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United States' global health assistance : elements and considerations
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ISBN: 9781629483887 1629483885 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York : Nova Publishers,

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Stakeholder relationships and sustainability : the case of health aid to the Kyrgyz Republic
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ISBN: 3031319907 3031319893 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,

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This open-access book analyses how stakeholder relationships impact the sustainability of health aid. It does this by providing an overarching analytical framework, which allows for a systematic analysis of sustainability, relationships, and a possible causal link between these phenomena. The book goes beyond universal paradigms and detailed single-case studies by offering a thorough analysis of development projects to identify the factors that are also applicable to similar initiatives in comparable contexts. Empirically, it focuses on two health initiatives, both implemented in the Kyrgyz Republic, a country pursuing a sector-wide approach to health aid. Unique primary material provides insights into a geographic region that is mostly neglected, and will be of interest to students and researchers of social policy, development studies, international health and those focusing on the post-Soviet region and Central Asia.


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Where they need me : local clinicians and the workings of global health in Haiti
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ISBN: 1501763865 1501763857 Year: 2022 Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press,

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Where They Need Me examines the work of Haitian health professionals in humanitarian aid encounters. Haiti is the target of an overwhelming number of internationally funded health projects. While religious institutions sponsor a number of these initiatives, many are implemented within the secular framework of global health. Pierre Minn illustrates the divergent criteria that actors involved in global health use to evaluate interventions' efficacy. Haitian physicians, nurses, and administrative staff are hired to carry out these global health programs, distribute or withhold resources, and produce accounts of interventions' outcomes. In their roles as intermediaries, Haitian clinicians are expected not only to embody the humanitarian projects of foreign funders and care for their impoverished patients but also to act as sources of support for their own kin networks.


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Preparing for the future of HIV/AIDS in Africa : a shared responsibility
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ISBN: 0309212073 1283081539 9786613081537 0309160197 9780309160193 9781283081535 6613081531 0309160189 9780309160186 Year: 2011 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press,

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HIV/AIDS is a catastrophe globally but nowhere more so than in sub-Saharan Africa, which in 2008 accounted for 67 percent of cases worldwide and 91 percent of new infections. The Institute of Medicine recommends that the United States and African nations move toward a strategy of shared responsibility such that these nations are empowered to take ownership of their HIV/AIDS problem and work to solve it.

Securing health : lessons from nation-building missions
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ISBN: 0833037293 083304074X 1433709511 9780833040749 9780833037299 9781433709517 9780833041128 0833041126 Year: 2006 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : RAND Center for Domestic and International Security,

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The study assesses seven cases of nation-building operations following major conflicts: Germany and Japan immediately after World War II; Somalia, Haiti, and Kosovo in the 1990's; and Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001. It concludes that two factors increase the likelihood of successful health outcomes: planning and coordination, and infrastructure and resources. In addition, the study argues that health can have an independent impact on broader political, economic, and security objectives during nation-building operations.


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Humanitarian negotiations revealed : the MSF experience
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ISBN: 1849045267 1849045259 9781849045254 9781849041638 9781849041621 1849041628 1849041636 9781849041638 Year: 2011 Publisher: London, [England] : Hurst & Company,

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Published to coincide with the 40th Anniversary of Médecin Sans Frontèires (MSF), this book reveals the realpolitik behind NGO work.

America's health care safety net : intact but endangered
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ISBN: 030906497X 030950449X 0585317445 9780585317441 9780309064972 030506497X 0309172853 9780309172851 Year: 2000 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Institute of Medicine : National Academy Press,


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Qualität 2030 : die umfassende Strategie für das Gesundheitswesen. Mit einem Geleitwort von Ulf Fink und Franz Dormann
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ISBN: 3954661527 3954661403 Year: 2014 Publisher: Berlin MWV Medizinisch Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft

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Qualität und Sicherheit dienen als Projektionsfläche für die unterschiedlichsten Problemstellungen im deutschen Gesundheitssystem. Tragfähige Zielvorstellungen als Basis für die Weiterentwicklung der Qualitätssicherung in Deutschland sind jedoch nicht in Sicht, Glaubwürdigkeit und Vertrauen in Instrumente und Begrifflichkeiten gehen verloren. Wir fahren fort, Menge statt Qualität zu finanzieren, sektorale Abschottung geht über Zusammenarbeit. Bei allen gesetzgeberischen Aktivitäten - ein grundlegender Reformansatz ist bislang nicht erkennbar. Hier setzt Qualität 2030 an und schlägt


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Grenfell of Labrador : a biography
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ISBN: 1282865749 9786612865749 0773575197 9780773575196 9780773577657 0773577653 9780773535312 0773535314 9780773535312 Year: 2009 Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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When British doctor Wilfred Grenfell arrived in Newfoundland in 1892 to provide medical service to migrant fisherman, he had no clear sense of who his patients were or how they lived - a few weeks on the Labrador coast changed that. Struck by both the rugged beauty of the place and the difficulties faced by those who lived there, Grenfell devoted the rest of his life to improving theirs. At first an evangelical missionary of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fisherman, Grenfell became part of philanthropic movements on both sides of the Atlantic. Raising funds in Canada and the United States, he founded a network of hospitals, nursing stations, schools, and home industries that exists in a modified form to this day. In 1908, the story of his survival after a night marooned on a drifting patch of ice transformed him into a popular hero. He eventually became one of the most successful lecturers of his time. Ronald Rompkey tells the story of Grenfell's education, his Anglo-Saxonism, and his devotion to broader issues of hygiene and public health. Above all, Rompkey shows that Grenfell went beyond being a doctor or a missionary to become a cultural politician who intervened in a colonial culture. Grenfell of Labrador provides a vivid picture of the man himself and the social movements through which he worked.


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The Grenfell Medical Mission and American Support in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1890s-1940s
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ISBN: 077355579X 9780773555792 9780773555808 0773555803 9780773554863 9780773554870 Year: 2019 Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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Dr Wilfred Grenfell, physician and folk hero, recruited thousands of volunteer workers for his Newfoundland and Labrador seamen's mission, many of them Americans from Ivy League institutions. As the medical mission grew to become the International Grenfell Association, establishing institutions along the Labrador and northern Newfoundland coasts, Americans also became resident staff leaders in the region, and Grenfell himself married an American, Anne MacClanahan, who led mission activities. The Grenfell Medical Mission and American Support in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1890s-1940s reveals the nature and extent of support from Americans throughout the distributed privately run social enterprise until the 1940s, before the region joined Canada. Essays explore the organization's claims to share an Anglo-Saxon heritage with the United States, American reaction to its financial scandal and creation of an incorporated association, its promotion of sport and masculinity, and the development of education and schools in the region and the mission. The organization's strong ties to the United States are exemplified by Grenfell's friendship with American physician John Harvey Kellogg; the donation of clothing from American donors; the work of one American woman on her affiliated mission unit; the impact of American philanthropy and training on the construction of the mission's main hospital in St Anthony; and the superior American-accredited health care facilities and their clinical achievements. From its corporate base in New York City, the International Grenfell Association blended contemporary social movements and adopted American notions of philanthropy. The Grenfell Medical Mission and American Support in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1890s-1940s offers the first thorough history of an iconic health and social organization in Atlantic Canada.

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