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The Caribbean state, health care, and women : an analysis of Barbados and Grenada during the 1979-1983 period

Title
The Caribbean state, health care, and women : an analysis of Barbados and Grenada during the 1979-1983 period / Patricia Rodney.
Author
Rodney, Patricia.
Publication
Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, ©1998.

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Description
xxii, 272 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
Summary
This book makes a comparison of the health policies in Barbados and Grenada during the 1979-1983 period as they relate to working-class women. After analyzing the state in capitalist societies through a review of the literature, Dr. Rodney shifts her focus to the state in the periphery, and the evolution of public health care systems (PHC) there. She seeks to determine how PHC systems in both states were influenced by changing regimes during a period of political transition, and discover whether the government sufficiently caters to the health care needs of women. This book gets to the core of socio-economic health care policies in Barbados and Grenada, revealing their strengths and weaknesses, and includes well-researched suggestions for improvements.
Subject
  • Women's health services > Government policy > Grenada
  • Women's health services > Government policy > Barbados
  • Medical policy > Grenada
  • Medical policy > Barbados
  • Women > Health and hygiene > Grenada
  • Women > Health and hygiene > Barbados
  • Women's health services
  • Medical policy
  • Women > Health and hygiene
  • Women's Health Services
  • Health Policy
  • Women's Health
  • Women's health services
  • Medical policy
  • Women > Health and hygiene
  • Women's health services > Government policy
  • Gesundheitsfürsorge
  • Frau
  • Geschichte 1979-1983
  • Barbados
  • Grenada
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-258) and index.
Contents
Sect. 1. Literature Review. Ch. 1. The State in Capitalist Societies Feminist Perspectives on the Capitalist State. Ch. 2. The State in the Periphery. Ch. 3. Women and the Caribbean State -- Sect. 2. The Caribbean State, Health Care and Women. Ch. 4. Empirical Research Methodology. Ch. 5. Historical Overview of Women's Health in the Caribbean. Ch. 6. Barbados. Ch. 7. Grenada. Ch. 8. Assessment of State Health Care in Barbados and Grenada: The Professional's Perspective. Ch. 9. Assessment of State Health Care Systems in Barbados and Grenada: The Women's Perspective -- Sect. 3. Beyond the Study. Ch. 10. Conclusion and Recommendations. App. 1. Map of the Caribbean -- App. 2. Health System Components/Elements.
ISBN
  • 0865435162
  • 9780865435162
  • 0865435170
  • 9780865435179
LCCN
96047412
OCLC
  • ocm35792340
  • 35792340
  • SCSB-361479
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library