The focus in this book is on the important topic of poverty alleviation, in two relatively undeveloped areas in Asia, namely, West Bengal in India and in Bangladesh. The authors argue that poverty is not merely of great concern to the people of these two areas but also to the rest of the world, especially the developed world, because of its political-economic consequences, including international terrorism. From this premise and using a conflated theoretical ...
The 1978 International Conference on Primary Health Care at Alma Ata at Kazaktan set the goal of "Health for all by the year 2000". Since then more than nearly three decades have elapsed. But the task that Alma Ata Conference had identified has remained, alas, largely unaccomplished. This does not mean that some progress has not been made in primary health care in Bangladesh, but that the ending of rampant diseases, untimely deaths, and preventable ...