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Governing global health : who runs the world and why?
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ISBN: 0190253290 0190253282 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York, New York : Oxford University Press,

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An even-handed and thorough empirical analysis of one of the most pressing topics in world affairs, Governing Global Health will reshape our understanding of how organizations can more effectively prevent the spread of communicable diseases like AIDS and reduce pervasive chronic health problems like malnutrition.


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World cancer report 2014
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ISBN: 9789283204299 Publisher: Lyon WHO

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This book from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the specialized cancer agency of the World Health Organization, provides a unique global view of cancer, including cancer patterns, causes, and prevention. The World Cancer Report series is recognized as an authoritative source of global perspective and information on cancer. The first volume appeared in 2003 and the second in 2008. This third volume in the series encompasses both established knowledge and recent research achievement.World Cancer Report provides a professional, multidisciplinary assessment of all aspects of the geographical distribution, biology, etiology, prevention, and control of cancer, predicated on research. The concise nature of the text and the high graphic content (hundreds of colour maps, diagrams, and photographs) make the publication accessible to a broad readership. World Cancer Report is designed to provide non-specialist health professionals and policy-makers with a balanced understanding of cancer control and to provide established cancer professionals with insights about recent development.The book includes chapters in which distinguished scientists from around the world provide a broad overview of established knowledge and then emphasize research activity and progress. In addition, text boxes distributed throughout the book provide short, in-depth discussions of selected questions or topics. A new feature of this volume is the inclusion of Perspectives considering the future development of different aspects of cancer research, written by those whose record of outstanding achievement qualifies them as individuals having unique vision.


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The World Health Organization between North and South
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ISBN: 0801464390 0801463920 9780801463921 9780801450655 0801450659 Year: 2012 Publisher: Ithaca, NY

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Since 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO) has launched numerous programs aimed at improving health conditions around the globe, ranging from efforts to eradicate smallpox to education programs about the health risks of smoking. In setting global health priorities and carrying out initiatives, the WHO bureaucracy has faced the challenge of reconciling the preferences of a small minority of wealthy nations, who fund the organization, with the demands of poorer member countries, who hold the majority of votes. In The World Health Organization between North and South, Nitsan Chorev shows how the WHO bureaucracy has succeeded not only in avoiding having its agenda co-opted by either coalition of member states but also in reaching a consensus that fit the bureaucracy's own principles and interests. Chorev assesses the response of the WHO bureaucracy to member-state pressure in two particularly contentious moments: when during the 1970's and early 1980's developing countries forcefully called for a more equal international economic order, and when in the 1990's the United States and other wealthy countries demanded international organizations adopt neoliberal economic reforms. In analyzing these two periods, Chorev demonstrates how strategic maneuvering made it possible for a vulnerable bureaucracy to preserve a relatively autonomous agenda, promote a consistent set of values, and protect its interests in the face of challenges from developing and developed countries alike.


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Health for all = Saúde para todos : the journey of universal health coverage = o caminho para cobertura universal de saúde
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Year: 2015 Publisher: Hyderabad Orient Blackswan

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Universal Health Coverage as defined by the World Health Organization encompasses equal access for all to good quality health services and with no financial risk for those in need of them. As such it is a modern term formulated on western ideas of health, however the philosophy it conveys has existed for many centuries across different regions and cultures of the world. 'Health For All' is based on series of seminars which formed part of the World Health Organization's Global Health Histories project. It explores the development of universal health coverage in diverse contexts, the political and economic trends that effected the running of these schemes, and, not least, critical perspectives into the variety of links between structures of national universal healthcare systems.


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L'Organisation mondiale de la santé
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ISBN: 2130472648 294054929X 9782130472643 Year: 1995 Volume: *7 Publisher: Paris PUF

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Ce livre est le quatrième d'une série d'ouvrages consacrés à une sélection d'organisations internationales, publiés sous l'égide de l'Institut Universitaire de Hautes Études Internationales et de la Società italiana per l'organizzazione internationale de Rome : les trois premiers titres sont L'Organisation pour l'Alimentation et l'Agriculture, Le Comité International de la Croix-Rouge et L'Organisation Internationale du Travail. Ce livre sur l'OMS est le premier ouvrage universitaire, non médical, en français, sur cette organisation mal connue. Il décrit et évalue non seulement le mandat, la structure et l'administration de l'OMS, mais également l'évolution de sa stratégie et ses principaux programmes. Il rappelle tout d'abord ses origines historiques, les conférences sanitaires internationales et les premières organisations internationales de santé publique. Sont ensuite examinés la naissance de l'OMS, ses objectifs principaux et l'évolution de sa stratégie, y compris le concept de « La santé pour tous d'ici l'An 2000 » et les critiques qui lui ont été apportées. L'évolution structurelle de l'Organisation, la composition ainsi que le fonctionnement des organes directeurs sont ensuite abordés. Les limites normatives de l'OMS sont analysées, avec l'exemple de la difficile adoption du Code international de commercialisation des substituts du lait maternel, ainsi que les relations de l'Organisation avec les ONG. Dans le cadre du rôle opérationnel de l'OMS, l'échec du Programme d'éradication du paludisme, la croisade victorieuse contre la variole et la lutte contre le SIDA et l'onchocercose sont donnés en exemple. Enfin, les questions budgétaires et financières, la coordination et la coopération avec les autres organisations, dont le PNUD, l'UNICEF, le FNUAP et les organisations humanitaires sont aussi exposées. La conclusion résume les défis auxquels l'OMS est confrontée, les critiques qui lui sont adressées et les réformes envisagées.


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Historical dictionary of the World Health Organization
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ISBN: 1299251536 0810878593 9780810878594 0810878585 9780810878587 Year: 2013 Publisher: Lanham, Md. Scarecrow Press

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The Historical Dictionary of the World Health Organization covers the history of the WHO through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on key bodies, programs, events and people. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the World Health Organization.


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Politiken der Generativität : Reproduktive Gesundheit, Bevölkerung und Geschlecht. Das Beispiel der Weltgesundheitsorganisation
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ISBN: 3839450225 3837650227 Year: 2020 Publisher: Bielefeld transcript Verlag

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Bevölkerungspolitik hat sich seit der UN-Bevölkerungs-Konferenz in Kairo 1994 grundlegend verändert. Geburtensteuernde Zwangsmaßnahmen wurden offiziell abgeschafft und selbstbestimmte Fortpflanzung auf die Grundlage von Menschenrechten gestellt. Allerdings sind auch die hier zugrunde liegenden Konzepte nicht frei von normativen Prämissen in Bezug auf Geschlecht, Sexualität, Ethnie und Gesundheit. Franziska Schutzbach stellt in ihrer Untersuchung - in deren Zentrum die Adaption der UN-Agenda im europäischen Kontext steht - heraus, dass die gegenwärtige Essenzialisierung der Generativität im Rahmen einer heteronormativen Zweigeschlechtlichkeit zentral für die Reproduktion der herrschenden Gesellschafts- und Geschlechterverhältnisse ist. »Schutzbachs sorgfältige, kritische Analyse der WHO-Programmatik basiert auf einem umfangreichen theoretischen Gerüst.« Hannah Zagel, Soziopolis, 25.06.2020


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Research'n practical medicine journal = : Issledovanii͡a i praktika v medit͡sine.
ISSN: 24092231 24101893 Year: 2014 Publisher: Moskva : OOO "Kvazar"

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Recovery from schizophrenia
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ISBN: 1280846887 0195345495 1429459484 9781429459488 9780195313673 0195313674 9781280846885 0197708498 Year: 2007 Publisher: Oxford New York Oxford University Press

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In the late 1960's, the World Health Organization initiated a series of international studies of the incidence, characteristics, course, and consequences of schizophrenia. Those studies - the largest ever in the history of psychiatry - provided important data about the disorder in groups of patients living in different countries and cultures, and first focused attention on the differences in short-term prognosis for schizophrenia between the third world and industrialized countries. In the 1990's, the International Study of Schizophrenia (ISoS) set out to relocate those subjects and to determine


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Armut und Gesundheit : Öffentliche Ringvorlesung Wintersemester 2013/2014

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Der Zusammenhang von Armut und Krankheit, bzw. mangelnder Gesundheit, ist immer schon klar ersichtlich gewesen. In einer Vorlesungsreihe stellten Vertreter verschiedener Disziplinen, die sich im Göttingen International Health Network (GIHN) zusammengeschlossen haben, ausgewählte Aspekte vor, die darstellen, wie Armut und Gesundheit miteinander verknüpft sind. Die Fragen, Probleme, Erklärungs- und Interventionsmodelle beziehen sich besonders auf Afrika und Indien und Anrainerstaaten. Mit der Vorlesungsreihe stellten sich die Vertreter der verschiedenen Fächer bewusst einer allgemeineren Öffentlichkeit und bemühten sich, auch komplexe Themen verständlich und doch auf neuestem Stand der Forschung darzustellen. The connection between poverty and illness or lack of health has always been clear. In a series of lectures, representatives of various disciplines who have joined forces in the Göttingen International Health Network (GIHN) presented selected aspects that illustrate how poverty and health are linked together. The questions, problems, explanatory and intervention models particularly refer to Africa and India and riparian states. With the lecture series, the representatives of the various subjects deliberately set themselves apart from a more general public and endeavored to present even complex topics in a comprehensible and yet state-of-the-art way.

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