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ICSSR/ICMR, op.cit., p.7.

36

Bangladesh Health Profile 1977, op.cil.

37

Catholic Institute of International Relations, "Yemen Country Analysis", p. 40. (mimeo)

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For example, female illiteracy in North Yemen recorded as 97.6%, Yemen Arab Republic
Ministry of Health, Annual Statistical Report, 1979. p.3. Also, on unequal distribution of
food: "As a result of the existing eating habits the best food is reserved for the adults, especially
the men, and the children are thus deprived of necessary proteins." Sjaak van der Geest, "The
Efficiency of Inefficiency: Medicine Distribution in South-Cameroon", paper presented at
the Seventh International Conference on Social Science and Medicine, Noordwijkerhout, 22-26
June 1981. (mimeo)

39

D. B. Jelliffe, MD, FRCP and E.F.P. Jelliffe, MPH, FRSH, "Breast- feeding: A Necessity
for Child Health in the Tropics", Tropical Doctor, July 1980.

40

Tanzanian Food and Nutrition Council, Food and Nutrition Policy for Tanzania for 1st
Tanzania Nutrition Conference, Report No. 483 by TFNC, September 1980.

41

Klouda, "Prevention is more expensive than cure", July 1981. (draft)

42

ICSSR/ICMR, op.cit., p.6.

43

Smallpox vaccinations were introduced by Jenner in 1796 and well established during the
nineteenth century ( British Medical Journal, 1896).

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45

Office of Health Economics, Medicines: 50 Years of Progress 1930-1980, London, 1980.

46

Dr. John Yudkin, "Drugs, Drug Companies and the underdevelopment of health", paper
presented at the Conference on Technology Transfer to the Third World, 10-12 January 1982
at Gonoshasthaya Pharmaceuticals Limited, Bangladesh.

47

Dr. J.R. Vane, "Drugs and the Third World", Africa Health, Volume I No. 7, April 1979.

48

The complexities of cost-benefit evaluation are discussed by Dr W.A.M. Cutting, "Cost-Benefit
Evaluations of Vaccination Programmes", The Lancet, 20 September 1980, pp.634-636.

49

"BCG - Bad News from India", Lancet 12 January 1980.

50

Tony Klouda, personal communication, 11 September 1981.

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Ibid.

Thomas McKeown, The Role of Medicine, Blackwell, Oxford 1979.
Lesley Doyal with Imogen Pennel, The Political Economy of Health, Pluto Press, 1979,
pp.56-57.

Control of Communicable Diseases in Man, op.cit., pp. 312-314.
Maurice King, Felicity King, Soebagio Martodipoero, Primary Child Care: Book one,
a manual for health workers, Oxford University Press, 1978
Bo Balldin, Richard Hart, Rolf Huenges, Zier Versluys, Child Health and Community
Medical Depts, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, Child Health, a manual for Medical
Assistants and other rural health workers, Africa Medical and Research Foundation,
1975, p.16.2.

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