... a seminal moment in public health—a field with a notoriously short memory—in hopes that the experiences gained from this historical eradication program may hold lessons for future policy efforts. It is also an attempt to create a record of the living guinea worm itself, the human struggles it has...

... audit culture Indian Medical Association India tuberculosis treatment public health global health public–private collaborations Ten years ago, Paul Farmer called tuberculosis the “forgotten plague” ( Farmer 2000 :185). While millions of people were dying every year of TB, the disease had become...

... Georges Dannreuther Charles Gideon Jasmine Chile mental health programs public health depression global health psychopharmaceuticals antidepressants domestic relations “If I give money, I exist,” said Violeta. It was October 2004, and Violeta had hardly eaten for the past week. I came to visit...

... research (to make new biomedical knowledge therapeutically available); shifts in moral culture and repairing the legacies of structural adjustment (the political economy of public health); forward-looking values (entering into dialogue to build civil society foundations for public health...

...This chapter turns to the global concern about aging societies, and the so-called epidemic of aging. It argues that a public health approach to aging and Alzheimer's will have a much greater effect in reducing the incidence of Alzheimer disease (AD) worldwide than will the technologically oriented...

...This chapter traces the history of select endeavors that focused on place-based changes as a mechanism to improve the health, safety, and well-being of urban residents. Unfortunately, these endeavors evolved in silos, with urban planners and public-health and criminal-justice practitioners working...

...This chapter looks at interventions for land and open spaces and their impact on public health and safety. Abandoned, vacant, and neglected land is of great and growing concern in many cities. The chapter considers recent efforts to address this sort of land-based blight and how planners can...

... humankind with healthy places to live. “Active Living by Design ” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC Chapin Stuart Jr public health Robert Wood Johnson Foundation urban planning federal research and development model foundation funding Laura and John Arnold Foundation National...

... strategies and public health responses. It highlights key aspects of the initial Soviet management of the Chernobyl disaster and shows how ambiguities related to the interpretation of radiation-related physical damage subjected post-Chernobyl state interventions and medical surveillance to a variety...

... that the Senegalese type was less severe. This book traces how this genetic discourse has blotted from view the roles that Senegalese patients and doctors have played in making sickle cell “mild” in a social setting where public health priorities and economic austerity programs have forced people to improvise...

... highlights the limitations and the dissent associated with biomarker detection. It argues that basic research must continue, but should be complemented by a public health approach to prevention that is economically feasible, more humane, and much more effective globally than one exclusively focused...

..., often far-from-rational, individual behavior. When multiple agents of this new type move and interact spatially, they collectively generate an astonishing range of dynamics spanning the fields of social conflict, psychology, public health, law, network science, and economics. The book weaves...

...This concluding chapter presents emerging knowledge in both epigenetics and epidemiology, suggesting that forms of prevention that take a public health approach, including lifestyle changes, reduced exposure to toxins, reductions in poverty, increased community support, and other variables...

...This chapter examines the impact of “evidence-based medicine” (EBM) on global public health. An epistemic transformation in the field of global health is underway, and it argues that the impact of EBM has been twofold: (1) the creation of an experimental metric as a means of providing health care...

...This chapter looks closely at some of the more fine-grained processes of clinical care in order to suggest how cancer, as an emergent issue in African public health, forces longstanding questions of palliation to the foreground and highlights the intensely social nature of pain. It explores...

...In 1996, Brazil became the first developing country to adopt an official policy granting free access to antiretroviral drugs through its broad-reaching but ailing public health care system (SUS). In the wake of the country's highly publicized antiretroviral drug rollout, public health and care have...

... public health public safety while most people understand the impact of parks and open space on human health, the relationship with commercial environments is less clear. In this chapter, we seek to explore recent place-based interventions in both park and commercial spaces with an eye toward...

... Health Service at a moment of explosive growth, championing a vastly expanded mandate for the agency and building a more effective public health infrastructure in the states. Outside the Treasury, she spearheaded a campaign to elevate health care to the status of a “basic American right.” In the course...

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