The Lives of Community Health Workers: Local Labor and Global Health in Urban Ethiopia 1315400774, 9781315400778

Support Workers and the Health Professions in International Perspective: The Invisible Providers of Health Care 9781447352112

Health care support workers (HSWs) play a fundamental role in international health care systems, and yet they remain lar

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Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds: Local Solidarity in a Global Economy 9781501726682

Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds examines a diverse array of innovative strategies for revitalizing the labor moveme

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Where They Need Me: Local Clinicians and the Workings of Global Health in Haiti 9781501763861

Where They Need Me examines the work of Haitian health professionals in humanitarian aid encounters. Haiti is the target

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Unmaking the Global Sweatshop: Health and Safety of the World's Garment Workers 9780812294316

Unmaking the Global Sweatshop gathers the work of leading anthropologists and ethnographers studying the global garment

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Unmaking the Global Sweatshop: Health and Safety of the World's Garment Workers 9780812249392, 0812249399

The 2013 collapse of Rana Plaza, an eight-story garment factory in Savar, Bangladesh, killed over a thousand workers and

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Local Authorities and the Social Determinants of Health 9781447356257

As many social inequalities widen, this is a crucial survey of local authorities’ evolving role in health, social care a

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The Children in Child Health: Negotiating Young Lives and Health in New Zealand 9781978809345

Who are the children in child health policy? How do they live and see the world, and why should we know them? A journey

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Community health and wellbeing: Action research on health inequalities 9781847422767

Improving health in populations in which health is poor is a complex process. This book argues that the traditional gove

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Ethiopia Health Extension Program : An Institutionalized Community Approach for Universal Health Coverage [1 ed.] 9781464808166, 9781464808159

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Urban transformations and public health in the emergent city 9781526150943

This book is a collection of essays exploring different aspects of health and wellbeing in cities today. With contributi

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