More myths in international health planning

R. England

American Journal of Public Health, 1978, vol. 68, issue 2, 153-159

Abstract: There is a tendency for many articles dealing with policies and plans for health care in developing counties to cover a great deal of the same ground. Useful as they may once have been, these attempts to summarize so much that is patently wrong with the health services in the poorer countries have evolved into a familiar format which now serves little purpose. A problem caused by articles of this type is that they allow us to slip into dangerous oversimplifications. By glossing over the depth and complexity of the real issues involved and by relentless repetition, certain statements and concepts have acquired a quite unjustified credibility. They have become myths. This paper looks at some of these myths and oversimplications and tries to point out some of the issues they obscure.

Date: 1978
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