Health and Development

Health and development require one another: there can be no development without a critical mass of people who are sufficiently healthy to do whatever it takes for development to occur, and people cannot be healthy without societal developments that enable standards of health to be maintained or improved. However, the ways in which health and development interact are complex and contested. This volume unites eleven case studies from nine countries in three continents and two international organizations since the late-nineteenth century. Collectively, they show how different actors have struggled to reconcile the sometimes contradictory nature of health and development policies, and the subordination of these policies to a range of political objectives.

Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Introduction: Health and development --; "Kindly see to the matter": Local communities and the development of rural public health, 1870-1920 --; Development, sanitation, and international public health in Mexico (1881- 1911) --; Medicine, health, and development in Indonesia --; Soviet medical assistance and the making of Mongolian healthcare: geopolitics, ideology, and transformation of a traditional nomadic society, 1923-1947 --; Gatekeepers for the Third Reich: public health officers, forced labor and the control of epidemics --; Rallying around the magic wand: Visions of social medicine, public health and disease control in India 1946-1957 --; Between God and rifle: Catholic Church, development and health in 1950s Brazil --; Triumph or tragedy: unintended consequences of political planning and social engineering in Maoist China --; Mechanization of night soil disposal in postwar Japan --; The World Bank's advocacy of user fees in global health, c.1970-1997: more ideology than evidence? --; The origins of social determinants of health and universal health coverage at the World Health Organization, 2005-2015