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The Impact of Colonialism on Health and Health Services in Tanzania

International Journal of Health Services, 1977
This article is about the problems of malnutrition and disease in a rural area of an underdeveloped country, Tanzania. The particular way in which health problems were conceptualized during the colonial era, the structure of the medical services established, and the effects of health care on the health status and size of the rural population of Songea
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Comprehensive health service in a resettlement colony

The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 1980
Experience in a resettlement colony in a suburban area of Delhi is presented. The main problems accrued from the abrupt transplantation of large group of families from different localities to a undeveloped area. These included the task of building new houses and finding occupation, especially for women who could not leave their children and travel long
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Coloniality and global health

Journal of Global Health Law
A cursory review of the history of medical experimentation shows a throughline between the dehumanization of the colonial past that has shifted and morphed to the ostensibly postcolonial present. The instrumentalization of Black and other presumptively ‘useful bodies’ endures in global health.
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Health and Welfare of Colonial American Children

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1976
Colonial American children were born into a world that presented many hazards to their health and survival. Scientific knowledge and social organization could offer little protection against illness and injury. Physicians were few and only a small number had had formal training. Midwives, too, were mostly untrained. Books providing information on child
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Early Colonial Health Developments in Mauritius

International Journal of Health Services, 1986
The historical development of Mauritius and in particular the early developments in health care are crucial to an understanding of the contemporary health system. The introduction of major epidemic diseases through the movements of French soldiers to and from India and the immigration of indentured laborers from India account for the high mortality ...
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Approaches to Determining Colony Infections and Improving Colony Health

1986
In the middle and late 1950s, during the period of development of the polio vaccine in the race to stop the dreaded, crippling disease, approximately 200,000 primates per year, mostly Indian rhesus monkeys, were imported into the United States. During the 1960s with the licensing of the live, oral Vaccine, these numbers decreased to approximately 50 ...
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Health and Wellness in Colonial America

2012
This book provides a broad introduction to medical practices among Anglo-Americans, Native Americans, and African Americans during the colonial period, covering everything from dentistry to childcare practices to witchcraft. It is ideal for college or advanced high school courses in early American history, the history of medicine, or general social ...
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Coloniality, indigeneity, and mental health

2020
This chapter is a principal contribution to the writings on race, culture, and mental health lies in its discussion of the relevance of post-colonial thought as well as settler colonial studies to the interface between indigeneity and the Western mental health professions.
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