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Turning the World Upside Down: The Search for Global Health in the 21st Century
by Lord Nigel Crisp
Richer countries import many health workers from poorer countries, whilst at the same time exporting their ideas and ideologies about health. It is an unfair exchange. What would it be like, Lord Nigel Crisp asks, if it were the other way round – and poorer countries imported health workers from richer ones and exported their ideas and experience about health? Turning the World Upside Down explores what richer countries can learn from poorer ones and suggests that, instead of talking of international development – where the richer help the poorer – we should think in terms of co-development, each learning from the other. By bringing together insights from all parts of the world, the book sets out a new vision for global health, based on our interdependence, our desire for independence and on our rights and accountabilities as citizens of the world. The text is richly illustrated with examples from the author’s own extensive experience which ranges from running England’s National Health Service, the largest health organization in the world, to working in some of the poorest countries of the world. It will be of interest to the general reader who wants to understand better what is happening in health as well as to health professionals and students.
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Caring for the World: A Guidebook to Global Health Opportunities
by Paul Drain (Author), Stephen A. Huffman (Author), Sara Pirtle MBA (Author), Kevin Chan MD (Author)
As disparities in health care continue to widen between wealthy and impoverished nations, an increasing number of medical professionals are committing themselves to the growing field of global health. Caring for the World assembles the stories, experience, and advice of prominent global health practitioners in this inspired guidebook for health care workers who are interested in - or already are - improving the lives of people throughout the world.
Providing a wealth of valuable resources and information, the authors detail how individuals can find and prepare for global health work as well as how to obtain education and funding from governmental and non-governmental organizations. Skillfully addressing important issues related to working within other countries and cultures, they also provide practical advice on how to understand pandemics and the HIV/AIDS crisis in order to effect change.
Accessible, thorough, and concise, Caring for the World is essential reading for anyone interested in global health work, non-governmental organizations, and the current state of global health care.
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Public-Private Partnerships for Public Health
by Michael R. Reich (Editor), James E. Austin (Contributor), Diana Barrett (Contributor), A. G. Breitenstein (Contributor), Kent Buse (Contributor), Laura Frost (Contributor), Tomoko Fujisaki (Contributor), Adetokunbo O. Lucas (Contributor), Sheila M. McCarthy (Contributor), William Muraskin (Contributor), Clement S. Roberts (Contributor), Marc Roberts (Contributor), Gill Walt (Contributor)
Global health problems require global solutions, and public-private partnerships are increasingly called upon to provide these solutions. Such partnerships involve private corporations in collaboration with governments, international agencies, and non-governmental organizations. They can be very productive, but they also bring their own problems. This volume examines the organizational and ethical challenges of partnerships and suggests ways to address them. How do organizations with different values, interests, and world-views come together to resolve critical public health issues? How are shared objectives and shared values created within a partnership? How are relationships of trust fostered and sustained in the face of the inevitable conflicts, uncertainties, and risks of partnership?
This book focuses on public-private partnerships that seek to expand the use of specific products to improve health conditions in poor countries. The volume includes case studies of partnerships involving specific products to improve health conditions in poor countries. The volume includes case studies of partnerships involving specific diseases such as trachoma and river blindness, international organizations such as the World Health Organization, multinational pharmaceutical companies, and products such as medicines and vaccines. Individual chapters draw lessons from successful partnerships as well as troubled ones in order to help guide efforts to reduce global health disparities.
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Access: How Do Good Health Technologies Get to Poor People in Poor Countries?
by Laura Frost, Michael R. Reich, Tadataka Yamada, and Beth Anne Pratt
Many people in developing countries lack access to health technologies, even basic ones. Why do these problems in access persist? What can be done to improve access to good health technologies, especially for poor people in poor countries?
This book answers those questions by developing a comprehensive analytical frame work for access and examining six case studies. Access to health technologies in poor countries is shaped by social, economic, political, and cultural processes. To understand those processes, the authors develop an analytic framework based on four A’s: Architecture, Availability, Affordability, and Adoption.
The book applies this approach to explain why some health technologies achieved more access than others. The technologies include praziquantel (for the treatment of schistosomiasis), hepatitis B vaccine, malaria rapid diagnostic tests, vaccine vial monitors for temperature exposure, the Norplant implant contraceptive, and female condoms. The book is based on research studies commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Anticorruption in the Health Sector: Strategies for Transparency and Accountability
edited by Taryn Vian, William D. Savedoff, and Harald Mathisen
Anticorruption in the Health Sector: Strategies for Transparency and Accountability, edited by Taryn Vian, William D. Savedoff and Harald Mathisen (Kumarian Press), is a handbook for global health program managers. It outlines several opportunities for corruption in the field as well as methods for identifying and addressing them. The book also suggests strategies for structuring and managing finances and other resources to make programs less vulnerable to illicit activities. A useful read to program managers in the field. |
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Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
by Mark Pendergrast (Author)
The latest foray by veteran author, Mark Pendergrast, introduces many to the exciting and not-often shared stories of the Epidemic Intelligence Service. Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) chronologically follows the development of the forensic field arm of the CDC, fleshing out the personalities and pestilence that shaped this fascinating organization. Through extensive interviews and case note review, Pendergrast acquaints the reader with the history of this health agency’s challenges and successes. A few stories are familiar to many in the global health world, but most of the chapters are devoted to little-known medical mysteries. A compelling book, marred only by the reader left wanting more.
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Real Collaboration: What It Takes for Global Health to Succeed (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public)
by Mark L. Rosenberg (Author), Elisabeth S. Hayes (Author), Margaret H. McIntyre (Author), Nancy Neill (Author), William H. Foege (Preface)
Essential reading for those who work in global health, this practical handbook focuses on what might be the most important lesson of the last fifty years: that collaboration is the best way to make health resources count for disadvantaged people around the world. Designed as a learning resource to catalyze fresh thinking, Real Collaboration draws from case studies of teams struggling to combat smallpox, river blindness, polio, and other health threats. In honest appraisals, participants share their missteps as well as their successes. Based on these stories, as well as on analyses of many other enterprises, this accessible, engaging book distills the critical factors that can increase the likelihood of success for those who are launching or managing a new partnership.
"This book addresses one of the major problems facing global health: leadership without cooperation."
– President Jimmy Carter
"The fight for global health equity is a struggle that we can't even think about winning without the right partners. This book presents very important lessons about collaboration, including some that we learned from working together on MDR-TB in Peru. Anyone who wants to succeed in global health, to work effectively for social justice, should read and know how to practice Real Collaboration."
– Paul Farmer, author of Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
"Collaboration is imperative for success. The complexity of global health problems far exceed the capacity of individual organizations and governments to deal with them effectively. This book provides invaluable guidance for the leadership, managerial, organizational, and political competencies needed to achieve that critical collaboration."
– James E. Austin, author of The Collaboration Challenge
"This book should be required reading for everyone who works on health or development or in a large organization or bureaucracy."
– Alison Drayton, Former Guyana Delegate to the United Nations
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Love and Globalization
edited by Mark B. Padilla, Jennifer S. Hirsch, Jennifer S. Hirsch, Miguel Munoz-Laboy, Robert Sember, Richard G. Parker
Discussions of globalization usually focus on political, economic, and technological transformations, but fail to recognize how we experience these processes in our daily lives, including our most intimate acts and practices. In this volume, anthropologists and sociologists draw on long-term ethnographic research on love, gender, and sexuality in a broad range of regions to discuss how global forces shape marriage, commercial sex, the political economy of intimacy, and lesbian and gay expressions of companionship.
The richly-textured ethnographies provoke a series of questions about emerging vocabularies for friendship and romance; the adoption of cultural forms from faraway places; the emergence of new desires, pleasures, and emotions that circulate as commodities in the global marketplace; and the ways economic processes shape public and private expressions of sexual intimacy.
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Health and Social Justice
by Jennifer Prah Ruger (Foreword by Amartya Sen)
Societies make decisions and take actions that profoundly impact the distribution of health. Why and how should collective choices be made, and policies implemented, to address health inequalities under conditions of resource scarcity? How should societies conceptualize and measure health disparities, and determine whether they've been adequately addressed? Who is responsible for various aspects of this important social problem?
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Finding Work in Global Health
by Garth Osborn and Patricia Ohmans With the preface written by Nils Daulaire, President & CEO of the Global Health Council, Garth Osborn and Patricia Ohmans have written a practical guide for idealists — a book for those who want to help people in need. Filled with useful information, checklists and resources, this is the one book for nurses, doctors, public health workers, volunteers or anyone with global health dreams.
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Reproductive Rights in a Global Context
by Lara M. Knudsen
Traveling alone when she was between 17 and 22, with no institutional affiliation and no financial assistance, the author visited five developing countries and two developed ones on five continents. Her goal was to extend her own experience in an abortion clinic in Portland, Oregon. Lara Knudsen interviewed over 90 women's rights activists, health professionals, NGO workers, and government officials, gaining a sense of both official policies and the actual delivery of services in local clinics. The book places the experiences of women within the global context of how international population control agendas have influenced women's reproductive rights in the past, and how the changing international discourse on reproductive health continues to influence those rights today.
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Rx for Survival
by Philip Hilts
From the winner of the 2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology and in association with the WGBH-produced six-part series RX for Survival: A Global Health Challenge comes a gripping journey around the globe to the hot spots of disease fighting in the worldwide battle to defeat the threat of new and resurgent outbreaks.
In conjunction with PBS, Philip J. Hilts, longtime New York Times science and health reporter, has traveled the world to visit the sites of both the greatest disease peril-where the threat of runaway outbreaks is most severe-and places in which remarkably powerful new approaches are leading to astonishing success in combating the disease menace.
(The DVD will also be available to buy online, here,
once it is released.)
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Global Health Leadership and Management
by William H. Foege, Nils M.P. Daulaire, Robert E. Black, Clarence E. Pearson, David Rockefeller
Written by an international panel of distinguished global health experts, this book distills valuable lessons from a wide variety of successful health programs that have been implemented around the world. Global Health Leadership and Management gives practical suggestions for enhancing and developing the essential skills of leadership, management, communication, and project planning for health care leaders. The book will assist health leaders to work well within their communities and effectively plan, direct, implement, and evaluate effective programs and activities. Global Health Leadership and Management outlines and describes such core competencies as
- Identifying challenges and developing and managing policy
- Developing strategies, pathways, and solutions
- Creating networks and partnerships and planning for change
- Learning from experience to build a generation of leaders
- Leading and managing teams by recognizing and celebrating success
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DVDs
A Walk to Beautiful (2008)
Winner of the 2009 Excellence in Media Award for Global Health!
A powerful Emmy Award-nominated story of healing and hope for women in Ethiopia devastated by childbirth injuries. Filmed in a starkly beautiful landscape, the film juxtaposes the isolated lives of village women who are outcasts because of their medical condition obstetric fistula, with the faraway hospital that offers a miracle after a long and arduous trek-a "walk to beautiful."
Now, for the first time, the award-winning feature-length documentary is available on DVD with a wealth of special features and bonus materials. These include deleted scenes, commentaries, and two additional films.
To buy online, go here >
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