{"product_id":"striving-for-equity-healthcare-in-sri-lanka-from-independence-to-the-millennium-1948-2000-9789390122042","title":"Striving for Equity: Healthcare in Sri Lanka from Independence to the Millennium, 1948-2000","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Margaret Jones\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince Sri Lanka's independence in 1948, the government has been committed to providing a healthcare system that reaches all classes, genders and ethnicities. In 1949, health was declared a fundamental right of citizenship by Sri Lanka’s first Minister of Health, S. W. D. Bandaranaike. Since then, Sri Lanka has been consistently held as a model of good health at low cost.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStriving for Equity: Healthcare in Sri Lanka from Independence to the Millennium, 1948–2000\u003c\/em\u003e explores the implementation of primary healthcare in Sri Lanka against the background of a 30-year internal conflict. It includes an analysis of how international health organisations like the WHO imposed a global health agenda on the developing world through a study of a joint WHO–Sri Lanka project on tuberculosis control.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe author studies selected health policy developments and programmes in Sri Lanka from 1948–2000 with a special focus on children's health, especially the problem of malnutrition, and the implementation of the childhood immunisation programme.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlong with the continuing incidence of communicable diseases, non-communicable diseases present a growing obstacle to the achievement of equity in the twenty-first century. How the country has responded to this double disease burden problem provides the focus of the final chapter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45616502997143,"sku":"9789390122042","price":1147.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789390122042.webp?v=1769294962","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/striving-for-equity-healthcare-in-sri-lanka-from-independence-to-the-millennium-1948-2000-9789390122042","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}