Urban Health in the Third World: A Guide to the Literature

Ashton, John (editor) (1992), Healthy Cities, Oper University Press, Milton Keynes. See the chapters by Harpham and by Rice and Rasmussen.

Atkinson, S.J. (1992), Food for the cities: urban nutrition policy in developing countries", PHP departmental publication No 5, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.

Basta Samir S (1977), "Nutrition and health in low-income urban areas of the Third World", Ecology of Food and Nutrition Vol. 6, pages 113-124.

Bennett S. (1992), "Promoting the private sectore: A review of developing country trends", Health Policy and Planning Vol. 7, No. 2, pages 97-110.

Bradley, David , Carolyn Stephens , Sandy Cairncross and Trudy Harpham (1991), A Review of Environmental Health Impacts in Developing Country Cities, Urban Management Programme Discussion Paper No. 6, The World Bank, UNDP and UNCHS (Habitat), Washington DC.

Cairncross, Sandy and R.G. Feachem (1992), Environmental Health Engineering in the Tropics: An Introductory Text, John Wiley and Son, London.

Davey K.J. (1993), "Elements of urban management, Urban Management Programmne Discussion Paper No. 11. World Bank, Washington DC.

Feachem, R.G. et al (1992), The Health of Adults in the Developing World Oxford University Press/World Bank.

Garner, P. (1993), "Editorial: white elephants about town", The Lancet Vol. 341 page 15-63.

Hardoy, Jorge E. , Sandy Cairncross and David Satterthwaite (editors) (1990), The Poor Die Young:Housing and Health in Third World Cities Earthscan, London.

Hardoy, Jorge E. , Diana Mitlin and David Satterthwaite (1993), Environmental Problems in Third World Cities, Earthscan, London.

Harpham, Trudy,Patrick Vaughan and Tim Lusty (editors) (1988), In the Shadow of the City: Community Health and the Urban Poor, Oxford University Press.

Harpham, Trudy (1993), Urbanization and mental disorder in Bhugra D. and J.Leff (editors), The Principles of Social Psychiatry, Blackwell, Oxford, pages 346-354.

Harpham, Trudy (1993), "Urbanization in the Third World: health policy implications" in Schell L.M. , M. Smith and A. Bilsborough (editors), Urban Ecology and Health in the Third World, Cambridge University Press

Harpham, Trudy and M. Tanner (in preparation), Urban Health in Developing Countries: Progress and Prospects (possibly published by Earthscan, late 1994).

Jeyaratnam, J. (1989), "Special problems in developing countries1" in Waldron, H.A. (editor), Occupational Health Practice, 3rd edition Butterworths, London.

Leslie, J. (1989), "Women's time: A factor in the use of child survival technologies?', Health Policy and Planning Vol. 4, No. 1 pages 1-16.

Mamdani, M. , O. Campbell , P. Garner and T. Harpham (1993) "Fertility and contraceptive use in poor urban areas of developing countries", Health Policy and Planning Vol. 8, No. 1, pages 1-8.

Michaels, David , Clara Barrera and Manuel Gacharna (1985), "Economic development and occupational health in Latin America: new directions for public health in less developed countries", American Journal of Public Health Vol. 85, No. 5, pages 536-542.

Mills, A. (1990), "The economics of hospitals in developing countries. Part I: expenditure patterns", Health Policy and Planning Vol. 5, No. 2, pages 107-117.

Mills, A. (1990), "The economics of hospitals in developing countries. Part II: Costs and sources of income", Health Policy and Planning Vol. 5, No. 3, pages 203-218.

Mills, A , J.P. Vaughan , D.L. Smith and I. Tabibzadeh (1990), Health System Decentralization: Concepts, Issues and Country Experience, World Health Organization, Geneva.

Parry-Jones, William L. and Nicolas Queloz (1991), Mental Health and Deviance in Inner Cities, Doc. WHO/MND/PSF/91. 1, World Health Organization, Geneva.

Phillips, D.R. (1993), "Urbanization and human health", Parasitology Vol. 106, pages S93-S107.

Poon, W.O. (1983), "Occupational health in developing countries: A simple case of neglect", World Health Forum Vol. 4, pages 340-343.

Pryer, Jane (1989), "When breadwinners fall ill: preliminary findings from a case study in Bangladesh" in "Vulnerability: how the poor cope, IDS Bulletin Vol. 20, No. 2, April, pages 49-57.

Reutlinger, S. (1988), "Urban malnutrition and food interventions", Food and Nutrition Bulletin Vol. 10, No. 1, pages 24-28.

Rossi-Espagnet, A , G. Goldstein and I. Tabibzadeh (1991), "Urbanization and health in developing countries: A challenge for health for all", World Health Statistics Quarterly Vol. 44, No. 4.

Salem, Gerard and Emile Jeannee (editors) (1989), Urbanization et Santédans le Tiers Monde-Transition Epidemiologique, Changement Social et Soins de Sante Primaires, Editions de l'Orstom, Bondy.

Service, M.W. (1989), Demography and Vector-borne Diseases, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.

Stren, R. , R. White and J. Whitney (editors) (1992), Sustainable Cities: Urbanization and the Environment in International Perspective, Westview Press, Boulder.

Stren, R. (1993), "Urban management in development assistance-an elusive concept", Cities Vol. 10, No. 2, pages 125-138.

Stephens, Carolyn and Trudy Harpham (1991), Slum Improvement: Health Improvement?, PHP Department Publication No 1, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London.

Stephens, Carolyn and Trudy Harpham (1992), "Policy directions in urban health in developing countries-the slum improvement approach", Social Science and Medicine Vol. 35, No. 2, pages 111-120.

Tabibzadeh, I. , A. Rossi-Espagnet and R. Maxwell (1989), Spotlight on the Cities-Improving Urban Health in Developing Countries, World Health Organization, Geneva.

UNDP (1991), Cities, People and Development: Urban Development Cooperation for the 1990s, New York.

UNICEF (1989), The Invisible Adjustment: Poor Women and the Economic Crisis, The Americas and the Caribbean regional office.

WHO (1992), The Role of Health Centres in the Development of Urban Health Systems, WHO technical report series 827, Geneva.

World Bank (1991), Urban Policy and Economic Development:An Agenda for the 1990s, Washington DC, 1991.

World Bank (1993), World Development Report: Investing in Health World Bank/Oxford University Press, Washington DC.