Health Policy category: 748 books
by György Bèla Fritsche, Robert Soeters, Bruno Meessen
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Performance-based financing (PBF) approaches have expanded rapidly in lower-and middle income countries, and especially in Africa. The number of countries has grown from three in 2006 to 32 in 2013. PBF schemes are flourishing and cause considerable demand for technical assistance in executing these...
Healing Traditions
African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and Competition in South Africa, 1820–1948
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
In August 2004, South Africa officially sought to legally recognize the practice of traditional healers. Largely in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and limited both by the number of practitioners and by patients’ access to treatment, biomedical practitioners looked toward the country’s traditional...
Hazards of the Job
From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Hazards of the Job explores the roots of modern environmentalism in the early-twentieth-century United States. It was in the workplace of this era, argues Christopher Sellers, that our contemporary understanding of environmental health dangers first took shape. At the crossroads where medicine and...
HIV Pioneers
Lives Lost, Careers Changed, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Tremendous strides have been made in the prevention and treatment of HIV since the disease first appeared in the 1980s. But because many of the people who studied and battled the virus in those early days are now gone, firsthand accounts are at risk of being lost. In HIV Pioneers, Wendee M. Wechsberg...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Globalisation, the wired planet, the global village, these are a few of the terms associated with the social and political changes that are said to describe the world at the beginning of the new millennium. One of the most important institutions of the social ordering has been that of policing, but...
HIV Exceptionalism
Development through Disease in Sierra Leone
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
In 2002, Sierra Leone emerged from a decadelong civil war. Seeking international attention and development aid, its government faced a dilemma. Though devastated by conflict, Sierra Leone had a low prevalence of HIV. However, like most African countries, it stood to benefit from a large influx of foreign...
The Social Workers' Toolbox
Sustainable Multimethod Social Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
The Social Workers' Toolbox aims to bring order to the diversity of tools which are so characteristic of social work: assessment tools, practice tools and outcome-measurement tools. The tools described in this Toolbox can be directly put into practice and adapted to the social workers’ personalized...
Regulating Medicines in Europe
Competition, Expertise and Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
This Book explains and investigates how medicines are controlled in Europe, especially the EU. Based on penetrating documentary and interview research with the pharmaceutical industry, regulators and consumer organisations,it provides the first major critical examination of the new Europeanised systems...
by Giuseppe La Torre
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
In the era of Evidence Based Medicine, health professionals are required to fully understand design, analysis and interpretation of the results of research. Furthermore, they should be able to assess the needs of their communities and respond accordingly. To achieve these goals, clinicians need to...
The Facey Romford Papers. Days in The Life of the NHS
An Everyday Story of N£sd Folk.
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
This unusual, witty, satirical, pseudonymous, controversial and very pointed work gathers together the 50 episodes which were originally published on the famous and widely-read nhsManagers.net eletter run by Roy Lilley, which has some 30,000 subscribers here and abroad. Both the author, and Mr. Lilley...
Lethal Decisions
The Unnecessary Deaths of Women and Children from HIV/AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
This first-person account by one of the pioneers of HIV/AIDS research chronicles the interaction among the pediatric HIV/AIDS community, regulatory bodies, governments, and activists over more than three decades. After the discovery of AIDS in a handful of infants in 1981, the next fifteen years showed...
Santé et maladies
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Si, depuis le développement de la pathologie, on n'emploie plus le mot maladie(s) qu'au pluriel, la notion de santé (au singulier) a survécu trop longtemps, car c'est un concept vide pour lequel on s'efforce de trouver une espèce de contenu dans l'existence d'une force biologique intérieure à...
Hygiène
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 19, 2016
L'hygiène est classiquement la science qui enseigne les mesures propres à conserver la santé, voire à l'améliorer. Elle a été présente dans toute les civilisations depuis les plus primitives mais avec une évolution des approches liées aux progrès des connaissances et aux transformations des ...
Improving Access to HIV Care
Lessons from Five U.S. Sites
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
The availability of combination antiretroviral therapy has changed the lives of millions of people living with HIV (PLWH), for whom a once fatal infection can now be a manageable chronic disease. Yet only 30 percent of PLWH in the United States are virally suppressed, and significant gaps in access...