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.

Your story about the use of the Resilient Health Systems evidence collection

Championing evidence-based humanitarian action

Evidence Aid aims to save lives and livelihoods in disasters by providing decision-makers with the best available evidence and by championing its use.

On Wednesday, 22 November 2023 at 10:12:26 GMT, Claire Allen, UK <callen AT evidenceaid.org> wrote:

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Invite to a Disaster

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"THREE DAYS AFTER THE JANUARY 14, 1907, JAMAICAN EARTHQUAKE, two American naval ships, the Missouri and the Indiana, alerted by their newly installed radio receivers, moored in Kingston Harbour and disembarked sailors who patrolled the streets, shared provisions, and brought the injured to the ship's hospital. ...

When the island's British governor, Alexander Swettenham, discovered the American presence, he was apoplectic and demanded an immediate re-embarkation and expelled the US ships. The diplomatic crisis was only resolved weeks later after the governor issued a formal apology and resigned. The incident highlighted the need for international protocols around disaster diplomacy. To attend another country's catastrophe you need an invitation. The following year the first rescuers in Messina the day after the December 28, 1908, earthquake were sailors from the Russian cruiser Admiral Makarov, accompanied by two naval escorts that happened to have been moored down the coast at Augusta. Within days, rival fleets arrived from Britain, France, and the United States. A catastrophe now provided the unanticipated world stage on which nations projected their international status through the strength and speed of their humanitarian missions. Kurt Waldheim, secretary-general of the United Nations, said in 1978: "Four years ago I believed that humanitarian relief was above politics. Now I know that humanitarian relief is politics." pp.201-202.

 
Robert Muir-Wood (2016) The Cure for Catastrophe: How We Can Stop Manufacturing Natural Disasters, London: OneWorld Publications. ISBN-10: 1786070057

See also ...

The nature of catastrophe and disaster

'Faulty thinking' or 'Thinking faulty'?

Bio-Psycho-Social model ... "Outside the Asylum"

"In Sierra Leone the Krio word for sadness is 'poil-heart'. The literal translation is 'heavy-hearted'. A teenage girl explained it to me.

Outside the Asylum

'Someone who is poil-heart is in a group but she's withdrawn from it, she suffers from something and does not pay attention. If she has a baby she is confused and can neglect the baby. When she or he imagines what happened, she cries all day and cannot sleep or eat. She tries to work but it's no good. When she is at school her concentration is poor.' ...

Families lived in the ruins of their former houses. Life expectancy was less than thirty-five years. Almost every child in the group had lost at least one parent. ...

But none regarded feeling poil-heart, because of those experiences, as an 'illness'. It was a matter for friends or family, whose job it was to 'encourage' you.

The eloquent girl continued her explanation: 'If my friend was poil-heart I would go to her and talk to her to encourage her. If there was a football game I would encourage her to go. If lonely, I would ask her about her problems and exchange ideas. If she told me she could not sleep or was afraid, I would take her to my bed and share it. One would hear the problem, explain it and solve it.'

Nor did they confine themselves to individual solutions. The children were writing a play to educate people about the problems they faced. ... The drama was called All Is Not Lost." p.179-180.

Lynne Jones (2017) Outside the Asylum: A Memoir of War, Disaster and Humanitarian Psychiatry. London: W&N. ISBN 9781474605748. (Book cover image Amazon)

This isn't a review book but was a bargain in Waterstones (£6.99), Gower Street, London. I really wish the rail-strike situation was resolved. Waiting to visit again ... This is a great book too!!

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The Conference will be hosted by the International Centre for Evidence in Disability

Date: 14 - 17 March 2022
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COVID-19 has dominated global discourse for the last 18 months as the pandemic impacts everyone, everywhere. There is growing evidence that people with disabilities and their families are particularly at risk during the pandemic, in terms of:

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Paper: Models of care for patients with hypertension and diabetes in humanitarian crises: a systematic review

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"Implementing NCD care in humanitarian crises requires the development of a context-adapted approach or ‘model of care’. A model of care may be characterized as a conceptual and pragmatic framework that describes how services are delivered within a health system (Davidson et al., 2006; Agency for Clinical Innovation, 2013)." Models of care "We found that there was no single unifying model of care for HTN/DM care in humanitarian crises, and the variance in care models included in this review was highly dependent on context. In order to descriptively synthesize the diverse models presented in the included studies, we created a typology based on the type of crisis, region and integration with the health system, since these factors likely influenced model design"   patient’s expectations

hypertension and diabetes (HTN/DM) Crisis type and Region Natural: Hurricane, Flood, Earthquake Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan,  China, Pakistan,  India, Philippines, Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Nepal Camp, Non-Camp; Rural, Urban Location of services - Location of people in need, transport, travel time, distance Refugee population - Local population forced displacement, disruption of treatment and support, interrupted health services, movement and attrition of health care workers (HCWs), insecurity, destruction of infrastructure,  breakdown in supply chains and data processes "The domains of access — availability, affordability, accessibility, accommodation, and acceptability — were derived from previously described measures of coverage (Penchansky and Thomas, 1981; Hernández-Quevedo and Papnicolas, 2013; Levesque et al., 2013)."

Refugees and Host Communities Humanitarian crises "Responsiveness has been defined as the ability of health services meet a patient’s holistic needs; in this framework, it also encompassed a model of care’s ability to respond to changing patient needs in a volatile context (.Hernández-Quevedo and Papnicolas, 2013; Kruk et al., 2018). Integration described the linkage between different levels and sites of care, such as facility-based care and community-based support as well as coordination between providers and institutions, while continuity of care referred to uninterrupted care throughout the patient’s disease and life course."

Formal health system and community-based formal or informal systems Non-governmental organisations Crisis type and Region Political: Conflict, Disaster Affordability, income, worth of service Accommodation Person :: Service centrednesss

 

"Availability was defined as the volume and type of existing services and whether this was adequate for the volume and needs of service users. Affordability constituted the patient’s capacity to use financial resources to obtain care balanced against their income and the perceived worth of the service. Accessibility addressed the match between the location of services vs the location of people in need, including transport, travel time, distance, and cost. The accommodation was defined as the organization of service delivery, such as opening times and ability of service users to accommodate to this. Acceptability was considered as the relationship between the services and the patient’s expectations of appropriate care."

(My emphasis)

NCD  - Non-communicable disease

My source: HIFA list

CITATION: Models of care for patients with hypertension and diabetes in humanitarian crises: a systematic review, Michael S Jaung, Ruth Willis, Piyu Sharma, Sigiriya Aebischer Perone, Signe Frederiksen, Claudia Truppa, Bayard Roberts, Pablo Perel, Karl Blanchet, Éimhín Ansbro

Health Policy and Planning, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czab007

Cate Blanchett: What is statelessness? | #iBelong UNHCR

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My mental health I	Geography Maps of Identity - Maps of States Borders Location of parent's birth; my birth My physical health
Belong families social inclusion / exclusion relationships SOCIO-economics SOCIAL capital Quality of Lfe Cultural background / heritage

My source:

https://twitter.com/Refugees/status/1289470924865933313?s=20

Take Two Concepts, One Life, 114,000 Lives Saved, 204 Lost*

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James	HELMETS
Le Mesurier

See also:

John Le Mesurier, The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/james-le-mesurier-death-white-helmets-syria-russia-propaganda-a9204896.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Helmets_(Syrian_Civil_War)

* and counting ...

c/o BMJ: Rediscovering humanitarianism in the wake of the aid agencies scandal

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PURPOSE individual values, ethics... whistle blower courage Psychology of: bystander as co-worker? (Good work and the greater good  excuses the misdeeds of an individual*) empowerment vs. exploitation	define: "humanitarian" natural disasters "Hollywood to Rochdale" scale of organisations: larger = lower costs monitoring challenge for large organisations in chaotic settings (for all orgs.) PROCESS Forced displacement figures worldwide
PRACTICE HUMAN WELFARE vulnerable persons Public interest Private vs. Public community trust "football club" (inveiglement)	Charities (raising money) Corporations (making money) POLICIES Donors competition "reputation management" organisations organisational governance & values Leadership *individuals in positions of power over others Human Rights Safeguarding International Summit Regulation - not just a ▢ here?

BMJ: Rediscovering humanitarianism in the wake of the aid agencies scandal

My source: HIFA - David Southall of MCAI

Q. What is the first rule of first aid?

Three Billboards (Some of us are more Alone than others...)

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"500,000 dead in Syria"	"And still no action?"
"How come, Security Council?"

care - Medical and Humanitarian Organizations use Three Billboards to Call on UN to Stop Violence in Syria

Human Capital & backseat passengers

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"The average employed person had a "human capital stock" of £471,000 at the end of last year..." The average wealth per person rose by £87,000 to £135,000."	Picture taken August 17, 2016. REUTERS/Mahmoud Rslan
"The value of the UK's  human capital increased by £890 billion to £19.2 trillion  last year."	Knock! Knock! ... ... ... ... Knock!! Knock!! ... ... ... ... What do you want! "Oh... hello. Is this the domain for justice? "NO, you won't find justice here" ?

Office for National Statistics: Human capital estimates Articles

Knowles, T. (2016). Get ready to push the boat out - you're worth £135,000. The Times, 19 August, p.33.

Photograph source:  The Peninsula Qatar
Five-year-old Omran Daqneesh, with bloodied face, sits with his sister inside an ambulance after they were rescued following an airstrike in the rebel-held al-Qaterji neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria August 17, 2016. Picture taken August 17, 2016. REUTERS/Mahmoud Rslan
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/news/middle-east/389598/syria-photographer-captures-image-of-dazed-bloodied-boy

UNscathed in Politics and Sociology?

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Scapegoat	U.N. Secretary General

"If everything goes wrong, I become an easy scapegoat - we joke that "SG" , or secretary-general, is now standing for scapegoat," he continues. "I don't complain about this. But when there is a unity of purpose and solidarity among security council members, particularly the five permanent members, you can real things." Tett (2015).

Additional links:
René Girard (1923— ) Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
https://www.iep.utm.edu/girard/#H3

Steven D. Brown In praise of the parasite: the dark organizational theory of Michel Serres.
https://www.academia.edu/1561872/In_praise_of_the_parasite_The_dark_organisational_theory_of_Michel_Serres

Maria L. Assad Reading with Michel Serres: An Encounter with Time

My source:
Gillian Tett, (2015) Lunch with the FT Ban Ki-moon, 'I'm an easy scapegoat', Life, FT Weekend, 19-20 September, p.3.