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2005 Robert H. Ebert Memorial Lecture Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases: The Perpetual Challenge
I now would like to discuss some of the lessons we have learned as we combat infectious diseases and how the next generation of physicians and researchers might build on our experience as they face the challenge of outwitting the microbes that will continue to plague mankind.
What do I mean by a newly emerging disease? A newly emerging disease is a disease that has never been recognized before. HIV/AIDS is a newly emerging disease, as is severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Nipah virus encephalitis, and variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (vCJD).
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| Author | Anthony S. Fauci |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | New and emerging infectious diseases |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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2010 International Nursing and Health Care Leadership Iand Management Program
This video documents the 2010 UAB School of Nursing International Nursing and Health Care Leadership and Management Program and was graciously directed, filmed and produced by Mara Jambor. The goal of the program was to the strengthen nursing and health care leadership. The program is offered bi-annually by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization Collaborating Center on International Nursing of the UAB School of Nursing. Participants in the 2010 program included 26 nurses from Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Honduras, Peru, and Zambia. The program was also linked with the Summer Institute on Global Public Health Leadership offered by the Sparkman Center for Global Health at the UAB School of Public Health and with the UAB English Language and Culture Institute.
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| Type | Video |
| Subject | Leadership |
| Tags | UAB School of Nursing |
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5th Birthday Campaign
Learn more about how we can work together to end preventable child deaths. This animated line drawing uses video to depict the aspirational goal of helping all children to reach age 5 of the June 13-14 Global Child Survival Summit at Georgetown University. Learn more at http://5thbday.usaid.gov.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Child health Global health issues Poverty and inequality Global citizenship |
| Tags | 5th birthday fifth birthday campaign June 13-14 Global Child Survival Summit at Georgetown University Global Child Survival Summit Georgetown University Child health infant mortality child mortality preventable deaths |
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A definition of a rural model of health service delivery: A ‘hub and spoke’ (service partner) model
The Infrastructure Renewal Project for Rural and Remote Areas aims to define a rural model of health service delivery for Queensland, outline service profiles for a selection of rural health service sites and engage architect consultants to audit and review the related infrastructure.
In the absence of a strategic statewide policy for rural health services (but in anticipation of this work) it is proposed that this paper would underpin the future rural and remote policy development by describing a ‘hub and spoke’ (service partner) model of service delivery for rural and remote areas. This paper identifies Queensland rural hub sites and their associated spoke sites. The ‘hub and spoke’ model of rural service delivery aims to assist in ameliorating some of the many issues faced by the rural sector through improvements to organisation, governance, management and leadership and the development of formalised service networks.
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| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Health systems and models of service delivery |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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A Distinctive System of Health Care Delivery
Learning objectives for this chapter:
- To understand the basis structure of the US health care system
- To outline for four key functional components of a health care delivery system
- To discuss the primary charateristics of the US health care systen from a free market perspective
- To emphasize why it is important fo health care managers to understand the intricacies of the health care delivery system
- To get an overview of the health care system in other countries
- To introduce the systen model as a framework for studying the health services system in the United States
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| Type | Book |
| Subject | Health systems and models of service delivery |
| Tags | US United States |
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A global overview of gender-based violence
Abstract
This paper provides an overview of the extent and nature of gender-based violence and its health consequences, particularly on sexual and reproductive health.
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| Author | L. Heise, M. Ellsberg, M. Gottmoeller |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Gender and health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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A profile of Injury in Fiji: findings from a population-based injury surveillance system (TRIP-10)
Abstract
Background: Over 90% of injury deaths occur in low-and middle-income countries. However, the epidemiological profile of injuries in Pacific Islands has received little attention. We used a population-based-trauma registry to investigate the characteristics of all injuries in Viti Levu, Fiji.
Method: The Fiji Injury Surveillance in Hospitals (FISH) database prospectively collected data on all injury-related deaths and primary admissions to hospital (≥12 hours stay) in Viti Levu during 12 months commencing October 2005.
Results: The 2167 injury-related deaths and hospitalisations corresponded to an annual incidence rate of 333 per 100,000, with males accounting for twice as many cases as females. Almost 80% of injuries involved people aged less than 45 years, and 74% were deemed unintentional. There were 244 fatalities (71% died before admission) and 1994 hospitalisations corresponding to crude annual rates of 37.5 per 100,000 and 306 per 100,000 respectively. The leading cause of fatal injury was road traffic injury (29%) and the equivalent for injury admissions was falls (30%). The commonest type of injury resulting in death and admission to hospital was asphyxia and fractures respectively. Alcohol use was documented as a contributing factor in 13% of deaths and 12% of admissions. In general, indigenous Fijians had higher rates of injury admission, especially for interpersonal violence, while those of Indian ethnicity had higher rates of fatality, especially from suicide.
Conclusions: Injury is an important public health problem that disproportionately affects young males in Fiji, with a high proportion of deaths prior to hospital presentation. This study highlights key areas requiring priority attention to reduce the burden of potentially life-threatening injuries in Fiji.
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| Author | Iris Wainiqolo, Berlin Kafoa, Bridget Kool, Josephine Herman, Eddie McCaig and Shanthi Ameratunga |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Unintentional injuries |
| Tags | Injuries Epidemiology Injury surveillance Fiji |
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A revealing of Nursing Informatics
Introduction to content of this document:
The theme, Antithesis refers to ideas presented in the literature that purport that the use of computers and other information technologies in health care is a threat: in fact it is the antithesis or opposite of providing compassionate, caring and client-centered nursing care. The Artifact view refers to the notion that technology of all kinds, including the contemporary inclusion of information technologies in nursing is an inherent, almost seamless cultural phenomenon, one that is long-standing and can be taken for granted as part of nursing evolution. Utility literature presents information technologies as simple, benign, and useful tools that nurses control and apply to their practice, research, studying, and management activities. The concept of Technique focuses on the application of information technologies in nursing aimed to boost productivity and efficiency, promote best practices and evidenced-based practice, and concretely record nursing activities electronically.
A focus on Agency incorporates actor-network theory, technological agency in its' own right, and how nurses interact with ICTs in an interactive and intense, almost reciprocal way. The notion of Networks entails an examination of the application of information technologies in a collaborative way: in interactions with other people, such as colleagues, interdisciplinary team members, clients, and communities of practice and inquiry, sometimes on a global scale. Finally, the theme of Power will be investigated from a disciplinary perspective, including the consequences of prestige, influence, legitimacy, governmentality, and social access. Together, these seven themes provide a rich, sometimes discordant yet crucial analysis of the varied philosophical and active ways that information technology and informatics are enacted and applied in the nursing arena.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Technology |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) PSA
For info, visit: www.christianpicciolini.com
or, www.un.org/millenniumgoals
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| Type | Video |
| Subject | Global health issues Millennium Development Goals Global citizenship |
| Tags | millennium development goals MDG video campaign overview brief introduction |
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Act4Africa
Act4Africa organises trips to Uganda and Tanzania, for those wishing to do their medical elective or teaching placement in Africa.
Act4Africa is a health and education charity aiming to promote gender justice for women and girls, equip them with life skills to be free from poverty, and combat HIV using Theatre for Development techniques.
Set up in 2000 by husband and wife team Martin and Kathy Smedley, Act4Africa has a small UK support team based in Manchester and works in partnership with Act4Africa NGO Partners in Uganda, Tanzania and community based organisation, Act4Africa, in Malawi.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | Uganda Tanzania charity medical elective elective placement africa |
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ACTION FOR GLOBAL HEALTH
Action for Global Health (AfGH) is a broad European network of NGOs advocating for Europe to play a more proactive role in enabling developing countries to meet the Right to health for all and the Health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Millennium Development Goals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Addressing the social determinants of health: the urban dimension and the role of local government
This report summarises the evidence on the determinants of health and the built environment with special reference to the role of local government across countries in the WHO European Region.
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| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Determinants of health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Adventure Alternative
Elective medical placements in Kenya and Nepal can be organised through this site.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | Kenya nepal medical elective elective placement sabbatical |
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Ageing and Urbanization: Can Cities be Designed to Foster Active Ageing?
ABSTRACT
The world is currently experiencing two major demographic transitions: the ageing of populations, particularly in low and middle income countries, and urbanization. This paper briefly summarizes current theories on how the urban environment may influence the health and quality of life of an older person, reviews epidemiologic studies that have investigated this relationship, and highlights urban initiatives that foster active and healthy ageing. The review identified an extensive body of research consistent with an association between the health of an older person and the physical, social and economic environment in which they live. However, most research in this field has been cross-sectional, and interpretation has been difficult due to numerous methodological limitations, particularly the risk of social selection biases. More recently, a growing number of longitudinal studies have identified associations consistent with previous cross-sectional research, adding weight to these findings. In the last two years alone, at least thirteen new longitudinal studies examining these issues have been reported, with ten having positive findings. Unfortunately, few of these studies can yet point to specific pathways that may be amenable to intervention. Concurrent with this research, a number of sizable programmes have been developed to make urban environments more supportive of older people. Both theory and the epidemiologic evidence appear to justify the optimism of these initiatives, although little evaluation has yet been undertaken of their impact.
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| Author | John R Beard, MBBS, PhD, Charles Petitot, MD, MPH |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Urbanisation |
| Tags | ageing neighbourhood urban socioeconomic |
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Alameda County Public Health Department: Communicable Disease
Alameda County Public Health Department has an array of programs and services designed to protect the health and safety of County residents. The backbone of Public Health includes assessments of the health status of residents, disease prevention and control, community mobilization and outreach, policy development, education, and assurance of access to quality medical and health care services..
This section o the ACPHD website is devoted to communicable diseases. It provides information on communicable diseases for the general public, which may also be of interest to healthcare professionals.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Communicable diseases |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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AMECA
The AMECA Medical Elective Bursary Awards:
It is our belief that students who have the opportunity to undertake medical electives in Third World countries, emerge as better doctors and nurses with improved clinical skills. The range and scope of clinical practice undertaken on such electives is normally way beyond anything they might hope to experience in the UK, resulting in improved patient communication, diagnostics and overall confidence.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | africa Elective Placemetn Funding Bursary |
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American Nurses Association: Health IT Initiatives
Resources for nurses related to health IT initiatives can be found on this website.
ANA has launched and participated in several Health IT initiatives:
- Developing standardized nursing languages
- Nominating nurse leaders to federal Health IT committees and workgroups
- Developing position statements on Health IT initiatives, policy, and standards
- Participating in Health IT alliances, including the Alliance for Nursing Informatics, American Medical Informatics Association, and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
- Developing educational products that support the consumer eHealth campaign of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
- Coordinating expert panel summit meetings to establish quality measurement models for inclusion in electronic health records
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Technology |
| Tags | online learning |
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AMSA Global Health (AGH)
AMSA Global Health (AGH) is a committee of the Australian Medical Students' Association (AMSA) serving the global health interests of Australia's medical students. AGH seeks to connect, inspire and empower students of health to effect change towards the realisation of global health equity through unified, responsible and sustainable action.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Poverty and inequality Climate change and sustainability |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Annual Conference: Health & Gender Equity in a Period of Global Crisis - Presentations now Available
You can access the presentations from the annual Health & Gender Equity in a Period of Global Crisis Conference November 2013 on this website.
The titles of the session that took place at the conference are listed below:
- Opening Plenary Round Table: Development 2.0?
- Parallel Session 1: Development 2.0
- Plenary Session 1 - Gender Equity and Global Crisis
- Parallel Session 1: Gender - Violence, Vulnerability and HIV
- Parallel Session 2: Gender - Power, Participation and Voice
- Parallel Session 3: Gender - Poverty, Empowerment and Conflict
- Plenary Session 2 - Health Equity and Global Crisis
- Parallel Session 1: Health - HIV, policy and mental health
- Parallel Session 2: Health - Health Systems
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Gender and health Poverty and inequality |
| Tags | conference |
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Archives of Disease in Childhood Journal
About Archives of Disease in Childhood
Aims and Scope
Archives of Disease in Childhood is an international peer review journal that aims to keep paediatricians and others up to date with advances in the diagnosis and treatment of childhood diseases as well as advocacy issues such as child protection. It focuses on all aspects of child health and disease from the perinatal period (in the Fetal and Neonatal edition) through to adolescence. ADC includes original research reports, commentaries, reviews of clinical and policy issues, and evidence reports. Areas covered include: community child health, public health, epidemiology, acute paediatrics, advocacy, and ethics.
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| Type | Journal |
| Subject | Child health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Are Men Drawing the Short Straw in Global Health Initiatives?
The opening sentence of this article in HealthlineNews is (Published on May 20, 2013):
Experts take a critical look at global health policies and say that the issue of gender should be addressed, particularly norms and behaviors that drive up men’s health risks.
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| Author | Brian Krans |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Gender and health |
| Tags | news |
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Australian Nursing Federation position statement on climate change
A two page document detailing the Australian Nursing Federation's views on how society should repsond the to issues raised by climate change.
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Climate change and sustainability |
| Tags | australia Australian position view point policy |
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Barriers to Movement of Healthcare Professionals: A Case Study of India
Since this report is a case study of India, the objective is to identify barriers faced by Indian health professionals in select developed countries’ markets. In other words, the emphasis would be more on neo-liberal perspective. However, the thoughts and findings of this study would in no way undermine the seriousness of the problems being faced by the poor African countries, who have witnessed large scale immigration of their health care staffs to developed countries.
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| Author | Pranav Kumar & Simi T B |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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BBC News: Millennium Development Goals
This is a special report by the BBC on the Mellennium Development Goals.
The Millennium Development Goals are a set of targets to reduce global poverty and improve living standards by 2015. You can click on the tabs on this page to find out about the targets.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Millennium Development Goals |
| Tags | news |
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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Our Global Health Division aims to harness advances in science and technology to save lives in developing countries. We work with partners to deliver proven tools—including vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics—as well as discover pathbreaking new solutions that are affordable and reliable. Equally important is innovation in how we bring health interventions to those who need them most. We invest heavily in vaccines to prevent infectious diseases—including HIV, polio, and malaria—and support the development of integrated health solutions for family planning, nutrition, and maternal and child health.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Child health Communicable diseases Global health issues Health systems and models of service delivery Maternal health Non-communicable diseases Poverty and inequality |
| Tags | hiv change Bill Gates malaria polio grants global health grants Funding pneumonia |
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Blog: The Nerdy Nurse
About the authour of 'The nerdy nurse' blog:
Brittney Wilson, RN, BSN, also known as The Nerdy Nurse, is a Clinical Informatics Nurse practicing in the Atlanta, Georgia area. In her day job she gets to do what she loves every day: Combine technology and healthcare to improve patient outcomes. She can best be described as a patient, nurse and technology advocate, and has a passion for using technology to innovate, improve and simplify lives, especially in healthcare. Brittney is the author of The Nerdy Nurse’s Guide to Technology. She is a social media influencer and blogs about nursing, technology, healthcare, parenting and various lifestyle topics at thenerdynurse.com.
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| Subject | Technology |
| Tags | blog |
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Blog: UK nurse against climate change SKIP TO CONTENT
The blogger's introduction to their blog:
'So I have committed to writing a blog (there is a first time for everything!). My own private journey into a year, and hopefully much longer, of trying to raise awareness of climate change and its devastating effects on human health. And how we as nurses can help, both in our professional and private lives. I’m not an academic writer. Its not my strong point. But I’m passionate about what I do, I love nursing and I want to do something which will make a difference.'
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Climate change and sustainability |
| Tags | blog UK informal |
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Boston University Medical Campus: National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories
The National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) is part of a national network of secure facilities studying infectious diseases that are—or have the potential to become—major public health concerns. The laboratories are dedicated to the development of diagnostics, vaccines, and treatments to combat emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. In addition to BSL-2 and BSL-3 laboratories, the NEIDL houses a BSL-4 laboratory. The NEIDL adds to the growing life sciences industry in the region, throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and across the country.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | New and emerging infectious diseases |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Building Momentum: Global Progress Toward Reducing Maternal and Child Mortality
IHME launched its policy report, Building Momentum: Global Progress Toward Reducing Maternal and Child Mortality, at the Women Deliver conference in Washington, DC, on June 7, 2010. This detailed report includes data on mortality trends for more than 180 countries over two decades.
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| Author | Alan Lopez, Rafael Lozano and Christopher J.L. Murray |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Child health Maternal health |
| Tags | report |
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Building Trust, Taking Responsibility: Civil Society as Partners in Global Health Governance
Executive Summary
As humanity braces itself for its next encounter with a global pandemic far deadlier than SARS, it is in danger of choosing quick-fix solutions over long-term structural changes, with potentially catastrophic consequences. Influenza vaccines, border closures, and quarantines, while necessary, will do nothing to rid the world of the H5N1 virus, whose underlying causes exist elsewhere - the interface of unsound farming practices, unsustainable development, and crippling poverty.
Taking a more broad-based approach from the perspective of civil society, we argue that controlling the looming avian influenza (AI) epidemic requires us to tackle simultaneously the global public health crisis. Since the poor cannot control epidemics on their own and the international system cannot fill the shoes of local governments, the global community, acting collectively, must invest in public health infrastructure, sanitation, and responsible development in the global South. Making these policies sustainable, however, requires comprehensive changes to agricultural practices, consumption patterns, trade regulations, and our interaction with our fellow citizens and our environment. Most if not all of these are addressed in the Millennium Development Goals agreed to by all countries in the UN system. It also requires engaging civil society in the structures of global health governance on all levels.
Ultimately, mainstreaming developmental, human rights, security, and environmental considerations into influenza preparedness-planning calls for the “human security” model, which—by placing health, wealth, security, prosperity, and sustainable development into one inclusive framework—is the only way to generate consensus among all stakeholders on the controversial policies needed to lead our societies away from high-risk practices, and out of the shadow of the virus – and to reduce and prepare for future threats.
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| Author | Kathryn White and Maria Banda |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Regulation and governance |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Business and Global Health Governance
This paper provides an introduction to therelationship between the commercial sector and global health governance.
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| Author | Kent Buse and Kelley Lee |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Regulation and governance |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Can Global Wealth Lead To Global Health?
Global Health or International Health has become a trendy term and many academic centres have evolved around this ‘Global’ theme. Is it the emergence of new infectious diseases such as SARS, or the re-emergence of old infectious diseases such as Avian Flu (H5N1) and Swine Flu (H1N1) that drives this global action on health? Should global health focus on the provision of medical aid to low-income countries? And finally, is the training of health care workers in low-income countries a priority area, as it helps to build the capacity of health care systems to respond to various health challenges more effectively and efficiently?
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| Author | Prof. Albert Lee |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Global economy and health Urbanisation |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Can Healthcare Save the Global Economy?
An article published on the St Joseph's University website.
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| Author | Carolyn Steigleman |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Global economy and health |
| Tags | US USA Economic crisis |
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Capital Health: Determinants of Health
There are several factors which affect health, collectively they are known as the 12 determinants of health, which are described on this webpage.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Determinants of health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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CARE
CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty.
We place special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty.
Our Mission
Our mission is to serve individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world.
Full recordCDC: Social Determinants of Health
This section of the CDC (centres for disease control and prevention) website is devoted to the social determinants of health. It includes the following: resources, publications, definitions and a frequently asked questions page.
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| Subject | Determinants of health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE)
Since 1994, CHANGE has advocated for the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls worldwide.
Our Mission:
The Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) is a U.S.-based non-governmental organization whose mission is to promote the sexual and reproductive health and human rights of women and girls globally by shaping the development and implementation of U.S. policies. We envision a world where sexual and reproductive health and rights are universally recognized, and where comprehensive, integrated sexual and reproductive health services are accessible and available to all, free from coercion, violence, and discrimination.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Gender and health Maternal health |
| Tags | hiv aids |
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Center on Gender Equity and Health
Our Mission
The mission of the Center on Gender Equity and Health is to improve population health and development by improving the status, opportunities and safety of women and girls, globally. The Center focuses on conducting innovative global public health research, medical and academic training, and development and evaluation of evidence-based policies and practices related to:
gender inequities (girl child marriage, son preference and daughter aversion)
gender-based violence (partner violence, sexual assault & exploitation, sex trafficking)
The overarching goal of the Center is reducing gender inequities and gender-based violence, as such reductions are key to improving sexual, reproductive, and maternal and child health. To achieve this mission of creating sustainable and large-scale change, the Center seeks and maintains partnerships with governmental and non-governmental agencies around the globe. A social justice framework is utilized by the Center across these efforts, and innovative technologies are employed to facilitate and accelerate change at individual, community and national levels.
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| Subject | Gender and health |
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
This site has information on a wide rang of health conditions, travel health and outbreaks.
CDC leverages its core strengths to advance four overarching global health goals:
1) improving the health and well-being of people around the world
2) improving capabilities for preparing for and responding to infectious diseases and emerging health threats
3) building country public health capacity
4) maximizing organizational capacity.
For more than 60 years, CDC has used its scientific expertise to help people throughout the world live healthier, safer, longer lives. CDC's Center for Global Health coordinates and manages the agency's resources and expertise to address global challenges such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, emergency and refugee health, non-communicable diseases, injuries, and more.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas Child health Communicable diseases Global health issues Health systems and models of service delivery Non-communicable diseases Poverty and inequality |
| Tags | travel health vaccinations medicine travel advice outbreaks health conditions maximising capacity service delivery |
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Certificate in Maternal and Child Health
The Certificate in Maternal and Child Health is designed for those interested in learning about the complexities of global health and the unique barriers to healthcare that face women and children. Participants gain a comprehensive understanding about issues in maternal and child survival, and also learn about innovations in healthcare for women and children.
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| Subject | Child health Maternal health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Chapter 13: International Health Inequalities and Global Justice: A Concluding Challenge
This book chapter discusses global health inequities and mentions the Millennium Development Goals.
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| Type | Book |
| Subject | Millennium Development Goals Poverty and inequality |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Chapter 50. Patient Care Technology and SafetyChapter 50. Patient Care Technology and Safety
The purpose of this chapter is to provide a conceptual model for technologies that nurses are likely to encounter and to delineate strategies for promoting their effective and safe use.
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| Author | Gail Powell-Cope, Audrey L. Nelson, Emily S. Patterson |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Technology |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Child Health and inequality the role of Citizens Advice Bureau, Nurses and Health Visitors
This is a post in the blog 'Local Democracy anf Health: Taking control of our own health and well being'.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Child health |
| Tags | Child health Early Years integration pioneers marmot social determinants of health Welfare Rights wolverhampton CAB blog |
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Child Poverty, Unintentional Injuries and Food Borne Illness: Are low-Income Children at Greater Risk?
The purpose of this report is to show that existing data and research, however incomplete, strongly suggest that low-income children are at greater risk than other children from unintentional injuries and food borne illness.
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Child health Unintentional injuries |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Childhood Unintentional Injuries: Need for a Community-Based Home Injury Risk Assessments in Pakistan
Abstract
Background. A substantial proportion of the annual 875,000 childhood unintentional injury deaths occur in the home. Very few printed tools are available in South Asia for disseminating home injury prevention information. Methods. Three tools were planned: an injury hazard assessment tool appropriate for a developing country setting, an educational pamphlet highlighting strategies for reducing home injury hazards, and an in-home safety tutorial program to be delivered by a trained community health worker. Results. The three tools were successfully developed. Two intervention neighborhoods in Karachi, Pakistan, were mapped. The tools were pretested in this local setting and are now ready for pilot testing in an intervention study. Conclusion. Planning for an innovative, community-based pilot study takes considerable time and effort in a low-income setting like Pakistan. The primary outcome of the pre-testing phase of the study was the development of three important tools geared for low-income housing communities in Pakistan.
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| Author | Adnan A. Hyder,1 Aruna Chandran,1 Uzma Rahim Khan,2 Nukhba Zia,2 Cheng-Ming Huang,1 Sarah Stewart de Ramirez,1 and Junaid Razzak2 |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Child health Unintentional injuries |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Climate Change and Health: A Resource Guide
A resource guide provided on the Environmental Healh Nursing Eductaion website, giving links to website, lists of useful articles and other resources related to climate change.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Climate change and sustainability |
| Tags | Environmental health nursing education resource resources |
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Clinical record keeping
Welcome to the Nursing Times Learning online training unit on Clinical record keeping.
The unit will teach you:
- How to document clearly and safely
- The role of record-keeping in ensuring clear measureable outcomes for patient care
- The role of records in undertaking a root-cause analysis of an incident in healthcare and the importance of a clear “audit trail”
- Nurses' accountability and duty of care in relation to patient care and record-keeping
- The role of records in complaints and civil court cases
- How to use the SOAP framework to record episodes of care
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Technology |
| Tags | online learning |
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Clinton Foundation: Global Health
Working closely with governments and other partners, we aim to strengthen in-country health systems and improve global markets for medicines and diagnostics – ensuring lifesaving treatments and care can reach the people who need them the most. Our goal is to transform these systems and ensure they develop into self-sustaining methods of providing low-cost, high-quality care.
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| Author | |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Communicable diseases Gender and health Global health issues Health systems and models of service delivery Poverty and inequality Social justice, human rights and health |
| Tags | hiv malaria aids clinton foundation foundation |
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Closing the gap in a generation Health equity through action on the social determinants of health
Summary of the three principles of actions put forward by this paper:
1 Improve the conditions of daily life – the circumstances in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age.
2 Tackle the inequitable distribution of power, money, and resources – the structural drivers of those conditions of daily life – globally, nationally, and locally.
3 Measure the problem, evaluate action, expand the knowledge base, develop a workforce that is trained in the social determinants of health, and raise public awareness about the social determinants of health.
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| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Determinants of health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Closing the Health Inequalities Gap: An International Perspective
Abstract
This report presents an analysis of official documents on government policies to tackle inequalities in health from 13 developed countries. All countries recognize that health inequalities are caused by adverse socioeconomic and environmental circumstances. However they differ in their definitions of inequalities and in their approaches to tackling the problem. Sweden and Northern Ireland have structured their overall public health policy to tackle the underlying determinants of inequalities in health. England is the only country with a separate comprehensive policy. Most countries also have policies on poverty, social inclusion, and social justice. These are motivated by a concern for human rights and dignity and deal primarily with the underlying causes of health inequalities. While broadly setting the same overarching goal, policies on health inequalities show many different features. Policymakers face two challenges: to ensure that strategies to tackle the macroenvironmental factors feature in policy on inequalities in health, and to ensure that health becomes a prominent issue in social justice policy. Few countries have a coordinated approach to tackling inequalities in health.
| About this resource | |
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| Author | Iain K Crombie Linda Irvine Lawrence Elliott Hilary Wallace |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Poverty and inequality |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Code of Practice for the International Recruitment of Healthcare Professionals in Scotland
The aim of the Code of Practice is to promote high standards of practice in the international recruitment and employment of healthcare professionals. This is underpinned by the principle that any international recruitment of healthcare professionals should not prejudice the healthcare systems of developing countries. Therefore a key component of the Code of Practice is to preclude the active recruitment of healthcare professionals from developing countries, unless a government-to-government agreement exists to support recruitment activities. The Scottish Executive Health Department can advise on any appropriate government-to-government agreements.
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Commentary: Include a Social Determinants of Health Approach to Reduce Health Inequities
A commentary encouraging people to be proactive, collaborative, inclusive and deliberate hen advancing the use of the social determinants approach to reducing health inequities.
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Determinants of health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Commentary: Migration and health—what about those who stay at home?
The paper by Burazeri et al. is useful for two reasons. First, it draws attention to a largely neglected aspect of migration—health of those who stay at home. And second, it contributes to the enduring debate about the contribution of material and non-material (psychosocial) factors to health. We will discuss these two issues in turn.
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| Author | Martin Bobak and Arjan Gjonca |
| Type | Document |
| Subject | Population migration and health |
| Tags | Commentary |
| Rights | Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association (c) The Author 2007; all rights reserved. |
Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) Final Recommendations
The final report of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH), released in August 2008 and endorsed by World Health Assembly Resolution in 2009, called for a broad scope of interventions, contained in three overarching recommendations for social determinants of health actions, followed by a number of more specific areas for action that are summarized on this webpage.
| About this resource | |
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| Author | |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Determinants of health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Commonwealth of Learning: Communicable Diseases (AMREF)
Communicable Diseases (AMREF)
The course units can be downloaded in MSWindows (DOC) and Open Office Document (ODT) formats.
In this unit you will cover the general concepts of communicable diseases and epidemiology. The broad objective of this unit is to enable you to describe the principles of communicable disease control and prevention.
| About this resource | |
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Communicable diseases |
| Tags | online learning resource |
| Rights | © 2007 African Medical Research Foundation (AMREF)
This course is distributed under the Creative Common Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license. Any part of this unit including the illustrations may be copied, reproduced or adapted to meet the needs of local health workers, for teaching purposes, provided proper citation is accorded AMREF. If you alter, transform, or build upon thiswork, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same, similar or a compatible license. AMREF would be grateful to learn how you are using this course and welcomes constructive comments and suggestions. Please address any correspondence to:
The African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) Directorate of Learning Systems PO Box 27691 - 00506, Nairobi, Kenya Tel: +254 (20) 6993000 Fax: +254 (20) 609518 Email: amreftraining@amrefhq.org Website: www.amref.org |
Communicable Diseases HEAT Module
This Module will help you to acquire the basic skills and knowledge to reduce the burden of mortality and morbidity in your community through the detection, prevention and treatment of common infections.
This module is part of the Ethiopian HEAT programme. These Blended Learning Modules have been produced in collaboration with the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) and Regional Health Bureaus (RHBs) as well as a range of medical experts and health science specialists within Ethiopia. They are being used to upgrade the theoretical knowledge of the country's 33,000 rural Health Extension Workers to that of Health Extension Practitioners and to train new entrants to the service.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Communicable diseases |
| Tags | online learning resource |
| Rights | The Modules are Open Educational Resources (OERs) and are free for everyone to use. You can download them as they are or adapt them to fit your specific context. The OERs cover the full range of health promotion, disease prevention, basic management and essential treatment protocols to improve and protect the health of rural communities.
All Modules are available as web-based resources and in a range of formats including PDF documents for print. |
Communicative Competence of International Nurses and Patient Safety and Quality of Care
This coulmn is written with nurses who have migrated from Asia to work in the US in mind. It focueses on communication challenges which may be faced by international nurses and how these affect care.
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| Author | Yu Xu, PhD, RN, CTN, CNE |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Creating Effective Health Systems Resources
This page of the CDC website provides a range of resources organised under the the following list of catagories:
- About CDC and the US Public Health System
- Accountable/Coordinated Care
- Budget/Other Resources
- Community Benefit/Needs Assessment
- Evidence-Based Practices
- Performance/Quality Improvement
- Public Health and Clinical Care Integration
- Public Health Law Resources
- Public Health Professional Development
- Return on Investment
- Shared Services
- Systems Change
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| Author | |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Health systems and models of service delivery |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Cultural Competency in Baccalaureate Nursing Education
This document provides a framework to facilitate the attainment of cultural competence by baccalaureate nursing graduates. Cultural competence is defined for our purposes as the attitudes, knowledge, and skills necessary for providing quality care to diverse populations (California Endowment, 2003). Content and learning strategies for these competencies, as well as a tool kit and resource material for educators are included.
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| Author | |
| Type | Document |
| Subject | Cultural competence Global health course design |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Cultural Similarity, Cultural Competence, and Nurse Workforce Diversity
Abstract
Proponents of health workforce diversity argue that increasing the number of minority health care providers will enhance cultural similarity between patients and providers as well as the health system’s capacity to provide culturally competent care. Measuring cultural similarity has been difficult, however, given that current benchmarks of workforce diversity categorize health workers by major racial/ethnic classifications rather than by cultural measures. This study examined the use of national racial/ethnic categories in both patient and registered nurse (RN) populations and found them to be a poor indicator of cultural similarity. Rather, we found that cultural similarity between RN and patient populations needs to be established at the level of local labor markets and broadened to include other cultural parameters such as country of origin, primary language, and self-identified ancestry. Only then can the relationship between cultural similarity and cultural competence be accurately determined and its outcomes measured.
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| Author | Sandra L. McGinnis, Barbara L. Brush and Jean Moore |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals Cultural competence |
| Tags | cultural competence workforce diversity minority RNs foreign-trained RNs |
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Decreasing Global Noncommunicable Disease by Reducing Risky Behaviors
Published on Jul 9, 2013
Presentation on The Challenge of Noncommunicable Disease in Resource-Poor Regions by the Senior Advisor for Global NCDs, Center for Global Health, CDC.
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| Type | Video |
| Subject | Non-communicable diseases |
| Tags | Yale |
| Rights | Standard YouTube License |
Definition of Emerging infectious disease
A definition of Emerging infectious disease from MedincineNet.com.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | New and emerging infectious diseases |
| Tags | definition define |
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Dengue Epidemiology and Burden of Disease in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Systematic Review of the Literature and Meta-Analysis
Summary of findings:
Activities to control dengue transmission in the region have been important but insufficient. The surveillance of dengue burden of disease and circulating strains helo shape and evaluate the present and future health policies.
| About this resource | |
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| Author | María Luisa Cafferata, MD1 , Ariel Bardach, PhD1,, Lucila Rey-Ares, MSc1 , Andrea Alcaraz, MSc1 , Gabriela Cormick, MSc1 , Luz Gibbons, MSc1 , Marina Romano, MD1 , Silvana Cesaroni, MD1 , Silvina Ruvinsky, MD, MSc2 |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Determinants of health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Department of Health Information for a Healthy New York: A-Z Index
This is the Health Topic A-Z Index on the New York State website.
The A-Z index provides information on a large number of different medical conditions. The main audience of the website is New York citizens, however the information may well be of intrest to other audiences including health care professionals.
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| Author | |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Communicable diseases Non-communicable diseases New and emerging infectious diseases |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Determinants of Health and Wellbeing
Paper exploring the determinanats of health for thr poulation of Wales (UK)
| About this resource | |
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Determinants of health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Development Goals: Information about the United Nations Millennium Development Goals
This informational site about the Development Goals is not an official site by the UN or The World Bank. Developmentgoals.com is an attempt by a team of young people from Western countries to help keep the eyes of the world on the importance of the Development Goals, and the issues they target.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Millennium Development Goals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Devolution of Healthcare Services in Kenya
KPMG has a global healthcare advisory practice, with an African regional centre of excellence and a Kenyan healthcare team. We have experience in working across regional health ecosystems to redesign patient pathways and shift the provision of care to more appropriate settings. We have delivered a number of highly successful projects throughout Eastern, Central and Southern Africa in recent years. As such, we have local expertise to guide clients through major transformational processes.
| About this resource | |
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| Author | KPMG |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Global health governance |
| Tags | kpmg |
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DIPLOMACY, HEALTH AND THE ECONOMY
Aricle written by Jakaya Mrishoo Kikwete (President of the United Republic of Tanzania), giving his opinion on health and the economy.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Global economy and health |
| Tags | Tanzania president opinion |
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Disease Informatics: The burden of disease
Welcome to the series of lectures on Disease Informatics
Disappointment by research bodies to solve the real disease problem is because of not having perception of disease complexities
Diseases have been defined in a simple manner leaving several targets for combating disease unattended
IT applications simplify complexities and could provide better definition of diseases
Informatics professionals need to be facilitated for development of software for disease study using standard guidelines
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| Author | |
| Type | Presentation |
| Subject | Epidemiology and burden of disease |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Doctor supply rising, outpacing population growth
CBC News article stating that: 'Canada's supply of doctors continues to outpace population growth but the numbers don't reflect the true picture, experts say.'.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Population growth |
| Tags | Canada doctors |
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Dream Big Ghana
Dream Big Ghana work to enable healthcare students to gain insight into the health care experiences of people living in a rural setting in Ghana. You will stay at the beautiful ‘Africa Home Lodge,’ Meet Me There, Ghana. You will get a chance to meet local people and feel part of the community.
| About this resource | |
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| Author | |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | africa Ghana volunteer elective placement medical student midwifery nursing nurse doctor midwife |
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Drop in foreign student numbers: are UK universities too complacent?
News article published on the Guardian website on Friday 4 April 2014.
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| Author | Camille Kandiko Howson |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Supporting international students |
| Tags | news |
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E4C Innovations in Global Maternal Health
In this recorded webinar, Maternova - a for-profit social enterprise that helps deploy life-saving maternal health innovations - tells us how minimizing childbirth risks does not have to be difficult or expensive.
Viewers will...
*Learn the core causes of maternal mortality and morbidity,
*Discover the broad landscape of innovations for maternal health, and
*Take an in-depth look at two key maternal health technologies.
Moderator:
Jennifer Barragan, Medical Device Management and Innovation Consultant
Speaker: Meg Wirth, CEO, Maternova, Inc.
| About this resource | |
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| Type | Video |
| Subject | Maternal health |
| Tags | webinar |
| Rights | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) |
EBSCO Information Services: Global Health
Unparalleled access to all of the world’s relevant public health research and practice.
Produced by CABI, this database was created to ensure that key literature from all sources can be brought quickly and easily to the attention of those working in the field; the database covers all aspects of public health at both international and community levels, as well as a wealth of material from other biomedical and life science fields.
Economic Evaluation Basics
After completing this course, learners will have a more complete understanding of the issues that researchers consider in conducting economic evaluations and the role of economic evaluations in policy and program decision making. - See more at: http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/course/economic-evaluation-basics#sthash.Zvf5GeWA.dpuf
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| Author | |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Global economy and health |
| Tags | Global Health eLearning Centre online online learning online course online resource |
| Rights | Collaborating organizations involved in the development of Economic Evaluation Basics include:
Maria Au, United States Agency for International Development Lisa Basalla, Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs David Davies-Deis, Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs Dianna Edgil, Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator David Hotchkiss, MEASURE Evaluation/Tulane University Seseni Nu, ICF Macro Vimalanand Prabhu, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Nalinee Sangrujee, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention We would also like to acknowledge the following technical reviewers for their valuable input:
Ajay Behl, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Mahmud Khan, Tulane University Greg Russell, Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator - See more at: http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/course/economic-evaluation-basics#sthash.Zvf5GeWA.dpuf |
Editorial: Multi-sectoral Approaches to Migration of Health Professionals
This paper looks into the pull and push factors influencing the migration of healthcare professionals, the impact of migration, current strategies for managing migration and recommendations for the future.
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| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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EHIC - European Health Insurance Card
Information about the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC), which replaced the old E111 in 2006.
Your EHIC lets you get state healthcare at a reduced cost or sometimes for free. It will cover you for treatment that is needed to allow you to continue your stay until your planned return. It also covers you for treatment of pre-existing medical conditions and for routine maternity care, as long as you're not going abroad to give birth.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | European Health Insurance Card EHIC Apply insurance Health insurance Europe |
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Elective Abroad
Elective Abroad is a leading organizer of experiential travel in Africa. We go extra miles to provide you with an end-to-end service Medical Internships, Work experience, Teaching & Volunteer experience, educational exchanges as well as, expedition trips to Africa.
| About this resource | |
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| Author | |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | africa elective placement Tanzania Uganda Kenya malawi Ghana internship |
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Elective Africa
Founded in 2000, Elective Africa is a leading organizer of medical volunteering, educational, gap, and expedition trips to Africa.
For over 13 years, we have been working with communities and healthcare institutions in our program destinations to provide our program participants with a unique opportunity for medical elective and clinicical rotations, gap breaks and volunteering trips that meet four key hurdles:
- Offer a rich, rare and insightful hands-on experience especially for those in their clinical years
- Helping under-served communities and people
- Facilitate cultural exchange and appreciation of host country and community
- Provide some escape time and space for reflection, inspiration and fun!
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| Author | |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | africa elective placement volunteer Kenya Tanzania Uganda malawi |
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Elective Ghana
Elective Ghana is a medical elective organization that facilitates elective placements for medical students and volunteers to Ghana. Elective Ghana arranges hospital placements for premedical, medical students and doctors. We have partnerships with most hospitals throughout Ghana, allowing us to tailor the elective program to your interests.
| About this resource | |
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| Author | |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | medical elective Ghana medical student doctor volunteer |
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Electives International
Elective International is an organization which aims to bridge connections on a global level, merging health care awareness within the developing and developed worlds. We provide health care placements in Kenya, Tanzania, Mauritius, India and Indonesia.
| About this resource | |
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| Author | |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | Kenya Tanzania Mauritius india Indonesia elective placement health care placement |
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Emerging & Re-emerging Infectious Diseases
Outline of Presentation:
- Infectious diseases- trends
- Definition of emerging & re-emerging diseases
- Factors contributing to emergence
- Examples
- Public health response
| About this resource | |
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| Author | Dr. KANUPRIYA CHATURVEDI |
| Type | Presentation |
| Subject | New and emerging infectious diseases |
| Tags | slides powerpoint presentation lecture |
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Emerging health issues: the widening challenge for population health promotion
SUMMARY
The spectrum of tasks for health promotion has widened since the Ottawa Charter was signed. In 1986, infectious diseases still seemed in retreat, the potential extent of HIV/AIDS was unrecognized, the Green Revolution was at its height and global poverty appeared less intractable. Global climate change had not yet emerged as a major threat to development and health. Most economists forecast continuous improvement, and chronic diseases were broadly anticipated as the next major health issue.
Today, although many broadly averaged measures of population health have improved, many of the determinants of global health have faltered. Many infectious diseases have emerged; others have unexpectedly reappeared. Reasons include urban crowding, environmental changes, altered sexual relations, intensified food production and increased mobility and trade. Foremost, however, is the persistence of poverty and the exacerbation of regional and global inequality.
Life expectancy has unexpectedly declined in several countries. Rather than being a faint echo from an earlier time of hardship, these declines could signify the future. Relatedly, the demographic and epidemiological transitions have faltered. In some regions, declining fertility has overshot that needed for optimal age structure, whereas elsewhere mortality increases have reduced population growth rates, despite continuing high fertility.
Few, if any, Millennium Development Goals (MDG), including those for health and sustainability, seem achievable. Policy-makers generally misunderstand the link between environmental sustainability (MDG #7) and health. Many health workers also fail to realize that social cohesion and sustainability—maintenance of the Earth's ecological and geophysical systems—is a necessary basis for health.
In sum, these issues present an enormous challenge to health. Health promotion must address population health influences that transcend national boundaries and generations and engage with the development, human rights and environmental movements. The big task is to promote sustainable environmental and social conditions that bring enduring and equitable health gains.
| About this resource | |
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| Author | Anthony J. McMichael and Colin D. Butler |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Population growth |
| Tags | sustainability transitions globalization health promotion |
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Emerging Infections Network
In 1995, the CDC granted a Cooperative Agreement Program award to the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) to develop a provider-based emerging infections sentinel network: the Emerging Infections Network (IDSA EIN).
During the past decade, the IDSA EIN has evolved into a flexible sentinel network composed of over 1,100 infectious disease specialists primarily from North America, with some global members. The overarching goal of the EIN is to assist CDC and other public health authorities with surveillance for emerging infectious diseases and related phenomena.
The specific goals of the EIN are to:
- detect new or unusual clinical events;
- identify cases during outbreak investigations;
- gather information about clinical aspects of emerging infectious diseases;
- help connect members to the CDC and other public health investigators; and
- develop new methods for gathering epidemiological and clinical information.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | New and emerging infectious diseases |
| Tags | resouces |
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Emerging Infections: Assessing the risk
A 40-slide presentation produced by the Health Protection Agency.
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| Author | |
| Type | Presentation |
| Subject | New and emerging infectious diseases |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Emerging Infectious Diseases
The June 2014 edition of the Journal 'Emerging Infectious Diseases' from CDC.
| About this resource | |
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| Author | |
| Type | Journal |
| Subject | New and emerging infectious diseases |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Emerging Infectious Diseases (review series introduction)
This is a 3 page review series introduction about emerging infectious diseases.
| About this resource | |
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| Author | Vincent R. Racaniello |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | New and emerging infectious diseases |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Emerging Infectious Diseases By Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Description
A podcast highlighting key articles in the current issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases, a journal from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
| About this resource | |
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| Author | |
| Type | Podcast |
| Subject | New and emerging infectious diseases |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Emerging Infectious Diseases On The Rise: Tropical Countries Predicted As Next Hot Spot
It's not just your imagination. Providing the first-ever definitive proof, a new study has shown that emerging infectious diseases such as HIV, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, West Nile virus and Ebola are indeed on the rise. This research gives the first insight about where future outbreaks may occur -- and next up is likely the Tropics, a region rich in wildlife species and under increasing human pressure.
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| Subject | New and emerging infectious diseases |
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Emerging Infectious Diseases | Video
One minute video, showing how during 1940-2004, the number of newly emerging infectious diseases has risen significantly over time after controlling for progress in diagnosis and surveillance. The peak is in the 1980s, concomitant with the HIV pandemic.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | New and emerging infectious diseases |
| Tags | map visual demonstration visual |
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Emerging Microbes & Infections(EMI)
Emerging Microbes & Infections (EMI) is a new open access, fully peer-reviewed international journal. The purpose of EMI is to provide a forum to publish a wide range of scientific reports related to emerging infectious diseases, especially with new information from developing countries where such diseases are constantly arising and being discovered regularly. It will report discoveries of emerging microbes (bacteria, viruses, fungi and other pathogens) including their previously unknown phenotypic or genotypic characteristics, as well as cutting edge information associated with microbial mechanisms of pathogenesis, immune evasion and protection, clinical presentation and outcome, drug efficacy and its resistance, epidemiology and other issues important to global health.
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| Type | Journal |
| Subject | New and emerging infectious diseases |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
| Rights | open access |
Enabling Effective Nurse Communications
Avaya Healthcare Solutions empower hospitals to take full advantage of their integrated voice and data networks to help make nurses and clinicians more productive and workflows more efficient. Avaya Healthcare Solutions consist of four categories: Healthcare Mobility, Healthcare Workflow, Healthcare Notification and Patient Contact.
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| Author | Philip Authier |
| Type | Document |
| Subject | Technology |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Endsleigh Insurance
Insurance made easy
We've got exactly the right cover for you throughout your professional life as you study, graduate and develop your career.
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| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | Endsleigh insurance elective placement |
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Engaging Men and Boys in Gender Equality and Health: A global toolkit for action
Chapters included in this book (contents):
- Introduction
- Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
- Fatherhood
- HIV and AIDS
- Gender-based Violence
- Advocacy and Policy
- Monitoring and Evaluation of this work
- TOOLS (from all the above chapters)
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| Author | Promundo, UNFPA, MenEngage |
| Type | Book |
| Subject | Child health Gender and health Maternal health |
| Tags | aids hiv |
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Epidemiology and Burden of Disease from Japanese Encephalitis in Cambodia: Results From Two Years of Sentinel Surveillance
This article, published in Tropical Medicine & International Health, describes the results of two years of surveillance for Japanese encephalitis (JE) disease in Cambodian children aged 15 years and under at six sentinel meningoencephalitis surveillance sites. Cases were lab-confirmed as JE through testing of serum and cerebrospinal fluid samples by ELISA. JE comprised 19 percent of all meningoencephalitis cases, striking year-round at children aged 12 years and younger in 95 percent of the cases.
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| Author | Touch S, Hills S, Sokhal B, et al. |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Epidemiology and burden of disease |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Erasmus
The Erasmus Programme is an EU exchange student programme that has been in existence since the late 1980s. Its purpose is to provide foreign exchange options for students from within the European Union and it involves many of the best universities and seats of learning on the continent.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | EU Europe elective placement university exchange exchange student Erasmus |
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Ethical and Economic Perspectives on Global Health Interventions
Abstract
Interventions that improve childhood health directly improve the quality of life and, in addition, have multiplier effects, producing sustained population and economic gains in poor countries. We suggest how contemporary global institutions shaping the development, pricing and distribution of vaccines and drugs may be modified to deliver large improvements in health. To support a justice argument for such modification, we show how the current global economic order may contribute to perpetuating poverty and poor health in less-developed countries.
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| Author | Sonia Bhalotra, Thomas Pogge |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Global economy and health |
| Tags | policy policy paper |
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Ethical concerns in nurse migration
International nurse migration is natural and to be expected. Recently, however, those who have fostered nurse migration believe that it will solve nursing shortages in developed countries and offer nurse migrants better working conditions and an improved quality of life. Whether natural or manipulated, migration flow patterns largely occur from developing to developed countries. In this article, nurse migration is examined using primary health care (PHC) as an ethical framework. The unmanaged flow of nurse migrants from developing to developed countries is inconsistent with bhealth for allQ principles. Removing key health personnel from countries experiencing resource shortages is contrary to PHC equity. Often, nurse migrants are placed in vulnerable, inequitable work roles, and employing nurse migrants fails to address basic causes of nurse shortages in developed countries, such as dissatisfaction with work conditions and decreased funding for academic settings.
Nurse migration policies and procedures can be developed to satisfy PHC ethics criteria if they:
- leave developing countries enhanced rather than depleted
- contribute to country health outcomes consistent with essential care for all people
- are based on community participation
- address common nursing labor issues
- involve equitable and clear financial arrangements.
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| Author | BEVERLY J. MCELMURRY, EdD, FAAN,* KAREN SOLHEIM, PHD, RN,y RIEKO KISHI, BSN,z MARCIA A. COFFIA, RN, BSN,z WENDY WOITH, MS, RN,z AND POOLSUK JANEPANISH, RN, MNSz |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | nurse migration Primary health care ethics |
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Ethics and Care-Worker Migration
This article begins by identifying a range of factors that contribute to the movement of health care workers around the globe, specifically from low and middle-income countries to affluent ones. From there it explores ethical issues that arise concerning the deepening of global health inequalities; the status and treatment of migrant health workers, the implications for their families and communities; and the structure of human health resource planning. There is further consideration of the range of agents who might be said to have responsibilities to address these concerns, and what could be said to ground them. Noted are key efforts made to date as well as ideas for further reform.
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| Author | Lisa Eckenwiler |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Social justice, human rights and health Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | philosophy |
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European Commission: The EU and the Millennium Development Goals
This part of the EU website focuses on the Millennium Development Goals
The EU joined world leaders in the pledge to eradicate poverty and save millions of lives spelled out in eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to be achieved by 2015. This global partnership has come a long way since its adoption in 2000. The UN Millennium Goals Report 2011 confirms significant progress on a number of goals. The Commission is making a major contribution to the process. The key results from the EU programmes are now summarized in the brochure "EU Contribution to the Millenium Development Goals " – available in all languages via the EU Bookshop.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Millennium Development Goals |
| Tags | EU |
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European Research on Migration and Health
This paper reviews the different kinds of research that are required in order ti identify, analyse and remedy problems in the field of migrant health.
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| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Population migration and health |
| Tags | International Organization for Migration IOM Background Paper |
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Every Woman, Every Child
What is Every Woman Every Child? Launched by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Summit in September 2010, Every Woman Every Child aims to save the lives of 16 million women and children by 2015. It is an unprecedented global movement that mobilizes and intensifies international and national action by governments, multilaterals, the private sector and civil society to address the major health challenges facing women and children around the world. The movement puts into action the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health, which presents a roadmap on how to enhance financing, strengthen policy and improve service on the ground for the most vulnerable women and children. - See more at: http://www.everywomaneverychild.org/about#sthash.pYvC7Oam.dpuf
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Child health Maternal health Millennium Development Goals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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FINDINGS: Health, Human Rights, and Social Justice
FINDINGS: Volume 26, Number 2 Spring/Summer 2011
Produced by the UM SPH Office of Communications
Featured on the cover: Africa’s endless war | Seeds of hope in Haiti | A Guatemalan mine raises questions | Refugee health
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| Type | Journal |
| Subject | Social justice, human rights and health |
| Tags | University of Michigan |
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Travel Advice (UK Government)
UK Government website - provides travel advice.
The FCO promotes British interests overseas, supporting our citizens and businesses around the globe.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | travel advice UK UK Government elective placement safety |
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Foreign nurse recruitment: Global risk
Abstract
Recruitment of nurses by industrialized nations from developing countries has been common practice for decades. Globalization, a crucial trend of the 21st century, raises the world’s awareness of the economic and social disparities between nations. The direct impact on nurse emigration emphasizes the ethical, economic, and social inequalities between source and destination countries. It is often more cost-effective for industrialized countries to recruit from developing countries; however, the depletion of source country resources has created a global healthcare crisis. Destination countries are being challenged on the ethical implications of aggressive recruitment and their lack of developing a sustainable self-sufficient domestic workforce. Similarly, source countries are confronting the same challenges as they struggle to fund and educate adequate numbers of nurses for domestic needs and emigrant replacement. This article will review the ethical, economic, and social impacts of continued unrestricted international recruitment of nurses and present a proposal for development of an international treaty addressing global sustainability.
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| Author | A Christine Delucas |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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FORESTS, HEALTH AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Booklet produced by the EEA (European Environmental Agency) about urban green spaces and their benefits.
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| Author | EEA (European Environment Agency) |
| Type | Document |
| Subject | Climate change and sustainability |
| Tags | EEA Europe Forest urban forest green space |
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From AIDS to SARS to MERS, Emerging Infectious Diseases Remain a Dire Threat
New viruses like the pathogen that causes MERS are jumping across the species barrier, going from animals to human beings. Can we even eliminate infectious disease?
News article published by Bryan Walsh on 10th July 2013.
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| Author | Bryan Walsh |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | New and emerging infectious diseases |
| Tags | news |
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Future Health Systems - Innovations for Equity
The purpose of Future Health Systems consoritum is to generate knowledge that shapes health systems to benefit the world's poor. Future Health Systems addresses fundamental questions about the design of health systems and works closely with people who are leading the transformation of health systems in their own countries.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Health systems and models of service delivery |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Gap Minder
This year, 2007, Hans Rosling’s TED-speech focused on making the seemingly impossible possible.
The Trendalyzer software (recently acquired by Google) turns complex global trends into lively animations, making decades of data pop. Asian countries, as colorful bubbles, float across the grid – toward better national health and wealth.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Global health issues Global economy and health Population growth Technology |
| Tags | TED Gap Minder statistics data population health wealth trends analysis prediction graphs |
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Gender and Global Health: Where Have All the Men Gone?
Description of this TED talk video:
All of the top ten biggest causes of premature death and disability, and all top ten behavioural risk factors driving rates of ill-health around the world, affect men more than they affect women. In every region of the world, men die at a younger age than women do. However, a review of the responses of global health institutions finds that efforts and resources are focused more on the health needs of women. Why? This talk will explore the evidence of why men suffer a higher burden of ill-health than women, what might be driving institutional responses, and what we can do to achieve Health for All. The talk will be of interest to members of the UCL community who are interested in questions of equity, equality, and how evidence is used to influence policy.
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| Author | Sarah Hawkes |
| Type | Video |
| Subject | Gender and health |
| Tags | TED Talk |
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Gender and Health: A Global Perspective
Objectives of this presentation:
• Illustrate how gender affects health status
• Describe barriers to women’s health
• Describe the impact of limited sexual and reproductive health services on global health and development
• Understand the role of gender in the global HIV/AIDS epidemic
• Review global development goals related to gender
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| Author | Anne Monroe |
| Type | Presentation |
| Subject | Gender and health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Global Action on Social Determinants of Health
This paper covers the content of a presentation made teh the WHO World Conference on the Social Determinants of Health. The authours was requested to provide a commentary on the discussion paper 'Closing the gap: policy into practice on social determinants of health'.
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| Author | Ronald Labonté |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Determinants of health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Global burden of maternal death and disability
Abstract:
Sound information is the prerequisite for health action: without data on the dimensions, impact and significance of a health problem it is neither possible to create an advocacy case nor to establish strong programmes for addressing it. The absence of good information on the extent of the burden of maternal ill-health resulted in its relative neglect by the international health community for many years. Maternal deaths are too often solitary and hidden events that go uncounted. The difficulty arises not because of lack of clarity regarding the definition of a maternal death, but because of the weakness of health information systems and consequent absence of the systematic identification and recording of maternal deaths. In recent years, innovative approaches to measuring maternal mortality have been developed, resulting in a stronger information base. WHO, UNICEF and UNFPA estimates for the year 2000 indicate that most of the total 529,000 maternal deaths globally occur in just 13 countries. By contrast, information on the global burden of non-fatal health outcomes associated with pregnancy and childbearing remains patchy and incomplete. Nonetheless, initial estimates based on systematic reviews of available information and confined to the five major direct pregnancy-related complications indicate a problem of considerable magnitude.
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| Author | Carla AbouZahr |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Maternal health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Global causes of maternal death: a WHO systematic analysis
Interpretation of the results of this systematic analysis:
Between 2003 and 2009, haemorrhage, hypertensive disorders, and sepsis were responsible for more than half of maternal deaths worldwide. More than a quarter of deaths were attributable to indirect causes. These analyses should inform the prioritisation of health policies, programmes, and funding to reduce maternal deaths at regional and global levels. Further efforts are needed to improve the availability and quality of data related to maternal mortality.
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| Author | Dr Lale Say MD a Corresponding AuthorEmail Address, Doris Chou MD a, Alison Gemmill MPH a b, Özge Tunçalp MD a, Ann-Beth Moller MSc a, Jane Daniels PhD c, A Metin Gülmezoglu MD a, Marleen Temmerman MD a, Leontine Alkema PhD d |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Maternal health |
| Tags | WHO |
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Global Childhood Unintentional Injury Study: Multisite Surveillance Data
This paper aimed to analyse the epidemiology of childhood unintentional injuries. The study looked at data from urban hospitals in 5 low and middle income countries (LMICs): Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, Malaysia and Pakistan.
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| Author | Siran He, BMed, MSPH, Jeffrey C. Lunnen, MS, Prasanthi Puvanachandra, MB BChir, MPH, Amar-Singh, MRCP, MSc, Nukhba Zia, MB BS, MPH, and Adnan A. Hyder, MD, PhD, MPH |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Unintentional injuries |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Global economic crisis 'linked to suicide rise'
BBC news article published on 18th September 2013.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Global economy and health |
| Tags | BBC BBC news online news |
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Global Economy and Health: UBC Seeks Solutions to Salt Mining Challenges
"The technologies are the crudest of the crude." The University of British Columbia Engineering graduate, Jennifer Hinton, finds solutions for the developing world and hazards related to mining salt.
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| Author | Bruce Marchfelder |
| Type | Video |
| Subject | Global economy and health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
| Rights | Video by Bruce Marchfelder for the Faculty of Applied Science, The University of British Columbia Produced February 2012 Copyright: The University of British Columbia |
Global Governance Watch
Global Governance Watch® (GGW) is a joint project of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies. Its goal is to raise awareness about global governance, to monitor how international organizations influence domestic political outcomes, and to address issues of transparency and accountability within the United Nations, related intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), and other non-state actors.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Global health governance |
| Tags | US USA UN Unite Nations |
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Global Health 101 (second edition): Chapter 13: Unintentional Injuries
This slideshare presentation covers the key points in Chapter 13: Unintentional Injuries in Global Health 101 (second edition).
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| Type | Presentation |
| Subject | Unintentional injuries |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Global Health 101 (Second Edition): Videos
Welcome to the accompanying Website for Global Health 101, Second Edition. We are pleased to provide these online resources to support classroom education.
These Videos showcase external sites that provide additional information about topics covered in the textbook.
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| Type | Video |
| Subject | Child health Communicable diseases Determinants of health Gender and health Maternal health Non-communicable diseases Poverty and inequality Climate change and sustainability Social justice, human rights and health Technology Education |
| Tags | resource online learning |
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Global Health Action: Global Health Watch Campaign Agenda
This alternative world health report is an evidence-based assessment of the political economy of health and health care – and is aimed at challenging the major institutions that influence health.
Global Health Action is a campaign tool based on the first Global Health Watch, published in July 2005. The Watch is a broad collaboration of public health experts, non-governmental organizations, civil society activists, community groups, health workers and academics. It was initiated by the People’s Health Movement, Global Equity Gauge Alliance and Medact.
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Millennium Development Goals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Global Health and Diplomacy
GHD's mission:
To bring together leaders from the global health, diplomatic and development communities in order to discuss global health challenges and develop innovative solutions to help protect vulnerable populations from disease.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Child health Gender and health Global health issues Maternal health Global economy and health New and emerging infectious diseases Technology |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Global Health and International Community: Ethical, Political and Regulatory Challenges
Book summary:
Global health arguably represents the most pressing issues facing humanity. Trends in international migration and transnational commerce render state boundaries increasingly porous. Human activity in one part of the world can lead to health impacts elsewhere. Animals, viruses and bacteria as well as pandemics and environmental disasters do not recognize or respect political borders. It is now widely accepted that a global perspective on the understanding of threats to health and how to respond to them is required, but there are many practical problems in establishing such an approach. This book offers a foundational study of these urgent and challenging problems, combining critical analysis with practically focused policy contributions. The contributors span the fields of ethics, human rights, international relations, law, philosophy and global politics. They address normative questions relating to justice, equity and inequality and practical questions regarding multi-organizational cooperation, global governance and international relations. Moving from the theoretical to the practical, Global Health and International Community is an essential resource for scholars, students, activists and policy makers across the globe.
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| Author | John Coggon and Swati Gola |
| Type | Book |
| Subject | Social justice, human rights and health Regulation and governance |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Global Health and Nursing: Transformations in nurses' roles in the 21st century
This is a 46 slide presentation about the opputunities and new challenges global health brings to nurses.
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| Author | Gwen Sherwood |
| Type | Presentation |
| Subject | Global health issues Theories of globalisation Education Leadership Migration of health professionals Global health course design Global health teaching |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Global Health and the Global Economic Crisis
Abstract
Although the resources and knowledge for achieving improved global health exist, a new, critical paradigm on health as an aspect of human development, human security, and human rights is needed. Such a shift is required to sufficiently modify and credibly reduce the present dominance of perverse market forces on global health. New scientific discoveries can make wide-ranging contributions to improved health; however, improved global health depends on achieving greater social justice, economic redistribution, and enhanced democratization of production, caring social institutions for essential health care, education, and other public goods. As with the quest for an HIV vaccine, the challenge of improved global health requires an ambitious multidisciplinary research program.
Despite impressive scientific advances and massive economic growth over the past 60 years, disparities in wealth and health have persisted and, in many places, widened. As a result, the hope of achieving significantly improved health for a greater proportion of the world's people—one of the most pressing problems of our time—has become an ever more distant prospect.1–5 Our failure to make adequate advances in this direction is starkly illustrated by insufficient progress toward achieving the limited Millennium Development Goals for health in the poorest countries,6 the growing threat of infectious diseases associated with poverty,7 and the increasing burden of chronic diseases on lifestyle.8 All of these challenges, now exacerbated by the most severe global economic crisis since the 1930s, are likely to become even more urgent in the years ahead.9,10
We describe aspects of an increasingly unstable world and why the market-driven growth paradigm is insufficient to achieve improved global health. We then suggest a number of new ways of thinking that we believe should be adopted to improve global health.
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| Author | Solomon R. Benatar, DSc (Med), Stephen Gill, PhD, and Isabella Bakker, PhD |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Global economy and health |
| Tags | economic economics |
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Global Health Bioethics
The aim of this initiative is to provide resources to enable people conducting global health bioethics research in both developing and developed countries to communicate about issues in global health research ethics, share models of good research practice, collaborate on developing research ideas or applying for research grants, get constructive feedback on bioethics-related PhD proposals, and have ready access to a wide range of resources on research ethics. It is our hope that these resources will encourage local research initiatives, improve ethical standards in collaborative global health research, and contribute to the development and sharing of research ethics capacity.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Global health issues Education |
| Tags | research ethics research ethics articles methods news current affairs |
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Global health care leadership development: trends to consider
Abstract:
This paper provides an overview of trends associated with global health care leadership development. Accompanying these trends are propositions based on current available evidence. These testable propositions should be considered when designing, implementing, and evaluating global health care leadership development models and programs. One particular leadership development model, a multilevel identity model, is presented as a potential model to use for leadership development. Other, complementary approaches, such as positive psychology and empowerment strategies, are discussed in relation to leadership identity formation. Specific issues related to global leadership are reviewed, including cultural intelligence and global mindset. An example is given of a nurse leadership development model that has been empirically tested in Canada. Through formal practice–academic–community collaborations, this model has been locally adapted and is being used for nurse leader training in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Brazil. Collaborative work is under way to adapt the model for interprofessional health care leadership development.
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| Author | Maura MacPhee, Lilu Chang, Diana Lee, Wilza Spiri |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Leadership |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Global Health Corps
Our mission is to mobilize a global community of emerging leaders to build the movement for health equity. We are building a community of changemakers who share a common belief:Health is a human right.
Global Health Corps pairs intelligent and passionate fellows with organizations that require new thinking and innovative solutions. We provide these young leaders with the tools to remain connected after their fellowship year finishes, deepening their ability to enact change through heightened skills and strong partnerships. We currently place fellows in Burundi, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, the United States, and Zambia.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Global health issues Poverty and inequality Planning a clinical placement overseas Global citizenship Leadership |
| Tags | fellowship fellow placement leadership change leader leaders social justice organsation |
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Global Health Council
Global Health Council (GHC) is the leading membership organization supporting and connecting advocates, implementers and stakeholders around global health priorities worldwide
Mission: To improve health globally through increased investment, robust policies and the power of the collective voice.
Vision: We envision a world where health for all is ensured through equitable, inclusive and sustainable investment, policies and services.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Global health issues |
| Tags | Global health membership organisation organisation membership awareness protest |
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Global Health eLearning Centre
This website has a large collection of online learning resources and online courses in different ares of global health.
Meeting the learning needs of leaders and experts in the USAID health sector
In 2005, USAID’s Bureau of Global Health developed the Global Health eLearning (GHeL) Center to provide its worldwide mission-based health staff with access to state of the art technical global health information.
The courses and certificate programs at the Center offer self-paced Internet-based courses that:
- Provide useful and timely continuing education for the world’s premier global health professionals
- Present state-of-the-art technical content on key public health topics
- Serve as a practical resource for increasing public health knowledge
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Child health Communicable diseases Global health issues Maternal health Non-communicable diseases Poverty and inequality Education Global health teaching |
| Tags | eLearning resource resources learn independent learning professional development CPD lectures translations translationed other languages languages other than english USAID US aid |
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Global Health eLearning Centre: Additional Training Opportunities
The Global Health eLearning Team is always on the look out for opportunities that enhance the learning offered on this site. The links on this webpage are provided for your convenience. Please note that they are third-party websites and are not controlled or endorsed by the U.S. Agency for International Development or subject to our privacy policy.
Full recordGlobal health equity: evidence for action on the social determinants of health
Abstract
More than 30 years ago, the older of us published a paper with the proposal that all scientific papers should start with a statement along the lines of: “These are the opinions on which I base my facts”. Why pretend? To take a topical example, if you are on the nature side of the nature/nurture debates, is it likely that your next paper will be an apologia: “I take it all back; genes don’t matter at all; it is all environment”? Unlikely. Similarly, if you are on the other side. (We know. It’s both.) Here, we are not in any way arguing for a relativist credo that would say opinions are all. Along with other readers of this journal, we spend a good part of our working lives gathering, analysing and interpreting empirical evidence. Evidence matters. But everyone has values and they do affect our positions
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| Author | M Marmot, S Friel |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Determinants of health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Global health governance (journal)
Global Health Governance is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal that provides a platform for academics and practitioners to explore global health issues and their implications for governance and security at national and international levels.
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| Type | Journal |
| Subject | Global health governance |
| Tags | politics ethics ethical issues |
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Global Health Governance and Financing Mechanisms
Global Health Europe, together with World Vision International, have developed this resource based on World Health Summit sessions held in October 2011, in order to highlight key recommendations on global health governance and financing mechanisms made at this forum. Through a range of mechanisms, we are advocating for stronger multi-stakeholder and citizen engagement in policy processes for global health, and fairer and more sustainable health financing mechanisms for universal coverage.
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| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Global health governance |
| Tags | global health europe world vision |
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Global Health Governance as a contested space: competing discourses, interests and actors
Abstract:
The literature on Global Health Governance has developed rapidly over recent years with a large number of scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds entering the field. Much of this work has been focussed either around the governance roles of specific institutions (IOs, GHPs, foundations etc) or the governance of particular health problems (most commonly infectious disease). Now seems to be a suitable point at which to take a step back and ask some more conceptual questions about how Global Health Governance works and what drives contemporary global responses to health problems.
This paper argues that Global Health Governance can best be understood as a process of contestation between a variety of different discourses, each of which takes a particular approach to health as a global issue, and each of which generates certain policy responses. It argues that the key contemporary discourses influencing Global Health Governance are biomedicine, human rights, economism and security, but that other (currently recessive) discourses also have an influence. These discourses are promoted by different global health actors and each has gained salience in particular issue areas. The paper argues that it is in the interplay of these discourses – a process in which both power and ideas play a role – that contemporary Global Health Governance is shaped.
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| Author | Owain Williams & Simon Rushton |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Regulation and governance |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Global Health Governance: Overview of the Role of International Law in Protecting and Promoting Global Public Health
This paper’s analysis unfolds in five parts. Part 1 examines the theoretical and practical need for international law in global governance systems. Part 2 provides a brief overview of the structure and dynamics of international law, which is an area of legal theory and practice that is often unfamiliar to public health experts and policy makers. Part 3 demonstrates how deeply embedded the value of public health is in public international law today. The protection and promotion of public health can be found in a wide variety of international legal regimes that cut across virtually every area of international relations. Part 4 analyzes different kinds of global governance mechanisms and strategies that have developed in international law on public health. In Part 5, the focus is on international law’slimitations as an instrument of GHG in order to communicate the message that international law is necessary but not sufficient to create effective GHG in today’s complex world.
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| Author | Professor David Fidler |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Regulation and governance |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Global Health Hub
The Global Health Hub is a volunteer-run site that aims to provide an online gateway to news, commentary and resources related to global health. Our team of volunteers publishes original commentary while curating aggregated content from traditional and non-mainstream sources to provide a dynamic information portal for the global health community.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Child health Gender and health Maternal health Non-communicable diseases New and emerging infectious diseases Technology |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Global Health in the 21st Century: Non-Communicable Diseases
A prezi presentation prepared by Dr Alessandro Demaio, for the 2012 Global Health Conference, Cairns, Australia.
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| Author | Dr Alessandro Demaio |
| Type | Presentation |
| Subject | Non-communicable diseases |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Global Health Law: A Definition and Grand Challenges
This article explores the health hazards posed by contemporary globalisation on human health and the consequent urgent need for global health law to facilitate effective multilateral cooperation in advancing the health of populations equitably.
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| Author | Lawrence O. Gostin? and Allyn L. Taylor O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law Center |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Regulation and governance |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Global Health Media Project: Childbirth Videos
Our Childbirth Series is intended to improve the quality of care during childbirth and help protect the lives of birthing women. All of our videos are can be downloaded free-of-charge for use in low-resource settings. The childbirth films will soon be available in French and Spanish.
Global Health Media Project is expanding their Childbirth Series with 3 new videos: Initial Assessment of a Woman in Labor, Preventing Infection at Birth, and Immediate Care After Birth (integrating care for mother and baby). The primary audience for these teaching videos are birth attendants in developing countries.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Child health Maternal health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Global Health Media Project: Newborn Care Videos
This website provides access to a large number of educational videos on healthcare on the following topics: new borns, child birth and cholera.
I founded Global Health Media Project to help health workers save lives by using advances in information and communication technologies to make what was impossible yesterday, possible today. Our videos will be disseminated as broadly as possible — free of charge — especially to reach low-resource, often isolated health workers who have no other access to this clinical information. Our global delivery strategy is relevant now and favorably positioned for the rapid expansion of connectivity in the developing world.
Deborah Van Dyke
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| Type | Video |
| Subject | Child health Maternal health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
| Rights | By accessing and viewing the content on this website, you agree to be legally bound by the following terms and conditions. The videos on this website are provided for educational, informational, and non-commercial purposes only. The information in these videos is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Videos must be used “in whole”; you are not allowed to reproduce only a portion of any video, or alter these videos in any way. Creative Commons License The original content on this site is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. You must attribute the content to the Global Health Media Project. You may not use our work for commercial purposes. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work. Creative Commons License Users are invited to download our videos and share them with others as long as they credit the Global Health Media Project. Users are encouraged to provide a link back to this site. Any unauthorized use of these videos is prohibited. Disclaimer of Warranties Global Health Media Project does not and cannot guarantee the accuracy, reliability, and completeness of the information in these videos. The videos and their content are provided on an “as is” basis, without express and implied warranties and representations of any kind including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of fitness for a particular purpose and noninfringement. Limitation of Liability In no event shall the Global Health Media Project, its directors, officers, employees, volunteers, affiliates, agents, or representatives be liable for any damages, loss, or injury, including, without limitation, special, incidental, direct, indirect, consequential, or punitive damages of any kind resulting from the use of the materials available on this website. Users and viewers assume all responsibility and risk for the use of the videos and content |
Global Health Promotion
Global Health Promotion, is the official publication of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE). It is a multilingual journal, which publishes authoritative peer-reviewed articles and practical information for a world-wide audience of professionals interested in health promotion and health education.
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| Type | Journal |
| Subject | Global health issues Education |
| Tags | journal articles articles journal reading academic literature references International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) International Union for Health Promotion and Education IUHPE |
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Global Health University: Global Health E-Learning Resources
Global Health University disseminates knowledge to advance global health delivery and to promote excellence in global health education. All material published by Unite For Sight Global Health University is open access, meaning that you may freely read, download, distribute, and use the material, as long as all of the work is properly cited. Do you find Global Health University resources helpful to you? Become a Global Health University Member by giving a tax-deductible donation. Support Unite For Sight's movement to synthesize cutting-edge global health research and evidence-based information for free unrestricted access worldwide.
Full recordGlobal Health: Nurses Taking a Leadership Role in the Global Community
Abstract:
This academic paper explores the role of the nurse as a leader in the international healthcare community. Faced with the effects of globalization on geopolitical, economic, and cultural relations between societies, nurses are becoming front-line providers in countries where access to healthcare services are limited. This paper explores the concept of a global village, where societies are entering into closer relationships with one another on a worldwide scale, and the role that nursing professionals can take as educators, mentors, and innovators, in order to lead other emerging professionals in the provision of healthcare services. In countries where infectious, communicable diseases are largely preventable through vaccination, and simple interventions to improve sanitation and safe drinking water, nurses have a unique opportunity fulfill their social responsibility as health promoters by collaborating with political and healthcare leaders to created sustainable solutions to indentified needs. In addition to working as health promoters, this paper outlines the key competencies that are necessary to provide holistic nursing care and development of a global mindset in providing healthcare to at-risk populations and becoming an advocate for those in need of a voice.
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Leadership |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Global Maternal and Child Health Outcomes: The Role of Obstetric Ultrasound in Low Resource Settings
Abstract
There are vast inequalities across maternal and infant mortality with the developing world accounting for the majority of the burden and within countries rural areas expecting worse outcomes than urban. These inequalities are linked to health care servicedelivery. This review focuses on obstetric ultrasound service and its potential to improve maternal and newborn health in low resource settings. A systematic search of English literature was conducted to identify current knowledge regarding use of ultrasound in low resource settings. Access to obstetric ultrasound in the developed world is almost universal. Access to obstetric ultrasound is instrumental in identifying potential obstetric risks, leading to improvements in maternal and newborn health outcomes. In contrast to this, access to obstetric ultrasound in the developed world is poor, particularly in rural areas. Innovations in teleradiology and portable ultrasound offer opportunity for improved ultrasound access in low resource settings, including opportunity for service coverage in rural and remote areas. The literature illustrates considerations for service provision in a broad range of settings in the developing world. Practical implications are vastly different in these settings and include infrastructure, economic resources, training and cultural acceptability. The versatility of ultrasound also offers a wide range of non-obstetric clinical applications. This review demonstrates promising benefits of obstetric ultrasound in poorly resourced settings with potential improvements in maternal and infant mortality and also highlights the need for large scale trials in these settings.
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| Author | Katherine Stanton, Lillian Mwanri |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Child health Maternal health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Global Medical Projects
Global Medical Projects is part of the Global Volunteer Projects group and was formed as the majority of our volunteers came to us for medical work experience projects. As such, we have become specialists in arranging worthwhile medical work experience placements for Pre-university students, students in their vacation, students on their electives and qualified medical personel.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | medicine nursing dentistry physiotherapy radiography emergency medicine Ghana india Romania Mexico china Tanzania cambodia elective placement elective volunteer |
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Global Network: Neglected Tropical Diseases
Our mission
One in six people in the world, including half a billion children, suffer from neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases, an initiative of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, works to raise the awareness, political will and funds necessary to control and eliminate the seven most common NTDs by 2020.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | New and emerging infectious diseases |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Global Public Health Surveillance under New International Health Regulations
This article assesses the surveillance system in International Health Regulations adopted by the world health assembly in 2005 (IHR 2005) by applying well established frameworks for evaluating public health surveillance.
| About this resource | |
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| Author | Michael G. Baker and David P. Fidler |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Regulation and governance |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Global standards for the initial education of professional nurses and midwives
This document,produced by the WHO, outlines goals for global standards in nursing and midwifery, and reviews how the standards of initial nursing and midwifery education should be set to comply with these global standards.
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Cultural competence Global citizenship Global health course design Global health teaching Education |
| Tags | WHO |
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Global Warming Seen Taking Toll on Economy, Health, Crops
News article written on 4th November 2013.
| About this resource | |
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| Author | Alex Morales |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Climate change and sustainability |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Globalization and Its Impact on Health
Learning Objectives of this presentation:
• Understand changes in the global economy that affect health
• Identify global public health priorities and conflicts with prevailing economic and trade policies
• Articulate how trade agreements can restrict access to affordable health-related services and medicines, public health regulations that protect health such as tobacco and alcohol control measures, health professional workforce, and food supply
• Provide examples of campaigns to bring public health’s voice into global economic policy
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Theories of globalisation |
| Tags | global health education consortium |
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Globalization Theory: A Post Mortem
An article published by the journal 'International Politics' in 2005.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Theories of globalisation |
| Tags | globalization conjunctural analysis sociology historical uneven and combined development Marx |
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Go Eco
Medical volunteering is an incredible opportunity to give back to communities abroad while gaining valuable experiences for your future career. If you are in the process of becoming a medical professional, or are already trained, we will be happy to welcome you to the following projects in Vietnam, Kenya, Israel, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and India which rely on the help of international volunteers to function at full capacity. Activities may include HIV/AIDS awareness, hospital rounds, or rural clinic treatment centers.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | Vietnam Kenya Israel south africa Zimbabwe zambia india medical elective placement hiv aids Rural Hospital volunteer |
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Good practice in health care for migrants: views and experiences of care professionals in 16 European countries
From the abstract:
Methods: During this study, structured interviews with open questions and case vignettes were conducted with health care professionals working in areas with high proportion of migrant populations in 16 countries. Answers were analysed using thematic content analysis.
Conclusions: Health care professionals in different services experience similar difficulties when providing care to migrants. They also have relatively consistent views on what constitutes good practice. The degree to which these components already are part of routine practice varies. Implementing good practice requires sufficient resources and organisational flexibility, positive attitudes, training for staff and the provision of information.
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| Author | Stefan Priebe1*, Sima Sandhu1, Sónia Dias2, Andrea Gaddini3, Tim Greacen4, Elisabeth Ioannidis5, Ulrike Kluge6, Allan Krasnik7, Majda Lamkaddem8, Vincent Lorant9, Rosa Puigpinósi Riera10, Attila Sarvary11, Joaquim JF Soares12, Mindaugas Stankunas13, Chris |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Population migration and health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Government officials’ representation of nurses and migration in the Philippines
Abstract
During the past few decades, the nursing workforce has been in crisis in the United States and around the world. Many health care organizations in developed countries recruit nurses from other countries to maintain acceptable staffing levels. The Philippines is the centre of a large, mostly private nursing education sector and an important supplier of nurses worldwide, despite its weak domestic health system and uneven distribution of health workers. This situation suggests a dilemma faced by developing countries that train health professionals for overseas markets: how do government officials balance competing interests in overseas health professionals’ remittances and the need for well-qualified health professional workforces in domestic health systems? This study uses case studies of two recent controversies in nursing education and migration to examine how Philippine government officials represent nurses when nurse migration is the subject of debate. The study finds that Philippine government officials cast nurses as global rather than domestic providers of health care, implicating them in development more as sources of remittance income than for their potential contributions to the country’s health care system. This orientation is motivated not simply by the desire for remittance revenues, but also as a way to cope with overproduction and lack of domestic opportunities for nurses in the Philippines.
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| Author | Leah E Masselink and Shoou-Yih Daniel Lee |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Green Facts
Green Facts is a website which aims to bring the factual content of complex scientific consensus reports on health and the environment to the reach of non-specialists.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Climate change and sustainability |
| Tags | environment |
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Guide to Authoring a Global Health eLearning Course
This document gives guidance on how to successfully create a Global Health eLearning course.
The Global Health eLearning Center created this document, they offer a menu of courses that learners can use to expand their knowledge in key public health areas and to access important up-to-date technical information that USAID public health professionals should know. The primary audiences for the Learning Center are PHN officers and FSNs at USAID missions around the world. However, staff at USAID/Washington, its Cooperating Agencies (CAs), and other partners may also benefit from the Learning Center.
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Global health course design |
| Tags | eLearning |
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Health & Population Module 2 • i2P • Expedition India
Key point covered in this pdf resource:
The world population has risen dramatically over the past century
• The rapid growth in population is stressing health care resources the world over.
• Population is growing fastest and health care tends to be even less available in developing nations.
•There are more older people, who typically have a greater need for health care.
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Population growth |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Health and foreign policy: influences of migration and population mobility
Abstract
International interest in the relationship between globalization and health is growing, and this relationship is increasingly figuring in foreign policy discussions. Although many globalizing processes are known to affect health, migration stands out as an integral part of globalization, and links between migration and health are well documented. Numerous historical interconnections exist between population mobility and global public health, but since the 1990s new attention to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases has promoted discussion of this topic. The containment of global disease threats is a major concern, and significant international efforts have received funding to fight infectious diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS (human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome). Migration and population mobility play a role in each of these public health challenges. The growing interest in population mobility’s health-related influences is giving rise to new foreign policy initiatives to address the international determinants of health within the context of migration. As a result, meeting health challenges through international cooperation and collaboration has now become an important foreign policy component in many countries. However, although some national and regional projects address health and migration, an integrated and globally focused approach is lacking. As migration and population mobility are increasingly important determinants of health, these issues will require greater policy attention at the multilateral level.
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| Author | Douglas W MacPherson,corresponding author Brian D Gushulak and Liane Macdonald |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Population migration and health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Health and the International Economy
A WHO document published in Agust 2002
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Global economy and health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Health Consequences of Population Changes in Asia: What Are the Issues?
This report is part of an ongoing process that will help the MetaCentre and scholars of the region better understand the important research questions which address health and population change in the Asian context. It developed from discussions that took place during a two-day workshop, entitled “Health Consequences of Population Changes in Asia: What are the Issues,” held in conjunction with the First IUSSP Southeast Asia Regional Conference, in Bangkok, Thailand, 13-4 June, 2002. The workshop was organized by the MetaCentre with support from the Wellcome Trust. The workshop brought together regional experts from a variety of disciplines to discuss the important issues related to population change and health and possible approaches toward addressing these issues.
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| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Population growth Population migration and health Urbanisation |
| Tags | ASIAN METACENTRE RESEARCH PAPER SERIES no. 6 ASIAN METACENTRE RESEARCH PAPER SERIES |
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Health Consequences of Poverty for Children
This document summarises the physical, emotional and psychological health consequences of poverty for children. Maternal and child health are intimately linked and, consistent with the inter-generational approach, advocated by the Acheson Report. I start with a brief review of the effects of poverty and low socio-economic status on maternal health - particularly as it affects readiness for pregnancy and foetal well-being. Birth weight has major consequences for survival in early infancy, health throughout childhood and into adult life and the impact of poverty on this is considered next. Death, disability and illness in infancy and childhood. closely linked to birth weight and poverty, are discussed before examining the consequences of poverty for the emotional and psychological health and well being of children. Poverty and material deprivation in rich nations appear to have a negative effect on parenting, leading among other things to child poverty, parenting and child protection are reviewed. Finally, the links between poverty, educational attainment and children's health are discussed.
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| Author | Professor Nick Spencer |
| Type | Document |
| Subject | Child health Poverty and inequality |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Health crises and migration
Opening paragraph:
Individual and collective responses to health crises contribute to an orderly public health response that most times precludes the need for large-scale displacements. Restricting population movement is a largely ineffective way of containing disease, yet governments sometimes resort to it where health crises emerge.
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| Author | Michael Edelstein, David Heymann and Khalid Koser |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Population migration and health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Health effects of migration
ABSTRACT
The proportion of citizens with an ethnic minority background in Denmark is rising and considerations about how to adapt health care services to the needs of this part of the population are becoming increasingly relevant. To do this, knowledge is needed about the factors influencing the health of these population groups. Migration is one of these factors.The process of migration influences the somatic and mental healthof migrants and is described in this article. Ethnicity, social position and aspects related to communication also influence migrants’ health; however, we do not discuss these factors [1].
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| Author | Maria Kristiansen, Research Assistant, Anna Mygind Research Assistant & Allan Krasnik, Professor |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Population migration and health |
| Tags | Denmark |
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Health impacts of climate change: nurses look ahead
News article published on 7th Aoril 2014 related to the Australian College of Nursing’s (ACN’s) concerns that severe climate events are having a significant impact on the healthcare needs of Australians.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Climate change and sustainability |
| Tags | australia Australian news new article |
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Health Impacts of Global Climate Change 2001 SOEH
Stefi Barna has posted a new Video Podcast in the Sustainable Healthcare Education Network:
Health impacts of global climate change
This is 25 minute overview of the health impacts of global climate change, made by the Society for Occupational and Environmental Health (USA).
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Climate change and sustainability |
| Tags | climate sustainability video climate change extreme weather |
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Health inequalities and population health
This briefing summarises NICE's recommendations for local authorities and partner organisations on population health and health inequalities. It is particularly relevant to health and wellbeing boards.
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Poverty and inequality |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Health inequalities and the social determinants of health
This is a policy breifing document which was produced by the Royal College of Nursing (RNC) in January 2012.
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Determinants of health |
| Tags | UK |
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Health inequalities continue to undermine social mobility
This is an evidence breifing was published by the economic and social research council.
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Poverty and inequality Social justice, human rights and health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Health leaders gather to combat non-communicable diseases
This article written on 10th October 2013 reports on the event where guests assembled at the Royal Society the week before to hear about efforts to tackle non-communicable diseases (NCD) in low and middle income countries.
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| Author | Jo Seed |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Non-communicable diseases |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Health Poverty Action
Health Poverty Action works to strengthen poor and marginalised people in their struggle for health.
| About this resource | |
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| Author | |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Poverty and inequality Social justice, human rights and health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Health topic quickview: Communicable diseases
A section of the Austrailan goverment department of health website providing a collection of communicable diseases-related information.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Communicable diseases |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Health Vulnerabilities Study of Mixed Migration Flows from the East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes Region to Southern Africa
The study is designed to be conducted in two stages. Completed between October and December 2012, the first stage – the formative stage – had two objectives: 1) to update the findings of the 2009 study and 2) to collect information and identify “spaces of vulnerability”2 through a desk review and verification visits to five transit countries. The second stage – a detailed field study – will be conducted within the first six months of 2013.
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Population migration and health |
| Tags | International Organization for Migration IOM |
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Health worker migration in Europe Policy issues and options
This paper examines the issue of health worker migration within the context of labour market dynamics and European Union (EU) accession. Its objective is to set out a framework for analysing some of the key issues that policy makers should consider when assessing if health worker migration is a problem, and if so, determining what options might be considered in addressing the issues.
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| Author | James Buchan |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Health, Climate Change and Sustainability: A systematic Review and Thematic Analysis of the Literature
Abstract
Evidence of climate change and its impact continues to be accumulated, and it is argued that the consequences of climate change are likely to result in an increased demand on health services. It has been claimed that climate change presents new challenges for health services and that strategies should be adopted to address these challenges.
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| Author | A. Nichols, V. Maynard, B. Goodman, and J. Richardson |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Climate change and sustainability |
| Tags | sustainability climate change health systematic review |
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Healthy Open Spaces
This information paper outlines the connections between health and wellbeing, and urban open spaces. In addition, it summarises the relationship between open space in relation to physical and mental health, and environmental, economic, social and cultural wellbeing. This paper aims to nform and support the work of local and regional authorities, urban planners and developers, public health practitioners and community groups as we plan for sustainable and healthy cities.
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| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Urbanisation |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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How Nurses Are Using Technology
From electronic medical records and patient self-tracking to informatics and minimally invasive procedures, healthcare is getting more and more high-tech. Here are some ways technology makes things better for patients, and nurses...
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Technology |
| Tags | Johnson&Johnson; |
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Huge poor–rich inequalities in maternity care: an international comparative study of maternity and child care in developing countries
This paper describes poor–rich inequalities in use of professional delivery and antenatal care for 45 developing countries and compares these to inequalities in use of child health services. By presenting various aspects of inequalities in the use of maternity care, and by contrasting these to inequalities in the use of child health care, this paper seeks possible explanations for the inequalities observed in maternity care.
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| Author | Tanja AJ Houweling a, Carine Ronsmans b, Oona MR Campbell b, Anton E Kunst |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Maternal health Poverty and inequality |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Human rights and the national interest: migrants, healthcare and social justice
Abstract:
The UK government has recently taken steps to exclude certain groups of migrants from free treatment under the National Health Service, most controversially from treatment for HIV. Whether this discrimination can have any coherent ethical basis is questioned in this paper. The exclusion of migrants of any status from any welfare system cannot be ethically justified because the distinction between citizens and migrants cannot be an ethical one.
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| Author | Phillip Cole |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Population migration and health Social justice, human rights and health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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IBM Healthcare: Healthcare 2015 and care delivery: Delivery models refined, competencies defined
This study is an extension of “Healthcare 2015: Win-win or lose-lose?” which details the broad case for healthcare system transformation. Since payers and providers should collaborate to address many of healthcare’s challenges, it is also linked to and consistent with another study on healthcare payers.In this paper, we explore how healthcare providers – care delivery organizations (CDOs, such as clinics, hospitals and regional ealth organizations) and individual clinicians (doctors and nurses, as well as midlevel providers, such as nursing assistants) – can better serve citizens/patients in the face of opportunities and constraints of evolving healthcare systems. We examine how key external factors will evolve and affect providers. Our study findings lead to the identification of key service models and five critical competencies needed for providers to implement those service models
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Health systems and models of service delivery |
| Tags | IBM |
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IFRE Volunteer Abroad
IFRE is a nonprofit organization based in Dallas, Texas, USA. We founded IFRE’s volunteer abroad program in 2005 after realizing the need for safe and affordable volunteer abroad programs. So far, nearly 10,000 volunteers have participated in our meaningful volunteer programs in Asia, Africa and Latin America. IFRE is headquartered in Dallas, Texas and has multiple offices with 100+ experienced field employees throughout the 18 developing countries we support in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | volunteer elective placement latin america asia africa south america |
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Impact of migration on the consumption of education and children’s services and the consumption of health services, social care and social services
Aims
The main aims of the study were to estimate migrants? consumption of under-18 education, health and personal social services and the related costs and to assess the implications for UK immigration policy, particularly for the Points Based System (PBS). The study also aimed to identify the limitations to evaluating the impact and the potential for improving measurement. Given the interest in the PBS, the focus was non-EEA economic migrants (especially Tier 1 and 2 migrants2) and Tier 4 migrants (students). The aim was to provide both national and, where possible, sub-national estimates of impact.
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| Author | Anitha George, Pamela Meadows, Hilary Metcalf and Heather Rolfe |
| Type | Document |
| Subject | Population migration and health |
| Tags | UK National Institute of Economic and Social Research Migration Advisory Committee |
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Impact of Modernization on Family and Mental Health in South Asia
This paper looks into the following determinants of change in family structure caused by modernization (within the context of the South Asian population):
1. Population changes
2. Migration
3. Demographic ageing and retirement
4. Impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on the family
5. Globalization
6. Effects of major trends on social functions of families
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| Author | R.C. Jiloha |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Urbanisation |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Implementing the Millennium Development Goals: Health Inequality and the Role of Global Health Partnerships
This policy note examines the extent of health inequalities within and between countries and analyses ways in which global health partnerships (GHPs) - an innovative and important vehicle for international cooperation - can alleviate health inequality so as to support developing countries in achieving internationally agreed goals in health, including the health related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Millennium Development Goals Poverty and inequality |
| Tags | policy note |
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Improving Maternal Mortality: Policy Perspectives
This is a 25 slide presentation on slideshare covering the causes of maternal mortality, international policies, two case studies and recommendations for the future.
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| Type | Presentation |
| Subject | Maternal health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Improving the Health of The World’s Poorest People
This policy brief, based on a longer report by the Population Reference Bureau, highlights the extent of the rich-poor health divide, the factorsthat play a role in health disparities, and approaches for improving the health of the poor.
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Poverty and inequality |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Incentive systems for health care professionals
This 5 page factsheet looks into the incentive systems which are in place to recruit healthcare workers.
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Income inequality and health status: a nursing issue
Abstract
Objective
To review the association between income inequality and health status, and consider an appropriate nursing response.
Primary Argument
Nursing has a rich heritage of advocating for a healthy society established on a foundation of social justice. The future legitimacy and success of public health nursing depends on recognising and appropriately addressing the social, economic and political determinants of health in the populations served. There is an incontrovertible association between population health status, absolute income levels and income inequality. Thus, along with other social determinants of health, income differentials within populations must be a fundamental consideration when planning and delivering nursing services. Ensuring that federal and state health policy explicitly addresses this key issue remains an important challenge for the nursing profession, the public health system and the Australian community.
Conclusions
Higher mortality and worse health status occur in societies with higher income inequality. The relationship between income inequality and health appears to be determined both by relative access to resources for health gain and relative social position. The association between greater income equality and improved health may be explained by improved social cohesion. As social factors are at the root of much of health inequality, this knowledge needs to invoke political action and advocacy from the nursing profession to promote the development of healthy public policy. Including indicators of income inequality when planning and monitoring nursing services will enable services to measure to what extent they are based on the principle of social justice.
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| Author | Peter Massey and David Durrheim |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Poverty and inequality |
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Increasing Longevity in Asia: Social and Economic Implications
Outline of presentation content:
- Introduction
- Demographic changes
- Ageing and health
- Ageing and climate change
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| Type | Presentation |
| Subject | Climate change and sustainability Population growth Urbanisation |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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India is set to miss millennium development goal for improving sanitation
This short article details the progress India has made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goal for improving sanitation.
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| Author | Cheryl Travasso |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Millennium Development Goals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Infectious Disease Movement in a Borderless World: Workshop Summary
This workshop summary is organized into chapters as a topic-by-topic description of the presentations and discussions that took place at the workshop. Its purpose is to present lessons from relevant experience, to delineate a range of pivotal issues and their respective problems, and to offer potential responses as discussed and described by the workshop participants.
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| Author | David A. Relman, Eileen R. Choffnes, and Alison Mack, Rapporteurs; Forum on Microbial Threats; Institute of Medicine |
| Type | Document |
| Subject | New and emerging infectious diseases Regulation and governance |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Informatics and technology in Professional Nursing Practice
A book chapter titled 'Informatics and technology in Professional Nursing Practice' which can be downloaded as a pdf document.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Technology |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Injury prevention and the attainment of child and adolescent health
In December 2008, WHO and the United Nations Children’s Fund published the first World report on child injury prevention,1 calling attention to the problem internationally. The report focused on the five leading causes of child injury deaths – road traffic injuries, drowning, poisoning, burns and falls – and set out what can be done to prevent these injuries. This article expands on the report’s arguments that child injuries must be integrated into child health initiatives and proposes some initial steps for achieving this integration.
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| Author | Alison Harvey, Elizabeth Towner, Margie Peden, Hamid Soori & Kidist Bartolomeos |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Child health Unintentional injuries |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Innovative Health Service Delivery Models for Low and Middle Income Countries
The goal of this report is to determine how private sector innovation in health service delivery can improve care for the poor. To do this, we have identified innovative organizations that have improved care for the poor, and we have characterized the 5 innovations in their health service delivery models, as discussed below. We then explore how these models might be harnessed by government and international funders to strengthen health systems.
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| Author | Onil Bhattacharyya Anita McGahan David Dunne Peter A. Singer Abdallah Daar |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Health systems and models of service delivery |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Innovative health service delivery models in low and middle income countries - what can we learn from the private sector?
An environmental scan of peer-reviewed and grey literature was conducted to select examplars of innovation in organaiations who deliver a health service. These cases were examined and compared, with a focus on bussiness processes.
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| Author | Onil Bhattacharyya, Sara Khor , Anita McGahan , David Dunne , Abdallah S Daar , Peter A Singer |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Health systems and models of service delivery |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Institute of Development Studies: Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Post 2015 Agenda
IDS is working with global partners to undertake research and convene debates that aim to inform understanding of the future opportunities and challenges for development progress, and help shape thinking around the design and implementation of an inclusive, integrated and universally applicable post-2015 framework.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Millennium Development Goals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Institute of Global Health Innovation (Imperial College London)
The Institute of Global Health Innovation (IGHI) works to improve people’s health through innovation. By working with others and harnessing Imperial’s expertise across medicine, science, business and engineering, we are able to find sustainable solutions to the greatest global health challenges.
Our work is focused on global health policy development, technological innovation, medical robotics, healthcare design and cutting edge research into nutrition and the gut microbiome.
We invite you to explore our website, check out our courses and find out more about our current research interests.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Global health issues Education |
| Tags | PhD Imperial Imperial College London research news courses |
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Intergovernmental Organisations Committee - First Report
We were appointed in November 2007 as a new ad hoc Select Committee of the House of Lords to review the effectiveness with which intergovernmental organisations (IGOs) are operating in specific fields and how the UK is making use of its membership of those organisations to ensure that their objectives are being met. For our first inquiry we have examined how IGOs are tackling the global spread of infectious diseases.
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| Type | Paper |
| Subject | New and emerging infectious diseases Regulation and governance |
| Tags | UK report |
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International migration and health
This paper takes into account the fact that as people begin to move in greater numbers, more rapidly and across wider ecological spaces, the opportunities for migration of all kinds to affect health in increasingly complex ways will become more evident. As it does, the biomedical and bio-psychosocial dimensions of migration will possibly pose new and more difficult challenges to those who move, those they leave behind and those who host them in receiving societies. The paper also considers some of the factors involved in this emerging equation, including the social and health conditions that help to determine the character of migration and post-migration settlement. It looks at some of the main policy dimensions and implications associated with the migration-health nexus and while it does not attempt to address internal or forced migration, it recognises that both these types of movement have grown massively over the course of the last half century, and in their own way are also creating new health challenges.
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| Author | Manuel Carballo and Mourtala Mboup |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Population migration and health |
| Tags | Policy Analysis and Research Programme of the Global Commission on International Migration Global Commission on International Migration |
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International Migration of Health Workers: Can Spain Follow the British Steps?
Abstract
The paper explores migrant workers careers in the health sector, comparing the Spanish case and the British case. International migration has become an important feature of globalized labour markets in health care. Recently, concerns over the need of ensuring staff and skill shortages in the health system are becoming a common issue in many European countries. Following this, the paper is focused on career uncertainty for migrant workers, qualification recognition processes, policy issues on the training of nurses and doctors in both countries selected as contrasting cases given the different length of immigration experience. We consider trends in migration, working conditions of migrants, migration policies and recruitment practices. By using a qualitative approach, the paper demonstrates that professional trajectories of migrant doctors and nurses are more uncertain, although there are important differences regarding the role of regulatory institutions, and union’s action.
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| Author | Guglielmo Meardi , Mariona Lozano Riera, Antonio Artiles Martín |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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International Migration of Health Workers: Improving International Cooperation to Address the Global Health Workforce Crisis
Key questions addresseed in this policy brief:
- What are the main trends in the international migration of health workers?
- What are the main drivers of international mobility of doctors and nurses?
- What is the impact of migration on less developed countries?
- How can countries respond?
- How to strengthen international co-operation?
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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International Migration: Barriers and Opportunities for Indian Health Care Professionals under Mode IV of General Agreement on Trade & Services (GATS)
Abstract
Present paper highlights the issues surrounding trade in health services in India and other developing countries. As it is a well-established fact that in the modern era of globalization, the contribution of services to the global economy is increasing in comparison of the contribution of tangible goods. The paper gives an insight to the shortage of healthcare professionals in developed countries, which is the main cause of migration of health sector workforce from developing to developed countries. The economic impact of such migration on Indian economy has also been analysed in the paper. Today, heath sector is among the most rapidly growing service sectors in the world economy, which has been estimated at $4 trillion yearly in the OECD countries alone. As per the World Trade Report, 2008, the annual percentage change in the trade in commercial services was reported to be 18 percent while the annual percentage change in trade in merchandise goods was 15 percent. The sector has seen new and rapidly evolving forms of cross-border transactions, spurred by factors such as wide-ranging technology, demographic transition, increasing costs of medical care, skill up gradation, growing private sector participation, natural endowments etc. An effort has been made in the present paper to assess the various trade related barrier which are creating hurdle for free and transparent movement of healthcare professionals under Mode-IV of GATS. Besides, the paper shows that economic contribution of Indians working abroad in terms of remittances is more that of total FDI in the economy. The main object of the present paper is to assess barriers to trade in health services particularly in Mode–IV i.e. movement of natural persons abroad. The paper is based on secondary data collected from various sources like Reserve Bank of India (RBI), websites of various international agencies and Governments, data from Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India. Besides, data from World Health Report, 2006 was also used for preparation of present paper. It has been highlighted in the present paper that among the various categories of health care professionals, nurses are in acute shortage in developed countries mainly OECD member countries. This severe shortage has resulted in to recruiting nurses from countries like Philippines and India. However, there are a number of barriers for recruitment of healthcare professionals which mainly pertain to stringent requirements of qualification. Multiplicity of tests for practicing in destination country is another problem faced by these professionals. For example, in order to become a registered nurse in United States (US), a candidate has to go through minimum three tests- Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS), National Licensure Exam (NCLEX) and mandatory language tests. Apart from this, the main problem is of recognition of home country’s qualification in destination country. Lack of recognition of professional qualification remains a major obstacle for developing country professionals willing to provide their services abroad. Therefore, Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) on qualification is the only solution for free movement of healthcare professionals because this agreement enables the qualification of professional service providers to be mutually recognized by signatory member countries. Therefore, it may be concluded that unnecessary quantitative as well qualitative restrictions on movement of healthcare professionals should be removed so that the availability and accessibility of global public goods and services towards universal access to health care may be promoted.
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| Author | Pardeep Kumar |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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International Monetary Fund: The IMF and the Millennium Development Goals
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a set of development targets agreed by the international community, which center on halving poverty and improving the welfare of the world’s poorest by 2015. The IMF contributes to this effort through its advice, technical assistance, and lending to countries, as well as its role in mobilizing donor support. Together with the World Bank, it assesses progress toward the MDGs through an annual Global Monitoring Report.
Find out more about the IMF's work towards the Millennium Development Goals on this website...
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Millennium Development Goals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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International Organization for Migration (IOM)
IOM's Vision on Migration Health
Migrants and mobile populations benefit from an improved standard of physical, mental and social wellbeing, which enables them to substantially contribute towards the social and economic development of their home communities and host societies.
IOM’s Strategic Objectives on Migration Health
IOM’s strategic objectives on migration health are derived from the 2008 World Health Assembly Resolution on the Health of Migrants (61.17) that recommends action along four pillars. These four pillars have been further operationalized and agreed during the Global Consultation on the Health of Migrants organized by WHO, IOM and the Government of Spain (Madrid, 2010):
Monitoring migrant health
Enable conducive policy and legal frameworks on migrant health
Strengthen migrant friendly health systems
Facilitate partnerships, networks and multi-country frameworks on migrant health
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Population migration and health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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International Women's Health Programme: Maternal Mortality
Life may be a miracle but birth needs a helping hand. The International Women’s Health Program (IWHP) at the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada is working towards a better world for women. Using a rights-based approach, the IWHP promotes sexual and reproductive health and rights, including safe motherhood and newborn health.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Child health Maternal health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Introduction to Non-Communicable Diseases, the Health Tsunami of the 21st Century
This article was published on the Global Health and Diplomacy website, written by Ann Keeling - Chair NCD Alliance and CEO International Diabetes Federation (IDF).
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| Author | Ann Keeling |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Non-communicable diseases |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Investing in Nursing Education to Advance Global Health
Summary
Expanding nursing education programs at all levels is essential to ensuring access to quality health care for the world’s population. The easing of the nursing shortage in some nations is a direct result of the global financial crisis and should not be used as justification to cut funding for entry-level and advanced programs that prepare professional nurses. Given the aging of the population and a large wave of retirements projected for the nursing workforce, action must be taken now to ensure that an adequate supply of nurses is available to avert a global crisis in the future. As leaders in the nursing community, GANES is calling on all colleague organizations to alert their policymakers and stakeholders to the need for robust and stable funding for nursing education as an effective mechanism for advancing global health.
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Education Global health teaching |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Involving nurses in developing new technology
In this article...
- Differences in public attitudes to nurses in the US and UK
- Why healthcare technology implementation often fails
- How nurses can use technology to improve practice
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Technology |
| Tags | Nursing Times Technology change Nurse leaders |
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Is Transition of Internationally Educated Nurses a Regulatory Issue?
Abstract
Based on a review of initial evidence, this article suggests that transition of internationally educated nurses (IENs) is a regulatory issue. Given the absence of global nurse regulation, the questionable credibility in many areas where national regulation does operate, and more important, the commercialization of nurse training in some countries to meet international demand, the quality and competence of IENs are likely to be varied in both quantitative and qualitative terms. This variability in quality and competence affect their ability and readiness to practice with direct implications for patient safety and quality of care. After description of a transition program as a proposed regulatory mechanism modeled after the National Council of State Boards of Nursing’s Transition Initiatives, this article calls for comparative outcomes research on IENs and U.S. educated nurses to definitively determine if transition of IENs is a regulatory issue.
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| Author | Yu Xu, PhD, RN, CTN, CNE |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Education Migration of health professionals Regulation and governance |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Key Determinants of Migration among Health Professionals in Ghana
Specifically, this study has sought to answer the following questions:
- What is the future outlook of the emigration of Ghanaian health professionals?
- Is it likely to grow or decline?
- What are the causes behind the emigration of healthcare professionals?
- On a personal level, why do these doctors and nurses leave Ghana?
- Does this express dissatisfaction with the situation in the home country, or the will to pursue aspirations or opportunities abroad?
- What are the consequences of the emigration of health professionals on training and other labour-related issues for the Ghanaian health sector?
- What has been done in the past to curb the situation and what are the policy options available now?
- What could be done more generally to minimize the risks and maximize the benefits involved, if any?
These questions delineate the line of enquiry followed in this paper. The rest of the report is organized as follows: section two discusses the research methodology and is followed by a third section analyzing the survey data. Section four presents the conclusions of the study.
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| Author | John Anarfi, Peter Quartey John Agyei |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | Ghana |
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Key Issues to Health Governance in Bangladesh
Abstract
Like other social sectors, health governance in Bangladesh is identified with poor and inefficient service delivery. Health care provision depends on efficiently combining financial resources, human resources, and supplies, and delivering services in a timely fashion distributed spatially throughout the country. To ensure good governance in this sector it is equally important that health services be delivered efficiently and health professionals are accountable to the public and government for their action. In Bangladesh, lack of voice and accountability; government ineffectiveness; low level of regulatory quality; weakness in establishing rule of law; lack of transparency and, corruption -- all are impediments to good governance in this sector. This study highlights these core issues and at the same time recommends some policy prescriptions to ensure good governance in this sector and thus a healthy nation.
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| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Global health governance |
| Tags | case study |
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King's centre for global health
- to develop a clear focus of activities across global health education, research, health partnerships and global surgery.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Global health issues Education |
| Tags | King's center for global health Higher Education research BSc MSc summer school king's college london Lancet Commission on Global Surgery Lancet global surgery |
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Knowledge, technology and nursing: The case of NHS Direct
Abstract
NHS Direct is a relatively new, nurse-based, 24-hour health advice line run as part of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). The service delivers health advice remotely via the telephone. A central aspect of the service is the attempt to provide a standard level of health advice regardless of time, space or the background of the nurse. At the heart of this attempt is an innovative health software called CLINICAL ASSESSMENT SYSTEM (CAS). Using a number of qualitative methods, this article highlights how the interaction between the nursing staff and this technology is key to the service. The technology is based on management’s attempt to standardize and control the caller–nurse relationship. Thus the software can be seen as part of an abstract rationality, whereas how it is deployed by nurses is based on a practical rationality that places practice and experience ?rst and sees the technology and protocols as tools.
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| Author | Gerard Hanlon, Tim Strangleman, Jackie Goode, Donna Luff, Alicia O’Cathain and David Greatbatch |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Technology |
| Tags | autonomy forms of rationality NHS Direct NHS objectivity nursing |
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Love the One
Love the One exists to provide poor and orphaned children with free medical care. Love the One aims to partner with existing reputable children's charities. The project has been launched in India and is expected to replicate; to expand and reach out to children of other nations in the future
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | india elective placement child children |
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Making Gender a Global Health Priority: A Report of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center
This report proposes that a gender-focused approach to global health build on four cornerstones:
- maternal child health and family planning
- infectious diseases that disproportionately affect women
- gender-based violence
- food security.
These areas are clearly linked and underscore the importance of an integrated, comprehensive global health policy. To operationalize this approach, the report focuses on three key recommendations for the Obama administration:
- require a gender lens in program design and implementation,
- support capacity strengthening and resource mobilization, and
- coordinate among U.S. government agencies and promote U.S. global leadership.
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| Author | Janet Fleischman |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Gender and health |
| Tags | report |
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Manager (pdf repository)
You can use this site to seach for eBooks and other pdf documents related to global health (and any other topic you may be interested in).
This is a link to the search 'global health': http://www.pdfdrive.net/search?q=global health
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| Subject | Global health issues Education |
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Managing health worker migration: a qualitative study of the Philippine response to nurse brain drain
From Abstract:
Methods: Interviews and focus group discussions were conducted to elicit exploratory perspectives on the policy response to nurse brain drain. Focus group discussions were held with practising nurses to understand policy recipients’ perspectives on nurse migration and policy.
Concusions: Development of responsive policy to Filipino nurse brain drain offers a glimpse into a domestic response to an increasingly prominent global issue. As a major source of professionals migrating abroad for employment, the Philippines has formalised efforts to manage nurse migration. Accordingly, the Philippine paradigm, summarised by the thematic framework presented in this paper, may act as an example for other countries that are experiencing similar shifts in healthcare worker employment due to migration.
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| Author | Roland M Dimaya, Mary K McEwen, Leslie A Curry and Elizabeth H Bradley |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
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Managing medical migration from poor countries
Introduction
In the past, the migration of skilled health professionals from poorer to richer countries was essentially a passive process. Movement was driven mainly by the political, economic, social, and professional circumstances of the individual migrant. In recent years, however, demand for health workers in many countries in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has been greatly increased by changes in population dynamics. In response, some of these countries are relying increasingly on imported labour, with potentially damaging consequences for the healthcare systems in many developing countries, especially Africa. Indiscriminate poaching of health professionals is also likely to damage receiving countries in the long term. In this article I explore the policy options likely to minimise the consequences of migration of health workers.
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| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
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MANAGING THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
This is a summary paper in the series prepared by the Commonwealth Secretariat based on the report of the UCL Lancet Commission on Managing the Health Effects of Climate Change.
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| Subject | Climate change and sustainability |
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Managing the Migration of Health Care Workers: The Need for Action
This 2 page document on managing the migration of health care workers covers the following topics: background information, current policy approaches, the way forward and examples of the International Organisation for Migration's (IOM) activities.
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| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
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Manitoba Health: Communicable Disease Management Protocols
Communicable Disease Management Protocols
Introduction: Purpose of the Manual
The prevention, management and control of communicable diseases requires the active participation and cooperation of all health-care professionals and practitioners.
While this manual is intended to act as a guide to the management and control of communicable diseases within the Province of Manitoba, professional judgment will still be required by those charged with providing health care services.
Protocols for specific communicable diseases contain epidemiologic information with reference to provincial and national trends. Detailed information related to laboratory testing, treatment and public health investigation is included in the protocols and reflects best practices at the time of release. As advances in scientific knowledge and health care practices become available, our collective response to well established as well as newly identified and evolving pathogens must be routinely reviewed and updated. Although the Manual will be updated periodically, practitioners must take responsibility to ensure that they have the most recent knowledge relating to the case they are dealing with.
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| Subject | Communicable diseases |
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March of Dimes: Working together for stronger, healthier babies
Since the establishment of its Global Programs in 1998, March of Dimes has worked hard to improve birth outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. To date, Global Programs has overseen projects in 33 countries through a partnership mechanism that it calls the "mission alliance." The ideal mission alliance partner is one which has an established presence in the target country, including legal status, the support of and connection to its Ministries of Health and Finance and a local infrastructure; shares our mission to improve the health of newborns; and demonstrates financial health and stability. Together with our international and U.S. partners, March of Dimes has conducted interventions over the past decade that have been well-planned and executed, product-intensive, of short turn-around and measurable. In doing so, March of Dimes has respected the individual cultural differences of our partner organizations. We also have offered our technical partners technical expertise and the extensive resources of the March of Dimes, including professional and public health education materials and tools for establishing data collection systems, which have been easily adapted by our mission alliance partners to local conditions and needs. Working in this manner, March of Dimes has become a highly-visible, trusted and respected ally in the eyes of our developing country colleagues and a source of scientifically-robust data, curricula and other informational materials for use both in lower-income countries and in resource-poor settings in industrialized countries.
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| Subject | Child health Maternal health |
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MASTA Travel Health
MASTA (Medical Advisory Service for Travellers Abroad) has been operating for close to 30 years and we now run the largest network of private travel clinics in the UK. We have well established partnerships with Boots and STA, Independent Pharmacists and combined with our clinics based in NHS and Occupational Health establishments; we have full national coverage, with over 200 clinics now operating and more planned in the future.
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| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | from UK UK vaccinations travel health travel advise safety travel clinic |
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Maternal, Newborn and Child Health: A Global Perspective...
Content of presentation:
- Introduction
- Facts and Figures
- Issues and Challenges
- Challenges in the Philippines
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| Subject | Child health Maternal health |
| Tags | WHO |
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Medical Aid Films
Medical aid films - Films for life
Our vision is to deliver a solution to needless maternal and infant deaths: a global library of films for people engaged in health training and education in areas of urgent need.
Our Training Films are organised into topics which are growing and evolving with demand and feedback. The films are aimed at various audiences which is clearly indicated and supporting documentation is available on each page to assist the trainer in delivering the educational content.
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| Type | Video |
| Subject | Child health Maternal health |
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Medical Aid Films - Films for Life
MAF aims to save the lives of vulnerable women and children in developing countries by providing innovative training and education through film.
Our Training Films are organised into topics which are growing and evolving with demand and feedback. The films are aimed at various audiences which is clearly indicated and supporting documentation is available on each page to assist the trainer in delivering the educational content.
Full recordMedical Electives
The Medical Elective Network provides electives and and health care internships in Peru for medicine, dentistry, nursing, physical therapy, physician assistant, and dietetics students and professionals.
You may take your medical elective in Trujillo on the Pacific Coast; or Arequipa, in the Peruvian Andes. At either location you are sure to have a fantastic and valuable learning experience.
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| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | Peru Spanish Learn Spanish Speak Spanish Trujillo Arequipa health care internship medical elective medicine dentistry nursing physical therapy physician assistant dietetics student |
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Medical Missions to Peru
The Medical Missions to Peru are a join effort of Solidaridad en Marcha (SEM) with a large group of volunteers from North America and Latin America. In some trips, we join efforts with the Canadian organization Solidarity Experiences Abroad, Inc. Our missions seek to help people in material and spiritual need, according to their dignity and human rights.
Volunteers are the basic unit of all our medical mission trips. You can help as a health care professional (doctor, nurse or pharmacist) or you can volunteer in other ways to support the mission, such as collecting donations, packing medicines, calling people, traveling with us to help in the field, etc.
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| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | volunteer medical elective elective placement pharamcist pharmacy nurse nursing doctor medical Peru |
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Meeting Report: World Conference on Social Determinants of Health
The World Conference aimed:
• to identify the basic principles, methods and strategies for developing national action plans to address social determinants of health to reduce health inequities;
• to strengthen political commitment by Member States to develop and implement such national action plans, as well as the provisions of resolution WHA62.14;
• to share experiences, challenges and technical knowledge on how to address social determinants of health and construct national plans to reduce health inequities, considering the need for strengthening of governance arrangements, and learning from different contexts.
The World Conference was a high-level ministerial event that brought together over 1000 participants, including delegates from over 125 Member States, representatives from other organizations in the United Nations system and civil society, and technical experts. In addition, more than 19 000 people followed the event through webcast.
The five themes of the World Conference were:
1. Governance to tackle the root causes of health inequities: implementing action on social determinants of health;
2. Promoting participation: community leadership for action on social determinants;
3. The role of the health sector, including public health programmes, in reducing health inequities;
4. Global action on social determinants: aligning priorities and stakeholders;
5. Monitoring progress: measurement and analysis to inform policies and build accountability on social determinants.
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| Subject | Determinants of health |
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Mental disorders, health inequalities and ethics: A global perspective
Abstract
The global burden of neuropsychiatry diseases and related mental health conditions is enormous, underappreciated and under resourced, particularly in the developing nations. The absence of adequate and quality mental health infrastructure and workforce is increasingly recognized. The ethical implications of inequalities in mental health for people and nations are profound and must be addressed in efforts to fulfil key bioethics principles of medicine and public health: respect for individuals, justice, beneficence, and non-malfeasance. Stigma and discrimination against people living with mental disorders affects their education, employment, access to care and hampers their capacity to contribute to society. Mental health well-being is closely associated to several Millennium Development Goals and economic development sectors including education, labour force participation, and productivity. Limited access to mental health care increases patient and family suffering. Unmet mental health needs have a negative effect on poverty reduction initiatives and economic development. Untreated mental conditions contribute to economic loss because they increase school and work absenteeism and dropout rates, healthcare expenditure, and unemployment. Addressing unmet mental health needs will require development of better mental health infrastructure and workforce and overall integration of mental and physical health services with primary care, especially in the developing nations.
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| Author | EMMANUEL M. NGUI, LINCOLN KHASAKHALA, DAVID NDETEI and LAURA WEISS ROBERTS |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Poverty and inequality |
| Tags | mental health |
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Migration and Health
A factsheet about migration and health, produced by the Migration and Health Research Center (MAHRC).
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| Subject | Population migration and health |
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Migration and Health: A Review of the International Literature
This report is a comprehensive review of primary literature on internal and international migration and health. It is the result of searches using five on-line databases, a list of health and migration related keywords, and strict inclusion and exclusion criteria (see section 2). These searches produced 362 papers, of which 136 papers met the criteria and were included in the report (see section 5). These papers were summarised and separated into internal migration, and four subgroups within international migration: ‘all cause and cardiovascular mortality’, ‘cancer mortality’, ‘mental health’, and ‘morbidity, risk factors and anthropometry’.
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| Author | Laura McKay, Sally Macintyre, Anne Ellaway |
| Type | Document |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
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Migration and Health: Challenges of Population Mobility UC Global Health Institute
Video lasting 58minutes featurung Whitney L. Duncan, UC San Diego, exploring mental health and migration in a changing Oaxaca with a view from the psychiatric hospital. Margaret Handley, UCSF, looks at navigating the slipstream of changing food environments through a binational perspectives on dietary behaviors and implications for nutrition counseling. And, Micah Gell-Redman, UC San Diego, addresses politics, borders and risk. (#20616)
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| Subject | Population migration and health |
| Tags | University of California |
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Migration and Health: Latinos in the United States
This document comprises four chapters. The first describes the scope, trends, and characteristics of Latin American, and particularly Mexican, migration to the United States. There the data are available, it also refers to Latin American countries that take part in ISA, activities: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Colombia and Ecuador. The second analyzes immigrants' health insurance coverage and level their level of access to various types of medical security. The third describes the health service access and use. The last describes specific aspects of migrants' health, including the main illnesses affecting them. The document ends with a number of considerations and opportunities in the field of binational public policy.
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| Subject | Population migration and health |
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Migration and Human Resources for Health: From Awareness to Action
The specific objectives of the seminar this paper has been written about were:
- To provide participants with current information on the mobility of health care workers from a migration, health and labour perspective
- To review policy approaches to managing the mobility of health care workers
- To highlight the role of businesses and members of civil society such as professional organizations and members of diasporas in managing the mobility of health care workers
- To discuss innovative strategies to manage the mobility of health care workers
- To identify action points to carry the agenda forward.
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| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
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Migration and nursing in Ireland: An internationalist history
Abstract
Recent research and policy interest has focused on the changing composition of the nursing workforce in the Republic of Ireland, which has seen an increase in the number and importance of overseas-trained nurses. This is the most recent episode of the importance of migration in the history of nursing in Ireland which stretches back to the emergence of nursing in Ireland in the early 19th century. Delineating the intersecting histories of Irish nursing and migration, this article situates Irish nursing history within an internationalist framework involving the movement of people, ideas and practices across borders. The relevance of an internationalist analysis is demonstrated through an examination of the close connections between the British and Irish nursing institutions and labour forces and the significance of Catholic religious orders and religious migration in the development of nursing in Ireland and overseas. This analysis of the history of Irish nursing from the early nineteenth century to the mid twentieth century draws particular attention to the significance of female religious migration as a previously neglected chapter in the history of the international nurse migration in the Irish context, and it highlights the existence of the ‘global nursing care chain’ (Yeates, 2004, 2006, 2009) that linked Ireland to the international economy and to the development of nursing services at home and abroad.
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| Author | Nicola Yeates |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
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Migration and Recruitment of Healthcare Professionals: Causes, Consequences and Policy Responses
This policy brief describes the worldwide labour shortages in health care as well as describing some general trends in the movement of healthcare workers and what influences these trends. The advantages and disadvantage of healthcare professionals migrating is considered and suggestions on policies which could reduce the disadvantage are presented.
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| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
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Migration in Health Care Professions - The Triple Win Approach
This is a presentation about 'Triple Win Migration'©.
The Vision of Triple Win Migration©:
- Source countries will win knowledge (skilled workforce).
- Germany will win labour and gains from cultural diversity.
- Migrants will win job opportunities (in both destination and source countries) and skills.
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| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | Germany German |
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Migration Intentions of Health Care Professionals: the Case of Estonia
This paper analyses the size and determinants of the potential migration flows of Estonian health care professionals using an opinion survey carried out in 2003.
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| Author | Andres Võrk Epp Kallaste Marit Priinits |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
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Migration of Health Care Professionals from India: A Case Study of Nurses
The main objective of the study is to understand the factors governing migration of health care professionals from India and its implications for the health service system. The specific objectives are: (1) to study the trend in migration of health care professionals from India since 1990, (2) to understand the reasons for migration of health care professionals from India, (3) to analyse the implications of international policies associated with migration and (4) to explore the implications for migration on health service system in India.
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| Author | Ann Issac and Nirmalya Syam |
| Type | Document |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Migration of Health Professionals in Six Countries: A Synthesis Report
It is hoped that this report will generate interest in further study of the issues relating to the migration of health professionals in Africa. The report provides useful insights and details that can assist policymakers in making informed decisions. In view of the important effects of the migration of health professionals on Africa’s largely rural populations, the report proposes comprehensive and integrated approaches that, if implemented, should be able to reduce the outward flow of professionals from the health sector.
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| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
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Migration of Health Workers: A Challenge for Health Care System
Abstract
The migration of health workers has resulted in a growing apprehension universally because of its impact on health system of the developing countries. Although the choice to migrate is basically a personal one, however, the overall social and economic circumstances have important impact on the decision to migrate. The “push and pull” factors for migration are disparity in working conditions, pay, lack of promotion opportunities, poor living conditions, desire to gain experience, professional development, family background and family wealth. A strategic approach by the government and other agencies is mandatory for regulating the flow of health workers between countries. A range of policies and interventions are needed to deal with the broader health system issue and problems of health workers that influence their recruitment, retention, deployment and progress.
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| Author | Shaista Afzal, Imrana Masroor and Gulnaz Shafqat |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
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Migration of healthcare professionals: practical and ethical considerations
This paper discusses the impact of healthcare professionals from developing countires being recuirted to the UK.
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| Author | Sylvia Watkins |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | developing countries healthcare professionals migration |
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Migration of nurses in/out Hungary
Overall conculsion of this presentation:
The migration of nurses is not urgent problem now, but in the near future increasing of outmigration and decreasing of immigration of nurses can be a problem for the Hungarian Health Care System.
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| Author | Katalin Papp and Zoltán Balogh |
| Type | Presentation |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Migration of Skilled Nurses from Bangladesh: An Exploratory Study
Key Questions
The broad objectives of the study are to assess the market and potential for Bangladeshi women to be employed overseas as nurses. The study has attempted to assess the trends in and potential demands for trained professional nurses in North America, Europe and the Gulf region. The specific research questions being addressed by the study are:
- Is there a global demand for nurses, and therefore potentially for Bangladeshi nurses, in North America, Europe and selected countries of the Gulf-region and South East Asia?
- Can Bangladesh export trained nurses to these countries as part of its skilled and safe manpower export strategy?
- What are the major institutional and strategic limitations that the Nursing Training Facilities (NTF) in Bangladesh face in order to produce high standard human resources in nursing, keeping in view both national and potential international demand?
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| Author | Salahuddin M Aminuzamman |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
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Migration patterns of Polish doctors within the EU
This paper discusses the migration of Polish doctors following Poland become a member of the EU.
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| Author | Joanna Le?niowska |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
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Migration: A Social Determinant of the Health of Migrants
This paper examines the relationship between migration and health from a human-rights and social equity based perspective. I discusses how migration can itself be seen as a determinant of migrants' health.
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| Subject | Population migration and health |
| Tags | IOM |
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Millennium Development Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality
This video shows the importance of combating and reducing by two thirds the mortality rate for children under five years of age by 2015. With only five years left until the 2015 deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on world leaders to attend a summit in New York in September 2010 to boost progress towards the realization of the MDGs.
Full recordMillennium Development Goals for 2015
A short video introducting the Millenium Development Goals for 2015
In the year 2000, 189 leaders from around the world met at the historic Millenium Summit in New York.
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| Subject | Global health issues Millennium Development Goals |
| Tags | millennium development goals video short introduction statistics campaign awareness |
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Millennium Development Goals Report Card: Measuring Progress Across Countries
This report presents data on how countries are closing in on the MDG targets. It unpacks the targets and indicators to map out how the development process is playing out across countries and continents. It goes beyond standard global and country-level assessments to provide insights into how these gains are being shared across income, rural-urban and gender groups. It identi?es the ‘star’ performers that have made the greatest gains, shines a light on unexpected outcomes from the pursuit of the MDG targets and sounds out warnings where progress has stalled or is heading in the wrong direction.
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| Subject | Millennium Development Goals |
| Tags | report |
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Millennium Development Goals video spot
Video created to increase public awareness and galvanize support to the Millennium Development Goals.
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| Type | Video |
| Subject | Millennium Development Goals |
| Tags | millennium development goals video advert raise awareness campaign short introduction brief |
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Mobility and migration of healthcare workers in central and eastern Europe
Summary
This report highlights the key challenges facing the EU10 as a result of the high number of health professionals leaving to work abroad, focusing on specific problems and identifying topics for further research. A thorough analysis of the consequences is critical, since it appears the inflow of third-country nationals or return migration would not make up the shortfall caused by the outflow. However, as this is not equally true for all the countries, the report presents a differentiated picture between the countries concerned. The study draws on the results of two European research projects: Mobility of Health Professionals (MoHProf) and the Health Professional Mobility in the European Union Study (PROMeTHEUS).
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| Author | Fóti, Klára |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
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Module 2: Social determinants (eBook)
What participants should get out of the Social Determinants Module (eBook):
Participants will:
- be aware that health is more than a medical issue, and be familiar with the concept of social determinants of health
- be able to identify gender as one of these determinants, and be aware that it is affected by and interacts with other determinants
- have an understanding of the various levels at which health determinants operate, and the interrelationship between these distinguish between the factors affecting women’s health:
- that are common to women and men of a specific social group (forexample, rural/urban, poor/rich)
- that arise from women's biological differences from men
- that are related to gender-based differentials and understand how these may all be interrelated
- acquire the skills to apply the social determinants and gender framework to understand the structural factors underlying the impact of health policies and interventions
- understand that this knowledge can be applied to shape and inform health policies and interventions.
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| Type | Book |
| Subject | Determinants of health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Module 5:Healthcare Systems - US Healthcare Delivery Systems
Presentation objectives:
- List the major sectors of the US healthcare system
- Describe interactions among elements of the healthcare system, including clinical practice and public health
- Describe the organization of the public health system at the federal, state, and local levels
- Describe the impact of the healthcare system on special populations
- Describe roles and interests of oversight entities on US health system policy
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| Type | Presentation |
| Subject | Health systems and models of service delivery |
| Tags | US USA United States |
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mpact of Urbanization on Healthy Living with Dr. Afaf I. Meleis
More than half of the world's population lives in cities. About half of those in cities are women and girls. What is the impact of urbanization on healthy living, especially for women? With Dr. Afaf I. Meleis, Dean of the U of Penn School of Nursing.
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| Type | Video |
| Subject | Gender and health Urbanisation |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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MPH programs list .com
MPH Programs List.com launched as a free resource for students interested in graduate public health, public administration, public policy and health administration programs.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Child health Communicable diseases Epidemiology and burden of disease Global health issues Maternal health Non-communicable diseases Poverty and inequality Climate change and sustainability Global health governance Social justice, human rights and health Education |
| Tags | video online learning resource eLearning |
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My Sister My Self - Brigid McConville and the White Ribbon Alliance UK
This film collects the testimony of women and midwives in Africa and South East Asia on the joys and tragedies of childbirth and pregnancy. By sharing the stories of women who have lost their lives giving birth, and of women whose lives have been saved thanks to receiving appropriate care, this film shows how appropriate care can make a critical difference for women.
Visit www.whiteribbonalliance.org for more information about the White Ribbon Alliance’s work to promote safe motherhood.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Gender and health Maternal health |
| Tags | pregnancy video Maternal mortality africa south east asia safe motherhood international women's health programme birth child birth |
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My sister, My self
This film collects the testimony of women and midwives in Africa and South East Asia on the joys and tragedies of childbirth and pregnancy. By sharing the stories of women who have lost their lives giving birth, and of women whose lives have been saved thanks to receiving appropriate care, this film shows how appropriate care can make a critical difference for women.
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| Author | Brigid McConville and the White Ribbon Alliance UK |
| Type | Video |
| Subject | Child health Maternal health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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National Public Radio - Topic: Global Health
This website contains many videos and news articles arelated to current global health issues.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Global health issues |
| Tags | video videos news articles radio audio current affairs |
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New Care Delivery Models in Health System Reform: Opportunities for Nurses & their Patients
The key points of this American Nursing Association's issue brief are:
- Nurses’ education, skills and professional scope make them indispensible contributors to successful implementation of evolving patient–centered care delivery models.
- Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), Medical/health homes, and Nurse-managed Health Clinics are three of the varied approaches to coordinated care.
- Health reform opens the door to a more central role for APRNs in the creation, leadership and management of new and innovative patient-
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Health systems and models of service delivery |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Newborns suffer from communicable diseases
News article published in 'The Times of India' on 6th May 2014.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Child health |
| Tags | news |
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NHS Education for Scotland: Introducing the Wider Determinants of Health
Dahlgren and Whitehead's 1992 representation of the wider determinants of health below informed the Acheson Report (DH, 1998) and the Scottish Government's Equally Well (SG, 2008a). It still stands as the most effective illustration of health determinants and continues to inform the work to of those concerned with understanding and reducing the health inequality gap.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Determinants of health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Non-communicable diseases—neglected diseases in global health work?
Extract:
Consequently, also financial aid to global health activities has much increased. Much of this goes to programmes on infectious diseases or other traditional health issues—many of them in form of vertical disease specific actions. Very little, i.e. less than 3% of the global development assistance for health, goes to prevention and control of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs).1
This is in sharp contrast to the observations on how global health is rapidly changing. Although many infectious diseases and other traditional health issues, like child and maternal mortality, remain serious problems and should be vigorously addressed, NCDs have started to dominate global public health.2
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| Author | Pekka Puska |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Non-communicable diseases |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Nurse Migration and the Nursing Shortage
This is an interview with Dr Kingma about the complex issues surrounding nurse migration.
Dr. Kingma is a consultant for nursing and health policy with the International Council of Nurses (ICN). Her new book reflects a wealth of knowledge gained over the past twenty years, as she has worked on issues ranging from the socioeconomic welfare of nurses to occupational health and safety concerns, to international trade in health services. In February 2006, she participated in a conference in London entitled “Creating Positive Practice Environments for the International Nurse” which addressed how to fairly approach the integration of international nurses into healthcare systems.
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | interview |
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Nurse Migration as a Challenge for Professional Development
Content:
• Nurse migration
• Quality development in nursing profession/ nursing organisations
• Nursing workforce and outcome of nurses’ work in light of statistics - the case of Germany
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| Type | Presentation |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Nurse migration from the EU: What are the key challenges?
The nursing workforce is facing significant change; it is aging and there is more demand for part-time working. More of its traditional entrants are choosing alternative careers. Facing these recruitment and retention issues while simultaneously trying to improve productivity and the quality of care is challenging. Traditionally popular solutions that involve recruiting nurses from the international marketplace can clearly help but they bring their own human resources (HR) management challenges [1]. In this Policy+ we focus on nurse migration into the UK from other European Union (EU) countries. The evidence was collected as part of the PROMeTHEUS study [2]. It is one of the first using a survey and interviews to explore the HR management challenges and the factors influencing decision-making at different stages specifically of the EU migration process of health professionals.
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Nurse Migration: The Asian Perspective
This paper aims to capture the current situation of nurse migration from an Asian perspective. Asian countries are sources of nurses as well as hosts for foreign nurses. They also provide opportunities for foreign nurses to gain experience and knowledge to facilitate migration to other countries.
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| Author | Ayaka Matsuno |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Nurses Adopt Electronic Health Records
News article published by the University of California San Francisco in May 2012.
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| Author | Andrew Schwartz |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Technology |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Nurses in Health Care Governance Is the Picture Changing?
Lawrence D. Prybil discusses new research about nurse engagement on governing boards.
| About this resource | |
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| Author | Lawrence D. Prybil |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Global health governance |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Nurses on the Move: A Global Overview
Objective: To look at nurse migration flows in the light of national nursing workforce imbalances, examine factors that encourage or inhibit nurse mobility, and explore the potential benefits of circular migration.
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| Author | Mireille Kingma |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Nurses on the move: implications of internal migration in the UK
Migration of healthcare professionals across and within national boundaries may benefit individual career progress but can result in certain regions and countries having insufficient resources to meet healthcare needs(1,2). Developing strategies to ensure a balanced distribution of staff requires information about patterns of migration but this is often inaccurate and lacks comparability across borders(1). Here we consider how regionally comparable data can inform nursing workforce planning in the UK; we draw on a Nursing Research Unit study of nurses’ movements between regions (3,4), and other research on the internal migration patterns of health professionals (5-9) and of the general population.
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | UK |
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Nurses on the Move: Worldwide Migration
This document covers information on migration patterns of nurses, the mpact of nurse migration and the potential conflict between nurse migration and nurse shortage.
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| Author | Mireille Kingma |
| Type | Document |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Nurses use Google Hangouts to collaborate on technology
Summary: Nurses are using new media to collaborate, even when the participants are on opposite sides of the globe.
Description:
Google Hangouts are getting more and more interesting. The ability to easily start a live video conference with colleagues all over the world, share screens, and see each other -- all in real time -- is opening many doors for innovation.
Sure, live video conferencing has been around for years, and it's been quite good for some time. But it hasn't been as easily and freely available as Hangouts on the ubiquitous Google infrastructure. Now, anyone with a Google account can start a live video conference.
A good example of this is the Hangout produced by Yuri Shevchouk and involving RN Rob Fraser, clinical development nurse Ian Miller, and travel nurse Gary Cox. Talk about worldwide, Fraser was in Toronto Canada while Miller was in Australia's Canberra region.
Fraser discussed using technology to help nurse leaders tell their stories. Miller talked about how the web site he developed helped share information within his nursing unit. Cox talked about travel nursing and apps that help him get his job done.
I encourage you to watch this Hangout, which the four graciously shared up on YouTube for everyone to see. It's a great example of using new media to collaborate, even when the participants are on opposite sides of the globe.
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| Type | Video |
| Subject | Technology |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Nurses: Working with the Poor; Against Poverty
The aim of this document is to increase nurses’ awareness about the links between poverty and health and suggest multisectoral actions to reduce poverty and improve health.
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Poverty and inequality |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Nursing Informatics & Technology: A Blog for All Levels of Users
About Nursing Informatics & Technology: A Blog for All Levels of Users
While critical thinking is arguably still the most important skill in nursing, technological knowhow is probably a close second, and is an essential complement to critical thinking. From telemetry to PDAs, from scheduling to EHRs, nurses are surrounded by technology and the more they are involved in its creation, implementation and integration, the more useful they will find the tools - and the better care they can provide patients. The purpose of this blog is to engage nurses in conversation about how technology is used in nursing. Both technophobes and uberusers will learn from a group of bloggers who are immersed in healthcare informatics, technological development and implementation.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Technology |
| Tags | blog |
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Nursing Leadership in Global Health: Developing Pathways for Effective Advocacy and Action
The Symposium objectives are:
- Discuss complex and competing forces that influence health of individuals and populations around the world
- Identify challenges, barriers and solutions to increasing nurse leadership and local workforce capacity
- Describe essential components for successful collaboration with traditional and non-traditional partners to impact policy
- Cite pathways to effective advocacy and activism in improving health of patients and populations within their communities
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Leadership |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Nursing Shortage: A Comparative Analysis
Abstract
Background: The nursing shortage is a global challenge, affecting every country in the world. With this shortage, patients are suffering because the healthcare workforce is not prepared to deal with their health needs. Within each country, the nursing shortage is caused by numerous factors that ultimately cause a decrease in the quality of health care received. However, little is known about the global causes of a shrinking professional nurse workforce.
Objective: The purpose of this paper is to describe what the nursing shortage means in three countries: United States (US), Philippines, and South Africa. In addition, the paper will provide useful information specific to the three countries to further understand global issues affecting the nursing shortage
Population: Nursing shortage in the United States, Philippines, and South Africa.
Methods: A literature review was performed by four researchers using a peer-reviewed search strategy. Published literature was identified by searching the following bibliographic databases: with in-process records via OVID; Sage; PubMed; and CINAHL (2002–present). The main search concepts were global nursing shortage, international nursing, nurse migration, brain drain, and health care systems.
Results: The nursing shortage in the US, Philippines and South Africa are each different however, they all share similar effects on health care systems in each country.
Conclusion: The global nursing shortage is relevant and warrants further investigation and appropriate interventions to ultimately alleviate the nursing shortage and prevent an international public health crisis.
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| Author | Lauren Littlejohn *a, Jacquelyn Campbellb, Janice Collins-McNeilc, ThembisileKhayiled |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Nursing Sustainability and Climate Change Forum
Nursing Sustainability and Climate Change is based in Cornwall, UK but open to all with an interest in the environment and health.
Initially founded as a forum for nurses to engage in these topics, the group has expanded to include other health professionals or those who wish to engage in these topics.
Our interest is to educate, discuss, engage, research and maintain an active presence highlighting the environment as a major determinant of health.
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| Type | Forum |
| Subject | Climate change and sustainability |
| Tags | NHS Forum UK |
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Nursing Technology Fund
Information about the 'Nursing Technology Fund' on the NHS website.
In October 2012 the Prime Minister announced the establishment of a Nursing Technology Fund to support nurses, midwives and health visitors to make better use of digital technology in all care settings, in order to deliver safer, more effective and more efficient care.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Technology |
| Tags | UK NHS |
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ONE
ONE is an international campaigning and advocacy organization of nearly 6 million people taking action to end extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa… because the facts show extreme poverty has already been cut in half and can be virtually eliminated by 2030, but only if we act with urgency now.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Child health Maternal health Poverty and inequality New and emerging infectious diseases |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Online tool to support postgraduate student choice in higher education
A new web-site to help UK and international prospective postgraduate students find the right higher education courses for them is to be developed by the four UK higher education funding bodies.
The online decision-making tool, provisionally called ‘PGT Choices’, will be launched in 2015. It is designed to help prospective postgraduate taught (PGT) students identify the sorts of questions to ask when deciding what and where to study, and to signpost sources of relevant information.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Supporting international students |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Operation Orphan
Releasing medical skill into the developing world is a great way to raise the standard of healthcare for many vulnerable children. Operation Orphan is able to facilitate this by offering Medical placements for those wanting to complete their elective overseas and for qualified medical practitioners ready for an adventure.
Placements vary from 2 weeks to 2 months
Opportunities are available for medical staff to work in a wide variety of hospitals and communities in both Uganda and Ghana.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | elective placement medical elective Uganda Ghana africa |
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Original Volunteers
Original Volunteers is the UK’s leading independent volunteering specialist, and every year we send volunteers to more than 100 projects across 18 countries. Our placements are ethical, flexible, low-cost and tailored to you.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | volunteer elective placement nursing medicine hospital placements |
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Overview of Urbanisation in India
Historically, cities have been the driving force in economic and social development. At present approximately 307 million Indians lives in nearly 3700 towns and cities spread across the country. This is 30.5% of its population, in sharp contrast to only 60 millions (15%) who lived in urban areas in 1947 when the country became Independent. During the last fifty years the population of India has grown two and half times, but Urban India has grown by nearly five times. In numerical terms, India's urban population is second largest in the world after China, and is higher than the total urban population of all countries put together barring China, USA and Russia.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Urbanisation |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Plan My Gap Year
Plan My Gap Year was established by Gad and Philip, who have both have a passion for travelling and volunteering around the world. Since our launch in 2011, PMGY has become an award-winning organisation with four members of staff in the UK and an extended network of local teams placed across the world.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | gap year volunteering elective placement africa south america latin america asia |
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Polio’s Return After Near Eradication Prompts a Global Health Warning
News article published 5th May 2014.
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| Author | DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Child health |
| Tags | news |
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Population Growth & Health Facilities In Nigeria (A Case Study Of Ondo State)
ABSTRACT: Initially, HEALTH SERVICES in Nigeria were usually provided by traditional doctors followed by physicians brought by Portuguese traders to care for the health of members of their staff. Achievement of the goal of health is a basic problem being encountered in most parts of the country. Hence, the research on population growth and health facilities in Ondo State was carried out with the intension of finding out how the population growth affects the available health facilities in the state. The achievement was made possible by using various statistical tools such as series Analysis, F – ratio test. It was deduced that the available health facilities are not sufficient enough compare to the standard given by the world health organization (WHO) from where measurement is based. However, more action should be expedited, since the subject plays a primary role in the development and standard of the country.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Population growth |
| Tags | Population Growth Population Projections Health Facilities |
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Population Growth and the Global Health Workforce Crisis
In this technical brief, we discuss the potential impact of population growth on countries’ efforts to improve their populations’ access to skilled health workers. Careful attention must be given to how population size interplays with health worker production to determine the desired health worker density ratio. An increasing rate of population growth could negate important gains in health worker production, preventing improvements in and possibly worsening the health workforce crisis in many countries. Conversely, countries that have significant declines in their rates of population growth could reach desired health service coverage more quickly than would otherwise be the case. We conclude by highlighting the need to address both health worker production and population growth to mitigate the health workforce crisis.
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| Author | Sara Pacqué-Margolis, Carie Muntifering, Crystal Ng, and Shaun Noronha, IntraHealth International |
| Type | Document |
| Subject | Population growth |
| Tags | technical brief |
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Population, Migration and Development in Asia, with Special Emphasis on The South Pacific: The Impact Of Migration on Population and the Millennium Development Goals
This paper will mostly consider the situation in Pacific island countries and major migration countries in South, East and South-East Asia, including China and India. While the relationship between population, migration and MDGs is difficult to assess in large and interdependent Asian countries, linkages appear more clearly in small Pacific countries where the impact of migration is much more important. Although lessons learnt form the Pacific may not be replicable in larger economies, it contributes to improving our knowledge of the effects of migration on population and MDGs.
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| Author | Jean Louis Rallu |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Millennium Development Goals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Poverty and Health: Breaking the Link
Nursing Matters fact sheets provide quick reference information and international perspectives from the nursing profession on current health and social issues. This particular fact sheet focuses on breaking the link between poverty and poor health.
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Poverty and inequality |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Poverty and Human Development: Global Strategies
Conculsion of essay:
Although Brazil has managed to reduce extreme poverty, there are still urgent problems to be fought in order to move towards the other goals established by the eight millennium development goals (eradication of hunger, promotion of gender equality, reduction of child mortality, combating AIDS and malaria, achieving universal primary education and ensuring environmental sustainability).
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| Author | Maria Helena Palucci Marziale and Isabel Amélia Costa Mendes |
| Type | Document |
| Subject | Millennium Development Goals Poverty and inequality |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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POVERTY, CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH IN PACIFIC ISLAND COUNTRIES
This paper is the third in a small series1 that looks at current issues in health in Australia and the US and considers what the two countries can learn from each other about how to successfully tackle these issues. It is meant primarily as a resource for Australians, but hopefully will also be a useful summary for those in the US interested in this topic.
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| Author | Dr Lesley Russell |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Climate change and sustainability |
| Tags | pacifc pacific island pacific islands policy policies |
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Poverty, Climate Change and Health in Pacific Island Countries
This paper does not aim to present policies and strategies that might be adopted by Australia and the US, separately and together, to address the environmental and health problems that confront Pacific Island countries. Rather, its purpose is to summarise the underlying issues and the available data. As such, it is hoped that this paper can serve as a useful resource in the course of the development of the needed policies and strategies, and will help generate informed discussion and debate towards these goals.
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| Author | Dr Lesley Russell |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Poverty and inequality Climate change and sustainability |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Poverty, social inequality and mental health
Abstract
The World Health Organization has described poverty as the greatest cause of suffering on earth. This article considers the direct and indirect effects of relative poverty on the development of emotional, behavioural and psychiatric problems, in the context of the growing inequality between rich and poor. The problems of children in particular are reviewed. Targets to reduce inequality have been set both nationally and internationally.
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| Author | Vijaya Murali & Femi Oyebode |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Poverty and inequality Social justice, human rights and health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Preparing for export? : Medical and nursing student migration intentions post-qualification in South Africa
The study aimed to determine the proportion of nursing and medical students who were intending to emigrate, their attitudes and beliefs about, and the factors influencing their decision to emigrate.
| About this resource | |
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| Author | Gavin George and Candice Reardon |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Prevention of Unintentional Injuries: A Global Role for Pediatricians
The purpose of this brief article is to encourage more pediatricians to be active in the field of injury prevention and cooperate with other professionals to achieve the ultimate goal of a “Safe World for Our Children.”
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| Author | Michael E. Höllwarth, Univ. Prof. Dr |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Child health Unintentional injuries |
| Tags | Injury prevention childhood unintentional injuries injury statistics |
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Projects Abroad
Projects Abroad offers a wide variety of tailor-made elective placements overseas in developing countries. These have been designed specifically to meet the needs of students training to be doctors, dentists, nurses, midwives, physiotherapists and occupational therapists.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | volunteer volunteering elective placement doctors dentists nursing nurse midwives physiotherapists occupational therapists |
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Public Health and Social Justice
This website contains articles, slide shows, syllabi, and other documents relevant to topics in public health and social justice. References for most of the information contained in the slide shows can be found in the accompanying articles. Presentations are updated every 6-12 months (Note: dates in link addresses refer to dates of creation of original versions, not dates of most recent updates).
The site is aimed at students, educators, and the general public. It addresses the social, economic, environmental, human rights, and cultural contributors to health and illness. Some of the content focuses on the medical humanities and the history of medicine.
All slide shows are open-access. Feel free to use information from the articles and slide shows, indeed even the slides themselves, with appropriate citation.
Starred (*) slide shows and articles are what I consider my own most comprehensive postings in a given area. Material from other contributors is not starred, which does not imply that such material is less valuable and/or important, but I am not in a position to judge what others feel qualifies as their most valuable and/or important work. On many pages, submissions from other contributors are the most interesting, and I encourage you to explore as many selections as possible.
Submissions welcome. Please email me any articles and/or slide shows you would be willing to share, along with comments, corrections, and suggestions.
Vision for the Future: Public Health and Social Justice Training Program – see http://phsj.org/public-health-and-social-justice-training-program-vision/
For further information, contact Martin Donohoe
Website Organized by Martin Donohoe: Biography & Curriculum Vitae
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Social justice, human rights and health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Public health approaches to infectious disease
This unit focuses on the strategies available in the twenty-first century to tackle major infectious diseases, including pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria, HIV/AIDS, measles, tuberculosis and infections of the newborn. Infection poses a major threat to public health all over the world, but it disproportionately affects children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where pneumonia and diarrhoeal diseases are the two largest causes of death among those under five years old.
The aim of the unit is to give you clear insights and memorable examples of:
- the importance of surveillance and mapping of infectious disease outbreaks in human populations and their impact on human lives
- the biological, socioeconomic and other circumstances influencing the transmission of pathogenic (disease-causing) bacteria, viruses and parasites
- the success of some low-cost, community based public health campaigns to prevent, treat or control infections, illustrated by a video of a unique rural health programme in Ethiopia and a case study of how guinea worm disease has been brought to the brink of global eradication
- the challenges that must be overcome in order to make further progress in reducing the burden of infectious disease and meeting the associated Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)agreed by the international community in 2000.
This unit is an adapted extract from The Open University course SK320 Infectious disease and public health.
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| Subject | New and emerging infectious diseases |
| Tags | online learning open learn open university |
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Reducing the global burden of childhood unintentional injuries
Abstract
Among 1–19-year olds, unintentional injuries accounted for 12% of 5.1 million global deaths from injuries in 2010. Despite this high burden, childhood injuries have not received much attention in global health. This paper describes the major causes of deaths from childhood unintentional injuries and provides a review of interventions for reducing this burden. About 627?741 deaths were due to unintentional injuries in 2010 among 1–19-year olds. The proportionate mortality increased with age—from 12.6% among 1–4-year olds to 28.8% among 15–19-year olds. Deaths from Western sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia accounted for more than 50% of all deaths. Rates in these regions are 68.0 and 36.4 per 100?000 population, respectively, compared to 6.4 in Western Europe. Road traffic injuries (RTI) are the commonest cause of death, followed by deaths from drowning, burns and falls. Male children are more predisposed to unintentional injuries except for burns which occur more frequently among females in low and middle income countries (LMICs). Effective solutions exist—including barriers for preventing drowning; safer stoves for burns; child restraint systems for RTI—but the effectiveness of these measures need to be rigorously tested in LMICs. The general lack of a coordinated global response to the burden of childhood unintentional injuries is of concern. The global community must create stronger coalitions and national or local plans for action. Death rates for this paper may have been underestimated, and there is need for longitudinal studies to accurately measure the impact of injuries in LMICs.
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| Author | Olakunle Alonge and Adnan A Hyder |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Unintentional injuries |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Research Brief: Nurses and Health Information Technology
Purpose of research brief:
To review and synthesize the literature on how nurses use health information technology (HIT), how HIT impacts their work, and how nurses can help with the effective utilization of HIT.
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| Author | Renae Waneka, M.P.H., and Joanne Spetz, Ph.D |
| Type | Document |
| Subject | Technology |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Responsible Electives
Responsible Electives provides electives for medical students in developing or resource poor countries through a collaboration between Dundee School of Medicine, Challenges Worldwide and The Electives Network.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | medical student elective placement fair trade |
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Review Article: Noncommunicable Diseases
Abstract
The United Nations has held only two meetings of heads of state on a health-related issue. The first, in 2001, was on human immunodeficiency virus infection and the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The second, in September 2011, was on noncommunicable diseases. Although noncommunicable diseases were ignored during the framing of the Millennium Development Goals in 2000, their leading and growing contribution to preventable deaths and disability across the globe has compelled policymakers to pay attention and initiate action. The United Nations and the World Health Organization (WHO) have called for a 25% reduction by 2025 in mortality from noncommunicable diseases among persons between 30 and 70 years of age, in comparison with mortality in 2010, adopting the slogan “25 by 25.”1,2 We review the burden of noncommunicable diseases and issues in prevention, detection, and treatment that must be addressed in order to meet this goal.
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| Subject | Non-communicable diseases |
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Review: Health risks for students on overseas placements
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Health profession students are encouraged to take an elective during training and many do this overseas in tropical, low-income countries. Higher education institutions should offer advice and support on organising these placements but this varies and students may present for pre-travel health advice at their general practice or travel clinic. This article discusses how they should be advised.
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| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | travel health safety travel advice risk assessment vaccines vaccinations insurance student malaria |
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REVIEW: Hepatitis B virus epidemiology, disease burden, treatment, and current and emerging prevention and control measures
Received September 2003; accepted for publication September 2003
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| Author | D. Lavanchy |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Epidemiology and burden of disease |
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Role of the nurse in addressing the health effects of climate change
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Climate change affects the social and environmental determinantsof health such as clean air, suffcient food, safe drinking water andsecure shelter, and may be considered a threat to health. Healthcareprofessionals have been called to take action on carbon reduction.Action depends on various factors such as personal commitment toenvironmental issues and professionals’ understanding of climate change, and action may occur at individual, organisational, community, nationaland international levels. As public health is a core component of thenurse’s role, this article discusses the health effects of climate changeand suggests ways to address these effects
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| Author | Benny Goodman |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Climate change and sustainability |
| Tags | carbon carbon dioxide |
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Royal College of Nursing
If you are a fully qualified nurse or midwife you can join the largest nursing union and professional body in the UK. Membership of the RCN will give you access to invaluable protection and support as well as an extensive range of exclusive benefits and services.
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| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | insurance union RCN indemnity |
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Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH): RCPCH International
RCPCH is committed to improving the health of children everywhere by supporting members and policymakers to build on evidence-based practice.
RCPCH International is 'Working with partners in the UK and overseas to advance global child health'
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| Subject | Child health |
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Royal Triangle
Currently, Royal Triangle coordinate medical elective placements in rural and urban hospitals in Ghana for students of health care professions worldwide as well as facilitate the placement of healthcare volunteers on healthcare projects in Ghanaian Health institutions.
Our collaboration with giant UK organisations (The Elective Networks [TEN] and Alex's Medical And Educational Clinic in Africa [AMECA]) leaves us with no option than to offer the very best of placements to our applicants.
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| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | Ghana elective placement medical elective placement elective |
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Royal Tropical Institute: Gender, rights and health (e-learning)
This is an online eductional course on gender, rights and health
Participants in this course will gain insight, knowledge and understanding of how health issues affect men and women differently, as well as how their rights can be respected and realised. The governance of health will be discussed and participants will write a research based health policy or a research proposal from a gender and rights perspective.
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| Subject | Gender and health Social justice, human rights and health |
| Tags | eLearning online learning |
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Shortage of healthcare workers in developing countries - Africa
The already inadequate health systems of Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa, have been badly damaged by the migration of their health professionals.
It may well be asked why special measures should be necessary to influence the migration of health professionals rather than engineers or football players or any other category. The answer must surely be that no other category of worker is so essential to the well-being of the population of every nation.
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| Author | Saraladevi Naicker, FRCP, PhD; Jacob Plange-Rhule, FWACP, PhD; Roger C. Tutt, BA; John B. Eastwood, MD, FRCP |
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| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
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SI-UK: Nursing Courses in the UK
SI-UK is committed to providing free independent advice and support to international students applying to UK universities.
Our international university consultants are fully experienced and trained by trusted university partners and the British Council, and are here to help guide you through each step of the application process to any UK university, college or language school.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Supporting international students |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Skilled Care During Pregnancy
This is a 27 slide presentation on slideshare. It provides information about the fifth milliennium development goal and fact about maternal health.
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| Type | Presentation |
| Subject | Maternal health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Smart Global Health
SmartGlobalHealth.org is the website for the Global Health Policy Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington D.C. The Global Health Policy Center is a leading policy research institution focused on building bipartisan awareness about global health and its importance to U.S. national security.
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| Subject | Regulation and governance |
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Social determinants of health inequalities
The gross inequalities in health that we see within and between countries present a challenge to the world. That there should be a spread of life expectancy of 48 years among countries and 20 years or more within countries is not inevitable. A burgeoning volume of research identi?es social factors at the root of much of these inequalities in health. Social determinants are relevant to communicable and non-communicable disease alike. Health status, therefore, should be of concern to policy makers in every sector, not solely those involved in health policy. As a response to this global challenge, WHO is launching a Commission on Social Determinants of Health, which will review the evidence, raise societal debate, and recommend policies with the goal of improving health of the world’s most vulnerable people. A major thrust of the Commission is turning public-health knowledge into political action.
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| Author | Michael Marmot |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Determinants of health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Special Report: Global health governance and the World Bank
With the Paul Wolfowitz era behind it and new appointee Robert Zoellick at the helm, it is time for the World Bank to better de? ne its role in an increasingly crowded and complex global health architecture, says Jennifer Prah Ruger, health economist and former World Bank speechwriter.
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| Author | Jennifer Prah Ruger |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Global health governance |
| Tags | Lancet special report |
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Special Report: Nursing, Technology, and Information Systems
This special report is sponsored by Cerner Corporation and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). All articles contained in this special report have undergone peer review according to American Nurse Today standards.
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| Subject | Technology |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Starfish Volunteers
Hello, we are Starfish Volunteers and you are the lucky adventurer who has found us! We offer the very best overseas volunteer adventures and volunteer abroad experience holidays in Thailand, India and beyond.
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| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | thailand volunteer elective placement health care |
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State Innovation Models Initiative: Model Testing Awards Round One
Over $250 million in Model Testing awards is supporting six states to implement their State Health Care Innovation Plans. A State Health Care Innovation Plan is a proposal that describes a state’s strategy to use all of the levers available to it to transform its health care delivery system through multi-payer payment reform and other state-led initiatives.
Visit the webpage to find out more.
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| Subject | Health systems and models of service delivery |
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State Innovation Models: Early Experiences and Challenges of an Initiative to Advance Broad Health System Reform
ABSTRACT: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and!states are partnering to transform health care systems by creating and testing new models of care delivery and payment. Interviews with officials from states participating in the State Innovation Models (SIM Initiative) reveal that the readiness of providers and payers to adopt innovations varies, requiring different starting points, goals, and strategies. So far, effective strategies appear to include: building on past reform efforts redesigning health information technology to provide reliable, targeted data on care costs and quality and using standard performance measures and financial incentives to spur alignment of providers’ and payers’ goals. State governments also have policy levers to encourage efficient deployment of a diverse health care workforce. As federal officials review states’ innovation plans, set timetables, and provide technical assistance, they can also take steps to accommodate the budgetary, political, and time constraints that states are facing.
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| Author | SHARON SILOW-CARROLL ANDJOANN LAMPHERE |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Health systems and models of service delivery |
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State Public Health System Performance Assessment (Version 2.0)
This performance assessment was carried out by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The purpose for undertaking a performance assessment is to strengthen and improve the public health system. The standards were set at the optimal level; for this reason, Essential Public Health Services participating jurisdictions will likely see many differences between their own performance and the “gold standard” presented in the instruments. System partners should seek to address these weaknesses and also recognize and maintain areas in which they are strong.
List of Essential Public Health Services:
1. Monitor health status to identify community health problems.
2. Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community.
3. Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.
4. Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems.
5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.
6. Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.
7. Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable.
8. Assure a competent public and personal health care workforce.
9. Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility and quality of personal and population-based health services.
10. Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems.
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| Subject | Health systems and models of service delivery |
| Tags | US United States |
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Stemming the Brain Drain: Exploring Global Health Policy Solutions to Brain Drain
This slideshare presentation covers why brain-drain is a global health crisis, the limitations with the current responses and the role of global health governance policy in resolving the problem.
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| Author | Timothy Mackey |
| Type | Presentation |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | brain drain brain-drain |
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Students as Global Citizens
A research partnership between the Development Education Research Centre (Institute of Education, University of London), the Institute for Global Health (University College, London), the Royal Veterinary College, the School of Pharmacy (University of London), and the London International Development Centre, the Development Education Research Centre at the Institute of Education, University of London was established in 2009 to develop and evaluate methods to embed learning about global and development issues within degree courses on pharmacy, veterinary science, and human health.
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| Subject | Global citizenship |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Supporting international students in UK Higher Education: a course for staff
These materials are a course pack commissioned by the Subject Centre for use by education developers (workshop mode) or by individual staff (online mode). The materials provide reflective activities designed to engage teachers with some of the key issues in working with international students and practical ideas for ways in which these can be addressed. They will be of particular interest to new staff or anyone new to working with international students. Learning outcomes include; increased awareness of areas of the UK learning experience that may present challenges for international students, Strategies for improving the learning experience of international students.
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| Subject | Supporting international students |
| Tags | eLearning online learning |
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Tackling the wider social determinants of health and health inequalities: evidence from systematic reviews
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Background There is increasing pressure to tackle the wider social determinants of health through the implementation of appropriate interventions. However, turning these demands for better evidence about interventions around the social determinants of health into action requires identifying what we already know and highlighting areas for further development.
Methods Systematic review methodology was used to identify systematic reviews (from 2000 to 2007, developed countries only) that described the health effects of any intervention based on the wider social determinants of health: water and sanitation, agriculture and food, access to health and social care services, unemployment and welfare, working conditions, housing and living environment, education, and transport.
Results Thirty systematic reviews were identi?ed. Generally, the effects of interventions on health inequalities were unclear. However, there is suggestive systematic review evidence that certain categories of intervention may impact positively on inequalities or on the health of speci?c disadvantaged groups, particularly interventions in the ?elds of housing and the work environment.
Conclusion Intervention studies that address inequalities in health are a priority area for future public health research.
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| Author | C Bambra, M Gibson, A Sowden, K Wright, M Whitehead, M Petticrew |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Determinants of health |
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Technology In Nursing Integration Into Professional Nursing Paper
Paper topic: technology in nursing
This paper is from the first class in the RN to BSN program, the integration into professional nursing. You may use this paper on technology in nursing as a reference to obtain ideas for your own nursing essay.
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| Subject | Technology |
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The 10 challenges of global health governance
In a presentation delivered at the June 2010 "Global Health: Together we can make it" conference in Brussels, Professor Ilona Kickbusch, Director of the Global Health Programme at the Graduate Institute, Geneva and Chair of the Global Health Europe Task Force, summarized the key challenges that have to be tackled in order to improve global governance for health.
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| Subject | Regulation and governance |
| Tags | opinion piece |
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The Application of Key Governance Tools to Understand How Common Health Services Administrations Function
This research analysis aims to examine three particular tools of governance (that is – government insurance, social regulations, and economic regulations) in a scholarly effort to understand how these tools are applied to, and enable the functioning of, specific and common health services administrations. In light of the current U.S. economic, fiscal, and insurance crises, combined with the general salience of today’s socioeconomic conditions (particularly in the United States), this analysis offers an important revelation regarding how the medical and health services sectors are able to survive in light of the United States’ precarious and volatile infrastructures.
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| Author | Jonathan Matusitz and Gerald-Mark Breen |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Global economy and health |
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The basic principles of migration health: Population mobility and gaps in disease prevalence Brian D Gushulak1 and Douglas W
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Currently, migrants and other mobile individuals, such as migrant workers and asylum seekers, are an expanding global population of growing social, demographic and political importance. Disparities often exist between a migrant population's place of origin and its destination, particularly with relation to health determinants. The effects of those disparities can be observed at both individual and population levels. Migration across health and disease disparities influences the epidemiology of certain diseases globally and in nations receiving migrants. While specific disease-based outcomes may vary between migrant group and location, general epidemiological principles may be applied to any situation where numbers of individuals move between differences in disease prevalence. Traditionally, migration health activities have been designed for national application and lack an integrated international perspective. Present and future health challenges related to migration may be more effectively addressed through collaborative global undertakings. This paper reviews the epidemiological relationships resulting from health disparities bridged by migration and describes the growing role of migration and population mobility in global disease epidemiology. The implications for national and international health policy and program planning are presented.
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| Author | Brian D Gushulak and Douglas W MacPherson |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Population migration and health |
| Tags | Emerging Themes in Epidemiology Review |
| Rights | Open Access |
The Best Online Tools and Technology for Your Nursing Career
However, as new online nursing tools and resources continue to flood the market, sifting through all of the selections can become an overwhelming task.
Let’s take smartphone and tablet apps, for example; there are more than 10,000 healthcare related apps found on the iTunes store alone.
How does a nurse whittle down the tens of thousands of online tools available with the click of a button?
Dawn Cheairs, VP of Strategic Partnerships for DohJe, Inc., suggests keeping an ear to the ground.
“In my research for building DohJe…” says Cheairs, who markets a tool that allows nurses to directly receive, respond to and store inspirational notes/photos online, “…nursing students have indicated that educators and fellow students are the best way to find out about new apps and online technology.”
The following list also touches upon some of the most popular and best online tools for a nursing career...
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| Subject | Technology |
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The CDC (Centres for Disease Control and Prevention) A-Z Index
The CDC A-Z Index is a navigational and informational tool that makes the CDC.gov Web site easier to use. It helps you quickly find and retrieve specific information. The A-Z index is structured so that synonyms, acronyms, and cross-referencing provide multiple ways for you to access the topics and features on CDC.gov. The index includes common and scientific terms to meet the needs of consumers as well as health professionals.
The CDC A-Z Index lists topics with relevance to a broad cross-section of CDC.gov’s audiences. The items are representative of popular topics, frequent inquiries, or have critical importance to CDC’s public health mission. The index will continue to evolve as additional topics are added.
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| Subject | New and emerging infectious diseases |
| Tags | Centres for Disease Control and Prevention |
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The Center for Global Health & Development (CGHD)
The Center for Global Health & Development (CGHD) at Boston University is a multidisciplinary research center that engages faculty from across the University to help solve the critical global health and social development challenges of our time. The mission of the center is not only to conduct high-quality applied research, but also to advocate for the use of this research to improve the health of underserved populations around the world. Through our collaborative work with scientists worldwide, we also seek to strengthen individual and institutional capacity to conduct and utilize research.
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| Subject | Global health issues Poverty and inequality Social justice, human rights and health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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The Center of Expertise on Migration and Health
The Center of Expertise on Migration and Health will be the first multidisciplinary, university-based program in the world devoted to systematically studying the health consequences of international population movements and developing more effective strategies to address them.
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| Subject | Population migration and health |
| Tags | slide share slideshare slide share |
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The concept behind shared governance
Learning objectives
After reading this chapter, the participant should be able to do the following:
• Define the four primary principles of shared governance:
partnership, equity, accountability, and ownership
• Compare two professional nursing practice models
• Describe the role of relational partnerships in shared governance
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| Type | Book |
| Subject | Global health governance |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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The costs and benefits of health worker migration from East and Southern Africa (ESA): A literature review
This report is a review of all available literature on the costs and benefits of the migration of health workers from East and Southern African (ESA) countries to developed nations.
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| Author | Rudi Robinson |
| Type | Document |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
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The Effect of Nurse Migration on the Provision of Health Services in Ghana
This website provides information on how in Ghana, the drastic internal and international migration by trained nurses has a huge impact on the provision of healthcare.
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| Author | Matthew Crommett |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | Ghana |
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The effects of aging and population growth on health care costs
Abstract: Aging and population growth both contribute importantly to the rise in health care costs. However, the percentage contribution of these factors declined between 1970 and 1990, and we expect a continued decline through 2005. Data indicate that the relative costs of treating patients age sixty-five and over grew more rapidly than did the costs of treating other patients. Sensitivity analyses indicate that regardless of whether these trends persist, the percentage contribution of aging and demography is likely to decline between 1990 and 2005. Application of our model through 2030 suggests that if current trends persist, aging will cause a major acceleration in the rise in costs.
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| Author | D N Mendelson and W B Schwartz |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Population growth |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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The Electives Network
TEN was founded in the UK in 2001 when Gordon Hamilton, then a medical student, wanted to organize his own elective “with a difference” and found himself with few options. He saw a need for a centralised online database, where medical students from all medical schools across the world would be able to access up-to-date and comprehensive information. And so TEN was born.
We are a one-stop shop where you can come to find all the assistance you should need with planning your elective. We strive to bring you the most current and accurate information we can at all times.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | electives hospital placement medics medical student database online database |
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The Emigration of Healthcare Professionals to High-income Countries
The aim of this fact sheet is to examine some of the main issues related to the causes and effects of this exodus of healthcare professionals. The fact sheet also examines the approaches being considered to solve this problem and possible solutions for the management of international migration that would be less detrimental to healthcare systems in developing countries.
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | fact sheet |
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The experience of international nursing students studying for a PhD in the U.K: A qualitative study
Abstract
Background: Educating nurses to doctoral level is an important means of developing nursing capacity globally. There is an international shortage of doctoral nursing programmes, hence many nurses seek their doctorates overseas. The UK is a key provider of doctoral education for international nursing students, however, very little is known about international doctoral nursing students’ learning experiences during their doctoral study. This paper reports on a national study that sought to investigate the learning expectations and experiences of overseas doctoral nursing students in the UK.
Methods: Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted in 2008/09 with 17 international doctoral nursing students representing 9 different countries from 6 different UK universities. Data were analysed thematically. All 17 interviewees were enrolled on ‘traditional’ 3 year PhD programmes and the majority (15/17) planned to work in higher education institutions back in their home country upon graduation.
Results: Studying for a UK PhD involved a number of significant transitions, including adjusting to a new country/culture, to new pedagogical approaches and, in some cases, to learning in a second language. Many students had expected a more structured programme of study, with a stronger emphasis on professional nursing issues as well as research - akin to the professional doctorate. Students did not always feel well integrated into their department’s wider research environment, and wanted more opportunities to network with their UK peers. A good supervision relationship was perceived as the most critical element of support in a doctoral programme, but good relationships were sometimes difficult to attain due to differences in student/supervisor expectations and in approaches to supervision. The PhD was perceived as a difficult and stressful journey, but those nearing the end reflected positively on it as a life changing experience in which they had developed key professional and personal skills.
Conclusions: Doctoral programmes need to ensure that structures are in place to support international students at different stages of their doctoral journey, and to support greater local-international student networking. Further research is needed to investigate good supervision practice and the suitability of the PhD vis a vis other doctoral models (e.g. the professional doctorate) for international nursing students.
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| Author | Catrin Evans and Keith Stevenson |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Supporting international students |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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The financial losses from the migration of nurses from Malawi
Abstract
Background: The migration of health professionals trained in Africa to developed nations has compromised health systems in the African region. The financial losses from the investment in training due to the migration from the developing nations are hardly known.
Methods: The cost of training a health professional was estimated by including fees for primary, secondary and tertiary education. Accepted derivation of formula as used in economic analysis was used to estimate the lost investment.
Results: The total cost of training an enrolled nurse-midwife from primary school through nurse-midwifery training in Malawi was estimated as US$ 9,329.53. For a degree nurse-midwife, the total cost was US$ 31,726.26. For each enrolled nurse-midwife that migrates out of Malawi, the country loses between US$ 71,081.76 and US$ 7.5 million at bank interest rates of 7% and 25% per annum for 30 years respectively. For a degree nurse-midwife, the lost investment ranges from US$ 241,508 to US$ 25.6 million at 7% and 25% interest rate per annum for 30 years respectively.
Conclusion: Developing countries are losing significant amounts of money through lost investment of health care professionals who emigrate. There is need to quantify the amount of remittances that developing nations get in return from those who migrate.
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| Author | Adamson S Muula, Ben Panulo and Fresier C Maseko |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
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The Fogarty International Center
Mission
The Fogarty International Center is dedicated to advancing the mission of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by supporting and facilitating global health research conducted by U.S. and international investigators, building partnerships between health research institutions in the U.S. and abroad, and training the next generation of scientists to address global health needs.
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| Subject | Global health issues Technology |
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The Global Burden of Unintentional Injuries and an Agenda for Progress
Abstract
According to the World Health Organization, unintentional injuries were responsible for over 3.9 million deaths and over 138 million disability-adjusted life-years in 2004, with over 90% of those occurring in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). This paper utilizes the year 2004 World Health Organization Global Burden of Disease Study estimates to illustrate the global and regional burden of unintentional injuries and injury rates, stratified by cause, region, age, and gender. The worldwide rate of unintentional injuries is 61 per 100,000 population per year. Overall, road traffic injuries make up the largest proportion of unintentional injury deaths (33%). When standardized per 100,000 population, the death rate is nearly double in LMIC versus high-income countries (65 vs. 35 per 100,000), and the rate of disability-adjusted life-years is more than triple in LMIC (2,398 vs. 774 per 100,000). This paper calls for more action around 5 core areas that need research investments and capacity development, particularly in LMIC: 1) improving injury data collection, 2) defining the epidemiology of unintentional injuries, 3) estimating the costs of injuries, 4) understanding public perceptions about injury causation, and 5) engaging with policy makers to improve injury prevention and control.
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| Author | Aruna Chandran, Adnan A. Hyder and Corinne Peek-Asa |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Unintentional injuries |
| Tags | accidental falls burns developing countries drowning motor vehicles poisoning wounds Injuries |
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The Global Doctor
This booklet is written by staff and students involved in, or enrolled on the MBBS course run by UCL Medical School. The students have studied with the Institute for Global Health and have been enthused by what they have learnt. The report defines global health as it affects students and young doctors, and provides insights into the ways in which the next generation of doctors can participate in the myriad different aspects of global health.
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Global health issues Education Cultural competence Global citizenship |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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The Global Epidemiology and Contribution of Cannabis Use and Dependence to the Global Burden of Disease: Results from the GBD 2010 Study
Abstract
Aims: Estimate the prevalence of cannabis dependence and its contribution to the global burden of disease.
Methods: Systematic reviews of epidemiological data on cannabis dependence (1990-2008) were conducted in line with PRISMA and meta-analysis of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (MOOSE) guidelines. Culling and data extraction followed protocols, with cross-checking and consistency checks. DisMod-MR, the latest version of generic disease modelling system, redesigned as a Bayesian meta-regression tool, imputed prevalence by age, year and sex for 187 countries and 21 regions. The disability weight associated with cannabis dependence was estimated through population surveys and multiplied by prevalence data to calculate the years of life lived with disability (YLDs) and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). YLDs and DALYs attributed to regular cannabis use as a risk factor for schizophrenia were also estimated.
Results: There were an estimated 13.1 million cannabis dependent people globally in 2010 (point prevalence0.19% (95% uncertainty: 0.17-0.21%)). Prevalence peaked between 20-24 yrs, was higher in males (0.23% (0.2-0.27%)) than females (0.14% (0.12-0.16%)) and in high income regions. Cannabis dependence accounted for 2 million DALYs globally (0.08%; 0.05-0.12%) in 2010; a 22% increase in crude DALYs since 1990 largely due to population growth. Countries with statistically higher age-standardised DALY rates included the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Western European countries such as the United Kingdom; those with lower DALY rates were from Sub-Saharan Africa-West and Latin America. Regular cannabis use as a risk factor for schizophrenia accounted for an estimated 7,000 DALYs globally.
Conclusion: Cannabis dependence is a disorder primarily experienced by young adults, especially in higher income countries. It has not been shown to increase mortality as opioid and other forms of illicit drug dependence do. Our estimates suggest that cannabis use as a risk factor for schizophrenia is not a major contributor to population-level disease burden.
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| Subject | Determinants of health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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The global financial crisis and health equity: Early experiences from Canada
Abstract
Background: It is widely acknowledged that austerity measures in the wake of the global financial crisis are starting to undermine population health results. Yet, few research studies have focused on the ways in which the financial crisis and the ensuing ‘Great Recession’ have affected health equity, especially through their impact on social determinants of health; neither has much attention been given to the health consequences of the fiscal austerity regime that quickly followed a brief period of counter-cyclical government spending for bank bailouts and economic stimulus. Canada has not remained insulated from these developments, despite its relative success in maneuvering the global financial crisis.
Methods: The study draws on three sources of evidence: A series of semi-structured interviews in Ottawa and Toronto, with key informants selected on the basis of their expertise (n = 12); an analysis of recent (2012) Canadian and Ontario budgetary impacts on social determinants of health; and documentation of trend data on key social health determinants pre- and post the financial crisis.
Results: The findings suggest that health equity is primarily impacted through two main pathways related to the global financial crisis: austerity budgets and associated program cutbacks in areas crucial to addressing the inequitable distribution of social determinants of health, including social assistance, housing, and education; and the qualitative transformation of labor markets, with precarious forms of employment expanding rapidly in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Preliminary evidence suggests that these tendencies will lead to a further deepening of existing health inequities, unless counter-acted through a change in policy direction.
Conclusions: This article documents some of the effects of financial crisis and severe economic decline on health equity in Canada. However, more research is necessary to study policy choices that could mitigate this effect. Since the policy response to a similar set of economic shocks has globally varied and led to differential health and health equity outcomes, comparative studies are now possible to assess the successes and failures of specific policy responses. This raises the question of what types of public policy can mitigate against the negative health equity effects of severe economic recessions.
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| Author | Arne Ruckert and Ronald Labonté |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Global economy and health |
| Tags | Health equity Global financial crisis social determinants of health Austerity Canada |
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The Global Gender Gap Report 2013
The Global Gender Gap Index introduced by the World Economic Forum in 2006, is a framework for capturing the magnitude and scope of gender-based disparities and tracking their progress. The Index benchmarks national gender gaps on economic, political, education- and health-based criteria, and provides country rankings that allow for effective comparisons across regions and income groups, and over time. The rankings are designed to create greater awareness among a global audience of the challenges posed by gender gaps and the opportunities created by reducing them. The methodology and quantitative analysis behind the rankings are intended to serve as a basis for designing effective measures for reducing gender gaps.
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Gender and health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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The Global Health Leadership Office of the UIC College of Nursing
The Global Health Leadership Office of the UIC College of Nursing promotes an international approach that emphasizes multidisciplinary collaborations relevant to Primary Health Care (PHC) and international health in the U.S and abroad. The philosophy of the Global Health Leadership Office is that research and PHC programs at the local level are critical components of global health care efforts. The GHLO includes providing opportunities for nurses of all countries to improve the quality of nursing and health care. It is expected that nurses assume positions of leadership in education, practice, research, and policy to ensure the participation of community members in accessible, affordable and essential health care.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Leadership |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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The Global Supply Chain: Our Economy, Security and Health Depends on It
A news article in the Huffigton Post published on 27th January 2013.
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| Type | Forum |
| Subject | Global economy and health |
| Tags | news news article online news world economic forum |
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The global workforce shortages and the migration of medical professions: the Australian policy response
Abstract
Medical migration sees the providers of medical services (in particular medical practitioners) moving from one region or country to another. This creates problems for the provision of public health and medical services and poses challenges for laws in the nation state and for laws in the global community.
There exists a global shortage of healthcare professionals. Nation states and health rights movements have been both responsible for, and responsive to, this global community shortage through a variety of health policy, regulation and legislation which directly affects the migration of medical providers. The microcosm responses adopted by individual nation states, such as Australia, to this workforce shortage further impact on the global workforce shortage through active recruitment of overseas-trained healthcare professionals. "Push" and "pull" factors exist which encourage medical migration of healthcare professionals. A nation state's approach to health policy, regulation and legislation dramatically helps to create these "push factors" and "pull factors". A co-ordinated global response is required with individual nation states being cognisant of the impact of their health policy, regulations and legislation on the global community through the medical migration of healthcare professionals.
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| Author | Saxon D Smith |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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The government of the Hong Kong special administrative region: Communicable diseases resources
This webpage provides links to a large collection of online resources about a number of different communicable diseases. The types of resources it provides include: Fact Sheets, Pamphlets, Posters, Booklets, Exhibition Boards, Video, CDs and Photos.
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| Subject | Communicable diseases |
| Tags | online learning resources Hong Kong |
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The government of the Hong Kong special administrative region: Communicable Diseases Watch
"Communicable Diseases Watch" is an on-line bi-weekly on communicable diseases published by the Centre for Health Protection. The publication aims at providing healthcare professionals with up-to-date infectious disease news and knowledge relevant to Hong Kong. It is also an indication of CHP's commitment in responsive risk communication to address the growing community interest on infectious diseases.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Communicable diseases New and emerging infectious diseases |
| Tags | Hong Kong |
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The Guardian: The Millennium Development Goals
This section of the Guardian's website focusses on the Millennium Development Goals. It includes news articles, blogs, videos and other resources giving up-to-date information on the progress made towards the Millennium Development Goals so far.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Millennium Development Goals |
| Tags | news |
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The health effects of climate change: What does a nurse need to know?
Article abstract:
The scienti?c evidence for anthropogenic climate change has been established with increasing precision andthere are widespread concerns about its potential to undermine the public health gains of the past century.There is also a growing consensus across private and public sector organisations at national and internationallevel that carbon reduction should be a policy aim. Various international nursing organisations have madestrong position statements on the issue, arguing that nurses should be actively engaged as part of theirroles in both health promotion and clinical practice. We point to education for sustainability initiatives inother health professions and share resources for curriculum development in nursing. The nurses of tomorrowwill make a unique and signi?cant contribution to protecting population health in an unstable climate, if today's nursing educators can help prepare them for this role
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| Author | Ste ? Barna , Benny Goodman, Frances Mortimer |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Climate change and sustainability Education Global health course design |
| Tags | carbon carbon dioxide health promotion |
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The health impacts of globalisation: a conceptual framework
Abstract
This paper describes a conceptual framework for the health implications of globalisation. The framework is developed by first identifying the main determinants of population health and the main features of the globalisation process. The resulting conceptual model explicitly visualises that globalisation affects the institutional, economic, social-cultural and ecological determinants of population health, and that the globalisation process mainly operates at the contextual level, while influencing health through its more distal and proximal determinants. The developed framework provides valuable insights in how to organise the complexity involved in studying the health effects resulting from globalisation. It could, therefore, give a meaningful contribution to further empirical research by serving as a 'think-model' and provides a basis for the development of future scenarios on health.
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| Author | Maud MTE Huynen, Pim Martens and Henk BM Hilderink |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Theories of globalisation |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
| Rights | Open Access |
The Health Worker Crisis: an analysis of the issues and main international responses
This report gives an overview of the impact of the brain drain on health care provision in source countries and current key international strategies to mitigate its effects. It will argue that these strategies are faced with severe challenges and present some alternative approaches to address the health worker shortage, based on acknowledgement of the Global North’s contribution to the current crisis.
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| Author | Nele Jensen |
| Type | Document |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | brain drain |
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The Higher Education Academy
We believe that policy and pedagogic practice that works for international students also works for the benefit of all students. We promote a curriculum which is informed by a broader global view, that is taught in a range of ways and enables students to study abroad to learn more about themselves, their disciplines and their future professions.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Education Cultural competence Global citizenship Global health course design Global health teaching Supporting international students |
| Tags | Higher Education Teaching Funding learning and teaching supporting students Open Educational Resources OER education |
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The Huffington Post: Global Maternal Health
This section of the Huffington Post's website is devoted to news articles about global maternal health.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Maternal health |
| Tags | news |
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The Impact of Global Nurse Migration on Health Services Delivery
Concluding paragraph:
There is a need for a public awareness campaign on global nurse migration and management. In addition, global healthcare policy makers worldwide are calling for nations to become self-sufficient in their ability to develop their own nursing talent.
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| Author | Barbara L. Nichols |
| Type | Document |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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THE IMPACT OF URBANIZATION ON THE HEALTH OF URBAN NIGERIANS
This paper presents
in part, a tesearch report concluded early in 1986 on the impact of urbanization on the health tare of urban Nigerians in terms of availability and accessibility. The paper in addition draws from other researches of relevance to buttress its arguments
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| Author | Dr. Tunde AGBOLA |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Urbanisation |
| Tags | nigeria |
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The International Migration and Recruitment of Nurses: Human Rights and Global Justice
This commentary focuses on the international recruitment of internationally educated nurses (IENs) from the perspective of human rights and social justice.
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| Author | Lawrence O. Gostin, JD |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Social justice, human rights and health Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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The International Migration of Health Professionals
Abstract
Health workforce shortages in developed countries are perceived to be central drivers of health professionals’ international migration, one ramification being negative impacts on developing nations’ healthcare delivery. After a descriptive international overview, selected economic issues are discussed for developed and developing countries. Health labour markets’ unique characteristics imply great complexity in developed economies involving government intervention, licensure, regulation, and (quasi-)union activity. These features affect migrants’ decisions, economic integration, and impacts on the receiving nations’ health workforce and society. Developing countries sometimes educate citizens in expectation of emigration, while others pursue international treaties in attempts to manage migrant flows.
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| Author | Michel Grignon, Yaw Owusu, Arthur Sweetman |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | migration health professionals international medical graduates |
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The international mobility of health professionals: An evaluation and analysis based on the case of South Africa
In the specific case of South Africa, and with reference to several other countries, this report shows how important it can be, both at national level in countries of origin and at international level, to strengthen policy coherence in the spheres of migration and development aid, so as to ensure that the benefits arising from the international mobility of health professionals are shared in a way that is both fair and sustainable.
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| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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The Journal of Infectious Diseases (JID)
About the Journal
Published continuously since 1904, The Journal of Infectious Diseases (JID) is the premier global journal for original research on infectious diseases. The editors welcome Major Articles and Brief Reports describing research results on microbiology, immunology, epidemiology, and related disciplines, on the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious diseases; on the microbes that cause them; and on disorders of host immune responses. JID is an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
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| Type | Journal |
| Subject | Communicable diseases New and emerging infectious diseases |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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The Kaiser Family Foundation
A leader in health policy analysis, health journalism and communication, the Kaiser Family Foundation is dedicated to filling the need for trusted information on the health issues facing the nation and its people.
Kaiser is a non-profit organization focusing on the major health care issues facing the U.S., as well as the U.S. role in global health policy. Unlike grant-making foundations, Kaiser develops and runs its own research, journalism and communications programs, sometimes in partnership with other non-profit research organizations or major media companies. We serve as a non-partisan source of facts, information, analysis and journalism for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the public. Our product is information, always provided free of charge — from the most sophisticated policy research, to basic facts and numbers, to in depth health policy news coverage provided by our news service, KHN, to information young people can use to improve their health or elderly people can use to understand their Medicare benefits.
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| Subject | Global health issues |
| Tags | research stats statistics US United States news current affairs foundation |
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The Lancet
The Lancet Global Health Portal
The Lancet has a commitment to improving global health, and this area gathers all our global health content in one location. Most of our global health content is free to all users, so if you have an interest in this area, spend some time browsing our content. World Reports and Perspectives articles are ideal for anyone who wants a personal view on a subject, and The Lancet Global Health Series, and Regional Reports and Commissions provide in-depth views for anyone seeking disease-specific or regional information.
The Lancet Global Health is the first online-only, open access journal in The Lancet’s now well established stable of monthly specialty journals. The Lancet Global Health publishes high-quality original research, commentary, correspondence, and blogs on the following subjects as they pertain to low- and middle-income countries: reproductive, maternal, neonatal, and child health; adolescent health; infectious diseases, including neglected tropical diseases; non-communicable diseases; the global health workforce; health systems; and health policy. All original research is subjected to The Lancet’s usual rigorous standards of external clinical and statistical peer review, and is edited by experienced copy editors to the highest standards.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Global health issues Education |
| Tags | articles papers research journals Lancet the lancet videos audio resources learning |
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The Lancet: Infectious Diseases
The Lancet: Infectious Diseases Journal
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | New and emerging infectious diseases |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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The Lancet: Non-Communicable Diseases Series 2013
This latest Series on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) builds on previous Lancet Series (2010, 2007, 2005), and on a landmark high-level United Nations NCD meeting convened in September 2011. The aim of the new Series is to set out clear plans for countrywide implementation of NCD plans in the post-MDG era, towards the unified goal of '25 by 25'—reducing NCD mortality worldwide by 2025.
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| Type | Journal |
| Subject | Non-communicable diseases |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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The Migration of Health Care Workers: Creative Solutions to Manage Health Workforce Migration
This session brings together country experiences from around the world in successful strategies used to manage the migration of the health care workers. These include harnessing the diaspora to strengthen domestic human resources for health capacity and using bilateral agreements to take advantage of the positive effects of increased movement of people.
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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The Migration of Health Professionals
In an attempt to append a minor contribution to the literature of health and migration, this study focuses on three important, yet related issues involved in the assessment of the effects of emigration of health professionals. First, in a model adopted from Clemens (2007), the link between health outcomes/ basic healthcare services can be statistically established. In this study, results are in general agreement with the contention that other factors aside from emigration may matter. Hence, emigration is not the only cause of degradation in healthcare delivery systems. Second, emigration is not a random event, rather, it is determined by certain factors present in destination and source/origin countries.
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| Author | Lawrence B. Dacuycuy |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD)
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases is a major global player in infectious disease intelligence.
The NICD is a resource of knowledge and expertise in regionally relevant communicable diseases to the South African Government, to SADC countries and the African continent. The NICD assists in the planning of policies and programmes and supports appropriate responses to communicable disease problems and issues.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Communicable diseases |
| Tags | africa |
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The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) conducts and supports basic and applied research to better understand, treat, and ultimately prevent infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases. For more than 60 years, NIAID research has led to new therapies, vaccines, diagnostic tests, and other technologies that have improved the health of millions of people in the United States and around the world. NIAID is one of the 27 Institutes and Centers of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | New and emerging infectious diseases |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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The NCD Alliance: Putting Non Communicable Diseases on the Global Agenda
The NCD Alliance was founded by four international NGO federations representing the four main NCDs – cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, and chronic respiratory disease. Together with other major international NGO partners, the NCD Alliance unites a network of over 2,000 civil society organizations in more than 170 countries. The mission of the NCD Alliance is to combat the NCD epidemic by putting health at the centre of all policies.
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| Subject | Non-communicable diseases |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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The NHS Plan: Improving health and reducing inequality
No injustice is greater than the inequalities in health which scar our nation. The life expectancy of a boy born into the bottom social class is over nine years less than a boy born into the most affluent social class. The gap between health needs and health services remains stubbornly wide.
The worst health problems in our country will not be tackled without dealing with their fundamental causes. This means tackling disadvantage in all its forms - poverty, lack of educational attainment, unemployment, discrimination and social exclusion. It means recognising the specific health needs of different groups, including people with disabilities and minority ethnic groups. Improving health is now a key priority for all government departments. Action will be taken to step up the cross-governmental focus on health and inequalities.
The NHS too has a stronger role to play in prevention, as well as working in partnership with other agencies to tackle the causes of ill health so as to reduce health inequalities.
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| Subject | Poverty and inequality |
| Tags | NHS |
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The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University was established in 2007 through the generous philanthropy of Linda and Timothy O’Neill to respond to the need for innovative solutions to the most pressing national and international health concerns. Housed at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington D.C., the O’Neill Institute reflects the importance of public and private law in health policy analysis. The O’Neill Institute draws upon the University's considerable intellectual resources, including the School of Nursing & Health Studies, School of Medicine, the Public Policy Institute, and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Global health governance |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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The Political Economy of Health
This si an online learning module from which participants will:
- develop the background knowledge and conceptual tools for analysing the political and economic structures and dynamics (at the local, national and global levels) which frame the social and environmental determinants of health and which frame health policy and funding directions;
- develop the analytical skills needed to apply such tools to the analysis of a particular set of health issues.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Global economy and health |
| Tags | politic political politics learning online learning resource |
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The Population Council: Research topic: Urbanization, Migration, and Climate Change
The Population Council is studying the interaction between increased urbanization and climate change. We are using geographic information system (GIS) software to map and forecast populations at risk of extreme weather events. And we are gathering data on the effects of migration on mobile populations, particularly adolescent girls.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Climate change and sustainability Population migration and health Urbanisation |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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The price of being well
Is it time for a new paradigm for health and development? A heavyweight panel with an egalitarian ideology claims to have found one
News article published by The Economist August 28th 2008.
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| Subject | Global economy and health |
| Tags | news |
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The Revised International Health Regulations: A Framework for Global Pandemic Response
The 2009 H1N1 influenza outbreak tested the revised International Health Regulations [IHR (2005)] robustly for the first time. The IHR (2005) contributed to swift international notification, allowing nations to implement their pandemic preparedness plans while Mexico voluntarily adopted stringent social distancing measures to limit further disease spread – factors that probably delayed sustained human-to-human transmission outside the Americas. While the outbreak revealed unprecedented efficiency in international communications and cooperation, it also revealed weaknesses at every level of government. The response raises questions regarding the extent to which the IHR (2005) can serve as a framework for global pandemic response and the balance between global governance of disease control measures and national sovereignty.
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| Author | Rebecca Katz and Julie Fischer |
| Type | Document |
| Subject | Regulation and governance |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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The Right to Health:(Human) Rights v Social Justice
Conculsions of presentation:
- It is better to focus on Social justice as a moral standard for health outcomes accumulated effects
- Social justice is no less important than rights
- Some abuses engaging health goods are indeed (human) rights abuses
- But not singled out in terms of outcomes alone
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| Type | Presentation |
| Subject | Social justice, human rights and health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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The role of nursing has changed considerably
Nurses have played a key role in the NHS for more than half a century. Here, Liz Day takes a look at how that role has changed and what we can expect in the future
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| Author | Chris Glynn-Jones |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Technology Leadership |
| Tags | news |
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The role of wages in the migration of health care professionals from developing countries
This paper uses data on wage differentials in the health care sector between source country and receiving country (adjusted for purchasing power parity) to test the hypothesis that larger wage differentials lead to a larger supply of health care migrants. Differences in other important factors affecting migration are discussed and, where available, data are presented.
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| Author | Marko Vujicic, Pascal Zurn, Khassoum Diallo, Orvill Adams and Mario R Dal Poz |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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The Royal College of Midwives
Medical malpractice insurance (information for midwives)
The RCM has recently renegotiated its Medical Malpractice cover for liability for damages awarded for injury, death or illness alleged to have been caused by malpractice in the provision of professional services.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | midwives midwifery student insurance trade union union medical malpractice insurance |
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The Three Delays of Maternal Mortality
Approximately 560,000 women die in pregnancy and childbirth every year. These deaths are preventable. There are many factors affecting whether or not women will be able to access the treatment necessary to save their lives. This photo essay explores the ‘three delays’ approach related to maternal death.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Gender and health Global health issues Maternal health Poverty and inequality |
| Tags | The Three Delays Maternal heatlh Maternal mortality death in child birth child birth pregnancy complication in pregnancy photo essay videos video |
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The UK’s Contribution to Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
This report has been produced as part of the EU’s preparation for the review of the Millennium Declaration due to take place in 2005. The report shows how the UK has contributed towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and identifies priorities for the international community over the next 10 years leading up to 2015, the target date for achievement of many of the MDGs.
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| Subject | Millennium Development Goals |
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The United States Department of Health and Human Services
The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the U.S. government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans. HHS provides essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves. The Office of Global Affairs (OGA) is part of the HHS Office of the Secretary. OGA promotes the health and well-being of Americans and of the world’s population by advancing HHS’s global strategies and partnerships and working with USG agencies in the coordination of global health policy.
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| Subject | Child health Communicable diseases Gender and health Global health issues Maternal health Non-communicable diseases Poverty and inequality |
| Tags | US United States water water supply global water supply health diplomacy global programmes initiatives lecture series events |
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The welfare state and global health: Latin America, the Arab world and the politics of social class
Introduction:
The tern "welfare state" has been used in the second half of the 20th century to refer broadly to a series of state-finances social services and transfers. In contemporary public health and social epidemiology, however, the term has a broader meaning and often includes social transfers, social and health services, consumer, environmental and workplace protection, labour market polices and reduction of social inequalities. Global health has been defines as "the area of study, research and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide". Because welfare states have been associated with different levels of populations health in wealthy countries, our attempt here is to point to their relevance to the contemporary broader global health context.
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| Author | Carles Muntaner, Joan Benach, Gemma Tarafa, Haejoo Chung |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Social justice, human rights and health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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The WHO Europe: Injuries and inequities: Guidance for addressing inequities in unintentional injuries
Abstract
This policy guidance aims to support national, regional and local policy-makers in Europe to prepare, implement and follow up policy actions and interventions to reduce inequities in unintentional injuries. Unintentional injuries, including road traffic injuries, falls, burns, drownings and poisonings still constitute a major public health problem, killing almost half a million people in the WHO European Region each year and causing many more cases of disability. The burden of unintentional injuries is unevenly distributed in the WHO European Region. Steep social gradients for death and morbidity exist across and within countries. Reducing health inequities is a key strategic objective of Health 2020 – the European policy framework for health and well-being endorsed by the 53 Member States of the WHO European Region in 2012. This guide seeks to assist European policy-makers in contributing to achieving the objectives of Health 2020 in a practical way. It draws on key evidence, including from the WHO Regional Office for Europe’s Review of social determinants and the health divide in the WHO European Region. It sets out options and practical methods to reduce the level and unequal distribution of unintentional injuries in Europe, through approaches that address the social determinants of unintended injuries and the related health, social and economic consequences.
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| Subject | Unintentional injuries |
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The WHO: Violence and Injury Prevention
This section of the WHO website provides information on advocacy events, reports, policies survices, data and more related to preventing violence and injury.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Unintentional injuries |
| Tags | WHO |
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The World Bank: Millennium Development Goals
This part of the World Bank website provides information about the Millennium Development Goals, including news articles, blogs, statistics, question and answer sections and more.
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| Subject | Millennium Development Goals |
| Tags | the world bank |
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The World Bank: Millennium Development Goals: Improve Maternal Health by 2015
Webpage on the World Bank website about the Millennium Development Goal:Improve Maternal Health by 2015.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Maternal health Millennium Development Goals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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The World Health Organisation (WHO): Millennium Development Goals
This section of the WHO website is all about the Millennium Development Goals. It provides general information, technical information, publications and links to other resources about the Millennium Development Goals.
The United Nations Millennium Development Goals are eight goals that all 191 UN Member States have agreed to try to achieve by the year 2015. The United Nations Millennium Declaration, signed in September 2000 commits world leaders to combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women. The MDGs are derived from this Declaration, and all have specific targets and indicators.
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| Subject | Millennium Development Goals |
| Tags | WHO |
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THEMATIC GUIDE: INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND RECRUITMENT OF HEALTH PERSONNEL
Our thematic guide to internet resources leads you beyond the limits of the Medicus Mundi International Network. For MMI Network resources, please refer to our HRH main page. And have a look at our "Human Resources for Health" guide, too. Any important resources missing? Please let us know.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Thematic Guide: Social and Economic Determinants of Health
Our thematic guide to internet resources leads you beyond the limits of the Medicus Mundi International Network. Any important resources missing? Please let us know.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Determinants of health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Theorising the Politics of Globalisation: A Critique of Held et al.’s “Transformationalism”
Abstract. This article tries to review the attempts to theorize both the politics and criticisms of the unpredictable and turbulent process of globalisation by considering one of the main critiques of the globalisation process, namely, the work of David Held and his colleagues which has surveyed the controversial approaches to globalisation and divided its participants into three schools of thought: sceptics, hyperglobalizers and transformationalists.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Theories of globalisation |
| Tags | critique |
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TIME TO ACT: The Global Emergency of Non-Communicable Diseases
On 19 May 2009, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), World Heart Federation (WHF) and International Union Against Cancer (UICC) held a joint event during the 62nd World Health Assembly. The three federations, speaking as the global voices for diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer, joined together to highlight the urgent need to take action against the global epidemic of non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
This report contains a selection of quotes from the event and also features a variety of guest perspectives on the growing threat of NCDs.
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| Subject | Non-communicable diseases |
| Tags | report |
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Transnational migration of healthcare professionals between Oman and Britain
Outline of presentation:
- Introduction and significance of the project
- Background on Oman
- The research project
- Proposed methods
- Selected theoretical/analytical frameworks
- Conclusions
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| Author | Maryam Qasim AlRiyami |
| Type | Presentation |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Trends In International Nurse Migration
Abstract
Predicted shortages and recruitment targets for nurses in developed countries threaten to deplete nurse supply and undermine global health initiatives in developing countries. A twofold approach is required, involving greater diligence by developing countries in creating a largely sustainable domestic nurse workforce and their greater investment through international aid in building nursing education capacity in the less developed countries that supply them with nurses.
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| Author | Linda H. Aiken, James Buchan, Julie Sochalski, Barbara Nichols and Mary Powell |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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UCL Global Health - YouTube
The UCL Institute for Global Health (IGH), led by Prof Anthony Costello and based within the Faculty of Population Health Sciences, is the thriving research and teaching community at the heart of UCL Grand Challenge of Global Health.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Global health issues Education Global health course design Global health teaching |
| Tags | UCL videos YouTube channel teaching resources |
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UCL Institute for Global Health (IGH)
The UCL Institute for Global Health (IGH), led by Prof Anthony Costello and based within the Faculty of Population Health Sciences, is the thriving research and teaching community at the heart of UCL Grand Challenge of Global Health.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Global health issues Education |
| Tags | UCL Higher Education research university University College London events resources PhD degree teaching programmes undergraduate postgraduate health economics |
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UN Fact Sheet: Goal 5 - Improve Maternal Health
This two page document gives an oveview of the progress made towards the fifth millennium development goal: Improve Maternal Health and discussed what is to be done in the future
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Maternal health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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UN Millennium Development Goals e-learning materials
These e-learning materials have been designed to help learners explore the United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In addition they will guide participants through using international data provided by the UK Data Service and provide learners with an increased understanding of the international data available and the potential of that data for use in their own research or teaching. The focus of the materials is international macro or aggregate data but does also briefly cover micro or cross-national survey data. The materials comprise four main sections:
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| Subject | Millennium Development Goals |
| Tags | eLearning online learning |
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Understanding Global Trends in Maternal Mortality
CONTEXT: Despite the fact that most maternal deaths are preventable, maternal mortality remains high in many developing countries. Target A of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 calls for a three-quarters reduction in the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) between 1990 and 2015.
METHODS: We derived estimates of maternal mortality for 172 countries over the period 1990–2008. Trends in maternal mortality were estimated either directly from vital registration data or from a hierarchical or multilevel model, depending on the data available for a particular country.
RESULTS: The annual number of maternal deaths worldwide declined by 34% between 1990 and 2008, from approximately 546,000 to 358,000 deaths. The estimated MMR for the world as a whole also declined by 34% over this period, falling from 400 to 260 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. Between 1990 and 2008, the majority of the global burden of maternal deaths shifted from Asia to Sub-Saharan Africa. Differential trends in fertility, the HIV/AIDS epidemic and access to reproductive health are associated with the shift in the burden of maternal deaths from Asia to Sub-Saharan Africa.
CONCLUSIONS: Although the estimated annual rate of decline in the global MMR in 1990–2008 (2.3%) fell short of the level needed to meet the MDG 5 target, it was much faster than had been thought previously. Targeted efforts to improve access to quality maternal health care, as well as efforts to decrease unintended pregnancies through family planning, are necessary to further reduce the global burden of maternal mortality.
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| Author | Sarah Zureick-Brown, Holly Newby, Doris Chou, Nobuko Mizoguchi, Lale Say, Emi Suzuki and John Wilmoth |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Maternal health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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UNICEF: The Millennium Development Goals
Tis subsection of the UNICEF website is devoted to the Millennium Development goals. It includes, videos, a news feed, press releases, papers and reports and many other types of information about the Millennium Development Goals.
As a UN organization, UNICEF is the only inter-governmental agency devoted exclusively to children and is mandated by the world’s governments to promote and protect children’s rights and their well being. Along with other UN agencies and global partners, UNICEF has taken the Millennium Development Goals as part of its mandate. From working with local policymakers toward health care and education reform to delivering vaccines, each UNICEF action is a step toward a Millennium Development Goal.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Millennium Development Goals |
| Tags | UNICEF |
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Unintentional injuries in the European Region: Promoting safety and equity
In this presentation:
• Overview of injuries in Europe
• Unintentional injuries in children
– Burden
– A major source of inequities
• The response
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| Author | Francesca Racioppi Dinesh Sethi |
| Type | Presentation |
| Subject | Unintentional injuries |
| Tags | WHO WHO Regional Office for Europe |
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Unintentional Injuries: Magnitude, Prevention, and Control
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The World Health Organization estimates injuries accounted for more than 5 million deaths in 2004, significantly impacting the global burden of disease. Nearly 3.9 million of these deaths were due to unintentional injury, a cause also responsible for more than 138 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) lost in the same year. More than 90% of the DALYs lost occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), highlighting the disproportionate burden that injuries place on developing countries. This article examines the health and social impact of injury, injury data availability, and injury prevention interventions. By proposing initiatives to minimize the magnitude of death and disability due to unintentional injuries, particularly in LMICs, this review serves as a call to action for further investment in injury surveillance, prevention interventions, and health systems strengthening.
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| Author | Sarah Stewart de Ramirez, Adnan A. Hyder, Hadley K. Herbert, and Kent Stevens |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Unintentional injuries |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Unintentional injury mortality in India, 2005: Nationally representative mortality survey of 1.1 million homes
Abstract
Background: Unintentional injuries are an important cause of death in India. However, no reliable nationallyrepresentative estimates of unintentional injury deaths are available. Thus, we examined unintentional injury deaths in a nationally representative mortality survey.
Methods: Trained field staff interviewed a living relative of those who had died during 2001-03. The verbal autopsy reports were sent to two of the130 trained physicians, who independently assigned an ICD-10 code to each death. Discrepancies were resolved through reconciliation and adjudication. Proportionate cause specific mortality was used to produce national unintentional injury mortality estimates based on United Nations population and deathestimates.
Results: In 2005, unintentional injury caused 648 000 deaths (7% of all deaths; 58/100 000 population). Unintentional injury mortality rates were higher among males than females, and in rural versus urban areas. Road traffic injuries (185 000 deaths; 29% of all unintentional injury deaths), falls (160 000 deaths, 25%) and drowning (73000 deaths, 11%) were the three leading causes of unintentional injury mortality, with fire-related injury causing 5% of these deaths. The highest unintentional mortality rates were in those aged 70years or older (410/100 000).
Conclusions: These direct estimates of unintentional injury deaths in India (0.6 million) are lower than WHO indirect estimates (0.8 million), but double the estimates which rely on police reports (0.3 million). Importantly, they revise upward the mortality due to falls, particularly in the elderly, and revise downward mortality due to fires. Ongoing monitoring of injury mortality will enable development of evidence based injury prevention programs.
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| Author | Jagnoor Jagnoor, Wilson Suraweera , Lisa Keay, Rebecca Q Ivers, JS Thakur , Prabhat Jha1 |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Unintentional injuries |
| Tags | Unintentional-injuries Mortality Verbal autopsy india |
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UNISON Nursing Factsheet
Information about insurance cover provided by UNISON.
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | insurance elective placement nurse nursing student indemnity |
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United Nations Population Facts Department of Economic and Social Affairs • Population Division
Factsheet produced by the United Nations about population, focussing on Health Workers, International Migration and Development.
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Population growth Population migration and health |
| Tags | factsheet fact sheet |
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United Nations: Millennium Development Goals and Beyond 2015
This is the United Nations' website devoted to the Millennium Development Goals.
Overview:
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world’s poorest.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Child health Gender and health Maternal health Millennium Development Goals Poverty and inequality |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Urban Health in India (paper)
This paper puts forward a framework to analyse urban health. This framework conceptualises urban health as being influenced by and simultaneously influencing the characteristics of urbanisation. Urbanisation in India is seen as particularly interesting as its urban population is increasing as such a dramatic rate.
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| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Urbanisation |
| Tags | india |
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Urbanisation, gender and health (Online Discussion Report)
The purpose of the discussion was to explore the following questions, which informed each day’s interactions:
1.What are the key issues and trends in terms of urbanisation and women’s and girls’ health?
2.What interventions aim to address women’s and girls’ health in urban areas? What examples of promising practice do you see?
3.What needs to be done differently to improve health outcomes for urban women and girls? What are the policy and programmatic priorities for the future?
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Gender and health Urbanisation |
| Tags | institute of development studies |
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Urbanization and caregiving: a framework for analysis and examples from southern and eastern Africa
This paper considers the role of caregiving on children's health and development with a special focus on identifying the constraints on effective caregiving in urban areas, and potential solutions.
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| Author | Patrice L. Engle, Purnima Menon, James L. Garrett and Alison Slack |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Child health Urbanisation |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Urbanization and health in developing countries: A systematic review
We systematically searched the databases JSTOR, PubMed, ScienceDirect and SSRN for studies that compare health status in urban and rural areas. The studies had to examine selected World Health Organization health indicators.
Conclusion: Several health outcomes were correlated with urbanization in developing countries. Urbanization may improve some health problems developing countries face and worsen others. Therefore, urbanization itself should not be embraced as a solution to health problems but should be accompanied by an informed and reactive health policy.
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| Author | Sophie Eckert and Stefan Kohler |
| Type | Document |
| Subject | Urbanisation |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Urbanization and mental health
An article which discusses the effects of urbanisation on mental health. Published Jul-Dec 2009 in the 'Industrial Psychiatry Journal'.
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| Author | Kalpana Srivastava |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Urbanisation |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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US Aid (USAID)
USAID is the lead U.S. Government agency that works to end extreme global poverty and enable resilient, democratic societies to realize their potential.
Our Mission: We partner to end extreme poverty and to promote resilient, democratic societies while advancing our security and prosperity.
Using technology to complement nursing practice: an RCN guide for health care practitioners
The RCN has produced this guidance to chart the complexities of using eHealth technology and draw together some of the key principles and advice for health care practitioners investigating an eHealth approach for their current clinical practice. Health care leaders and managers will also find it a useful checklist for considering eHealth when redesigning a service or establishing a new service to provide advice and support to patients, their families and carers. The guidance provides an overview, covering the broad principles and key issues to consider for safe and effective eHealth services. It complements separate, short guides that include checklists and advice for:
- Using telephone advice for patients with long term conditions (RCN publication code 004 229)
- Using text messaging services (RCN publication code 004 230)
- Developing and using websites (RCN publication code 004 231)
- Using telehealth to monitor patients remotely (RCN publication code 004 232)
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Technology |
| Tags | RCN |
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Video Lecture_ Promoting Safety and Preventing Unintentional Injuries
This is a video lecture on Promoting Safety and Preventing Unintentional Injuries. It is 33 minutes 16 seconds long and was published on Feb 13, 2014.
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| Type | Video |
| Subject | Unintentional injuries |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Wellcome Collection: Art in Global Health
'Art in Global Health' is a Wellcome Collection project curated by Danielle Olsen.
Thsi website gives access to artwork themed around Global Health, including: reflective pieces, videos, interactive activities, awareness posters and more.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Global health issues Global health teaching |
| Tags | art artwork artists wellcome wellcome collection |
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What is this thing called globalisation?
A PowerPoint presentation explaining a number of theories of globalisation.
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| Author | Göran Collste |
| Type | Presentation |
| Subject | Theories of globalisation |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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What we mean by social determinants of health
This article concludes with a critical analysis of the WHO report on social determinants of health, applauding its analysis and many of its recommendations, but faulting it for ignoring the power relations that shape these social determinants.
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| Author | Vicente Navarro |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Determinants of health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health
WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health: Globalization, Global Governance and the Social Determinants of Health: A review of the linkages and agenda for action
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| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Determinants of health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Why Nurses Are the Unsung Heroes of Global Health
News article posted on the Huff Post Impact website on 5th August 2012.
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| Author | Sheila Davis |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Leadership |
| Tags | news |
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Wisconsin Department of Health Services: Communicable Disease Subjects A-Z
This webpage provides general information about communicable diseases. It includes an extensize A-Z index providing detailed information about a large number different communicable diseases.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Communicable diseases |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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WMA Statement on Social Determinants of Health
The World Medical Association's statement on the social determinants of health.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Determinants of health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Work the World
Work the World organises safe, structured healthcare placements in Africa, Asia and South America. They provide elective placements and projects overseas for student doctors, nurses, midwives, dentists, pharmacists, radiographers and physiotherapists.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | africa asia south america elective placement doctors nurses midwives dentists pharmacists radiographers physiotherapists |
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World Health Law: Toward a New Conception of Global Health Governance for the 21st Century
The international community joined together during the late twentieth century to form a world trade system. Although imperfect, the world trade system contains adjudicable and enforceable norms designed to facilitate global economic activity. Human health is at least as important as trade in terms of its effects on the wellbeing of populations. Moreover, health hazards-biological, chemical, and radionuclear-have profound global implications. Whether these threats' origins are natural, accidental, or intentional, the harms, as well as the response, transcend national frontiers and warrant a transnational response. Despite their high importance, the International Health Regulations (IHR) are antiquated, limited in scope, and burdened by inflexible assumptions and entrenched power structures.' This essay examines problems of obsolescence, narrow reach, and rigidity associated with the IHR, and proposes a new conception for world health law in the 21st Century.
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| Author | Lawrence O. Gostin |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Regulation and governance |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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World report on child injury prevention
Th e overall aims of the report are:
- to raise awareness about the magnitude, risk factors and impacts of child injuries globally
- to draw attention to the preventability of child injuries and present what is known about the eff ectiveness of intervention strategies
- to make recommendations that can be implemented by all countries to reduce child injuries eff ectively
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Child health Unintentional injuries |
| Tags | WHO UNICEF |
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World Report on Child Injury Prevention: An Ignored Component of Child Survival!
The report promotes a set of seven overarching recommendations to address child injury:
- Integrate child injury prevention into comprehensive approach to child health and development
- Develop and implement child-injury prevention policy and plan of action
- Implement specific actions to prevent and control child injuries
- Strengthen health systems to address child injuries
- Enhance quality and quantity of data for child injury prevention
- Define priorities for research
- Raise awareness of, and target investments towards child-injury prevention
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| Author | VIPIN M VASHISHTHA |
| Type | Document |
| Subject | Unintentional injuries |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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World Service Enquiry
World Service Enquiry provides information and career advice to people who want to volunteer or work in international development.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | elective placement work volunteer advice africa asia |
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Worldwide Universities Network: Public Health (Non-communicable Disease)
The focus of the WUN Public Health Global Challenge in 2014-15 is on:
- Health of family and migrants across the life course
- The resilience of adolescents in different cultural contexts
- Schools as a setting for reducing risk factors associated with NCDs
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| Author | |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Child health Non-communicable diseases Population migration and health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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