Democracies

Challenges to Societal Health

Barbara Wejnert

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Volume 19 in the "Research in Political Sociology" series is devoted to health problems, challenges and accomplishments in democratic societies. It includes papers addressing health systems, health policies, obstacles to societal healthy behaviors, and/or health conditions that are experienced in democratic societies in the world. The democratic society is understood in a broadly defined term. It includes developed Western democracies, as well as less developed or underdeveloped countries that have democratic system. According to such definition, the category "democracies" includes democratic countries that have well established democratic system and respect broad network of people rights, as well as democracies that are formally consider democratic states but de facto respect only a few rights or their governments are guided by limited democratic principles. Therefore, the collection of the 19th volume of "Research in Political Sociology" includes papers addressing these issues in a broad spectrum of countries from India, Sri Lanka and Tanzania, to Sweden, Canada and the United States.

List of Contributors. Preface. Issues in Health, Democracy, and Development. Human Rights and Health Status of Girls and Young Women in Afghanistan Under the New Democracy: Forced and Child Marriages. School Health: A Way to the Future?. Health, Development, and Democracy: Health Systems in Southeast Asia and in Eastern Europe. Transformation of Health Services in Poland Since 1989 Democratization. The Nutrition and Health of Women and Children in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters. Domestic Violence Against Women in Rural Rajasthan, India: A Sociological Analysis. Women and Domestic Violence: A Case Study in Rural Sri Lanka. Natural Disaster, Gender, and Challenges: Lessons from Asian Tsunami. The Declining Health Status as Fuelled by Illusory Internal Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa: Is there Any Future?. Health, Gender, and Democracy in Nepal. Global Development, Populations' Health, and Democracy: Policy Recommendations. Democracies: Challenges to Societal Health. Research in Political Sociology. Research in Political Sociology. Copyright page.