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Empowering women: participatory approaches in women's health and development projectsL Manderson
Tropical Health Program, Australian Centre for International and Tropical Health and Nutrition, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Health Care Women Int 18:17-30. 1997..Approaches that succeeded in increasing women's access to and use of health services addressed gender issues, set realistic and achievable objectives, and recognized and enhanced the roles and status of women...
Applying medical anthropology in the control of infectious diseaseL Manderson
Australian Centre for International and Tropical Health and Nutrition, The University of Queensland
Trop Med Int Health 3:1020-7. 1998..The success of interventions and control programmes is moderated by local priorities and conditions, and sustainable interventions need to acknowledge and address country-specific social, economic and political circumstances...
Security and safe havens: health issues among women in mobile homesL Manderson
Australian Centre for International and Tropical Health and Nutrition, University of Queensland, Australia
Women Health 28:83-96. 1998..However, women's health status varied primarily according to age. Women believed they were physically healthy, although with some dental, sexual and particularly mental health problems...
Perceptions of malaria in a low endemic area in the Philippines: transmission and prevention of diseaseF Espino
Research Institute of Tropical Medicine, Metro Manila, Philippines
Acta Trop 63:221-39. 1997..The implications of these findings for disease control, and the relationship between knowledge and practices, are discussed...
Public health developments in colonial Malaya: colonialism and the politics of preventionL Manderson
Australian Centre for International and Tropical Health and Nutrition, University of Queensland, Herston, Australia
Am J Public Health 89:102-7. 1999..Drawing on my own work on colonial Malaya, I illustrate developments in public health and their links to the moral logic of colonialism and its complementarity to the political economy...
Community perceptions of health, illness and care: identifying issues for indigenous communitiesM Kelaher
Australian Centre for International and Tropical Health and Nutrition, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Women Health 28:41-61. 1998..We then examine health issues as identified and experienced by women and explore the gaps that exist between community concerns, individual health status, and service delivery...
