Development Discourse and Public Health : Case studies of Sri Lanka, India and Indonesia

这项研究旨在考察公共卫生活动在亚洲安全社会发展中的作用。这里的主要问题是，这些活动是如何在斯里兰卡、印度和印度尼西亚等不同社会开展的；它们与清洁、个人卫生和健康的论述和形象有何关系。从这个意义上说，本研究是对公共卫生的比较研究，旨在建立一个新的发展现象框架。在这三年中，我们收集了包括村庄供水项目在内的各种公共卫生活动的现场数据。除了这些实地研究，我们的一些研究人员还检查了演员网络理论和“子研究”，以分析发展现象。其他研究人员收集和分析了各种历史文献，如Pendjaga Din(印度尼西亚的一本公共卫生书籍，出版于1931年)。在本研究项目的最终报告中，我们可以包括上述对一般发展现象的理论讨论，也可以包括对青少年健康的社会历史分析。但是，由于时间所限，我们还不能分析大部分供水活动的现场数据。因此，我们将继续这一项目，并在2002年底之前出版最后报告的加长版。

This research aimed to examine public health activities as social development in Asian'safeties. The main questions here are how such activities have been carried out in different societies such as Sri Lanka, India and Indonesia; and also how they are related to the discourses and images of cleanliness, hygiene and health. In thissense, this research is a comparative study of public health in order to develop a new framework of development phenomena.In these three years, we have collected field data on various public health activities includingvillage water supply projects. Along with these field researches, some of our investigators examined actor-network theory and "Subaltern studies" for the analyses of development phenomena. Other investigators col lected and anal yzed various historical documents such as Pendjaga Din (an Indonesiantext book of public health, published in 1931). In the final report of this research project, we could include the above theoretical discussions on development phenomena in general and also the social historical analyses on puftic health. However, due to the lack of time, we could notanalyze most of field data on water supply activities yet. Therefore, we are going to continue this project and publish the extended edition of the final report by the end of 2002.