{"id":128825,"date":"2019-03-04T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=128825"},"modified":"2019-03-03T13:40:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T13:40:08","slug":"health-and-development-in-norway-a-new-old-book-from-transcend-university-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/03\/health-and-development-in-norway-a-new-old-book-from-transcend-university-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Health and Development in Norway \u2014 A New Old Book from TRANSCEND University Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>With great pleasure TRANSCEND University Press (TUP) publishes a new book which is both the most modern and the oldest book from TUP as of today: Health and Development in Norway<\/em><\/a> by Johan Galtung and Dag Viljen Poleszynski is the first ebook published by TUP and based on an unpublished manuscript from 1982. Most of the text has been reformatted and the book is now available for free in modern ebook formats.<\/p>\n

As a service to TMS readers, we include the new and the old preface here, and direct download links to the whole book. Enjoy the free time travel and leave your comment below!<\/p>\n

Preface 2018<\/h3>\n

The manuscript of this book was completed during the summer of 1986, but for various reasons was never published. During the fall of 2017 the authors met in Spain to discuss the possibility of completing the project. We had the choice either of updating the manuscript or to publish it as completed at the time. We found the latter solution preferable, as we felt that the general principles delineated in our original manuscript still apply.<\/p>\n

In order to speed up the publication, as well as to keep the cost down, the manuscript has been published as an e-book, which may be downloaded for free from TRANSCEND University Press.<\/p>\n

Since many years have passed since our original work was completed, we have added a Postscript where we make some reflections on the general model for health and development delineated in Chapter 1, as well as a comment on what has happened in Norway during the past 30+ years, based on Chapter 2: A Case study of Norway. We encourage the reader to save this part and read Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 first, making their own reflections, comparing these with the conclusions there presented.<\/p>\n

We are grateful for the help of Malvin Gattinger, the TRANSCEND webmaster and Galtung\u00b4s close collaborator, without whom this manuscript might not have been published as an e-book<\/p>\n

December 2018<\/em>
\nAlfaz del Pi (Spain) &\u00a0 Jar (Norway)<\/em>
\nJohan Galtung & Dag Viljen Poleszynski<\/em><\/p>\n

Preface 1982<\/h3>\n

We live in an age dominated by economistic thinking. Goals, processes and indicators of development tend to be seen in economic terms. While not discounting the significance of production and distribution, development could also be seen in terms of the impact of consumption, in a broad sense, on human health. And that would mean health as a goal in itself, not health as a possible condition for more production. It would have profound impacts on both theory and practice of development, as seen by the many countries that are rich but have large pockets of ill health, and the poor countries that are doing relatively well in health terms.<\/p>\n

It can be argued that Norway was one of those poor countries, able to raise the health standards quite quickly. Norway is now a rich country, with new health problems shared by a number of industrialized countries. Our study is an effort to explore this career pattern of a country, with the hope that there might be something to learn, both positively and negatively, for other countries.<\/p>\n

In the study we have been greatly aided by discussions with an advisory committee chaired by the Norwegian Director of Health, Dr. Torbj\u00f8rn Mork (1928-1992). We would also like to express our thanks to Dr. Aleya Hammad of the World Health Organization and participants in the Workshop of Intersectoral Action for Health, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1981. The responsibility for the presentation and for the conclusions drawn, however, rests with the authors.<\/p>\n

May 1982<\/em>
\nGen\u00e8ve (Switzerland) & Oslo (Norway)<\/em>
\nJohan Galtung & Dag Viljen Poleszynski<\/em><\/p>\n

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