Managing Health Systems in Developing Areas: Experiences from Afghanistan
By Ronald W. O'Connor
This ground-breaking book, first published in 1980, documents successes and failures in establishing basic health centers and training village health workers and midwives to deliver services in Afghanistan throughout the 1970s. Nine experts on the development of community-based health systems in rural Afghanistan share what they learned in working with the Ministry of Health in Kabul to implement a national rural health system. This book is valuable to teachers and students of public health as well as managers of health programs.