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| Prof.dr. I. Hutter (RUG) convenor |
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| Prof.dr. S. van der Geest (UvA) - chair |
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| vacancy - Ph.D.-candidate |
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Research area and mission |
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The main objective of Working Programme 6 is to provide a platform where social science researchers in the field of health, health care and fertility can discuss their work and exchange insights derived from their research. The Programme is not so much a closed body of cooperating researchers within one Research School, but a network that links researchers from different schools and institutes, first of all on a national level but also internationally. Some of the members of the Programme also have ties to other research schools in the Netherlands, notably the Amsterdam School of Social Science Research (ASSR). There is in fact a formal collaboration between CERES and the ASSR. |
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Health, including reproductive health, is central to the development process mainly for three reasons. First, health directly affects the `quality' of `human capital', which is the principal resource for development. Poor health reduces people's energy and creativity and incapacitates human enterprise. Good health and effective health care are therefore a conditio sine qua non for development in all realms of human activity. A World Bank report observes that "no country has attained a high level of economic development with a population crippled by high infant and maternal mortality, pervasive illness of its work force, and low life expectancy." Conversely, "poor health imposes immense economic costs on individuals, households, and society at large." |
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Organization