Health & Development

This book offers suggestions for reform of current child protection policies, based on empirical findings around a range of child protection concerns, including children’s work, independent migration, family separation, early marriage and military occupation._x000D_ This book was published as a spec..

This book offers suggestions for reform of current child protection policies, based on empirical findings around a range of child protection concerns, including children’s work, independent migration, family separation, early marriage and military occupation._x005F_x000D_ This book was published as ..

This book provides a social history of the relationship between religion and America's international health policy and practice from the latter 19th century to the present, uncovering the synergies and tensions between the two fields. This ambitious study will be of interest to researchers in global..

This book describes many of the unique contributions of the Food & Fitness work as well as a number of early successes. They draw lessons from efforts to form and maintain partnerships, and from the strategies employed to create structural change in communities...

This book brings together internationally renowned scholars to critically interrogate the development of rights based approaches to health. The volume integrates discussions of the right to health at a theoretical and practical level, and engages with the emerging systems of global health governance..

Based on qualitative research focused on literacy and health from three schools in coastal Kenya, this book examines country, school, and family contexts to develop a dual-generation maternal-child model for literacy learning and to connect local-specific phenomena with national and international po..

Health Insurance Reforms in Asia..

This book empirically examines health care financing reforms and popular responses in three major cities in East Asia: Shanghai, Singapore, and Hong Kong. It adopts a new revised version of the theory of historical institutionalism to compare and explain the divergent reform paths in these three pla..

Health Policy and the Public Interest..

Health Policy and the Public Interest..

This book presents an historical account of the development of the double disease burden in Asia and the Pacific, a region which has experienced great economic, social, demographic and political change. With in-depth analysis of more than fifteen countries, this volume examines the impact of the dou..

By tracing the shadow of the epidemic over the last 30 years in Uganda and more broadly in the region, Janet Seeley investigates the impact of the epidemic on people’s lives and livelihoods, placing the epidemic within the context of the social, political and economic changes that have occurred over..