PHA-Exchange> [Social Determinants Of Health] Unhealthy Health Policy

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From: "Girish N Rao" <girishnrao2002 at yahoo.co.in>
On social and health policies and their inpact

> > On population health around the globe
> > by P Farmer, M Singer, and A Castro among others.
> > See TOC below.
> >
> > Unhealthy Health Policy: A Critical Anthropological
> > Examination
> >
> > Edited by Arachu Castro and Merrill Singer
> > Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, 2004, 384 pp.

> > http://www.altamirapress.com/ISBN/0759105111
> >
> > This new collection turns a critical anthropological
> > eye on the nature of health policy internationally.
> > The authors reveal that in light of prevailing
> > social inequalities, health policies may intend to
> > protect public health, but in fact they often
> > represent significant structural threats to the
> > health and well being of the poor, ethnic
> > minorities, women, and other subordinate groups. > >
> > Partial table of Contents
> > * Pearls of the Antilles? Public Health in Haiti and
> > Cuba. > > Paul Farmer and Arachu Castro
> > * The Visible Fist of the Market: Health Reforms in
> > Latin America. > > Francisco Armada and Carles Muntaner
> > * International NGOs in the Mozambique Health
> > Sector: The Velvet Glove of Privatization.> > James Pfeiffer
> > * Primary Health Care since Alma Ata: Lost in the
> > Bretton Woods?  Joan E. Paluzzi
> > * The Shifting Policies Towards Traditional
> > Midwives: Implications for Reproductive Health Care
> > in Pakistan.  > Fouzieyha Towghi
> > * The Contradictions of a Revolving Drug Fund in
> > Post-Soviet Tajikistan: Selling Medicines to
> > Starving Patients.  > Salmaan Keshavjee
> > * Equity in Access to AIDS Treatment in Africa:
> > Pitfalls amongst Achievements.  > Alice Desclaux
> > * Contracepting at Childbirth: The Integration of
> > International Reproductive Health and Population
> > Policies in Mexico.   > Arachu Castro
> > * How Healthy are Health and Population Policies?
> > The Indian Experience.  > Imrana Qadeer and Nalini Visvanathan
> > * Happy Children with AIDS: The Paradox of a Healthy National Program in
an Unequal and Exclusionary.  Brazil. > César E. AbadÌa-Barrero
> > * Saving Lives, Destroying Livelihoods: Emergency
> > Evacuation and Resettlement Policies in Ecuador.
> > Linda Whiteford and Graham Tobin
> > * Syringe Access, HIV Risk, and AIDS in
> > Massachusetts and Connecticut: The Health
> > Implications of Public Policy. > David Buchanan, Merrill Singer, Susan
Shaw, Wei Teng, Tom Stopka, Kaveh Khoshnood
> > * United States Health Policy on Alternative
> > Medicine: A Case Study in the Cooptation of a
> > Popular Movement.  > Hans A. Baer
> > * Why Is Prevention Not the Focus for Breast Cancer Policy in the Unites
States Rather than High-Tech
> > Medical Solutions? > Cathy Hodge McCoid


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