| dc.creator | Johnston, Bruce F. | |
| dc.creator | Meyer, Anthony J. | |
| dc.date | 2011-04-12T11:41:05Z | |
| dc.date | 2011-04-12T11:41:05Z | |
| dc.date | 1976-08 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-10T12:58:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-11-10T12:58:23Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 10-11-12 | |
| dc.identifier | Johnston, Bruce F. & Meyer, Anthony J. (1976) Nutrition, health and population in strategies for rural development. Discussion Paper 238, Nairobi: Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.identifier | http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/653 | |
| dc.identifier | 318291 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/handle/123456789/1934 | |
| dc.description | The principal thesis of this paper is that a country's strategy
for rural development should embrace a "composite package" approach
for the delivery of nutrition, health and family planning services in
rural areas. The reasons for the increased attention now being given to
problems of rural poverty, including malnutrition and ill health as
especially serious manifestations of poverty, are reviewed in section
I. The interrelationships between socioeconomic development and the
reduction of fertility are then examined, making use of an analytical
framework developed by Richard Easterlin. In considering priorities
for rural development in section III, it is emphasised that an accelerated
rate of expansion of food production is a necessary but not a sufficient
condition for improving levels of food consumption. There is also a
need to increase the effective demand of low-income households, and the
advantages of a pattern of agricultural development which enables a large
and growing fraction of farm households to participate in gains in
productivity and income are streesed.
The significance of expanding job opportunities outside of
agriculture and of slowing the rate of growth of the population,as
factors contributing to an increase in returns to labour,is also stressed.
Beyond the need to accelerate growth and to structure it so as to achieve
broad participation, it is suggested that priority should be given to
programmes which link the delivery of nutrition, health and family planning
services and thereby increase the attractiveness and effectiveness of
each and also reduce the cost of achieving wide coverage. A final section
examines the reasons why it is important to integrate the delivery of these
services. It is time-consuming and difficult to achieve administrative
integration, but in this instance the potential benefits justify the
efforts. Section IV also considers some of the problems which must be faced
in implementing an integrated programme capable of fostering widespread
improvements in nutrition and health and increased acceptance of family
planning. | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.relation | Discussion Papers;238 | |
| dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | |
| dc.rights | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.subject | Health | |
| dc.subject | Population | |
| dc.subject | Rural Development | |
| dc.title | Nutrition, health and population in strategies for rural development | |
| dc.type | Series paper (non-IDS) | |
