Health on Wheels in Mississippi: The Mississippi Rural Health Project of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

1941 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 551
Author(s):  
Bessie E. Cobbs
Keyword(s):  
Rural Health ◽  
Health Project ◽  
Alpha Kappa Alpha

An integrated rural health project in Saradidi, Kenya

1989 ◽  
Vol 28 (10) ◽  
pp. 1063-1071 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan C. Owino Kaseje ◽  
Esther K.N. Sempebwa
Keyword(s):  
Rural Health ◽  
Health Project

scholarly journals The Periphery is the Centre: Some Macedonian Origins of Social Medicine and Internationalism

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-233
Author(s):  
Sara Silverstein
Keyword(s):  
Rural Health ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
International Health ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Social Medicine ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Local Health ◽  
International Organisations ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Health Project

A new and important model for international health originated in the 1920s as a rural health project in the Macedonian region of Yugoslavia. Thus, the involvement of international organisations in social stability and human security did not follow the Great Depression of the 1930s, as has been argued. In fact, the redefinition of the League of Nations’ mandate began with its Health Organisation in the 1920s, growing from local health projects. These initiatives adapted principles of social medicine to address the challenges of constructing egalitarian democratic states in the agrarian peripheries of post-imperial Europe.

The Butajira Rural Health Project in Ethiopia: a nested case-referent (control) study of under-5 mortality and its health and behavioural determinants

1994 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Desta Shamebo ◽  
Lulu Muhe ◽  
Anita Sandström ◽  
Lennart Freij ◽  
Ingela Krantz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Health ◽  
Behavioural Determinants ◽  
Health Project ◽  
Control Study

NGO Contributions to Community Health and Primary Health Care: Case Studies on BRAC (Bangladesh) and the Comprehensive Rural Health Project, Jamkhed (India)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Mushtaque R. Chowdhury ◽  
Henry B. Perry
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Rural Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Project

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in developing countries are chiefly a post-World War II phenomenon. Though they have made important contributions to health and development among impoverished people throughout the world, the documentation of these contributions has been limited. Even though BRAC and the Jamkhed Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP) are but two of 9.7 million NGOs registered around the world, they are unique. Established in 1972 in Bangladesh, BRAC is now the largest NGO in the world in terms of population served—now reaching 130 million people in 11 different countries. Its programs are multi-sectoral but focus on empowering women and improving the health of mothers and children. Through its unique scheme of generating income through its own social enterprises, BRAC is able to cover 85% of its $1 billion budget from self-generated funds. This innovative approach to funding has enabled BRAC to grow and to sustain that growth as its social enterprises have also prospered. The Jamkhed CRHP, founded in 1970 and located in the Indian state of Maharashtra, is notable for its remarkable national and global influence. It is one of the world’s early examples of empowering communities to address their health problems and the social determinants of those problems, in part by training illiterate women to serve as community health workers. The Jamkhed CRHP served as a major influence on the vision of primary health care that emerged at the 1978 International Conference on Primary Health Care at Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan. Its Institute for Training and Research in Community Health and Population has provided on-site training in community health for 45,000 people from 100 different countries. The book written by the founders entitled Jamkhed: A Comprehensive Rural Health Project, describing its pioneering approach, has been translated into five languages beyond English and is one of the most widely read books on global health. These two exemplary NGOs provide a glimpse of the breadth and depth of NGO contributions to improving the health and well-being of impoverished people throughout the world.

scholarly journals “The Paradise of the Latrine”: American Toilet-Building and the Continuities of Colonial and Postcolonial Development

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-320
Author(s):  
Simon Toner
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
International Development ◽  
Rural Health ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Postcolonial Development ◽  
Health Project ◽  
American Nation ◽  
At Home

The Sanitary Hamlet Program, a rural health project intended to serve counterinsurgency goals in wartime Vietnam, focused on ending open-air defecation and instructing Vietnamese in the correct use of latrines. This program belongs within a larger arc of American nation-building cum toilet-building at home and abroad in the twentieth century; American toilet-building shared common features and served common functions from the age of formal empire through the postcolonial era. Looking beyond the rhetoric of modernization to on-the-ground practices reveals how American approaches to international development after 1945 continued to be shaped by racialized perceptions of foreign peoples. But the project was not simply the product of an American neo-colonial impulse. It was also an expression of South Vietnamese leaders’ postcolonial worldview—one that similarly targeted unsanitary peasants for hygienic reform.

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