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Health and Human Development in Kenya: A Review of Literature from High Income, Middle Income, and Low Income Countries
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Wekullo, Caroline Sabina; Davis, Elise Catherine; Nafukho, Fredrick Muyia; Kash, Bita A. – European Journal of Training and Development, 2018
Purpose: This paper aims to critically analyze the empirical literature on health and human development in high-, middle- and low-income countries to develop a sustainable model for investing in human health. The model is critical in building a comprehensive health-care system that fosters the stakeholders' financial stability, economic growth and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literature Reviews, Health Services, Public Health
Internet-Based Public Health E-Learning Student Perceptions: An Evaluation from the People's Open Access Education Initiative (Peoples-uni)
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Awofeso, Niyi; Philip, Keir; Heller, Richard F. – Open Learning, 2012
Current public health training infrastructure and facilitators in most developing nations are insufficient relative to public health service delivery needs. We examined five areas of student perceptions of a web-based public health learning initiative, the Peoples-uni, which focused on: reasons for enrolling, learning expectations; technical…
Descriptors: Public Health, Community Health Services, Health Promotion, Developing Nations
Racial Context, Black Immigration and the U.S. Black/White Health Disparity
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Read, Jen'nan Ghazal; Emerson, Michael O. – Social Forces, 2005
The United States' black/white health gap is an important consequence of racial inequality. The gap is large, shows little signs of declining, and explanations have been limited by lack of theory and data. A new direction that offers potential for theoretical development is a focus on black immigrants, a group that shares the same racial status as…
Descriptors: African Americans, Foreign Countries, Well Being, Immigrants
Selected Bibliographies and State-of the-Art Review for Socio-cultural Factors in Health. Volume 4: Socio-cultural Factors in Health References. International Health Planning Reference Series.
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Fraser, Renee White; Shani, Hadasa – 1979
Intended as a companion picce to volume 4 in the Method Series, Sociocultural Factors in Health Planning (CE 024 232), this fourth of six volumes in the International Health Planning Reference Series is a combined literature review and annotated bibliography dealing with social, cultural, and behavioral aspects of delivering, planning, and…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Behavior, Beliefs, Cultural Influences
Guidelines for Analysis of Socio-Cultural Factors in Health. Volume 4: Socio-Cultural Factors in Health Planning. International Health Planning Methods Series.
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Fraser, Renee White – 1979
Intended to assist Agency for International Development (AID) officers, advisors, and health officials in incorporating health planning into national plans for economic development, this fourth of ten manuals in the International Health Planning Methods Series deals with sociocultural, psychological, and behavioral factors that affect the planning…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Change, Beliefs, Cultural Influences
Health, Education and Poverty Reduction. OECD Development Centre Policy Brief No. 19
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Morrisson, Christian – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2002
It is generally agreed that spending on education and health is key to poverty reduction, but simply allocating more resources to these sectors does not ensure that poverty actually declines. On the basis of four in-depth case studies (on Indonesia, Madagascar, Peru and Tanzania) and three Technical Papers on malnutrition and primary education in…
Descriptors: Poverty, Economically Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries, Public Health