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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.
Medical assistance --- Medical policy --- Public health --- Sustainable development --- International cooperation.
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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.
Medical care --- Medical personnel --- Medical assistance --- Transcultural medical care
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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.
HIV infections --- AIDS (Disease) --- Medical assistance, American. --- Treatment --- Costs. --- Government policy --- International cooperation.
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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.
Medical assistance. --- Medical assistance - Evaluation. --- Medical assistance, American. --- Medical assistance --- Medical assistance, American --- Social Planning --- American medical assistance --- Medical technical assistance --- Health planning --- Public health --- Nation-building --- War --- Postwar reconstruction --- Evaluation. --- International cooperation. --- Health aspects. --- Post-conflict reconstruction --- Reconstruction, Postwar --- Armed conflict (War) --- Conflict, Armed (War) --- Fighting --- Hostilities --- Wars --- International relations --- Military art and science --- Peace --- Stabilization and reconstruction (International relations) --- State-building --- Political development --- International agencies --- Public health laws, International --- World health --- Comprehensive health planning --- Health care planning --- Health services planning --- Medical care --- Medical care planning --- Medical policy --- Planning --- Health services administration --- Humanitarian assistance --- Technical assistance --- Assistance, Medical --- Medicine --- International cooperation
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Published to coincide with the 40th Anniversary of Médecin Sans Frontèires (MSF), this book reveals the realpolitik behind NGO work.
Medical assistance. --- Public health --- Humanitarian assistance. --- International cooperation. --- Humanitarian aid --- International relief --- International agencies --- Medical assistance --- Public health laws, International --- World health --- Assistance, Medical --- Medical technical assistance --- Humanitarian assistance --- Medicine --- Technical assistance --- International cooperation
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Medical Assistance - United States. --- Medical assistance --- Medical care --- Medically uninsured --- Poor --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- North America --- Persons --- Public Assistance --- Patient Care Management --- Health Care --- Americas --- Health Services Administration --- Financing, Government --- Named Groups --- Financing, Organized --- Geographic Locations --- Economics --- Geographicals --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Delivery of Health Care --- United States --- Medically Uninsured --- Medical Assistance --- Public Health --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Public Health - General --- Needs assessment --- Medically uninsured persons --- Medical technical assistance --- Humanitarian assistance --- Technical assistance --- Assistance, Medical --- Medicine --- International cooperation
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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
Public health --- International cooperation. --- International agencies --- Medical assistance --- Public health laws, International --- World health --- quality --- Pay for Performance --- transparency --- reform --- health policy
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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.
Missionaries, Medical --- Missions, Medical --- Social reformers --- Medical missions --- Missionary medicine --- Medical assistance --- Medicine --- Medical expeditions --- Medical missionaries --- Reformers --- History. --- Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, --- Grenfell Labrador Medical Mission --- Grenfell Mission
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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.
Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, --- Americans --- Missions, Medical --- HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-). --- Medical missions --- Missionary medicine --- Medical assistance --- Medicine --- Medical expeditions --- Yankees --- Ethnology --- History
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