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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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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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Employing a Zellner-type indirect regression technique, and data from the 1972 California Copayment Experiment, the authors attempt to assess the impact of a copayment requirement on utilization of health care resources by the poor. Focus is on three questions regarding effects of an increase in out-of-pocket cost of physician office visits: (1) Will such an increase inhibit demand for ambulatory care? (2) Will it increase or decrease demand for hospitalization? (3) How will it affect total resource cost of health care services, both in and out of hospitals? The results indicate that a $1 copayment requirement apparently decreases demand for physician visits by 8 percent and increases demand for hospital inpatient services by 17 percent. Although the confidence intervals are large, point estimates indicate that copayment increases overall program costs by a statistically insignificant 3 to 8 percent. Thus copayments could be self-defeating as a method of controlling medical costs in a welfare population.
Medical care, Cost of --- Copayments (Insurance) --- Medical care --- Medicaid --- Fees, Medical --- Hospitalization --- Medical assistance, Title 19 --- Utilization --- Economics
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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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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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"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
World health --- Public health --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Global health --- International health --- Medical geography --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- International cooperation --- World health. --- International cooperation. --- Ethical aspects. --- Political aspects. --- International agencies --- Medical assistance --- Public health laws, International
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"This edited volume is directed at experts in international law, practitioners in international institutions, and other experts who would like to familiarize themselves with the legal framework of infectious disease governance. Using the West African Ebola crisis as a case study, this book is part of a larger collaborative project on international health governance. Project partners are the Forschungsstatte der Evangelischen Studiengemeinschaft e.V. - Institute for Interdisciplinary Research and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (MPIL). The authors explain the context and substantive legal framework of the Ebola crisis, while also highlighting its human rights aspects, institutional law (such as the debate on the securitization of health), and the limits to a purely legal approach to the subject. The authors are experts in public international law, public health, political science, and anthropology."--Google Books.
Communicable diseases --- Ebola virus disease --- Epidemics --- Public health laws, International. --- Public health --- Prevention. --- Government policy. --- International cooperation. --- International agencies --- Medical assistance --- Public health laws, International --- World health --- International public health laws --- International sanitary regulations --- International law --- Disease outbreaks --- Diseases --- Outbreaks of disease --- Pestilences --- Ebola fever --- Ebola hemorrhagic fever --- Hemorrhagic fever --- Virus diseases --- Biosecurity --- Law and legislation --- Outbreaks --- Pandemics --- Africa, West. --- Africa, West --- Western Africa
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Partant des grandes évolutions de la coopération sanitaire au cours des vingt dernières années, Dominique Kerouedan s’intéresse à la façon dont les transformations de la gouvernance mondiale dans le domaine de la santé permettent de répondre aux réalités locales. En recourant à l’histoire, à la sociologie des relations internationales et à la philosophie de la mondialisation, elle met au premier plan de la santé publique internationale les questions de volonté politique, de pertinence, d’efficience et d’équité.
Public health --- World health. --- Globalization --- Santé publique --- Santé mondiale --- Mondialisation --- International cooperation. --- Health aspects. --- Coopération internationale --- Aspect sanitaire --- World health --- Public Health --- Health & Biological Sciences --- World Health --- International cooperation --- Health aspects --- #SBIB:39A9 --- #SBIB:316.334.3M50 --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Organisatie van de gezondheidszorg: algemeen, beleid --- Santé publique --- Santé mondiale --- Coopération internationale --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- Global health --- International health --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Medical geography --- International agencies --- Medical assistance --- Public health laws, International --- gouvernance mondiale --- santé --- géopolitique
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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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Au début du XXe siècle, les politiques de santé évoluent au gré des bouleversements des sociétés civiles confrontées au choc des armées européennes. En Grèce, les Guerres Balkaniques, la Première Guerre mondiale puis l’expédition d’Asie Mineure imposent dix années de conflit (1912-1922) durant lesquelles les mouvements de troupes et de réfugiés comme la détresse des populations forment le terreau d’épidémies dévastatrices. À cette situation de crise sanitaire, sociale et démographique, répondent pour la première fois des politiques volontaristes de prise en charge médicale et de contrôle social, dans le sillage des théories hygiénistes de la fin du XIXe siècle. Si leurs réalisations restent limitées durant la période, elles posent les bases administratives, organisationnelles et idéologiques du système de soins moderne. Cet ouvrage propose une étude de ce processus à travers l’influence de la mission militaire française puis de l’Armée française d’Orient, mettant en lumière les interactions complexes des acteurs grecs et étrangers impliqués dans cette « guerre totale ». At the start of the 20th century, the upheaval in civil societies that were confronted with the shock of European armies led to a change in public health policy. In Greece, the Balkan wars, the First World War and the Greco-Turkish War brought ten years of conflict (1912–1922) during which movements of troops and refugees and a generally distressed population provided fertile ground for devastating epidemics. For the first time ever, this health, social and demographic crisis led to the advent of pro-active medical and social policies, based on late 19th century research into public health. Even though, at the time, the policies achieved little in concrete terms, they nevertheless set down the administrative, organisational and ideological foundations of the modern health system. This publication undertakes a study of this process through the influence of the French military mission and that of the…
World War, 1914-1918 --- Medical assistance, French --- Public health --- Communicable diseases --- Health reformers --- Health aspects --- Medical care --- History --- France. --- Institut Pasteur hellénique --- Arts & Humanities --- Première Guerre mondiale --- Balkans --- santé --- histoire de la médecine --- Grèce --- Erster Weltkrieg --- Balkan --- Gesundheit --- Medizingeschichte --- Griechenland --- Primera Guerra Mundial --- Balcanes --- salud --- historia de la medicina --- Grecia --- World War I --- health --- history of medicine --- Greece --- Prima guerra mondiale --- Balcani --- salute --- storia della medicina --- 1900-1999 --- Balkan Peninsula --- Balkan Peninsula. --- Greece. --- Health aspects.
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