Community-Based Health Care: Lessons from Bangladesh to Boston

Dr. John Wyon, MPH '53

Management Sciences for Health is pleased to announce the release of Community-Based Health Care: Lessons from Bangladesh to Boston, edited by Dr. Jon Rohde and Dr. John Wyon, MPH '53, and published in collaboration with the Harvard School of Public Health. In this anthology, 36 of the world's leading health experts offer a wealth of perspectives on how to reach more people with sustainable, high-quality health services.

Two chapters highlight lessons from Bangladesh and show how they are being applied in communities around the world. Others reflect on experiences in Bolivia, Haiti, India, Nepal, Vietnam, and other countries to recommend how health programs can be improved and expanded. Chapters on the United States describe programs in environments as different as rural West Virginia and Boston, where an HIV/AIDS project is applying a case management approach used in other countries. A glossary, bibliography, and index make the book particularly valuable to teachers and students of community health care.

This book "illustrates every aspect of the global development of community-oriented primary care and community empowerment in health interventions. . . . an indispensable resource for students and primary care and public health practitioners in settings as diverse as the inner cities of the developed world and remote rural villages of the developing world."
-H. Jack Geiger, MD, Logan Professor of Community Medicine, City University of New York Medical School

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