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- This paper argues that the most important element in health care strategy is community participation. If social welfare is to be effectively improved it must involve the people in making their own decisions and taking their own actions. Using popular theatre as a means of communication and education, the Liwonde Primary Health Care Unit in the Southern Region of Malawi has succeeded to motivate residents of two rural communities to actively involve themselves in primary health care activities. The impact of this innovative approach to communication and education for health has been remarkable. Recent data indicates that cases of deaths due to preventable diseases such as cholera and severe diarrhoea have been dramatically reduced especially in the under-five age group. The construction of pit latrines and improved water supplies have been vital to the improved health situation.
- Date Issued:
- 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Charles S. Levy. Social work ethics on the line. New York: Haworth Press, 1993
- Date Issued:
- 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- This article considers the situation regarding rural-urban migration within Ghana, suggesting that migration has the effect of precipitating major social and behavioural change. The nature of Ghanaian urbanisation is examined together with the motivational factors that cause many to leave their rural homes. A distinction is made between those "committed urbanites" who readily adaptto urban life and the "situational urbanites" who experience greater problems in adjustment to the city. Following this discussion certain policy implications are then examined, including that of fertility control, models of development and protection of the status of the rural communities in the face of a 'brain drain' to urban areas.
- Date Issued:
- 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Yvonne Muthien. State and resistance in South Africa, 1939-1965. Aldershot: Avebury, 1994
- Date Issued:
- 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Child labour in Zimbabwe can be found on large scale farms, in the peasant sector, in formal domestic employment, in the small scale industries of the informal sector, in contract work in some industries, and in 'street' jobs. The real extent of child labour in each of these sectors is unknown, and the conditions under which children workhavenotbeen documented inany detail. The reasons for thepresence of child labour, and the conditions under which they work, are at odds with the rights of children outlined in the Draft UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and will persist while society and the economy continue to generate extremes of poverty and wealth.
- Date Issued:
- 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Uri Aviram (ed). Social work in mental health. New York: Haworth Press, 1997
- Date Issued:
- 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Frank N. Thomas and Thorana S. Nelson (eds.). Tales from family therapy. New York: Haworth Press, 1997
- Date Issued:
- 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- This contribution refers to the article of Leonard Bloom (vol 3 no 1,1988) entitled "Social science in Africa: problems and prospects". It is concerned with laying bear the pretensions of social scientists, arguing that social scientists cannot claim a privileged position with respect to practical skills, a special and separate body of scientific knowledge, or a clearly articulated role as social critic.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa