World Health Organization : World Health Forum, 1985 ; Volume 6 No. 2, Year 1985: World Health Forum

By David De Ferranti

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Title:	World Health Organization : World Health Forum, 1985 ; Volume 6 No. 2, Year 1985: World Health Forum
Author:	David De Ferranti
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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Medical Reference Publication

Excerpt
What should the governments of developing countries do to cope with the present crisis in the financing of health services? Current policies have failed to mobilize enough financial, human, and other resources to meet existing or anticipated needs. A sense of urgency has begun to emerpe in recent vears as the extent and severity ofothe probl&s have been better recognized. With respect to the health-for-all goals, there is now a greater appreciation of the size of the resource gap, estimated by one source at US$50 billion annually for the developing world as a whole (1). This figure is more than 14 times the current total amount of external assistance for health (2). Current policies also have other, more fundamental shortcomings relating to efficiency and equity issues. Heavy reliance on taxation to finance health services often adverselv affects the efficient allocation and use of resources, especially when taxes are distortional or costly to collect.

Table of Contents
HEALTH 2000 Paying for health services in developing countries: a call for realism David de Ferranti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 PRIMARY HEALTH CARE Dental health care: the changing scene S. B. Dissanayake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Self-help in rural Nigeria Durrenda Nash Ojanuga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Planning a community-oriented midwifery service for Sierra Leone I. W. Aitken, T. K. Katgbo, e9 A. M. Gba-Kamara . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 10 Birth attendants and perinatal mortality A. K. Pratinidhi, A. N. Shrotri, Usha Shah, e9 H. H. Chavan . . . . . . . 11 5 EDUCATION Training doctors for primary health care: the Vellore model Abraham Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 18 Malaria training for doctors H. A. H. Mashaal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Physical education in developing countries J. T. Corlett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 IN FOCUS Neonatal tetanus-an underreported scourge J. P. Stanjeld e9 A. Gafazka . . . . . . . . . . READERS' FORUM Bekir Sztkr Saylz; N. Sarwat & P. Khanna; Asha Bai; V. P. Reddaiah; Paul Pui-Hay But; Igbo N. Egw; F. A. R. Al-Alusi et al. . . . . . . . . 130 MEDICINE AND HEALTH Reducing the hazards of health care John M. Last . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Pneumonia in children: a neglected cause of death Frank Shann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143