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Improving Access and Efficiency in Public Health Services
SAGE India 2010; US$ 25.95This book presents a systematic mid-term evaluation of the processes of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Indias biggest rural health programme. Data from District Level Health Surveys (DLHS), National Family Health Surveys (NFHS), and Sample Registration System (SRS) as well as primary data collected from field surveys and interviews... more...
Rural Health
eContent Management Pty Ltd 2010; US$ 126.50?Rural Health? presents a range of analyses that question how well rural health models, services and knowledge improve health and wellbeing. It highlights the complexity of Aboriginal health, reiterating that there are no quick answers but a long process of developing cultural security and inclusion is required. In doing so, this title acknowledge... more...
Social Determinants of Indigenous Health
Allen & Unwin 2007; US$ 45.40A systematic overview of the impact of social and political factors on the health of Australia's Indigenous population. Australia's Aboriginal and Islander groups suffer ?Fourth World' standards of health: this book explains the causes for such poor healt more...
Rural Health Symposium: Patients and Practitioners
eContent Management Pty Ltd 2004; US$ 99.00This Symposium on Rural Health: Patients and Practitioners offers an important sociological analysis of issues peculiar to rural health and health care and contains important implications for the issue of how to sustain rural medical practices. more...
Rural Women's Health
Springer Publishing Company 2005; US$ 79.00Rural Women's Health encompasses the breadth and depth of the unique physical and psychological needs facing rural women throughout the United States and Canada, and identifies positive interventions and outcomes. Raymond T. Coward, founding editor of The Journal of Rural Health , along with five leading practitioners and researchers with contributions... more...
Rural Populations and Health
Wiley 2012; US$ 90.00Health-related disparities remain a persistent, serious problem across the nation's more than 60 million rural residents. Rural Populations and Health provides an overview of the critical issues surrounding rural health and offers a strong theoretical and evidence-based rationale for rectifying rural health disparities in the United States. This... more...
Healthy Villages
World Health Organization 2002; US$ 19.80Health is determined by many factors, including income, environmental conditions - such as access to adequate sanitation and safe water supplies - individual behaviour, and health services. More than half of the world's population lives in villages and rural areas and most of those without access to safe water sources or basic sanitation are rural... more...
Policies, Plans, and People
University of California Press 1989; US$ 31.95Judith Justice uses an interdisciplinary approach to show how anthropologists and planners can combine their expertise to make health care programs culturally compatible with the populations they serve. more...
Appalachian Health and Well-Being
The University Press of Kentucky 2012; US$ 50.00Appalachians have been characterized as a population with numerous disparities in health and limited access to medical services and infrastructures, leading to inaccurate generalizations that inhibit their healthcare progress. Appalachians face significant challenges in obtaining effective care, and the public lacks information about both their healthcare... more...
Female Genital Cutting, Women's Health, and Development
World Bank Publications 2007; US$ 9.99This strategy paper provides a comprehensive understanding of the issue of female genital mutilation/cuttingscope,challenges, opportunities, best practices, and how communities, development agencies, and national governments can work together to eliminate the practices on the ground. The World Bank is committed to assisting governments in ending... more...









