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This thesis focuses on population health in the Dutch Caribbean islands of Aruba and Curaçao, as compared to the Netherlands and to other Caribbean states. It aims to provide a better insight into the health situation in the Dutch Caribbean, and the factors related to this health situation, in particular the role of the political context and health policy performance. In order to address this aim, we have made use of data that are derived from cross-sectional health surveys, mortality registration systems, harmonized international databases and country reports and cover theory from the fields of public health, medicine, political science, organization science, economics and sociology. The main conclusion of this thesis is that the health of the Dutch Caribbean population is poorer than in the Netherlands and other politically affil

This book treats the spectacular rise in life expectancy during the last three centuries. It is the first study to bring together both published and unpublished material about the history of the health of Belgian men and women and to analyze it critically. Isabelle Devos studies the mechanisms of the historic fall in the death rate in an original manner and answers the question why research on the causes of this decline has not progressed faster. While the discipline of historical demography orients the first part of her book, the discipline of historical epidemiology provides the perspective taken in the second part, in which the role of insects as spreaders of disease is explored. Essential in her study is the importance of local medical practitioners who already at the end of the Ancien Régime warned of the dangers present in the environment. Their 'ecological' thinking created a consciousness that was decisive for the further development of healthcare.

In deze boekenrubriek staat het thema kansengelijkheid centraal. Ondanks diverse inspanningen om de kansengelijkheid te bevorderen, zijn de sociaal-economische verschillen in Nederland onverminderd groot (Vrooman et al., 2023). Deze ongelijkheid neemt toe en is terug te zien in de gezondheid en levensverwachting van mensen, in waar en hoe mensen wonen, in hun omgeving, en in de wijze waarop kinderen en adolescenten zich bewegen door het onderwijssysteem (Grootegoed et al., 2022). Kansenongelijkheid wordt doorgegeven van generatie op generatie en is daarmee een hardnekkig probleem.
Wat kunnen sociaal werkers nu leren van de pogingen die de afgelopen jaren ondernomen zijn in beleid en praktijk om gelijke kansen te bevorderen? In deze boekenrubriek staan twee boeken centraal die reflecteren op het bevorderen van gelijke kansen in Nederland vanuit twee verschillende disciplines: een filosofisch sociologisch perspectief en het perspectief van de fysieke en sociale publieke ruimte.

1. The persistence of misery in Europe before 1900 -- 2. Why the twentieth century was so remarkable -- 3. Tragedies and miracles in the Third World -- 4. Prospects for the twenty-first century -- 5. Problems of equity in health care -- Postscript : how long can we live?

The ship's surgeons in the employ of the Dutch East India Company were responsible for the healthcare on board the ships and in the hospitals founded by the Company in a vast geographical area expanding from South Africa to Japan. They were not highly regarded by their contemporaries, who criticised them for being little more than barbers or loblolly boys. The author of this fascinating study paints the true picture of the profession, drawing on her analysis of data for some 3,000 ship's surgeons in the Company's service, and including the recruitment policy of the Company, the career of the surgeons, their geographical origins, their life expectancy, to mention but a few. The results of her analysis, based on many hitherto unpublished sources, show this negative image to be a myth. The surgeons were, as a rule, fairly well educated according to the standards of their time. The tragic fact that they were confronted with diseases unknown in Europe and incurable at the time contributed to the sailors' and the society's dismissive attitude to their skills. - Scheepschirurgijns van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie waren verantwoordelijk voor de gezondheidszorg op de schepen en vestigingen van de VOC in Zuid-Afrika en Azië. Zij staan te boek als analfabeten en kwakzalvers of zelfs veredelde barbiers. Iris Bruijn bewijst met haar diepgaande onderzoek dat het negatieve beeld een mythe is en laat tegelijkertijd de tragiek van deze chirurgijns zien. Ze laat 3000 chirurgijns de revue passeren en belicht hun opleiding, hun geografische herkomst, de carrière van de chirurgijns, hun levensverwachting en het rekruteringsbeleid van de VOC. Hoewel de scheepschirurgijns goed opgeleid en bekwaam waren, kregen zij te maken met onbekende exotische ziekten die, zo weten wij nu, niet te genezen waren.