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Many of these books approach the subject strictly from a medical point of view occasionally with some costeffectiveness research thrown in

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Then there are the international development books that generally treat medicine as an abstract concept something that can be addressed as a whole with a yettobedetermined singular solution poor economics is an exceptional book that does not fall into this trap

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While this book cannot completely answer all of these questions it attempts to give us an anthropological framework through which to understand the problems and then act on them

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In order to do so the book is made up into roughly three parts

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Thus when evaluating what to do we cannot be trapped into false limitations

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The second part of the book examines some new ways of conducting programs that have been pioneered by partners in health and other similar organizations

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Additionally they did not shy away from training local community health workers to run these programs and to identify weak points

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At one point it seems to argue against the use of costeffectiveness research for programs that should be considered a fundamental right