Basic health care provision and under-5 mortality: A Cross-National study of developing Countries

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 405-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. McGuire
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
National Study ◽  
Health Care Provision ◽  
Care Provision ◽  
Basic Health ◽  
Basic Health Care ◽  
Cross National Study ◽  
Cross National

Thailand's Bare-headed Doctors

1985 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 761-796 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Gosling
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Basic Health ◽  
Basic Health Care

For the last few years an imaginative programme for training Buddhist monks in basic health care has been in operation in Thailand. The scheme, originally based on two wats (temples) in Bangkok, is now being extended to the Northeast where poverty and malnutrition are most acute. The originator of the programme, Dr Prawase Wasi, a distinguished haematologist, has received several awards for his work, which is increasingly recognized as a major landmark in the implementation of health care in developing countries.

Openness and the Politics of Potable Water

2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 771-803 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nita Rudra
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Potable Water ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
National Study ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
Large N ◽  
Cross National Study ◽  
Cross National

Improving access to potable water has become an increasingly urgent concern for developing nations in the current era of globalization. According to standard wisdom, if developing countries undertake certain domestic reforms, such as investing in infrastructure and engineering, then safe and clean drinking water will improve. This analysis uncovers, however, that in addition to such domestic efforts, one of the greatest factors affecting water uncertainty is, in fact, internationally induced: trade. Surprisingly, both scholars and practitioners have neglected the potential impacts of expanding trade on access to potable water. This analysis is the first large- N cross-national study of water that focuses on the interplay of trade and politics—both international and domestic—as the primary driving forces behind improvements in (or constraints to) water access. The author hypothesizes that growing export pressures are constraining drinkable water in poor countries, but a particular domestic condition can mitigate this effect: the existence of lower levels of income inequality. As the socioeconomic actors disadvantaged by openness, particularly in more equal countries, seek reparations for the growing threats to potable water, the adverse affects of trade on water may be averted. Empirical evidence from 77 developing countries and case studies of Vietnam and India provide support for this hypothesis.

Socioeconomic factors and dental caries in developing countries: A cross-national study

1997 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroko Miura ◽  
Yoshima Araki ◽  
Katsuhiro Haraguchi ◽  
Yumiko Arai ◽  
Takusei Umenai
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Dental Caries ◽  
Socioeconomic Factors ◽  
National Study ◽  
Cross National Study ◽  
Cross National
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