Health & Development Books

New and Published Books

1. Governing Health in Contemporary China

   By Yanzhong Huang

   Series: China Policy Series

   The lack of significant improvement in people’s health status and other mounting health challenges in China raise a puzzling question about the country’s internal transition: why did the reform-induced dynamics produce an economic miracle, but fail to reproduce the success Mao had achieved in the...

   Published November 11th 2012 by Routledge
2. Child Protection in Development

   Edited by Michael Bourdillon, William Myers

   Series: Development in Practice Books

   Every day millions of children in developing countries face adversities of many kinds, yet there is a shortage of sound evidence concerning their plight and an urgent need to identify the most appropriate and effective policy responses from among the multiple approaches that exist. This collection...

   Published October 30th 2012 by Routledge
3. Assessing and Restoring Natural Resources In Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

   Edited by David Jensen, Stephen Lonergan

   Series: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Management

   When a country emerges from violent conflict, the management of the environment and natural resources has important implications for short-term peacebuilding and long-term stability, particularly if natural resources were a factor in the conflict, play a major role in the national economy, or...

   Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Global Health Care Chain

   From the Pacific to the World

   By John Connell

   Series: Routledge Research in Population and Migration

   For more than a quarter of a century there has been significant international migration of skilled health workers, but in the last decades, with critical changes in both sending and receiving countries, few parts of the world are now unaffected by the consequences of the migration of health workers...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
5. Global Public Health Vigilance

   Creating a World on Alert

   By Lorna Weir, Eric Mykhalovskiy

   Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

   Global Public Health Vigilance is the first sociological book to investigate recent changes in how global public health authorities imagine and respond to international threats to human health. This book explores a remarkable period of conceptual innovation during which infectious disease,...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
6. Social Development

   Critical Themes and Perspectives

   Edited by Manohar S. Pawar, David R. Cox

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

   This edited collection demonstrates that the ideas inherent in social development are practical and not utopian. By discussing and delineating a social development approach, the book argues the need for practicing it at local or grassroots-level communities to promote universal social justice and...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
7. Health Transitions and the Double Disease Burden in Asia and the Pacific

   Histories of Responses to Non-Communicable and Communicable Diseases

   Edited by Milton J. Lewis, Kerrie L. MacPherson

   Series: Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies

   Chronic diseases—cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes—are not only the principal cause of world-wide mortality but also are now responsible for a striking increase in the percentage of sickness in developing countries still grappling with the acute problems of...

   Published September 3rd 2012 by Routledge
8. Health Policy and the Public Interest

   By Lok-sang Ho

   This book is written with an acute awareness of the need for new insight to ensure (1) universal protection in basic healthcare; (2) providing choice; (3) efficient production and consumption of healthcare services; (4) financial sustainability of the healthcare system. Defining the public interest...

   Published August 12th 2012 by Routledge
9. Community Development Approaches to Improving Public Health

   Edited by Robert Ogilvie

   Series: Community Development – Current Issues Series

   As the rates of chronic diseases, like diabetes, asthma and obesity skyrocket, research is showing that the built environment – the way our cities and towns are developed – contributes to the epidemic rates of these diseases. It is unlikely that those who planned and developed these places...

   Published August 12th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Political Economy of Water and Sanitation

    By Matthias Krause

    Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

    According to recent estimates, around 6,000 people – mostly children under five – die every day from diseases caused by inappropriate water and sanitation (WS) services. Much of the academic and political debate surrounding this issue has focused on private sector participation. By...

    Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge