The Health of the Developing World |
Contents
APPENDICES | 1 |
PART TWO THE BACKGROUND TO HEALTH | 71 |
PART THREE THE DEVELOPING WORLD | 129 |
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19th Century Africa agricultural America animal areas Asia auxiliaries began beliefs beri beri Britain cancer cause of death cent chapter child China cholera culture death rate developing countries developing world diet doctors early economic effective Egypt endemic environment epidemic epidemiological eradication established Europe exist factory Geneva growth health centres health infrastructure health service hookworm hospital human hygiene illness increase India industrial industrialisation infant infections Japan John Graunt kwashiorkor lack limited living malaria malnutrition mass campaigns medical officer medicine mental million mortality nations numbers nurses nutritional disease occupations organisation physicians plague planning poliomyelitis population preventive primary health primary health care problems professional protein public health registration sanitary sanitation scientific sickness smallpox social society spread Sri Lanka staff statistics supervision surveys towns tuberculosis typhus village vitamin women workers xerophthalmia yellow fever zoonotic