THE HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTION OF HEALTH - INTEGRATING SOCIAL-SCIENCE PERSPECTIVES ON MICROLEVEL HEALTH DETERMINANTS

Efforts to control disease and improve health in developing countries require increasing collaboration between social and medical scientists . This collaboration should extend from the early stages of technology development to the evaluation and improvement of population-wide inte rventions. This paper provides an integrating framework for social sci ence research on health producing processes at the household level, dr awing on recent work in economics. anthropology, and public health. Fu rther development of theory and methods in this area would benefit fro m interdisciplinary research in categories as defined by social and be havioral science in addition to those related to specific diseases and intervention programs.