Book: Rethinking Global Health - open access

Rethinking Global Health

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psy-disciplines:  intra- interpersonal domains subjectification - objectification  learning emotional labour burnout precarious researchers -  acknowledgement of contributions equity personal truth	ebola, cholera, HIV/AIDS, COVID-19, PTSD ... 'emergency', natural diasters climate crises: geography local - global - glocal remote - rural - urban (physical) systems tarmac bias data, information access (SDGs?) digital  divide, epistemic justice
collective 'truth' violence against the 'others' - women, children ... symbolic, structural and  collaboration, cooperation,  co-production, co-design, co-owned with communities socialisation - (into global health work) civil society mobilisation inclusion, empowerment social/cultural/ethnic history social - community - group:  psychology	POWER, poverty global - mental health - physical health (parity of health: determinants^) institutional violence co-ownership paternalism, colonialism humanitarianism NGOs - WHO - Institutions (political) systems decision-making (where, when, who, how ...?) finance - resources 'development' political history

^All of them...

Burgess, R.A. (2023). Rethinking Global Health: Frameworks of Power (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315623788

My source: Twitter

Please also note the inter- multi- transdisciplinary bridges provided by Hodges' model, including well established 'avenues' of psycho-social, socio-technical, psycho-political, geo-political, socio-economic and others.

Webinar 3 February: An Investment Case to End FGM

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Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to invite you to a webinar to commemorate International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation: 

An Investment Case to End Female Genital Mutilation

Thursday 3 February 2022 at 8am EST/2pm CET/4pm EAT 

The webinar will bring together global stakeholders and experts to discuss the economic burden of FGM and the urgent action needed to achieve Sustainable Development Goal target 5.3 on the abandonment of FGM. 

The webinar will coincide with the publication of the “Economic Burden of Female Genital Mutilation in 27 High-Prevalence Countries” by BMJ Global Health, a study, conducted by WHO, in collaboration with Triangulate Health Ltd. 

There will be live interpretation in French and Arabic. You can register here. 

Please join us and please share the link to the event with your networks.

Kind regards, 

Christina

Christina Pallitto, PhD
Scientist
Dept. of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research

Skype: cpallitto
Mail: pallittoc AT who.int

My source: GANM and IBPnetwork lists (and the images above).

"... Two beds and a coffee machine ..."

poetry in lyrics ...

 

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"Wonder how I ever made it through And there are children to think of Baby's asleep in the back seat Wonder how they'll ever make it Through this living nightmare But the mind is an amazing thing Full of candy dreams and new toys ..."	"Another ditch in the road You keep moving Another stop sign You keep moving on And the years go by so fast ..."
	"Another bruise to try and hide Another alibi to write ...."

savage garden

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Hayes Darren Stanley / Jones Daniel

Two Beds and a Coffee Machine lyrics © Rough Cut Music Pty Ltd.

 

Book: "Foundations of Global Health & Human Rights" i

Foundations of Global Health & Human Rights

This book would have been a timely and great read back in 1998 when my online career began. Of course, back then the global health and human rights environment we know today was incomplete; even as core challenges and barriers were a known and frustrating presence. In nursing theory, practice and management there was much policy and politics to also run its course. As policy and law continue to play out over the past two decades, the relevance of Hodges' model is also continually affirmed.

"Foundations .." is a dense read, but it is meant to be. There are two clues, one is on the cover especially if your work is in health, in a developed nation, but you have no experience of working in humanitarian crisis situations. Thankfully, or not, that is the case for the vast majority of us, but this text could persuade many to get involved. Many who might think of nursing, medicine, public health and other more obvious clinical pathways may realise there is another way

The other clue is how each chapter has a series of questions to check your reading and attention. I could not answer them all but I will hide behind the excuse that in providing the foundations I am busy laying bricks, timber, whatever materials are to hand. The book was published last year and COVID-19 is ongoing and recognised as a global event, but its full impact is not yet apparent. Whether this could justify a revised edition I'm not sure. There is much to add, but the same can be said of so many books now.

Nonetheless the book delivers, organised in four sections:

I. The Human Rights Movement: International Norms and Principles
II. Bringing Rights Home: Tools for Human Rights Implementation and Accountability
III. Contemporary Applications: Healthy People, Healthy Populations
IV. New Challenges: Human Rights to Advance Public Health in a Globalizing Era

From OUP, the quality [pb] is high as expected, with clear type and an appealing, if conventional layout. The book is pretty heavy, 254x178mm and over more than 467 pages. In the car the steering wheel is a welcome support (wanting the book placed higher).

A foreword by Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus [@DrTedros] Director-General of the World Health Organization acknowledges the arrival of COVID and WHO's role as a catalyst in the global response. Dr Tedros concludes:

"'Health is a human right' must be more than just a slogan - it must be embedded in international law, national legislation, and health policies, a commitment to protecting and promoting the right to health for all people, in all countries, through global solidarity." p.xiv

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QUALITY, SUBJECTIVE	OBJECTIVE, QUANTITY
"Health is a human right"	"Health is a human right"

From the introduction and throughout the explanation of history is very welcome. The book readily qualifies as a foundational teaching text. The preface's intent to provide a holistic perspective on the field, is well achieved. There is a developmental pathway in the sections and chapters with references back to what was covered previously. This is helpful and in my reading drew attention to what still must be resolved.

More to follow ...

Foundations of Global Health & Human Rights. (2020) Lawrence O. Gostin and Benjamin Mason Meier (Eds.), Oxford: OUP. ISBN: 9780197528303.

 

Seeing red ... the colour of social progress and justice ...?

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	Toya Sarno Jordan / Reuters

Photograph: Toya Sarno Jordan / Reuters - Seeing red A member of a feminist collective paints the helmet of a riot police officer during a protest against gender and police violence in Mexico City. More than 1,000 Mexican women were murdered because of their gender last year, and there was also a rise in sexual harassment and assault by police.

World News, The Daily Telegraph [UK], 13 November 2020, p.17.

http://www.toyasarnojordan.com/

Photo: https://uk.reuters.com/news/picture/top-photos-of-the-day-idUKRTX898PP