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This book contains a method for assessing the financial, educational and management systems and policy context, essential for strategic planning and policy-development for human resources for health. This tool has been developed as an evidence-based comprehensive diagnostic aid to inform policy-making in low and middle income countries in regards to human resources for health. It does so in three stages by assessing the current status of the health workforce and capacities for health workforce policy implementation with a particular focus on four aspects--finance, education, management, and policy-making; by identifying priority requirements and actions based on the current status of the health workforce and by showing how to sequence policies and draw up a prioritized action plan for human resources for health. This tool is designed as an initial diagnostic instrument to be used in a process of developing a national strategic plan on human resources for health. It helps to provide a rapid initial assessment and a preliminary strategic plan as part of a longer-term and sustained process of human resources planning. It is not intended to assess the appropriateness of a workforce's skills mix or the technical quality of pre-service curricula, which are the subjects of several other assessment tools . Rather, it focuses on determining--and providing sequenced recommendations to improve upon--system capacities to increase the effectiveness of the health workforce.--Publisher's description.
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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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Quality Assurance, Health Care --- Medicare --- Legislation as Topic --- Medical Assistance --- Insurance, Health --- Quality of Health Care --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Insurance --- Public Assistance --- Social Control, Formal --- Health Care --- Health Services Administration --- Financing, Government --- Financing, Organized --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Economics --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Business & Economics --- Health insurance --- Older people --- Medicaid --- Medigap --- Medical care --- Congresses --- Medicare - Congresses.
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Report of the Social Protection Floor Advisory Group chaired by Michelle Bachelet. In many ways the power of the social protection floor lies in its simplicity. The floor is based on the idea that everyone should enjoy at least basic income security sufficient to live, guaranteed through transfers in cash or in kind, such as pensions for the elderly and persons with disabilities, child benefits, income support benefits and/or employment guarantees and services for the unemployed and working poor.
Education. --- Sanitation. --- Social planning. --- Social security. --- Water-supply. --- World health. --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences --- Social Welfare & Social Work - General --- Social service --- Sanitation --- Public health --- Education --- International cooperation. --- International agencies --- Medical assistance --- Public health laws, International --- World health --- E-books
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"Offers an innovative, accessible field guide for global health workers in diplomatic aspects of their work Provides helpful insight on how to resolve ethical dilemmas in global health (e.g. resource allocation decisions) Maintains a high level of focus on advanced aspects of global health program design and delivery"--
Public health --- World health. --- Medical policy --- International cooperation. --- Global health --- International health --- Medical geography --- International agencies --- Medical assistance --- Public health laws, International --- World health --- Health care policy --- Health policy --- Medical care --- Medicine and state --- Policy, Medical --- Public health policy --- State and medicine --- Science and state --- Social policy --- International cooperation --- Government policy
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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.
Public health --- International cooperation. --- World Health Organization --- History --- History. --- Wereldgezondheidsorganisatie --- World health organization --- International agencies --- Medical assistance --- Public health laws, International --- World health --- International Agencies --- World Health --- organization & administration&delete& --- English --- History&delete& --- World Health Organization. --- E-books --- International Health --- Worldwide Health --- International Health Problems --- Health Problem, International --- Health Problems, International --- Health, Global --- Health, International --- Health, World --- Health, Worldwide --- Healths, International --- International Health Problem --- International Healths --- Problem, International Health --- Problems, International Health --- Agencies, International --- Agency, International --- International Agency --- history&delete& --- Dictionaries. --- organization & administration
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The pressure of climate change, environmental degradation, and urbanisation, as well as the widening of socio- economic disparities have rendered the global population increasingly vulnerable to the impact of natural disasters. With a primary focus on medical and public health humanitarian response to disasters, Public Health Humanitarian Responses to Natural Disasters provides a timely critical analysis of public health responses to natural disasters.Using a number of case studies and examples of innovative disaster response measures developed by international agencies and stakeholders, this book illustrates how theoretical understanding of public health issues can be practically applied in the context of humanitarian relief response. Starting with an introduction to public health principles within the context of medical and public health disaster and humanitarian response, the book goes on to explore key trends, threats and challenges in contemporary disaster medical response.This book provides a comprehensive overview of an emergent discipline and offers a unique multidisciplinary perspective across a range of relevant topics including the concepts of disaster preparedness and resilience, and key challenges in human health needs for the twenty-first century. This book will be of interest to students of public health, disaster and emergency medicine and development studies, as well as to development and medical practitioners working within NGOs, development agencies, health authorities and public administration.
Disaster medicine. --- Medical assistance. --- Disaster relief. --- Humanitarian assistance. --- Assistance, Medical --- Medical technical assistance --- Humanitarian assistance --- Medicine --- Technical assistance --- Mass casualties --- Disaster relief --- Emergency medicine --- International cooperation --- Treatment --- Humanitarian aid --- International relief --- Disaster assistance --- Emergency assistance in disasters --- Emergency relief --- Emergency management --- Human services --- Africa --- Climate Change --- capabilities --- children --- cyclone --- degradation --- drought --- Environmental policy --- Environmental studies --- earthquake --- elderly --- epidemiology --- famine --- floods --- food --- hazards --- heat waves --- Japan --- mental health --- Oxfam --- preparedness --- psychological --- resilience --- shelter --- urbanisation --- volcanic eruption --- vulnerabilities --- women
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Few United States government programs are as controversial as those designed to aid the poor. From tax credits to medical assistance, aid to needy families is surrounded by debate-on what benefits should be offered, what forms they should take, and how they should be administered. The past few decades, in fact, have seen this debate lead to broad transformations of aid programs themselves, with Aid to Families with Dependent Children replaced by Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, the Earned Income Tax Credit growing from a minor program to one of the most important for low-income families, and Medicaid greatly expanding its eligibility. This volume provides a remarkable overview of how such programs actually work, offering an impressive wealth of information on the nation's nine largest "means-tested" programs-that is, those in which some test of income forms the basis for participation. For each program, contributors describe origins and goals, summarize policy histories and current rules, and discuss the recipient's characteristics as well as the different types of benefits they receive. Each chapter then provides an overview of scholarly research on each program, bringing together the results of the field's most rigorous statistical examinations. The result is a fascinating portrayal of the evolution and current state of means-tested programs, one that charts a number of shifts in emphasis-the decline of cash assistance, for instance, and the increasing emphasis on work. This exemplary portrait of the nation's safety net will be an invaluable reference for anyone interested in American social policy.
Income maintenance programs - United States - Congresses. --- Income maintenance programs. --- Public welfare. --- Public welfare - United States - Congresses. --- Economic History --- Business & Economics --- Income maintenance programs --- Public welfare --- Income transfer programs --- Transfer payments --- Family allowances --- Guaranteed annual income --- Social security --- Basic income --- economics, economy, economical research, united states of america, usa, american society, welfare system, government programs, governing bodies, aid, tax credits, medical assistance, support, low income families, participation, policy history, maintenance program, medicaid, food and nutrition, housing, households, child care, employment, private vs public, statistical examinations, statistics.
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"The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is the agency in the Department of Health and Human Services responsible for providing health coverage for seniors and people with disabilities, for limited-income individuals and families, and for children--totaling almost 100 million beneficiaries. The agency's core mission was established more than four decades ago with a mandate to focus on the prompt payment of claims, which now total more than 1.2 billion annually. With CMS's mission expanding from its original focus on prompt claims payment come new requirements for the agency's information technology (IT) systems. Strategies and Priorities for Information Technology at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reviews CMS plans for its IT capabilities in light of these challenges and to make recommendations to CMS on how its business processes, practices, and information systems can best be developed to meet today's and tomorrow's demands. The report's recommendations and conclusions offered cluster around the following themes: (1) the need for a comprehensive strategic technology plan; (2) the application of an appropriate metamethodology to guide an iterative, incremental, and phased transition of business and information systems; (3) the criticality of IT to high-level strategic planning and its implications for CMS's internal organization and culture; and (4) the increasing importance of data and analytical efforts to stakeholders inside and outside CMS. Given the complexity of CMS's IT systems, there will be no simple solution. Although external contractors and advisory organizations will play important roles, CMS needs to assert well-informed technical and strategic leadership. The report argues that the only way for CMS to succeed in these efforts is for the agency, with its stakeholders and Congress, to recognize resolutely that action must be taken, to begin the needed cultural and organizational transformations, and to develop the appropriate internal expertise to lead the initiative with a comprehensive, incremental, iterative, and integrated approach that effectively and strategically integrates business requirements and IT capabilities."--Publisher's description.
Medicaid. --- Medicare. --- Medicaid --- Medical Assistance --- Information technology. --- Health insurance --- Poor --- Medicare --- Older people --- Medigap --- IT (Information technology) --- Technology --- Telematics --- Information superhighway --- Knowledge management --- Medical care --- Medical informatics --- Information technology --- E-books --- Health plans, Prepaid --- Insurance, Health --- Medical care, Prepaid --- Medical insurance --- Prepaid health plans --- Prepaid medical care --- Sickness insurance --- Insurance --- Ambulance service --- Health care reform --- Home care services --- Hospitals --- Medically uninsured persons --- Surgical clinics --- Prospective payment --- Emergency services --- Outpatient services --- Rehabilitation services --- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S.) --- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (U.S.) --- Centros de Servicios de Medicare y Medicaid (U.S.) --- CMS --- United States.
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Assesses current systems for tracking health resource flows to and within developing countries to determine what would constitute a truly global tracking system able to address both the needs of potential users and the current systems' limitations.
Military planning --- History --- China --- United States --- Military policy. --- Armed Forces --- Reorganization. --- War planning --- Military administration --- Military policy --- Planning --- Arab-Israeli conflict --- Newly independent states --- #SBIB:328H513 --- #SBIB:328H514 --- Countries, Newly independent --- Nations, Newly independent --- Nations, Young --- New countries --- New nations --- New states --- States, New --- States, Newly independent --- States, Young --- Young nations --- Young states --- Political science --- New democracies --- Arab-Israeli peace process --- Mid-East peace process --- Middle East peace process --- Middle Eastern peace process --- Peace process in the Middle East --- Peace --- Instellingen en beleid: Palestijnen --- Instellingen en beleid: Israël --- Palestine --- Economic conditions. --- Politics and government. --- Social conditions. --- E-books --- World health. --- Health care rationing. --- Public health surveillance. --- Public health --- International agencies --- Medical assistance --- Public health laws, International --- World health --- Population surveillance (Public health) --- Surveillance, Public health --- Epidemiology --- Health resources rationing --- Medical care rationing --- Rationing of health care --- Rationing of medical care --- Medical economics --- Medical policy --- Rationing --- Global health --- International health --- Medical geography --- Research --- Methodology. --- International cooperation. --- International cooperation --- Newly independent states. --- Peace.
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