Challenges in Health and Development

Chapter One1.1.Industrial expansion, globalization and population health - The cases of England and Panama 1.2 Comparative measurement of health and development 1.3 A century's worth of global change in development and health 1.4 What accounts for the difference in regional change? 1.4.1 Standard of living 1.4.2 Public investment, health infrastructure, and public health campaigns 1.4.3 Medical innovations 1.4.4 Technological Innovation 1.4.5 Behavior change 1.4.6 Access to care 1.4.7 Political will 1.5 A model for exploring health and development 1.6 Conclusion

Chapter Two 2.1 Health and development as concepts in the international system 2.1.1 International health before WWII 2.1.2 The United Nations and the modern story of health and development 2.2 The World Health Organization 2.2.1 WHO early years: Health as a biomedical condition 2.2.2Malaria and smallpox campaigns 2.2.3 WHO: Health as a human right 2.2.3.1 Primary Health Care 2.2.4 Social determinants of health and the WHO in the 21st century 2.3 The World Bank 2.3.1 The World Bank: Evolution of Development 2.3.1.1 Structural Adjustment Program 2.3.1.2 World Bank as a health authority - World Development Report 1993 2.3.1.3 Towards change 2.4 The beginning of convergence - State and human security 2.5 True convergence and the way forward in the 21st Century 2.6 Conclusion

Chapter Three3.1 Trade-offs between internal and external factors, social and economic out-comes 3.2 Health inputs 3.3 Chile - Economic growth without equity 3.4 Sri Lanka - Equity without growth 3.5 Conclusion

Chapter Four 4.1 The importance of community 4.1.1 Community-based health care 4.1.2 Pholela Health Center - An early innovator 4.1.3 Gonoshasthaya Kendra - A continuing success 4.1.4 Implications for local health and national development 4.2 Microcredit and microfinance 4.2.1 Grameen Bank - early innovator and continuing success 4.2.2 Implications for development and well-being 4.3 Conclusion

Sandy Johnson holds a Ph.D. in Latin American Studies from Tulane University. Her research explores the interaction of environmental and social change on human well-being. She is the director of the B.A. Program in International Studies at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver.