Maternal and Child Health Global Challenges, Programs, and Policies
Maternal and Child Health: Global Challenges, Programs, and Policies Edited by John Ehiri, PhD, MPH, MSc (Econ.) Our current era of globalization, war, and socioeconomic unrest has revealed public health as a worldwide concern and a major frontier
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Maternal and Child Health Global Challenges, Programs, and Policies
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Maternal and Child Health
John Ehiri Editor
Maternal and Child Health Global Challenges, Programs, and Policies
Foreword by Paul Garner
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Editor John Ehiri, PhD, MPH, MSc (Econ.) Director, Professor Division of Health Promotion Sciences Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health University of Arizona 1295 N. Martin Avenue Tucson, AZ 85724 USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-0-387-89244-3 DOI 10.1007/b106524
e-ISBN 978-0-387-89245-0
Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009932149 # Springer ScienceþBusiness Media, LLC 2009 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer ScienceþBusiness Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer ScienceþBusiness Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
There has been a crying need for a compendium of teaching and learning resources dedicated to critical global health issues confronting the most vulnerable members of our communities, women, infants, children, and adolescents. This book bridges this gap in literature by taking a global perspective, but weighting more of the content on the most pressing problems and possible solutions in middle- and low-income countries. From the outset, the book lays out the scene, first by respecting history and exploring the foundations of much of what we see today in the global health arena and then moving on to provide carefully researched appraisals of some of the most critical issues that the underpin achievement of maternal and child health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in middle- and low-income countries, including politics and power, specific disease conditions, programs, policies, and emerging concerns. Thus, it is right on target as a valuable educational resource for global health scholars, agencies, and frontline operatives who are striving to reduce global health inequities. A central theme of the book, among others, is that a systematic return to basic, evidence-based, cost-effective, and time-proven technologies will be an integral part of a sustainable response to global maternal and child health challenges. Revitalizing health systems in less-developed countries based on the tenets of the Alma Ata Declaration of Primary Healthcare, presented by the World Health Organization and United Nations Children’s Fund over 30 years a
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