Abstracts section
| Date | 01 August 1992 |
| Published date | 01 August 1992 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1002/pad.4230120309 |
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND DEVELOPMENT, VOL. 12,318-322 (1992)
ABSTRACTS SECTION
In each issue we shall reprint here a selection of abstracts
of
recent articles on key
themes of relevance to the study and practice
of
public administration and develop-
ment, drawn from a variety of journals.
For further details, or copies
of
these papers, readers must write to the relevant
journal-NOT to
Public Administration and Development.
The journals’ addresses
are listed after the abstracts.
The abstracts within this section are chosen thematically, and the themes will
vary with each issue
of
Public Administration and Development.
Those chosen for
this issue are Health, Urban Conditions and Gender Issues.
HEALTH SERVICES
AND
SPACE UTILISATION IN URBAN AND RURAL
COMMUNITIES: A CASE STUDY
OF
ILE-IFE, NIGERIA
K.
Ajibola
Department of Architecture, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-lfe, Nigeria
Most developing countries are still backward in the field of delivery
of
health care services
due to lack of adequate infrastructure and suitable physical facilities for the delivery of such
services. The usual practice of governments in Nigeria is to embark on white elephant projects
which usually never reach completion, or
if
completed are too sophisticated to be maintained.
Such facilities also rarely meet the needs
of
the population. In recent times, attempts are
being made by private entrepreneurs to adapt residential buildings to serve as health facilities.
This paper tries to evaluate the efficiency of these adaptations both in terms of space utilisation
and infrastructural requirements within the context
of
Nigeria’s Primary Health Care Pro-
gramme.
(Third World Planning Review
13
(3), 297-308 (1991).)
ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES
A.
S.
Bhalla
Switzerland
This paper examines interrelationships between health status, access and utilization. Indicators
for each of these are measured for China and India. It is shown that China, both during
Mao and Deng periods, scores over India in the provision of health services to the rural
population. Differences in economic inequalities, organization of health services and motiva-
tion account for this. Contrary to the prevailing view there is no conclusive evidence that
the post-Mao reforms have lowered the access
of
rural people to health services. The decline
of
barefoot doctors has been accompanied by an increase in private medical practitioners,
and a decline in rural health insurance has coincided with new and alternative experiments
in this domain.
(Journal
of
International Development
3
(4),
403420 (1991).)
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