Examines the approaches and policies of successive governments to health care from 1962 to 1983, and the effects of these policies within the constraints of social and economic factors. Contends that developmental policies in Jamaica failed to acknowledge the important contribution of health to developme...
A cross-sectional study of 373 household with 509 children aged 0-59 months was conducted in St. James to be part of a national survey and to be compared with data collected in previous years. The main objectives were to examine nutritional status in ecological areas, and compare factors related to nutri...