| A Doctor's Quest: The Struggle for Mother-And-Child Health Around the Globe Contributor(s): Roedde, Gretchen (Author) |
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ISBN: 1459743326 ISBN-13: 9781459743328 Publisher: Dundurn Group OUR PRICE: $21.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Medical (incl. Patients) - Medical | Aids & Hiv - Medical | Public Health |
| LCCN: 2019403823 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.10 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A doctor grapples with the challenges of mother-and-child health in the developing world. Recounting medical missions in one-third of the forty-five countries in which she has worked for the past thirty years in Africa, Asia, and, the Caribbean, and the South Pacific, Dr. Gretchen Roedde shares the grim reality of world politics and bureaucratic red tape on the front lines as a doctor in mother-and-child health and HIV/AIDS. This second edition updates the progress in reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (RMNCAH), with additional studies in Afghanistan, Laos, South Sudan, and Nigeria. It tells the stories of the hopes of village women struggling to give birth safely, of their often corrupt leaders, and of countries trying to bring evil despots to justice. Roedde analyzes the encouraging momentum in global maternal health while maintaining a focus on equity disparities within and between countries. |
Contributor Bio(s): Roedde, Gretchen: - Gretchen Roedde, assistant professor at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, has been a physician since 1978. Working with Indigenous and marginalized communities, she practises near Lake Temiskaming. She has also worked as a public health doctor in the developing world, specializing in mother-and-child health and HIV/AIDS. Gretchen lives in Haileybury, Ontario |