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Showing 1 to 20 of 511 for “"global health"”.
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Forms of Global Health
… critical 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 …
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AN INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL HEALTH AND GLOBAL HEALTH ETHICS: SEVEN TOPICS FOR STUDENTS
This is a practicum thesis to develop global health curriculum for students. The thesis includes seven articles that provide an introduction to global health and global health ethics. Topics for the articles were developed through research, discussions with current students and the author’s …
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Cultural Determinants of Global Health
… of cultural values as a predictor of population health and wellbeing in a global context. Within the Social Determinants of Health (SDH) framework, several factors including social class, income and education have been studied extensively as drivers of cross-national differences in health, but …
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A Systems Approach to Global Health
Global health has developed as a concept over the past 25 years and signifies the efforts by a host of transnational actors directed toward health equity across the world. A holistic enterprise, global health involves not only the improvement of healthcare, but also embraces academic, political and …
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Global Health, Social Justice, and Corporate Accountability
… four offers public policy suggestions related to global trade, drawing on the work of economists, legal scholars, and policy experts. Chapter five draws on the work of activists and sociologists to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of direct resistance. Social movements around the world …
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Global Health Security Agenda Legal Landscape Assessment
<p>The Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) was created on February 13, 2014, to improve country's ability to detect, prevent and respond to emerging health threats. Eleven action packages were created. The detection action package included antimicrobial resistance, zoonotic diseases, national …
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An electrical microcytometer for portable blood analysis in global health applications
… T cell counts is too taxing on the debilitated healthcare infrastructure of undeveloped nations because of its high cost, technical demands, and lack of portability. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop a portable, robust, and affordable point-of-care (PoC) CD4+ T cell counter that can …
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An analysis of changing dietary trends and the implications for global health.
… empirical literature on food consumption at the global level, the aim of this research is to explore dietary trends and dietary types around the world linked with the indications that they imply for obesity and global health. To this aim, annual food availability data collated by the Food and …
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Catalysis, Synthesis, and Materials in Support of Chemical Understanding and Global Health
… Chapter 4: The approach to reproductive health and safety in academic laboratories requires increased focus and a shift in paradigm. Our analysis of the current guidance from more than 100 academic institutions’ Chemical Hygiene Plans (CHPs) indicates that the burden to implement …
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The Global Health Humanities: Origins, Current Contours, and Future Directions of an Emerging Field
The general metadata -- e.g., title, author, abstract, subject headings, etc. -- is publicly available, but access to the submitted files is restricted to UT Southwestern campus access and/or authorized UT Southwestern users.
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Financing the "Valley of Death" : an evaluation of incentive schemes for global health businesses
… a result, the "valley of death" phenomenon for a global health company developing a therapeutic for a neglected disease is even more pronounced As a result, private sector funding for translational research of neglected disease therapeutics has beeri severely lacking. In an effort to spur more …
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Advancing global health education in nursing: An insider’s journey of professional learning and leadership development
… registered nurse with 25 years of experience in global health, I have learned that clinical expertise is only one component of effective practice. Global health work involves finding creative solutions in resource-limited settings while navigating complex cultural and organisational dynamics. As …
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The impact of multidisciplinary mobilities on the effectiveness of global health and international development projects
The mobility of healthcare professionals from high-income countries (HICs) to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has been growing rapidly over recent decades. The ‘international elective placement’, which was once a preserve of medical student curricula, has now become increasingly common …
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The impact of mHealth on adolescent global health outcomes: A scoping review of mHealth initiatives
Negative health behaviour during the period of adolescence contributes to the global burden of mortality, chronic disease, and preventable disability from physical injury. It is therefore essential to encourage positive health behaviour such as on-time vaccination, safer sex practices, and early …
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Coping behaviour of low-income country researchers in global health collaborations with high-income country researchers
In this study, I investigated conditions of structural inequality that biomedical researchers based in low-income countries currently experience across key stages of collaboration with researchers based in high-income countries and the extent to which these conditions determine specific individual …
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Turning quicksand into bedrock : understanding the dynamic effects of disease-focused global health aid on health systems
… do "vertical" disease- or intervention-focused global health programs impact the underlying health systems of the nations they serve? Vertical programs-health aid focused on a particular disease, such as HIV, or type of intervention, such as immunization-receive the lion's share of global health …
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Financing Global Health Governance: The World Health Organization, the WHO Foundation, and the Shifting Landscape of Development Financing
… structural financing challenges facing the World Health Organization (WHO) and their implications for global health governance. It argues that WHO’s financial fragility is not merely a technical problem but the result of long-standing political and institutional choices that have shifted the …
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Knowledge Construction and Multiple Realities: Global Health Collaborations, Development Practices, And Face Masks in The Context of Covid-19
This thesis is inspired by a global health collaborative programme named GRASPIT and by my own desire to do something good which can benefit the people in need as well as reduce suffering. The GRASPIT collaboration intended to improve post-operative outcomes, but the programme failed to deliver the …
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International Responses to Health Epidemics: An Analysis of Global Health Actors' Responses to Persistent Cholera Outbreaks in Harare, Zimbabwe.
… 4000 deaths. The dissertation analyses three global health actors' responses to persistent cholera outbreaks in Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe. Building on previous scholarship of water, cholera and politics, the dissertation compares global health actors' responses to the 2008/2009 and …
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