Sister of Charity distributes UNRRA food.  Belgium, 1946Doctor and nurse giving examination and treatment for hookworm to one of children in Goodman School health room, April 1939. Rural vaccinator in United Provinces, British India, c.1930, private collection of Dr Sanjoy BhattacharyaYoung girl prays before eating school lunch of soup, milk, and an apple. 1936. Part of U.S. Works Progress Administration Surplus Commodities: School Lunch Programs during the Great Depression.
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Transnational Histories of Public Health in Southeast Asia, 1914 - 2014: A Bibliography (Version 3) »

by Neesha Harnam and Kirsty Walker

June 2010

Bibliography Entries:

México
Bronfman, M., “Infant mortality and crisis in Mexico”, International Journal of Health Services, 22 (1992)

Cutler, D., Knaul, F., Lozano, R., Mendez, O., Zurita, B.,et. al., “Financial crisis, health outcomes and ageing: Mexico in the 1980s and 1990s”, Journal of Public Economics, 84 (2002)

Kanul, F., Arreola-Ornelas, H, Méndez-Carniado, O; Bryson-Cahn, C., Barofsky J., Maguire R., Miranda, M., Sesma, S.,“Evidence is good for your health system: policy reform to remedy catastrophic and impoverishing health spending in Mexico”, The Lancet, 368 (November 2006)

Langer, A. Lozano, R., Bobadilla, J.L. 1991, “The effects of Mexico’s crisis on the health of women and children” in M. González de la Rocha, A. Escobar Latapi (Eds.), Social Responses to Mexico’s Economic Crises of the 1980s. University of California, San Diego (1991)

Pego, Raquel Abrantes, Las estrategias de accion colectiva en el sector sauld mexicano a partir de la crisis economica de 1982: una primera aproximacion. Mexico, D.F.: Division de Administracion Publica, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (c. 1995)

Stephen, Lynn, “Women in Mexico's Popular Movements: Survival Strategies against Ecological and Economic Impoverishment”  Latin American Perspectives, 19, 1. The Ecological Crisis of Latin America (Winter, 1992)

Latin America
CEPAL (Comisión económica para América Latina y el Caribe), La Equidad en el Panorama Social de América Latina durante los Años Ochenta (1993)

Hill, K and Palloni, A, “Demographic Responses to Economic Shocks: The Case of Latin America”, Research in Human Capital and Development, 8 (1994)

Londoño, Juan Luis, Frenk, Julio. Structured pluralism: towards an innovative model for health system reform in Latin America. Health Policy, 41 (1997)

Musgrove, Philip, “ Economic Crisis and Health Policy Response” in Georges Tapinos, Andrew Mason and Jorge Bravo, eds., Demographic Responses to Economic Adjustment in Latin America, Oxford, Claredon Press (1997)

Musgrove, Philip, “Crisis Económica y Salud: La Experiencia de Cinco Países Latinoamericanos en los Años Ochenta (editor and co-author)”. Washington, D.C; Pan American Health Organization (1988)

Packard T, Baeza C. Beyond survival: protecting households from health shocks in Latin America, Washington DC: World Bank (2006)

Palloni A., Hill, K., and Aguirre, G.P., “Economic swings and demographic changes in the history of Latin America” Population Studies, 50 (1996)

Palloni A., Tienda, M. “Demographic responses to economic recessions in Latin America since 1990”, Sociological Inquiry, 62 (1992)

Romero, Dalia E. y Landmann, Célia, “Crisis económica y mortalidad infantil en Latinoamérica desde los años ochenta”, Cadernos de saúde pública, 16, 3, (2000)

Tapinos, G., Manson, A., and Bravo, I. (Eds.), Demographic Responses to Economic Adjustment in Latin America.  Oxford, Claredon Press (1997)

World Bank, Poverty and Income Distribution in Latin America. The Story of the 1980s. Washington, Technical Departmente. Latin America and the Caribean Region, World Bank (1993)

Weil, Connie and Joseph Scarpaci (eds.), Health and Health Care in Latin America During the Lost Decade: Insights for the 1990s.  Minnesota Latin American Series - Iowa International Papers (1992)

Brazil
Rios-Neto, E and De Carvalho, M., “The demographic consequences of structural adjustment: The case of Brazil” in Georges Tapinos, Andrew Mason and Jorge Bravo, eds., Demographic Responses to Economic Adjustment in Latin America.  Oxford, Claredon Press (1997)

Colombia
Christopher Abel, Health care in Colombia, c. 1920-c.1950: a preliminary analysis. London: Institute of Latin American Studies (c1994)

 

February 2010

Bibliography Entry:

Luckin, B. (ed,), Medical Refugees in Britain and the Wider World, 1930-1960, special issue of Social History of Medicine, 22, 3 (December 2009)

December 2009

Bibliography Entries:

J. B. Shank, Crisis: A Useful Category of Post–Social Scientific Historical Analysis?, The American Historical Review, 113:1090–1099, October 2008.

Europe:
World Health Organisation, Health in times of global economic crisis: implications for the WHO European Region, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, 2009

World Health Organisation, Meeting Report. Health in times of global economic crisis: implications for the WHO European Region, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Oslo, 2009.

November 2009

Bibliography Entries:

Transnational:
Lee R., 'The demographic response to economic crisis in historical and contemporary populations', Population Bulletin of the United Nations, 29 (1990), pp.1-15

Stuckler D., C. Meissner and L. King, 'Can a bank crisis break your heart?' Globalization and Health, 4, 1 (2008), pp.1-12

Britain:
 Coutts, A., Active Labour Market Programmes (ALMPs) and health: an evidence base, Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England Post 2010 (Marmot Review), June 2009

Cameroon:
Pongou, R., J.A. Salomon, and M. Ezzati, 'Health impacts of macroeconomic crises and policies: determinants of variation in childhood malnutrition trends in Cameroon', International Journal of Epidemiology, 35, 3 (2006), pp. 648-656

Costa Rica:
Morgan, L.M., 'Health without Wealth? Costa Rica's Health System under Economic Crisis', Journal of Public Health Policy, 8, 1 (1987)

Cuba:
Nayeri, K. and C.M. López-Pardo,'Economic Crisis and Access to Care: Cuba's Health Care System since the collapse of the Soviet Union', International Journal of Health Services, 35, 4 (2005) 

Indonesia:
Frankenberg, E., D. Thomas, and K. Beegle, The Real Costs of Indonesia's Economic Crisis: Preliminary Findings from the Indonesia Family Life Surveys, RAND Labour and Population Program Working Paper Series 99-04 (March 1999) 

Frankenberg E., K. Beegle, B. Sikoki, and D. Thomas, Health, family planning and well-being in Indonesia during an economic crisis: Early Results from the Indonesian Family Life Survey, RAND Labour and Population Program Working Paper Series 99-06 (December 1998)  

Korea:
Khang, Young-Ho, John W. Lynch, and George A. Kaplan,  'Impact of economic crisis on cause-specific mortality in South Korea', International Journal of Epidemiology, 34, 6 (2005), pp. 1291-1301

Poland:
Wnuk-Lipinski, E., 'The Polish country profile: economic crisis and inequalities in health', Social Science and Medicine, 31, 8 (1990), pp. 859-66

United States:
Catalano. R., 'Health, Medical Care, and the Economic Crisis', The New England Journal of Medicine, 360, 8 (2009)

Miller, C.A, E.J. Coulter, L.B. Schorr, A. Fine, and S. Adams-Taylor, 'The world economic crisis and the children: United States case study', International Journal of Health Services, 15, 1 (1985) pp. 95-134