Health
Subtitle: bridging the gaps
By: Roziah Omar.
Publisher: University of Malaya Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Public health -- Malaysia.; Medical care -- Malaysia.
Other titles: Social cultural interpretation of health
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION; title: Building the Bridge; title: Malaysia: Background; title: The Chapters; title: CHAPTER 2 BEHAVIOUR AND HEALTH: SOME; title: CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING; title: Some Conceptual Models; title: Critical Social Health; title: Studying Health, Culture; title: and Behaviour: The Field of; title: Medical Anthropology; title: CHAPTER 3 CONTEMPORARY HEALTH CARE; title: Health Care: Strategies to Achieve Optimum Health; title: Health Financing; title: The Rural Health Service: Achieving Equity; title: Material Child Health; title: Hospitals and Health Care; title: Health Manpower; title: Health Insurance; title: CHAPTER 4 DEVELOPMENT AND HEALTH; title: Development in Malaysia; title: Disease Pattern and ll-Health; title: Heart Disease; title: Cancer; title: Occupational Health; title: Development and Environmental Pollution; title: The main sources of Pollution in Malaysia; title: HIV/AIDS; title: Concluding Remarks; title: CHAPTER 5 POVERTY AND HEALTH; title: Poverty: Concepts and Approaches; title: Non-Economic Measurements of Poverty; title: Poverty and Health; title: Poverty in Malysia; title: Poverty and Health Studies: Some Facts; title: Poverty and Maternal and Child; title: Health Research (1984); title: Maternal and Child Health Among Orang Asli; title: in Peninsular Malaysia (1984); title: Communicable Diseases; title: Malnutrition; title: Malay Women in the Body: Between; title: Biology and Culture:; title: A Study Of Lower Income Women Perceptions; title: and Experience Bodies, Sexualiy nd Health (1992); title: Women and Poverty in the Estate Sector in; title: Peninsular Malaysia.; title: (Oorjitham, 1994); title: Equity and Health Care; title: Concluding Remarks; title: CHAPTER 6 WOMEN'S HEALTH; title: The Health of Women in Malaysia; title: Infant Mortality Rates; title: Maternal Mortality Rates; title: Access to Maternal Health Care; title: Issue on Women's Health; title: Findings; title: Other Women and Health Concerns; title: Concluding Remarks; title: Chapter 7 THE ELDERLY; title: The Demographic Situation; title: Life Expectancy; title: Policy for Older People:; title: Malaysian Agenda; title: Health Services; title: Ministry of National Unity and; title: Social Development; title: Services; title: Chapter 8 CONCLUSION; title: Health Care; title: Development and Health; title: Poverty and Health; title: Women's Health; title: Elderly; title: Epilogue: Agenda of the Future.