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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 |
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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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| Subject | Health systems and models of service delivery |
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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 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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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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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 |
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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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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 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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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 |
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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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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Determinants of health |
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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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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Gender and health |
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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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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Child health Maternal health |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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| Subject | Determinants of health |
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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.
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| Author | Iain K Crombie Linda Irvine Lawrence Elliott Hilary Wallace |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Poverty and inequality |
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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 |
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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 |
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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.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Determinants of health |
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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 |
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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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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Health systems and models of service delivery |
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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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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Cultural competence Global health course design |
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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.
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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 |
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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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| 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)
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Determinants of health |
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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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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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| Type | Presentation |
| Subject | Epidemiology and burden of disease |
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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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Emerging Infections: Assessing the risk
A 40-slide presentation produced by the Health Protection Agency.
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| 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.
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| Type | Journal |
| Subject | New and emerging infectious diseases |
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Emerging Infectious Diseases (review series introduction)
This is a 3 page review series introduction about emerging infectious diseases.
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| Author | Vincent R. Racaniello |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | New and emerging infectious diseases |
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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).
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| Type | Podcast |
| Subject | New and emerging infectious diseases |
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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 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 |
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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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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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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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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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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 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 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 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 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 |
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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 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 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: 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 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.
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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 Warming Seen Taking Toll on Economy, Health, Crops
News article written on 4th November 2013.
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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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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 |
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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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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 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 |
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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 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.
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| 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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| Subject | Millennium Development Goals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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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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| Subject | Millennium Development Goals |
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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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| Subject | Education Global health teaching |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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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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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 |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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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 |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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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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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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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 |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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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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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Child health Maternal health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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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 |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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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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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Determinants of health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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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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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Population migration and health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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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 |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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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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| Type | Document |
| 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 |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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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 |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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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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| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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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.
| About this resource | |
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| Author | Andres Võrk Epp Kallaste Marit Priinits |
| Type | Article |
| 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 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 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 |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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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.
| About this resource | |
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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?
| About this resource | |
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| Author | Salahuddin M Aminuzamman |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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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.
| About this resource | |
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| Author | Joanna Le?niowska |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Millennium Development Goals: No more broken promises?
This booklet offers a short introduction to what will be involved in achieving the MDGs. The first part answers some common questions by explaining why we needs goals, where they came from, how they will be met and paid for, and how we will know if we are achieving them.
| About this resource | |
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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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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 |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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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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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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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.
| About this resource | |
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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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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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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 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.
| About this resource | |
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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.
| About this resource | |
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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: 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 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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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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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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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.
| About this resource | |
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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).
| About this resource | |
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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 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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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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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 |
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| Subject | Technology |
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rethink aid: The Social, Environmental, and Political Determinants of Health
At ReThink, we are keenly aware of the social, environmental, and political determinants of health that are often overlooked in vertical aid initiatives. As a coalition of physicians and social scientists from around the world, we have learned that these determinants of health are a part of the every day lives of communities in need. This page highlights some of the key components, including:
Water & Sanitation – Food Security & (Mal)nutrition – Women & Communities
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| Subject | Determinants of health |
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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: 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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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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Saving Mothers, Giving Life
The Saving Mothers, Giving Life partnership is prioritizing countries where women and children are dying at alarming rates. As of today, the founding partners have pledged more than $280 million USD in financial resources and additional in-kind resources for work in up to 10 countries over five years. Work has begun in two countries where maternal mortality rates are disproportionately high—Uganda and Zambia.
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| Subject | Maternal health |
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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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| Subject | Supporting international students |
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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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| Subject | Maternal health |
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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 |
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| Subject | Determinants of health |
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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 |
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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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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 |
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Tackling the wider social determinants of health and health inequalities: evidence from systematic reviews
ABSTRACT
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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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 |
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| Subject | Global economy and health |
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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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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 |
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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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| Subject | Global health governance |
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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 |
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| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
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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 |
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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 |
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| Subject | Supporting international students |
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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 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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| Subject | Global health issues Education Cultural competence Global citizenship |
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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 |
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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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| Subject | Gender and health |
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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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| Subject | Leadership |
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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 |
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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 |
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| Rights | Open Access |
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 |
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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 |
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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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| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
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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 |
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The Lancet: Infectious Diseases
The Lancet: Infectious Diseases Journal
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| Subject | New and emerging infectious diseases |
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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 |
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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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| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
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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 Millennium Project
The Millennium Project was commissioned by the United Nations Secretary-General in 2002 to recommend a concrete action plan for the world to reverse the grinding poverty, hunger and disease affecting billions of people. Headed by Professor Jeffrey Sachs, the Millennium Project was an independent advisory body and presented its final report, Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals, to the Secretary-General in January 2005. The Millennium Project was then asked to continue operating in an advisory capacity through the end of 2006.
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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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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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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Non-communicable diseases |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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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 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 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 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 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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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Millennium Development Goals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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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 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 “dream-trap”: Brokering, “study abroad” and nurse migration from Nepal to the UK
In order to review this education brokering business and its link to international nurse migration, the paper is divided into two main sections. Firstly, I look at the growth and expansion of professional nurse training in Nepal and its links with Nepalese nurse migration to the UK. Secondly, I examine the emergence of IECs and their “study abroad” programmes. Here I analyse how IECs have become increasingly involved in the nursing profession, starting from pre-training entrance exam preparation through to post-training international migration. I present case studies of individual nurses and their experiences of being “brokered”. As these migrants are open to exploitation, I argue for greater regulation of these brokers, and that nurses must be more aware of the frequently false promises made by them.
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| Author | Radha Adhikari |
| Type | Document |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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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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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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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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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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Unintentional Injuries: Indicators on children and youth
This document was produced by Child Trends Data Bank in November 2012 (Updated October 2014).
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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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Unintentional Injuries: Magnitude, Prevention, and Control
Absract
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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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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University of the West of Scotland: International Student Support
As an international student at UWS we recognise that you will have specific support needs and so we have dedicated International Student Advisers who are there to help with issues relating to student visas, immigration advice, advice on working in the UK, letters for relatives’ visits, financial queries, welfare and health benefits and your general welfare.
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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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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'.
| About this resource | |
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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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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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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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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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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: 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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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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