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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"International Health"”.
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Strengthening cross-cultural policy transfer : the case of international health promotion and tobacco control
… to the issue of cross-cultural transfer of internationally initiated health promotion and tobacco control policies. It explores the process of cross-cultural policy transfer, analyses the difficulties, proposes methods to overcome them, and tests the approach in Bulgaria. Generally focused …
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European aid and health system strengthening : an analysis of donor approaches in the DRC, Ethiopia, Uganda, Mozambique and the Global Fund
In the field of international health assistance, there is a growing consensus on the limits of disease-specific interventions and the need for more health system strengthening. European donors are considered to be strong supporters of health system strengthening. Nevertheless, little is known about …
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The effect of ageing on the control of toe clearance during walking
… and the associated risk of falling is an international health problem in older adult populations. The average distance between the toe and the ground surface is approximately 1.3cm at the event where the toe reaches a minimum clearance height during leg swing of walking (Winter 1991, Begg …
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Pulmonary Tuberculosis: towards improved adjunctive therapies
… Indonesia, through a collaboration between the International Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research (Darwin, Australia), the National Institute for Health Research and Development (Ministry of Health, Indonesia), and the Australian National University (Canberra)...This thesis …
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Pulmonary Tuberculosis: towards improved adjunctive therapies
… Indonesia, through a collaboration between the International Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research (Darwin, Australia), the National Institute for Health Research and Development (Ministry of Health, Indonesia), and the Australian National University (Canberra)...This thesis …
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Treatment as a Common Good: Adopting HIV/AIDS Policy in Russia and South Africa, 1999-2008
… to initiatives and expertise as provided by international health organizations. Although following international recommendations often improves domestic public health, in certain circumstances resistance to adopting them persists. My core theoretical argument suggests that a strong societal …
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Impact of structural adjustment policies on health in developing countries
The impact on health of the structural adjustment policies has emerged as a controversial debate in international health. Some economists and public health researchers and some government and non-government commentators allege that the structural adjustment programs have had a detrimental health …
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Alignment between chronic disease policy and practice : case study at a primary care facility
… prevention and management of chronic diseases an international health priority. In South Africa, our Health Minister has committed the government to tackling the burden of chronic diseases alongside communicable diseases. The Western Cape has developed an excellent policy and framework to guide …
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Intersectoral policy approaches to healthy cities with a focus on built and food environments
… with factors that influence risk of disease and healthcare access, and may contribute to, and exacerbate, inequities in health outcomes. Increasing global attention is given to the link between characteristics of built and food environments and health. In addition, international health agendas …
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Figuring the Middle Ground: A Search for Authorship in Perceiving China's COVID-19 Lockdowns
… interpretation of the COVID-19 pandemic as an international health emergency that affected everyone. Although somewhat fuzzy and uneasy, the “middle ground” position indicates the possibility that a personal desire to develop one’s authorship can lead to a means of making sense of a global …
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Abanyasida: Emergent Subjectivities And Socialities In Rwandan Associations For People Living With Hiv
… a post-genocide context alongside national and international health policies and programs. The associations emerged under the guise of a government mandate of coming together to solve local problems. The idea of coming together is unpacked and the rhetoric of coming together scrutinized. Coming …
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Planning Out Obesity
The increase in obesity levels is not only an international health crisis but also a social and financial burden. Traditional health promotion approaches to address the problem have received limited success. The collaboration of a number of diverse sectors, for example social, economic, and …
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Managing actors in South African health financing reform : testing a conceptual framework
Health financing reforms, especially those aimed at improving equity, are prone to opposition. Those driving health reforms frequently find themselves pitted against vested interests. The thesis explores how best a reform driver might manage other actors in the reform process to achieve key goals. …
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Public Health Officials' Perspectives on the Determinants of Health: Implications of Health Frames on Policy Implementation in State Health Departments
Recent public health scholarship finds that health outcomes are explained by the social and individual determinants of health rather than the individual-level determinants alone. The individualistic perspective has dominated the 20th century institutionalization of public health in the United …
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Forms of Global Health
… medical humanities and a literature of global health by first investigating the function of literature in the development of earlier specialties in international health, with tropical medicine at the turn of the twentieth century as a key example. Scholarship in history and rhetoric of the …
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Patient information system for national health care : an intranet internet-based model for the State of Kuwait
… a conceptual solution to Kuwait's problems in healthcare delivery. The core objective of the study which is to promote and recommend the basis for the best possible patient information and national healthcare delivery system in the State of Kuwait. The research question is directed towards the …
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"A Right to be Safely Born": The Quest for Health Justice for American Mothers and Children, 1890-1965
… government responsibility for maternal and child health represented a continuous and central goal that fueled programs and institutional networks of progressive and liberal social policy advocates. Beginning in the settlement houses of the 1890s, a cadre of female bureaucrats, social reformers, …
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Reduction of salt in yeasted wheat bread: impact on bread quality and solutions using sourdough fermented by functional lactic acid bacteria strains
… and other cardiovascular diseases. Numerous international health agencies, as well as the food industry, have now recommended a salt intake level of 5-6 g daily, approximately half of the average current daily intake level. Cereal products, and in particular bread, are a major source of salt …
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A qualitative study to critically explore the socio-ecological determinants influencing screening mammography uptake amongst Kerala migrant womenin the United Arab Emirates
… the UAE or Kerala. The socio-ecological model of health promotion that includes five levels such as individual, interpersonal, community, organisational and policy was utilised as a theoretical framework to collate and organise the findings, discuss and put forward the recommendations.FindingsThe …
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