Agriculture - Health Linkages - WHO Offset Publication No. 104
İÇİNDEKİLERCONTENTS CHAPTER 1. THE ISSUE, THE AIMS AND THE AUDIENCE 1.1 Impact of agriculture on health 1.2 The aims ....................... 1.3 Target audience ................ CHAPTER 2. HEALTH GOALS FOR AGRICULTURE 2.1 Nutrition-infection synergism .............. 2.2 Assessing and monitoring dietary inadequacy 2.3 Indicators of energy inadequacy ............ 2.4 Expectation of healthy life ................ CHAPTER 3. THE AGRICULTURAL PROCESS: IMPACT ON HEALTH 3.1 The process ........ 3.2 Agricultural inputs 3.2.1 Labour and its associated problems 3.2.1.1 Low income.............. 3.2.1.2 High energy requirements 3.2.1.3 Health hazards .......... 3.2.1.4 Women's work ............ 3.2.1.5 Seasonal changes ........ 3.2.2 Land use and associated problems 3.2.3 Water and associated problems ... 3.2.4 Tillage methods ................. 3.2.5 Agrochemicals ................... 3.2.5.1 Fertilizers 3.2.5.2 Pesticides . 3.3 The choice of agricultural outputs 3.3.1 High-value outputs or local-use outputs? .. 3.3.2 Food crops or cash crops? ................. 3.3.3 Production of dietary energy and important nutrients ............................... 3.3.4 Regional balance of output expansion ...... 3.3.5 High yields versus stability .............. 3.3.6 Dangers from farm products ................3.4 Inputs to outputs: technologies, structures, policies .................................. 3.4.1 Nutritional effects of new technologies . 3.4.1.1 Improving nutritional impact of biological research .......... 3.4.2 Structural issues 3.4.2.1 Urban-rural power balance 3.4.2.2 Land tenure .............. 3.4.2.3 Non-farm assets .......... 3.4.3 Policies CHAPTER 4. KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION: MAKING AGRICULTURE RESPONSIVE TO HEALTH 4.1 Intersectoral institutions and information needs .... 4.1.1 Intersectoral institutions at national level , 4.1.2 Collection, analysis and use of information .. 4.2 Sub-national policy-making, administration and politics.......................................... 4.2.1 District level activities .................. 4.2.2 The relevant -experience of integrated rural development projects..................... 4.2.3 Intersectoral collaboration and the circumstances of decentralization ........ 4.3 Participation and pressure from below 4.3.1 The cognitive aspects of participation 4.3.2 Political participation ............... BIBLIOGRAPHY |