Premature Death--Conversations on Public Health
Rob van Dam on healthy lifestyles and premature mortality
NYC's War on Fat--Conversations on Public Health
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Hospital Boards and Quality of Care--Conversations on Public Health
Ashish Jha, Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, on Hospital Boards and Quality of Care
Redesigning Health Care
Featured Guest: Richard Bohmer, physician, Harvard Business School professor, and author of "Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care."
Copyright 2009 Harvard Business School Publishing
The Leadership Health Care Needs
Featured Guest: Dr. Thomas Lee, network president of Partners HealthCare System and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Copyright 2010 Harvard Business School Publishing
Health and Emotions (Color)
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Health and Emotions (B&W)
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Public Health: The World is One Clinic
Dr. Jody Heymann is the Canada Research Chair in Global Health and Social Policy, a Professor in McGill's Faculties of Arts and Medicine and founding director of the McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy.
Are Chemicals in Our Environment Affecting Reproductive Health?
Over the past 50 years, our quality of life has improved thanks, in part, to a wide range of new chemicals. Some of these are now suspected of impairing fertility. Dr. Robaire will discuss the existing evidence and whether there are steps we should take to protect the next generation.
w8.2 Global Health
soc1a06-c01 - Section C01 - w8.2 Global Health - McMaster University > Courses > SOC1A06 Introduction to Sociology > Section C01 > w8.2 Global Health
w8.1 Health and Medicine
soc1a06-c01 - Section C01 - w8.1 Health and Medicine - McMaster University > Courses > SOC1A06 Introduction to Sociology > Section C01 > w8.1 Health and Medicine
Educator's Guide to Hosting a Global Health Conference
This guide uses biology, health, and world study topics to engage students in global health issues and solutions from experiential and multidisciplinary perspectives. The guide offers an outline of how to organize and host a "Global Health Conference," and provides suggestions regarding logistics and instructions as well as resource materials for preparing and organizing a student conference. The Global Health Conference is a school event where students present display boards and two-page essays
Choosing a Career in Health
There are two lessons in this group. The first lesson is a lab activity that illustrates the importance of hand washing as a way to prevent the spread disease. The second lesson includes discussion of various careers in the health field and allows students to explore careers utilizing various resources.
Improving health in Malawi: MaiMwana Project
UCL is hosting an exhibition of photographs chronicling the university's involvement in a project to improve mother and and child health in rural Africa.
The UCL Centre for International Health and Development established the MaiMwana Project in Malawi in 2002.
Maternal mortality in the country is among the highest in the world and neonatal mortality is also high and accounts for almost half of all infant deaths.
High mortality rates are partly a result of poor health care for mothers and th
