My source: Tomlinson, H. American politics? Turns out it's just a game after all, The Times, November 6, 2021.p.50.
A few points from the book to close:
Extending Human Rights beyond HIV: The Struggle against Tuberculosis (pp.229-231).
Afterword: Resilience in the Fight for Human Rights in Global Health -
the first lesson of first aid.
"You can best care for the world when you take care of yourself." (p.459).
The index is very good. I might have expected more on corruption, fraud, and counterfeit healthcare products, but then this could be a distraction. It is alarming to read of the ongoing criminalization of groups in Asia, Africa and globally concerned with substance misuse and sexual health.
Even though I can extend thanks to OUP for my copy. Reading this book is a great investment in time.
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| "You are not alone. Together, we can build a brighter future." p.460. The book's closing sentence is an appeal to practitioners and as the past 18 months and the future will surely continue to reveal places a stress on self-care. |
Tuberculosis HIV Ebola COVID Malaria ... |
| 'laws on the streets*' ETHNO- 'duty to assist' p.448 UK? |
'laws on the books' -NATIONALISM (chapter 20) Human rights literacy (p.143.) Universal Periodic Review - "a basis to assess the human rights situation in states throughout the world, seeking a holistic, equitable, and balanced approach to reviewing the situation of all human rights in all countries." (p. 166.) |
When you've several books to get to, a steady stream of figures and tables can help give the illusion of a speed-read. There could be many such breaks in this book, but what there are are focused, informative and fit the COVID situation in being prime for take-away purposes. It is here that the educational, learning and teaching utility of the book is found, and in the references. Reading this book I thought about the way healthcare is situated and how care-of global politics health is local, national, international and glocal. The global health workforce are joined in the books they read. Then they apply their learning in their respective corners of the world, seeking to put the patient, the person, the public at the center. As such Section 1 is essential reading for all health and social care professionals:
Introduction: Global Health & Human Rights
Lawrence O. Gostin & Benjamin Mason Meier
I. The Human Rights Movement: International Norms and Principles
Chapter 1. The Birth and Development of Human Rights for Health
Benjamin Mason Meier, Thérèse Murphy & Lawrence O. Gostin
Chapter 2. Global Health Law: Legal Foundations for Social Justice in Public Health
Lawrence O. Gostin, Matiangai V. S. Sirleaf & Eric A. Friedman
Chapter 3. The Right to Health and Health-Related Human Rights
John Tobin & Damon Barrett
Chapter 4. The Rights-Based Approach to Health
Flavia Bustreo & Curtis F.J. Doebbler
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"Given the integral link between global health and human rights, global health law necessarily works in synergy with human rights. Accordingly, global health law includes not only the scope of law for global health, but also a normative perspective, with global health law seeking to enable all people to realize the right to health (Magnusson, et al. 2017). This normative perspective is not uncommon in law: environmental law is concerned with protecting the environment, trade law is concerned with a free and fair system of trade, and human rights law is concerned with protecting and promoting rights. The particular force of global health law's normative perspective comes in how it is not confirmed to laws directly related to health, but rather has significant implications for a wide range of laws in other legal regimes, requiring a focus on health in all policies." p.59. Chapter 3. The Right to Health and Health-Related Human Rights |
Citation, extracts and a comment from me below. Full text here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(21)00077-2/
CITATION: An argument for the naturalistic study of collective intelligence
Jonathan Nattel, David Akullian
Comment| volume 5, issue 5, e247-e248, may 01, 2021
Published:May, 2021 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00077-2
SELECTED EXTRACTS
Over the past decade, corporate-owned digital media—minimally regulated, geared towards profit, and willing to engage a broad range of psychological techniques to command an expansive swath of human attention5—have increasingly caused information to flow around, rather than through, the structures of professional journalism as it makes its way from politicians to the public at large.
The circumvention of professional journalism as a means for filtering, organising, and distributing information has led to multiple distortions of collective perception, including the decontextualisation of information, propagation of false information, and the manipulation of public opinion by agents with a broad variety of interests.
the overall result has been an increase in polarisation, fragmented collective perceptions of reality, and the ensuing failures of collective discourse and decision making. All in all, ideal conditions for the emergence of populist, fascist, or dictatorial leadership.
A study of how information is channelled within a society to support collective wellbeing and decision making might allow us to ask crucial questions, such as when a new technology for communication arrives, in what way is it healthy? In what way is it unhealthy? And in what ways must it be contained?... Given the critical juncture at which humanity currently finds itself, the timing of such a project could hardly be more crucial.
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Comment (NPW): 'The circumvention of professional journalism... has led to multiple distortions'. The same could be said for the circumvention of processes required for reliable and actionalble healthcare information to be made available to end users (whether the public, health workers, or policymakers).
Neil Pakenham-Walsh,
HIFA Coordinator, neil AT hifa.org www.hifa.org
HIFA: Healthcare Information For All: www.hifa.org
I have related concepts from this short work to Hodges' model, followed by a reference that reflects the naturalistic scale of the study suggested here:
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[ Multi- ] Context - Situated [ model ] HEALTH WORKERS individual perception & intelligence - literacy Individual values Individual sense making |
WELL-BEING of NATURAL WORLD HEALTH WORKERS Physical PROCESSES: Time [Is there an 'Over-arching theory of health communication'?] Channels of information - tech / forms |
WELL-BEING of SOCIETY Intergenerational coherence (*amid change*) PUBLIC Social processes: Diffusion, Sharing SOCIO-tech? societies: channels of information? collective perception & intelligence (wisdom of crowds?) |
Channels of information - control Journalism Populist, fascist, or dictatorial leadership POLICYMAKERS Digital & other divides? Political processes Electoral Politics |
Well I've finished it! Yes it is an empowering read. Even though still 'fresh' published in 2020 clearly events race ahead:
As the book closes with a critique of populism I think the volume is deserving of a revised edition - when the time comes. Until then, there is a great deal here. I looked back on the chapter on Global Health Law: Legal Foundations for Social Justice in Public Health. The UK news today made me wonder for everyone: what is social justice? From the BBC: [ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56924131 ]
"New laws that could leave flat owners facing bills for fire safety measures are "indefensible," say Grenfell Tower survivors and bereaved relatives.
The Fire Safety Bill is aimed at making homes safer following the 2017 blaze, in which 72 people died."
Far from the global context I know, but the last chapter prompted the connection:
"The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights have sought to incorporate state protections against abuse by business, establish a "Protect, Respect and Remedy" framework for corporate obligations, and facilitate accountability through greater access to effective remedies for those who are harmed." p.452.I am guilty, as surely the vast majority of us are, of referring to 'human rights' without having much depth of knowledge. One book a legal professional and crusader does not make. But this text helps. There is an irony in the passage of time since publication, as you the reader have some extra pieces of the jig-saw to fit in. There really is hope!
"Universities are not here to make people feel comfortable or to allow only research that avoids causing offence. Nor are they here to coddle young minds and present to them an ideologically homogenous view of the world. Universities are here to pursue truth, engage in reasoned argument, support freedom of inquiry and nurture the development of critical thinkers." Goodwin, 2019.This post also links with Prof. Land's keynote in Dundee.
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| Brian E. Hodges - c/o Brian's family. |
Born in Liverpool, NW England, UK.
Community Mental Health Nurse NHS, Part-time Lecturer,
Researcher Nursing & Technology Enhanced Learning
Registered Nurse - Mental Health & General
Community Psychiatric Nursing (Cert.) MMU
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PG(Dip.) Collaboration on Psychosocial Education [COPE] Univ. Man.
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