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Slum dwellers’ diagnosis of their own needs: implications for community development in Nigeria

01/05/1998

4 pages long

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The author reports on a visit to Lagos State, Nigeria, to research aspects of primary healthcare, and highlights how communities knew what they needed to improve their quality of life, and how they felt health education was not necessary. Their self-determination forced the researchers to adopt a participatory approach, and provide assistance in getting the […]

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Health and Livelihoods in Rural Angola: A participatory research project

01/01/1998

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71 pages long

Languages: English

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Planners developing basic social services, especially in communities suffering the consequences of conflict, have to respond to a wide range of needs but lack the information necessary for effective planning. This paper is an account of an Oxfam research project in Angola which had a dual aim: to find out more about how rural communities […]

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Development for Health: Selected articles from Development in Practice

01/01/1997

1 documents

114 pages long

Languages: English

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The achievement of ‘Health for All by the Year 2000’ has been the declared goal of the international community for almost 20 years. The 1978 Alma Ata Declaration acknowledged that health and well-being depend as much on social justice and community participation as on technical or medical interventions. Yet, with deepening economic disparity within and […]

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Women with Self-esteem are Healthy Women’: community development in an urban settlement of Guayaquil

01/02/1996

6 pages long

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Women with Self-esteem are Healthy Women’: community development in an urban settlement of Guayaquil

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CEPAM is an Ecuadorian women’s NGO, which has an integrated approach to work with poor urban women on health issues, legal advice, and group formation, based on a gender analysis of life in the area. This account of its work in a poor urban settlement in Guayaquil describes how women came to understand that their […]

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Book

Population and Reproductive Rights

01/01/1996

1 documents

67 pages long

Languages: English

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Concern about rapid growth in population has resulted in inappropriate and sometimes oppressive population control policies being implemented in many developing countries in the past 30 years. This book in the Focus on Gender series highlights the need for an approach which is based on reproductive rights, and stresses the importance of offering family-planning services […]

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Project Notes: Widows’ and orphans’ property disputes: the impact of AIDS in Rakai District, Uganda

01/11/1995

6 pages long

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A survey in the Rakai District in 1989 put the number of orphans at 25,000; by 1991 a population census counted 44,000, a growth the author attributes to the AIDS pandemic. The Child Social Care Project (CSCP) in Rakai works with widows and orphans to address their property rights, seeking to reduce the vulnerability of […]

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Stressed, depressed, or bewitched?

01/08/1995

9 pages long

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Mental illness is an important cause of disability in sub-Saharan African countries and is rarely covered in health-related development activity. This article examines the close relationship between mental illness, religion, and culture, referring to the authors’ experiences in Zimbabwe as an example. They emphasise the importance of gaining a sympathetic understanding of the religious beliefs […]

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Disease Prevention Through Vector Control: Guidelines for relief organisations

01/01/1995

1 documents

129 pages long

Languages: English

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The number of refugees and displaced persons has increased greatly in recent years. At least 80 per cent of them are living in tropical or semi-tropical countries where vector borne diseases, such as malaria, dengue, kala azar, sleeping sickness, dysentery, and cholera are common. In the crowded and unhygienic conditions of emergency camps, such diseases […]

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Decentralising urban health activities in developing countries

01/05/1994

8 pages long

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While there is considerable documented experience of decentralising health services in rural areas of developing countries, the decentralisation of health services in the urban context is rarely analysed. Urban development literature usually fails to address health issues, while the literature on the decentralisation of health services tends to ignore the urban sector. This article addresses […]

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Home-based care for people with HIV/AIDS: Agomanya, Ghana

01/02/1994

5 pages long

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From December 1987 to January 1988, a team of medical personnel from the Korle-Bu teaching hospital undertook an epidemiological study in the Krobo district to study the efficiency and potency of a Korean and Zairean herbal preparation. Findings showed that: more people with HIV/AIDS remained undetected in their homes than the number who reported in […]

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