Colin McCord, Harold P. Freeman
In recent decades mortality rates have declined for both white and nonwhite Americans, but national averages obscure the extremely high mortality rates in many inner-city communities. Using data from the 1980 census and from death certificates in 1979, 1980, and 1981, we examined mortality rates in ...
Colin McCord, Qumrul Hasan Chowdhury
Mortality has improved dramatically in most of South Asia as a consequence of modest economic improvement, better nutrition and a combination of health education, immunization, family planning and home treatment of certain common diseases, especially diarrhea and respiratory infections. However, dea...
Colin McCord, McCord, Colin
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Health Economics and Policy, International Development
Colin McCord, RichardJ. Levine, Nural Islam, Hajera Mehtab et al.
Stuart W. Leslie
Abstract. Many global health experts, then and now, would agree with Colin McCord's 1976 assessment that “the application of the rural health centre concept around the world has to be one of the most dismal records of failure in the history of medicine.” This article focuses on two important excepti...
Colin McCord