Microenterprise Development for Better Health Outcomes

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Rosalia Rodriguez-Garcia, James A. Macinko, William F. Waters

Book Code: GM1633

ISBN: 0-313-31633-3

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31633-3

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160 pages, figures, tables, boxes

Greenwood Press

Publication: 2/28/2001

List Price: $115.00 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)

Availability: Print on demand

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: Contributions in Economics and Economic History

Series Number: 222

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This book is divided into four parts. Part 1 provides and introduction and overview of micro enterprise development and its relationship to health. PArt 2 provides a comprehensive review of micro enterprise phenomena. Part 3 illustrates and draws important lessons from the experiences of varios organizations. Part 4 suggests directions for more effective efforts toward improved health and human development.
—APADE 2000/01

Description: Showing that economic development and public health, often thought of as distinct, are both interdependent and dependent on social and political conditions, this book provides a new appreciation of the close relationship between microenterprise development and health in developing countries. Many of the world's poor earn a living from microenterprises, often outside the formal economy, and international practitioners have recently turned their attention to this underground economy, providing support through group poverty lending and village banking models, but overlooking the potential benefits of linking income generation with public health. This book argues for a conceptual and practical relationship between microenterprise development and household health, nutrition, and sanitation. To support their framework, the authors look at specific actions for harnessing the power of microeconomic development to improve health and human development. They support their argument further with case studies of innovative programs carried out in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. The book challenges the reader to cross disciplinary and professional boundaries to not only understand the interrelationships between health and income generation but to use available tools to enhance those interrelationships.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Overview
The Health-Microenterprise Development Link
On Health and Wealth by Aleya El-Bindari Hammad
Conceptual Framework, Approaches, and Methodologies
The Microenterprise Phenomenon
Making the Link
Microedit and Health Programs: To Integrate Or Not To Integrate? by Stephen C. Smith
Challenges in Evaluating the Health-Microenterprise Development Link
Linking Theory with Practice
Microenterprise Development and Health Systems: Evidence from Bolivia and the Dominican Republic
Approaches to Linking Microenterprise Development with Health Programs
Selected Case Studies
Conclusions
Appendix
Bibliography
Index

LC Card Number: 00-042235

LCC Class: RA441

Dewey Class: 362


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