1980 - 1989: Recent submissions
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The Shortfall in Development Investment: a comment on Jayawardena's proposal
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1983)SUMMARY The spirit behind Jayawardena's proposal for a new recycling mechanism is more important than the details, which can be faulted on several counts. It emphasises interdependence, the need for a unilateral gesture ... -
Editorial
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Health and Society: reflections on policy
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1983)SUMMARY Improvements in health among the populations of developed countries have come about largely through improved living standards and public health measures, and the contribution of medicine has been relatively small. ... -
Better Health than Health Care: moving up, down and out
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1983)SUMMARY Promoting health is still widely equated with merely building up the health care system. Health services in Idcs, based on originally imported models, continue above all to benefit the elites, although the PHC ... -
The Politics of Primary Health Care
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1983)SUMMARY All three main elements of the primary health care (PHC) approach — the alleviation of poverty, popular involvement, and health sector reform — involve issues of conflicting social interests, which explain the ... -
The Fate of Primary Health Care in Brazil
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1983)SUMMARY Primary health care programmes have only partially succeeded in redressing the health and health care inequalities suffered by the Brazilian population over the last few decades. In discussing a recent unsuccessful ... -
Forms of Health Service Financing and Their Effect on the Provision of Care
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1983)SUMMARY The successful implementation of primary health care is dependent on financing systems that reflect the wider social, economic and political perspectives on which the concept rests. Particular forms of financing ... -
Health and Development: the Moral Imperative a personal statement
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1983)SUMMARY Public and private health care markets exhibit the same defects: the ‘third party’ (the state or the insurer) pays, and neither the consumer nor the producer has much incentive to economise in the use of scarce ... -
Efficiency in Health Care: a Market Model for Developed Economies
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1983)SUMMARY Public and private health care markets exhibit the same defects: the ‘third party’ (the state or the insurer) pays, and neither the consumer nor the producer has much incentive to economise in the use of scarce ... -
The Chilean Experience with a National Formulary in the 1960s
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1983)SUMMARY The rationalisation of drug use and production in Chile started in the 1940s. However a coherent pharmaceutical policy, meant to counter the negative effects of the marketing policies of the private sector, emerged ... -
Pharmaceutical Policy in Independent Mozambique: the first years
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1983)SUMMARY In the context of developing a comprehensive national health service based on primary health care, major changes have been made in independent Mozambique to the chaotic pharmaceutical situation inherited from the ... -
Third World Initiatives on Pharmaceuticals: a documentation for the record
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1983)SUMMARY The search for rational and equitable pharmaceutical policies has become a worldwide concern in recent years. The Third World countries, particularly through the non?aligned conferences, have played a key role in ... -
Measuring women's work: methodological and conceptual issues in Latin America
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1984)SUMMARY The issue of the concepts and methods used in measuring women's work has been an ever?increasing preoccupation in the Latin American region Wainerman and Recchini de Lates [1981] have shown the difficulties that ... -
Women's solidarity – and divisions among women
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1984)SUMMARY This article highlights the importance of understanding the dynamics of commonality and conflicts of interest among women for researchers grass roots activists and policy makers. Women do not constitute a homogeneous ... -
Rural women: issues for research, policy and organisation for gender equality
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Measuring time allocation, decision?making and agrarian changes affecting rural women: examples from recent research in Indonesia
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1984)SUMMARY In small?scale research on rural women a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches can serve as a check on the biases inherent in each method. Quantitative data in themselves can rarely explain anything ... -
Some thoughts on the life story method in labour history and research on rural women
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1984)SUMMARY Some social scientists see life?story interviews as the best method to obtain answers to normative and unquantitiable questions, expecially in women's research in this article a historian draws on her own research ... -
Research methodologies appropriate to rapid appraisal: a Chinese experience
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1984)SUMMARY Experiences in China suggest the feasibility and value of rapid appraisal will be determined by the methodological constraints operating in the society under investigation and the scope and focus of the proposed ... -
Important issues for feminist nutrition research – a case study from the savanna of West Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1984)SUMMARY Nutrition education usually aims to change the practices of individual mothers. It may divert attention from real problems, increase anxiety or be dangerously inappropriate. This article argues that nutritionists ... -
Rural development and women's liberation: caste, class and gender in a grass?roots organisation in Tamil Nadu, South India
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1984)SUMMARY This article deals with the commection between class and gender issues in the context of the organisational history of a movement of landless Harijans. The author challenges the conventional definition of development ...