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Public health --- International cooperation. --- International agencies --- Medical assistance --- Public health laws, International --- World health
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Biosecurity. --- Communicable diseases --- Public health --- Prevention. --- International cooperation. --- Biosecurity --- Human security --- Biological weapons --- International agencies --- Medical assistance --- Public health laws, International --- World health --- Safety measures --- Prevention
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Each year, billions of dollars are spent on global humanitarian health initiatives. These efforts are intended to care for suffering bodies, especially those of distressed children living in poverty. But as global medical aid can often overlook the local economic and political systems that cause bodily suffering, it can also unintentionally prolong the very conditions that hurt children and undermine local aid givers. Investigating medical humanitarian encounters in Egypt, Paradoxes of Care illustrates how child aid recipients and local aid experts grapple with global aid's shortcomings and its paradoxical outcomes. Rania Kassab Sweis examines how some of the world's largest aid organizations care for vulnerable children in Egypt, focusing on medical efforts with street children and out-of-school village girls. Her in-depth ethnographic study reveals how global medical aid fails to "save" these children according to its stated aims, and often maintains—or produces new—social disparities in children's lives. Foregrounding vulnerable children's responses to medical aid, Sweis moves past the unquestioned benevolence of global health to demonstrate how children must manage their own bodies and lives in the absence of adult care. With this book, she challenges readers to engage with the question of what medical caregivers and donors alike gain from such global humanitarian transactions.
Children --- Medical assistance --- Child health services --- Health and hygiene --- Anthropology. --- Children. --- Egypt. --- Gender. --- Global health. --- International aid. --- Medical Humanitarianis. --- Medical aid. --- Street Children. --- Village girls.
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Addressing multiple empirical case studies, including COVID-19, this multidisciplinary book explores the relationship between international law and international relations to interrogate how a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) is declared and its role in how we collectively respond to outbreaks.
Public health laws. --- Public health --- Communicable diseases --- Medical laws and legislation --- International agencies --- Medical assistance --- Public health laws, International --- World health --- International cooperation. --- Law and legislation --- Public health laws --- Public health - International cooperation
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"The accounts of women navigating pregnancy in a post-conflict setting are characterized by widespread poverty, weak infrastructure, and inadequate health services. In investigating maternity care and birth, Global Health and The Village examines a remote rural agrarian region of northern Uganda, a region characterized by a weak healthcare system in the aftermath of decades long armed conflict. Drawing on extensive original qualitative research, Global Health and The Village brings the complex local and transnational factors governing women's access to safe maternity care into focus. As well as examining local cultural, social, economic, and health system factors shaping maternity care and birth, Rudrum analyzes the encounter between ambitious global health goals and the local realities of a remote, agrarian, post-conflict community with poor health services. Interrogating how culture and technical problems are framed in international health interventions, it becomes clear that the objectifying and colonizing premises on which interventions are based mean that rather than being 'unanticipated,' the negative consequences that too often result from international interventions in health are structurally determined."--
Childbirth --- Maternal health services --- Medical assistance --- Public health --- War and society --- World health. --- International cooperation. --- Acholi. --- Uganda. --- critical health studies. --- global health. --- institutional ethnography. --- maternity care. --- women’s health.
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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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