Policies and Strategies for Child Survival: Experiences from Asia

The book is the first of its kind on Asia in the field of Health policy, strategy and child survival. It is based on an interdisciplinary contribution by medical experts, demographers, sociologists and administrators. Top people in these areas from several Asian countries have written papers based on their long term experiences. In addition, the Director of Harward School of Health, USA, Dr. Lincoln Chen has also contributed an excellent paper of ORT which is the urgent need for all developing countries. It contains 31 papers. All these articles are valuable as a text for the Departments of Community Health (MD), MBBS Course, Population studies/demography, Medical social work, sociology, and management courses. It will also be a valuable reference book for planners, policy makers, development administrators, consultants and even for the general readers.