The health transition : methods and measures : The proceedings of an international workshop, London, June 1989 / edited by John Cleland and Allan G. Hill.

By: Cleland, John
Contributor(s): Australian National University. Health Transition Centre
Language: English Publisher: Canberra : Health Transition Centre, 1991.Description: viii, 438p. : diags., tables. ; 25cm.
Contents:
Contents: Chap.1 Studying the health transition: an overview / John Cleland and Allan Hill; Chap.2 Review of data sources and methods of trends, age patterns and differentials of mortality in the Third World / Alberto Palloni; Chap.3 Biomedical methods for assessment of nutritional status in the individual and in communities / R.H. Behrens; Chap.4 Cultural conceptions of illness and the measurement of changes in morbidity / P. Stanley Yoder; Chap.5 Methods to identify geographic and social clustering of disability and disease burden / Kenneth G. Manton, Max A. Woodbury and John E. Dowd; Chap.6 Household production of health: a micro-economic perspective on health transitions / Julie DaVanzo and Paul Gertler; Chap.7 The measurement of subjective rationales for health- related behaviour/ John Simons; Chap.8 The trickle-down model within households: foster children and the phenomenon of scrounging / Caroline Bledsoe; Chap.9 Perceptions of health-care options and therapy-seeking behaviour / H.K. Heggenhougen; Chap.10 Macro-level study of socio-economic development and mortality: adequacy of indicators and methods of statistical analysis / T. Dyson and M. Murphy; Chap.11 The health status of vulnerable groups: a valuable indicator for national development / A. El Bindari Hammad and C.A. Mulholland; Chap.12 How do we evaluate the effects of different social policies on health? / George Stolnitz; Chap.13 Ways in the design and delivery of health services may influence uptake: methods enquiry / Sam Adjei; Chap.14 The anthropologist as storyteller: picking up where others leave off in public-health research / Cynthia Myntti; Chap.15 Combining quantative and qualitative methods in the study of intra-househhold resource allocation / Susan C.M. Scrimshaw; Chap.16 Prospective studies of communities and their unique potential for studying the health transition: reflections from the ORSTOM experience in Senegal / Michel Garenne and Pierre Cantrelle; Chap.17 Epidemiological methods for monitoring the health transition / Stanley O. Foster and Jason S. Weisfeld ; Chap.18 Advantages and limitations of largescale health interview surveys for the study of health and its determinants / Laurent Assogba, Oona Campbell and Allan G. Hill; Chap.19 Behavioural research on household activity patterns, resource alloaction and care practices / Michael Paolisso, Duncan Ngare and Judith Timyan; Chap. 20 A multi- dimensional approach to the social analysis of health transition in Bombay / Nigel Crook, Radhika Ramasubban and Bhanwar Singh; Chap.21 The four dimensions of Chagas' disease / Roberto Briceño-León; Chap.22 Multi- method perspectives of Tasmaheq illness: care, action and outcome / Sara Randall; Chap.23 Investigating health beliefs and health-seeking behaviour among the urban poor of Jakarta / Kim Streatfield, Lamtiur H. Tampubolon and Charles Surjadi; Chap.24 Discovering determinants of Australian Aboriginal population health / Allan Gray; Chap.25 Towards a contextual model of the health transition / Sally E. Findley; Chap.26 Estimating the impacts of socio-economic and biomedical factors on child health: the Cebu study / John S. Akin; Chap.27 Methodology mixes and health transition / Chitr Sitthi-amorn.
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Contents: Chap.1 Studying the health transition: an overview / John Cleland and Allan Hill; Chap.2 Review of data sources and methods of trends, age patterns and differentials of mortality in the Third World / Alberto Palloni; Chap.3 Biomedical methods for assessment of nutritional status in the individual and in communities / R.H. Behrens; Chap.4 Cultural conceptions of illness and the measurement of changes in morbidity / P. Stanley Yoder; Chap.5 Methods to identify geographic and social clustering of disability and disease burden / Kenneth G. Manton, Max A. Woodbury and John E. Dowd; Chap.6 Household production of health: a micro-economic perspective on health transitions / Julie DaVanzo and Paul Gertler; Chap.7 The measurement of subjective rationales for health- related behaviour/ John Simons; Chap.8 The trickle-down model within households: foster children and the phenomenon of scrounging / Caroline Bledsoe; Chap.9 Perceptions of health-care options and therapy-seeking behaviour / H.K. Heggenhougen; Chap.10 Macro-level study of socio-economic development and mortality: adequacy of indicators and methods of statistical analysis / T. Dyson and M. Murphy; Chap.11 The health status of vulnerable groups: a valuable indicator for national development / A. El Bindari Hammad and C.A. Mulholland; Chap.12 How do we evaluate the effects of different social policies on health? / George Stolnitz; Chap.13 Ways in the design and delivery of health services may influence uptake: methods enquiry / Sam Adjei; Chap.14 The anthropologist as storyteller: picking up where others leave off in public-health research / Cynthia Myntti; Chap.15 Combining quantative and qualitative methods in the study of intra-househhold resource allocation / Susan C.M. Scrimshaw; Chap.16 Prospective studies of communities and their unique potential for studying the health transition: reflections from the ORSTOM experience in Senegal / Michel Garenne and Pierre Cantrelle; Chap.17 Epidemiological methods for monitoring the health transition / Stanley O. Foster and Jason S. Weisfeld ; Chap.18 Advantages and limitations of largescale health interview surveys for the study of health and its determinants / Laurent Assogba, Oona Campbell and Allan G. Hill; Chap.19 Behavioural research on household activity patterns, resource alloaction and care practices / Michael Paolisso, Duncan Ngare and Judith Timyan; Chap. 20 A multi- dimensional approach to the social analysis of health transition in Bombay / Nigel Crook, Radhika Ramasubban and Bhanwar Singh; Chap.21 The four dimensions of Chagas' disease / Roberto Briceño-León; Chap.22 Multi- method perspectives of Tasmaheq illness: care, action and outcome / Sara Randall; Chap.23 Investigating health beliefs and health-seeking behaviour among the urban poor of Jakarta / Kim Streatfield, Lamtiur H. Tampubolon and Charles Surjadi; Chap.24 Discovering determinants of Australian Aboriginal population health / Allan Gray; Chap.25 Towards a contextual model of the health transition / Sally E. Findley; Chap.26 Estimating the impacts of socio-economic and biomedical factors on child health: the Cebu study / John S. Akin; Chap.27 Methodology mixes and health transition / Chitr Sitthi-amorn.