Poverty and Health: Reaping a Richer Harvest

Type

Book

Authors

Marie-Therese Feuerstein

ISBN 10

0333661303

ISBN 13

9780333661307

Tags

Public Health, Preventive Medicine, Poverty, Social Services & Welfare

Description

This text is a practical field handbook for those working to reduce both poverty and ill-health. The text examines the effects of poverty on human health, and presents ideas to improve planning and implementing of action with rural and urban poor. It emphasizes participatory and people-centred development, highlighting the unmet needs of households and unsafe workplaces where the poor and vulnerable work and live. It shows why more targeted and integrated strategies are needed to reduce poverty and ill-health. - from Amzon

Biblio Notes

RA 418.5 P6 F4

Feuerstein, Marie-Therese

Poverty and health: Reaping a richer harvest/ Marie-Therese Feuerstein. -- London: Macmillan Education Ltd., 1997.

220 p.
0-333-66130-3
Poverty--Health aspects

2089/ 2102 MPQLdb

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