li><a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_ch19.pdf" target="_blank">Chapter
 19: From Village Health Care to the Struggle for
 Land and Social Justice: An Example from Mexico</a></li>
 <li><a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_ch20.pdf" target="_blank">Chapter
 20: Health Care in the Context of Social Revolution:
 The Example of Nicaragua</a></li>
 <li><a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_ch21.pdf" target="_blank">Chapter
 21: Health for No One, or Health for All: The Need
 for a Unified Effort from the Bottom Up</a></li>
 <a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_appen.pdf" target="_blank">Appendix:
 The Role of UNICEF and WHO</a>
 <a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_reading_list.pdf" target="_blank">Reading
 List: Key Reading Relevant to The Politics of Health</a> 
 [Note: also see our sister site, <a href="http://www.politicsofhealth.org" target="_blank">www.politicsofhealth.org</a>.]
 <a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_endnotes.pdf" target="_blank">Endnotes</a>
 <a href="/hw/content/books/QTS/qts_index.pdf" target="_blank">Index</a>
 
 
 
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Questioning the Solution The Politics of Primary Health Care and Child Survival

by David Werner, author of "Where There Is No Doctor" and David Sanders, author of "The Struggle for Health" Order a print copy

Questioning the Solution
The Politics of Primary Health Care and Child Survival

by
David Werner, author of "Where There Is No Doctor" and
David Sanders, author of "The Struggle for Health"

Order a print copy