WPA/IACAPAP Global Curriculum Survey

Dear Neil et al.,

Would it be possible to recirculate this invitation to complete this ~5minute survey.

We recevied a good response (~200 with 72% expressing interest to join future steps) from the last round but we could have had more representation from Oceana, the Carribean, the Mediteranean, Central Asia, Russia, and perhaps more from any areas as emphasized in line 3 below.

Thank you in advance for your consideration, David
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Dear Colleagues, Families, Relatives, Young Adults, Adults, and Friends!

Anyone affected or who knows someone who is affect by a mental health problem.

We need your help, especially from those living in remote urban or rural areas, or otherwise underserved regions anywhere in this wide world!

HELP US DESIGN A GLOBAL CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH, PSYCHIATRY AND ALLIED PROFESSIONS TRAINING CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK IN SUPPORT OF LOCALLY INTEGRATED COMMUNITY AND FAMILY-CENTERED EDUCATION AND ACTION.

The International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP)

and

The World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Child and Adolescent Section are developing the Global Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health Training curriculum FRAMEWORK.

To complete a short DESIGN feedback and ENGAGEMENT survey (~5 Minutes)

Click or Copy and Paste the following URL: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/x4MyX0MkYt

Here is A SHORT INFORMATIONAL VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NdMRqb1LVVM

 

HIFA profile: David Cawthorpe is Adjunct Professor, Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Community Health Sciences; Adjunct Professor, Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry | Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; and Child Health & Wellness Researcher, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Canada. 
https://profiles.ucalgary.ca/david-cawthorpe cawthordATucalgary.ca

My source: HIFA.

c/o HIFA "Help Shape Global Guidance for Rural & Remote Health"

Guidance on Evidence-Based Healthcare Strategies 
to Serve Rural & Remote Communities

Rural and remote communities are not peripheral — they are central to the fabric of our societies.

Through the Communities of Practice for Remote and Rural Health, in collaboration with Rural Wonca, The National Center for Rural Health Professions, Rural Coordination Centre of British Columbia, and Rural Doctors Network, we have developed a draft Guidance on Evidence-Based Healthcare Strategies to Serve Rural and Remote Communities.

Now, we are inviting the wider TUFH Network to help strengthen it.

This draft Guidance: 

• Brings a rural lens to global health systems 
• Focuses on access as the defining challenge in rural health 
• Addresses funding, workforce, infrastructure, culture, and equity 
• Recognizes socioeconomic overlays and preventable disease burdens 
• Highlights vulnerable groups, including Indigenous communities, women, the elderly, and people with Disabilities
• Draws on global case studies from Canada, Australia, South Africa, Thailand, Ethiopia, and beyond
• Proposes actionable, adaptable strategies grounded in evidence and expert consensus

Importantly, the paper intentionally shifts away from a deficit narrative toward one that recognizes rural strengths, resilience, and community-driven solutions.

We Need Your Input

We are seeking feedback that helps us ensure this Guidance is: 

• Globally relevant across diverse rural contexts 
• Practical and implementable 
• Inclusive of LMIC realities 
• Clear in its recommendations 
• Strengthened by lived experience and frontline practice

Through the consultation survey, we are specifically inviting your reflections on: 

• Clarity of definitions (e.g., rurality, generalist workforce, access)
• Gaps in evidence or missing priority issues 
• Feasibility of implementation strategies 
• Cultural responsiveness and community engagement 
• Additional case studies or models to include 
• Areas needing further research or clarification

Your expertise — whether as a policymaker, academic, practitioner, community leader, or advocate — is essential.

We request your input in any of the following forms by April 30th.

Specific Feedback Forms (Deadline for Feedback is April 30th)

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1. If you have any suggestions on specific content, additional references to cite existing or new information, or other updates, please fill out this form:

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2. If you have any specific information that can be used to include solutions and successes that could better reflect rural realities for each of the document sections, please fill out this form:

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3. If you have specific lessons from regions that can be included in the Guidance Document, please fill out this form:

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4. If you have specific evidence that can be used to describe the relative contribution of patient factors and access factors in rural disease, please fill out this form:

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Communities of Practice

Why This Matters

Health disparities in rural and remote communities are rarely about incidence alone. They are about access, equity, and systems design.

This Guidance aims to support: 

• Policymakers designing rural-responsive systems 
• Health workforce planners 
• Universities and training institutions 
• Community health leaders 
• Global partners advancing Universal Health Coverage

Join us at TUFH 2026 in Manila, Philippines
https://tufh2026.com/

We look forward to welcoming you for TUFH 2026! 

If you need assistance with registration or have any other questions, please contact -
secretariat AT thenetworktufh.org

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HIFA profile: David Cawthorpe is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary, Canada. His professional interests include: Human Development, Developmental Psychopathology, and Delivery of low bandwidth medical education curriculum. cawthord AT ucalgary.ca

Space for Medicine - ISS

NASA - International Space Station

Space Medicine

International Space Station Update: Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026

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ETHICS CONFIDENTIALITY CONFIDENCE   'COMMS'    MENTAL HEALTH   BEHAVIOURAL HEALTH & PERFOIRMANCE   PRIVATE PSYCHOLOGICAL COMMUNICATION    CIRCADIAN HEALTH PERSON-CENTRED HEALTH/DISABILITY	INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION  distance - remoteness EARTH orbit  LAUNCHES - RE-ENTRY WINDOWS   TRAINING MEDICAL EMERGENCY in SPACE HEALTH - EMERGENCY CONSTRAINTS - CONTIGENCIES PLANNING - TIME - PROBABILITY 'MONTE CARLO' MODELS/SIMULATIONS DIAGNOSIS: INJURY, RADIATION, MUSCULOSKELETAL, NEUROLOGICAL, VISION, microGRAVITY
CREWS WELFARE - PRIORITY  SOCIAL - WELL-BEING	NASA POLICY - PREPAREDNESS MEDIA RELATIONS

NASA Spaceflight Human System Standard Volume 1: 
Crew Health

'NASA-STD-3001 Volume 1 covers the requirements needed to support astronaut health and provide medical care while Volume 2 covers human-related vehicle system design and operations requirements that will maintain astronaut safety and promote performance.'

Additional reading:
Farrell, R.M., Fogarty, J.A., Covington, M. et al. A moonshot for female astronaut health, a win for all astronauts and space exploration. npj Microgravity 11, 38 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41526-025-00495-8

 

Marshall Porterfield, D., Tulodziecki, D., Wheeler, R. et al. Critical investments in bioregenerative life support systems for bioastronautics and sustainable lunar exploration. npj Microgravity 11, 57 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41526-025-00518-4

  

Rizzo, A., Borra, E.M., Ciciani, L. et al. Foundations of radiological protection in space: the integrated multidisciplinary approach for next manned missions in deep space. Eur. Phys. J. Plus 138, 1001 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04572-3

The National Space Institute -  
https://nss.org/the-national-space-institute/

During the 1990s I was a member of the 
Space Nursing Society -
https://nss.org/space-nursing-society-chapter/ 

London Institute of Space Policy and Law - 
https://www.space-institute.org

 

See also: 'NASA' : 'astronautics'

 

The poetry of presence c/o Kenner's 'Mechanic Muse'

'... Eliot's poetry responds to yet another of the new century's pervasive experiences, that of being talked to by people we cannot see. This happens whenever we pick up a telephone, a thing we do so many times a day we quite overlook the strangeness of what lappens next. A character in The Cocktail Party remarks that you can't tell the truth on the telephone, meaning probably that you lose three quarters of your communicative power when you cannot be seen and your breathing body is absent, and you must fabricate mere semantic sequences. Your words are only a fraction of what you say, and the telephone throws you back on nothing but words. It is in Sweeney Agonistes, the play that gives the telephone bell a wholly metrical speaking part, that we hear the famous phrase, "I gotta use words vhen I talk to you."
    When the phone rings in that play - 

    Ting a ling ling 

    Ting a ling ling

Dusty snatches it up and says,

Hello Hello are you there?' 

Kenner, H. (1987) The Mechanic Muse, Oxford: OUP. pp.34-35.

Julian Tudor-Hart 'The Inverse Care Law' - c/o The Lancet

On the bottom of my notes re. Giarchi and 'distance decay' I'd written:

'Inverse Care law - p.60. - Giarchi. "those who suffer more ill health are less likely to be assisted."

It made me wonder about the origin of this law having posted about it in 2020.

The Lancet has an editorial and an associated podcast:

50 years of the inverse care law. The Lancet, Volume 397, Issue 10276, 767. February 27, 2021.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00505-5/fulltext

'“The availability of good medical care tends to vary with the need for it in the population served. This inverse care law operates more completely where medical care is most exposed to market forces, and less so where such exposure is reduced.”

These understated opening lines of Julian Tudor Hart's paper, The Inverse Care Law, are as relevant now (50 years to the day since publication) as in 1971. The paper is one of the landmark publications in The Lancet's near 200-year history, and the resonance of Tudor Hart's definition of the inverse care law has global and timeless importance. Simply expressed, Tudor Hart observed that disadvantaged populations need more health care than advantaged populations, but receive less.

Tudor Hart's life and career took him from highly privileged beginnings in London and Cambridge to decades spent in the deprived and deeply socialist Welsh valleys. His experience and work has inspired a generation of influential health-care leaders including Andrew Haines, Allyson Pollock, Cesar Victora, and Graham Watt. Today's anniversary issue of The Lancet explores both the global reach of the inverse care law and primary care initiatives in deprived areas around the UK.

Although inequality in health and its many causes are widely understood, inequity in health-care service provision is enduring and fundamental: an intractable concept that lies at the heart of the inverse care law. The inverse care law is primarily about inequity (injustice) in health care that results in unfair social inequalities (imbalances) in health. Since the inverse care law was published, the UK's National Health Service (NHS) has strived to reduce inequity with mixed success. Notably, long-lasting progress was achieved through the 1970s resource allocation formula, which reduced geographical inequality in hospital and institutional expenditure. In the early 2000s, the NHS strengthened primary care provision in disadvantaged areas, leading to a temporary reduction in social inequality, although this progress has reversed following shifts in funding, a slowing of spending, and years of living with austerity.'

See also: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Tudor-Hart

https://www.chpi.org.uk/blog/julian-tudor-hart-and-the-essence-of-primary-care/

On Care, Papers, Distance, Pressure, Academia and Falls

In my student nursing days late 1970s there was a big-stick of motivation. It wasn't management, and yet it was. There was a stigma attached to a patient developing a pressure sore - decubitus ulcers. The NHS then had many psychogeriatric wards, but that care is now with nursing homes. Despite the best efforts some patients did, especially on the mental health infirmary, which was staffed by 'general'  trained nurses too. Using aseptic technique wounds had to be packed (stage 3-4?). Some of the treatments, were not exactly 'evidence-based'. There is a historical account of previous treatments provided on 'Asylum Years'.

In the 1990s I was working on a 'book' about health, nursing and informatics (it was simpler then?). Submitting the project as a book proposal, a letter from one publisher reads: 'thanks but no thanks'. Although unsuccessful, that exercise accounts for the range of interests I still maintain today, and the scope of posts here on W2tQ. Continuing to clear and sort notes, one is for the 'book':

Abbott, P., & Payne, G. (Eds.). (1990). New Directions in the Sociology of Health (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351141727

From the above book, I've a page of notes headed "For chapter 2" drawing on a brilliant chapter 4:

Distance Decay and Information Deprivation: Health Implications for People in Rural Isolation

By George G. Giarchi

Abstract

Deprivation is frequently associated with the lives of inner city dwellers in old densely packed terraced housing, or with the residents in high-rise city slums and concrete council houses. In substantive socio-economic terms the deprivation of both the urban and the rural setting are the effects of the same structural dysfunctions, as aptly demonstrated by Townsend's 1968 classic study of poverty. On the basis of empirical studies rural deprivation affects the standards of health of many people in the countrysides of the UK particularly the most vulnerable dependent populations, such as younger children and older adults at the lower end of the social scale. The houses which are 'unfit' are damp, poorly lit, badly ventilated or lack healthy sanitation: clothes are rotten with mildew. Leschinsky's nationwide survey of rural health services indicates that centralization of health provision is a major reason for health disparities in rural areas.

I looked up the author, guessing that they were possibly still in academia, emeritus, or more likely (then, a decade or more in their career) retired by now. The search did not take long, but filled me with sadness and anger:

'A coroner has said there were "missed opportunities" to prevent the death of a hospital patient who died after developing a bedsore.

George Giacinto Giarchi, 86, died in November 2017 at Plymouth's Mount Gould Hospital after being treated for weeks at Derriford Hospital after a fall.

At Plymouth Crown Court coroner Ian Arrow said Mr Giarchi died of multi-organ failure from the pressure ulcer.

His family urged ministers to ensure hospitals had adequate staffing levels.

The former Plymouth University professor was admitted to Derriford Hospital after falling and fracturing his arm at home on 25 September 2017.

He was later transferred to Mount Gould where the lesion was first noticed.'

Pressure ulcers, known as bed sores, are injuries caused by pressure on the skin often seen in bedridden patients.'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-48798285

 Thank you and bless you Prof. George G. Giarchi RIP.

Jones, P. (2012). Exploring several dimensions of local, global and glocal using the generic conceptual framework Hodges's model. The Journal Of Community Informatics. 8(3). Retrieved from https://www.academia.edu/3794699/Reflecting_on_the_glocal_through_the_conceptual_framework_of_Hodges_s_model

Citation of Hodges' model: 'Sustainable Health Model: Increasing Universal Access to Health Services in Remote Areas'

News received of another citation to add to the bibliography. It's just a sentence, but always welcome.

Noting the journal's title, Hodges' model incorporates a person's, family's, population's health career which is invariably impacted by a cascade of life chances. H2cm can also be applied temporally, longitudinally; taking in the past, current situation and future.

Good to see researchers discovering Hodges' model and considering it in respect of global health and sustainability also. If your purpose is to identify gaps, seek to reduce them, critique and evaluate change then again Hodges' model with the bridges it affords is an effective resource.

It's disappointing to see the journal - JoWFMHN list only the first author of referenced work. I must look at open access in the future, and remain grateful to Dr Wirnitzer - co-author in the cited paper - for assistance with writing and final publication, whose work includes:

The NURMI-Study (NURMI – Nutrition and Running high Mileage)
https://www.nurmi-study.com/en

Science 2 School: Nachhaltig gesund – bewegt & veggie
https://www.science2.school/

Abstract

Access to healthcare services in remote areas remains a significant global challenge, with many populations experiencing disparities in healthcare availability, quality, and affordability. Sustainable health models that ensure universal access to health services are essential for improving public health outcomes in underserved areas. This study investigates the potential for sustainable health models to increase healthcare access in remote regions, focusing on the role of telemedicine, mobile health clinics, and community health workers. The research employs a mixed-methods approach, combining qualitative interviews with healthcare professionals and quantitative data on healthcare access and outcomes in remote communities. The findings indicate that telemedicine platforms have improved healthcare delivery by 40%, while mobile health clinics and trained community health workers have expanded service reach, particularly in geographically isolated areas. Furthermore, community-based health interventions have led to a 30% reduction in preventable diseases in these regions. The study concludes that integrating technology with community-based solutions offers a scalable and effective approach to achieving universal health access in remote areas. However, challenges such as technology infrastructure, resource allocation, and healthcare workforce training need to be addressed to ensure the sustainability of these models.

Ardenny Ardenny, Le Hoang Nam, Pham Anh Tu (2025). Sustainable Health Model: Increasing Universal Access to Health Services in Remote Areas. Journal of World Future Medicine, Health and Nursing. 3. DOI: 10.70177/health.v3i1.1907

Harnessing the Power of Artificial Intelligence to Improve Outcomes for Patients with for Long-Term Health Conditions

 Dear Colleagues and Friends,

We are organising a Special Session: Harnessing the Power of Artificial Intelligence to Improve Outcomes for Patients with for Long-Term Health Conditions

(https://aiih.cc/lthc/) in the International Conference on AI in Healthcare (AIiH), 8-10 September 2025, Jesus College, University of Cambridge.

We would like to accept both full length papers (12 pages plus references) and short abstracts (up to 5 pages including references) for special sessions. Submission guideline can be found here, including paper templates in both Word and LaTeX: https://aiih.cc/paper-submission/

The accepted full papers and abstracts will be published in the Springer LNCS volumes.

Full Paper submission deadline:            Friday 11 April 2025

Abstract submission deadline:               Monday 30 June 2024

We are looking forward to meeting you.

Best wishes

Shang-Ming Zhou

Professor in e-Health | Faculty of Health | University of Plymouth | PL4 8AA | UK.

Email :  shangming.zhou AT plymouth.ac.uk; smzhou AT ieee.org

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/shang-ming-zhou

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/centre-for-health-technology

Point Nemo: 48°52.6′S 123°23.6′W

The oceanic pole of inaccessibility

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	Point Nemo: 48°52.6′S 123°23.6′W
Social care

Al-Othman, H. Notes from the remotest place on Earth: father and son voyage to Point Nemo. The Sunday Times, 31 March 2024. p.11.

https://brown.co.uk/expeditions/point-nemo

Image: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/nemo.html

South Sudan Medical Journal: 'Stroke' Vol 17 No 1 Feb. 2024

Dear reader,

The February 2024 issue is online here. 

It includes several items on ‘Stroke’ edited by Dr Eluzai Abe Hakim, Founder and Associate Editor of SSMJ. Note our new ‘Notice Board’ on the back page. The full contents are listed below.

We are pleased to announce that our articles are now indexed by Scopus, in addition to  African Journals Online (AJOL) and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) as well as on our website. SSMJ is included in the EBSCO scientific research collection.

Please share this issue with your colleagues
and promote it through social media.

For example: “See the South Sudan Medical Journal’s February issue for articles related to stroke in Africa here @SSMedJournal #SouthSudan #SSOT” or retweet from @SSMedJournal.

Editorial

•  Address risk factors as part of clinical practice to prevent stroke Eluzai Abe Hakim 

Articles

• Reference intervals for serum creatinine and urea in the adult western Sudanese population Muaath Ahmed Mohammed, Ibrahim Abdelrahim Ali, Abdarahiem Alborai Abeadalla, and Omer Abdelaziz Musa
• Prevalence and perceptions of voluntary medical male circumcision among University of Juba students, South Sudan Kon Alier, Akway Cham, Jonathan Majok, Kenneth Sube Achan Nyang, Ezbon Wapary, James Malek, John Makuei, Jok Malith, Lual Mayuol and Yak Adim
• Paranasal sinuses in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis, Tanzania Enica R.Massawe, Happy E Somboi, Asterius Muganyizi, and Petra Joseph
• Hepatocellular carcinoma and aflatoxin in Sudan: The way forward Moawia Mohammed Ali Elhassan

Stroke Series Articles

• Stroke rehabilitation in low resource countries: time to provide an organised service Mehran Maanoosi
• Risk factors for stroke in the African populace: need for action Paul Bolaji
• Stroke units in low and middle income countries (LMICs) save lives: application of the western model of stroke care Omotayo Taiwo, Min K Koko, and Eluzai Hakim

Short Communications

• QUIZ: Unenhanced Brain Computerised Axial Tomographic (CAT) scan quiz
• Obituary: Dr Asia Dawud Kuek
• Obituary: Dr Lou Joseph Bosco
• Obituary: Mr Gideon Wurube Kara

Notice Board (Back Cover): Advertise in the South Sudan Medical Journal

Front Cover Image: Brain CAT scan of a stroke patient showing acute right non-haemorrhagic infarct in posterior middle cerebral artery territory as well as right basal ganglia with mass effect. (Credit: Eluzai Hakim)

The SSMJ team
Email: southsudanmedicaljournal AT gmail.com
Website: http://www.southsudanmedicaljournal.com
Follow us on Twitter/X @SSMedJournal and our Facebook Group

Invitation to participate in research: Supporting midwives to provide emergency maternal & neonatal care in rural communities with limited resources

The challenges of providing quality midwifery care in rural and remote communities are significant, particularly in low and lower-middle-income countries. I am excited to invite midwives, midwifery educators, health service managers and Ministry of Health personnel from the focus countries listed below to participate in a PhD research study. Our research team aims to identify ways to better support midwives providing emergency maternal & neonatal care in rural communities with limited resources. Insights gained from these different perspectives will help us provide evidence for policy, education and practice.

Please consider participating in the study and/or sharing the link with your colleagues.

To participate in our online surveys, please use the following links:

Midwife/nurse-midwife survey: https://lnkd.in/eD4YSQnn

Educator/Manager/Ministry of Health survey: https://lnkd.in/gphj-i4D

If you would like more information, or if you are interested in participating in an online in-depth interview to discuss these issues, please email: Kristen.Graham AT anu.edu.au

Further information is also available at https://nceph.anu.edu.au/research/projects/strengthening-primary-care-midwives-preparedness-readiness-emergency-maternal

Focus countries: Sub-Sahara Africa: Burundi, Eswatini, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South & SE Asia: India, Pakistan, Philippines, Pacific: Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu

This study has ANU ethics approval (Protocol 2022/492)

Thank you Kristen

Kristen Graham PhD candidate

National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health ANU College of Health and Medicine The Australian National University Canberra ACT 2600

HIFA profile (and my source): Kristen Graham is a PhD Candidate at the Australian National University, Australia. Professional interests: Sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health; Midwifery; Workforce capacity building in rural and remote low resource settings. kristen.graham AT anu.edu.au

#iwd2023 #internationalwomensday
Ack. All midwives. PJ

2023 Improving University Teaching - Hybrid Conference: Sustaining Academic Resilience

 I received news this morning that I will be presenting virtually at:

"Students may arrive at university without a clear sense of what to do now that their goal of admission has been attained. To them, reaching that goal feels like a significant achievement—and it is. But finding a purpose—their own purpose—for pursuing university studies beyond admission is clearly a key ingredient for their academic and personal success.  Without it, they risk not having the resilience needed to cope with novelty and failure. With faculty support, however, students can develop a personal sense of direction to both guide and inspire them as they learn. A corollary is that emotional investment in their studies will help determine their success just as much as intellectual gifts and academic preparation.

Two years ago, the IUT conference was organized around the theme of “the human side of teaching.” This year we return to some of these same issues, which have become if anything more important in the light of our experience during the pandemic. We have seen how students who engage in remote learning often miss the support of direct contact with peers and academic staff and must compensate with added commitment of their own. We have also seen how teachers and students can become stressed to the point that wellbeing becomes an urgent issue for both. How can their wellbeing be nurtured? How can we sustain academic resilience?"

More details ...

 
Looking forward to join, learn and share:

"Hodges' model: Insights into Sustainability & Resilience"

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

In the previous post about Lynne Jones's book 'Outside the Asylum', biopsychosocial model stood out in the index. It is in the text (p.181), but is also apparent from the text I selectively quoted in the blog post.

The argument here on W2tQ, and on twitter @h2cm is that the oft cited 'biopsychosocial model' in the health care literature is insufficient.

This is were I find the SDGs encouraging, despite the typical (and increasingly dangerous) mechanistic slow-turn of COP 'X' outcomes. The SDGs place an emphasis upon the primacy of security.

We need a Bio-Psycho-Socio-POLITICAL model: embedded within the Spiritual.

It is still important to differentiate between use of biopsychosocial in health care and that which Lynne Jones describes and acknowledges. The psycho-social focus, in the importance of self-others, community, being-with, listening, validation, companionship, humanity is clearly explained.

 

If inclusion of the political, (politics, policy, governance, provenance, legitimacy, law ...) proves problematic for people; well that is the point.

 

See also:

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

 

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!!

Reflecting on the 'distances' between us

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Sedated ...

'DISTANCE' a metric ... qualitative and quantitative conceptual - semantic distance

The Social Distance Between Us ...

... How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis ... Drug development $$$  Access to healthcare / therapy 'Evidence' Parity of Esteem  Self-advocacy / Advocacy  Employment, Poverty, Deprivation Policy - Health Policy Land Property, Housing- Homelessness  Mental Health Law  'Public Spaces'  Social Determinants of Health Sustainable Development Goals Life Chances  Health Career  Geo-Politics (Local 'politics') ...   .... How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain

 

See also: 'distance'

My source: FT Weekend and Times, BBC Radio 4 and 

https://twitter.com/Keirwales/status/1541093078102048770

Webinar: ‘Global Remote and Rural Healthcare – how can we do it better?’

Following a successful online event last November Ms Jackie Aldridge got in touch, seeking speakers and attendees for a further webinar next month.

If you can suggest a speaker, present yourself, or are interested in attending please contact Jackie as per her [edited] message below.

Many thanks

Peter J.

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Hello Mr Jones

We were so pleased that you agreed to be a speaker at our conference last November on the subject of ‘Global Remote and Rural Healthcare – how can we do it better?’.

As part of our follow up after the conference we decided it would be a good idea to try and run a short webinar a few times a year to keep this important subject under discussion. We are planning to run our first one on Tuesday 18 May.

I am hoping you may be able to help us by suggesting another contact who works in the field of remote and rural healthcare, who you think may be interested in giving a short presentation (no more than 20 minutes) about their specific field of expertise.

All I would need is their name, contact details and a short indication of what their specialism is.

I hope you can help and I look forward to hearing from you with your suggestions.

Best wishes

   Jackie 

 Jackie Aldridge

Programme Delivery Coordinator 

jackie.aldridge AT bridge2aid.org

Working part time, usually on Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Fridays

UK office: Bridge2Aid, The Keepers, Symn Lane, Wotton-Under-Edge, GL12 7BD

Tel: 01453 546776.   Registered Charity No: 1170578

Global Remote and Rural Healthcare - How Can We Do It Better?

Unfortunately, I am working during the day, but I look forward to sharing Hodges' model on the 18th evening (UK) session and an opportunity for discussion and feedback:

Global Remote and Rural Healthcare - How Can We Do It Better?

 

Global Remote and Rural Healthcare - How Can We Do It Better?