The
Health Transition:
Methods and Measures
Edited
by John Cleland and Allan G. Hill
(Not
available to order)
Health
Transition Series book number 3
13 August 2001
John Cleland and Allan Hill. Studying the health
transition: an overview. Pp. 1-12.
Outcome Measures
Alberto Palloni. Review of data sources and methods
for the assessment of trends, age patterns and differentials
of mortality in the Third World. Pp. 13-34.
R.H. Behrens. Biomedical methods for the assessment
of nutritional status in the individual and in communities.
Pp. 35-42.
P. Stanley Yoder. Cultural conceptions of illness
and the measurement of changes in morbidity.
Pp. 43-60.
Kenneth G. Manton, Max A. Woodbury and John E. Dowd.
Methods to identify geographic and social clustering
of disability and disease burden. Pp. 61-84.
Micro-level Models and Methods
Julie DaVanzo and Paul Gertler. Household production
of health: a micro-economic perspective on health
transitions. Pp. 85-102.
John Simons. The measurement of subjective rationales
for health-related behaviour. Pp. 103-114.
Caroline Bledsoe. The trickle-down model within
households: foster children and the phenomenon of
scrounging. Pp. 115-132.
H.K. Heggenhougen. Perceptions of health-care
options and therapy-seeking behaviour. Pp. 133-146.
Aggregate and Institutional Models and Methods
T. Dyson and M. Murphy. Macro-level study of
socio-economic development and mortality: adequacy
of indicators and methods of statistical analysis.
Pp. 147-164.
A. El Bindari Hammad and C.A. Mulholland. The
health status of vulnerable groups: a valuable indicator
for national development. Pp. 165-192.
George Stolnitz. How do we evaluate the effects
of different social policies on health? Pp.
193-216.
Sam Adjei. Ways in which the design and delivery
of health services may influence uptake: methods
of enquiry. Pp. 217-226.
The Contribution of Specific Disciplines
Cynthia Myntti. The anthropologist as storyteller:
picking up where others leave off in public-health
research. Pp. 227-236.
Susan C.M. Scrimshaw. Combining quantitative
and qualitative methods in the study of intra-household
resource allocation. Pp. 237-250.
Michel Garenne and Pierre Cantrelle. Prospective
studies of communities and their unique potential
for studying the health transition: reflections
from the ORSTOM experience in Senegal. Pp. 251-258.
Stanley O. Foster and Jason S. Weisfeld. Epidemiological
methods for monitoring the health transition.
Pp. 259-268.
Laurent Assogba, Oona Campbell and Allan G. Hill.
Advantages and limitations of large-scale health
interview surveys for the study of health and its
determinants. Pp. 269-288.
Michael Paolisso, Duncan Ngare and Judith Timyan.
Behavioural research on household activity patterns,
resource allocation and care practices. Pp.
289-302.
Lessons Learnt from Multi-method Approaches
Nigel Crook, Radhika Ramasubban and Bhanwar Singh.
A multi-dimensional approach to the social analysis
of the health transition in Bombay. Pp. 303-320.
Roberto Briceo-Len. The four dimensions of Chagas'
disease. Pp. 321-328.
Sara Randall. Multi-method perspectives of Tamasheq
illness: care, action and outcome. Pp. 329-342.
Kim Streatfield, Lamtiur H. Tampubolon and Charles
Surjadi. Investigating health beliefs and health-seeking
behaviour among the urban poor of Jakarta. Pp.
343-354.
Alan Gray. Discovering determinants of Australian
Aboriginal population health. Pp. 355-380.
Sally E. Findley. Towards a contextual model
of the health transition. Pp. 381-406.
John S. Akin. Estimating the impacts of socio-economic
and biomedical factors on child health: the Cebu
Study. Pp. 407-428.
Chitr Sitthi-amorn. Methodology mixes and health
transition. Pp. 429-436.
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