A State of Fear - Dangerous Minds

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Dangerous Minds
	A State of Fear

My source:

Ditum, S. (2021) An eye-opening journey into dangerous minds, Saturday Review, The Times, June 12, p.14.

Aaronovitch, DF. (2021) A covidiot's guide to paranoia, Saturday Review, The Times, June 12, p.15.

Images:

https://www.waterstones.com/book/dangerous-minds/dr-taj-nathan//9781529392913

https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/A-State-of-Fear-by-Laura-Dodsworth-author/9781780667201

Petition "Protect the title Nurse in UK law"

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	"The term nurse can be used by anyone in the UK. They can use this term to offer professional advice and services even if they have no nursing qualifications, experience or have been struck off a professional register." More details

My source (and signed):

Anyone in the UK can call themselves a nurse. Even if they have no nursing qualifications or experience. They can even call themselves a nurse if they have been struck off. This is a #PatientSafety issue
If you are concerned too please sign #ProtectNurse https://t.co/FD9MS1JZpu

— Prof Alison Leary 💙 (@alisonleary1) June 15, 2021

Book: Mind, State and Society

Social History of Psychiatry and Mental Health in Britain 1960–2010

open access

 

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MIND	Mind, State and Society
SOCIETY	STATE

Thanks to George Ikkos:

https://twitter.com/gikkos1/status/1406329440540499972?s=20

Learning for quality health services: A new thematic discussion on HIFA

The WHO Global Learning Laboratory (GLL) for Quality UHC and Healthcare Information For All (HIFA.org) are delighted to announce a new thematic discussion on HIFA: Learning for quality health services. The discussion starts on 28 June and will continue through to 20 August.

Quality of health services is critical to achieving universal health coverage (UHC): Between 5.7 and 8.4 million deaths are attributed to poor quality care each year in low- and middle-income countries, accounting for up to 15% of overall deaths in these countries. Improving access to health services must go hand in hand with improving the quality of these services. There is an urgent need to place quality at the centre of national-, district- and facility-level actions in order to progress towards UHC.

The discussion will explore in depth the following questions:

- What does quality of care mean to you, in your particular context? Why is it important to make the case for quality of care?

- From your experience, what might work best to enhance national commitment to quality of care? Have you seen any practical solutions that should be shared wider?

- From your experience, what are the biggest challenges for district health managers in tackling quality of care issues? Have you seen any practical solutions that should be shared wider?

- From your experience, what are the biggest challenges for improving quality of care at the facility level? Have you seen any practical solutions that should be shared wider?

Please forward this message to your contacts and networks and invite everyone to join us!

https://www.hifa.org/news/learning-quality-health-services-new-thematic-discussion-hifa

www.hifa.org/joinhifa

We have more than 60 HIFA members volunteering for this project. Also, we are introducing for the first time the concept of HIFA Catalysts, whose role is to stimulate comment and debate. We look forward to a rich discussion!

HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh, HIFA Coordinator, neil AT hifa.org www.hifa.org

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Mapping some points to Hodges' model:

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SAFETY cognitive access QUALITY of CARE quantity of CARE health literacy mental health	SAFETY faculty - facilities physical access QUANTITY of CARE quality of CARE distance rural : urban Between 5.7 and 8.4 million deaths are attributed to poor quality care each year ... accounting for up to 15% of overall deaths in these countries
PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS	low- and middle-income countries national commitment to quality of care Universal Health Coverage

History: Ancient and Modern

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HISTORY

Artist:

Ian Hamilton Finlay

(British, 1925–2006)

Title:

For the temples of the Greek our homesickness lasts forever (collab. w/Michael Harvey)

Image: https://emuseum.aberdeencity.gov.uk/objects/118193/for-the-temples-of-the-greeks-our-homesickness-lasts-foreve

Lubbock, T. The conflict of ancient and modern, The Tuesday Review, The Independent, 26 March 2002. p.10.

Radical Health: Doing Medicine, Health Care, and Anthropology of the Good

Freie Universität Berlin (online), 24-27 June 2021

Convened by:

Medical Anthropology Working Group (German Anthropological Association DGSKA e.V.)

Association for Anthropology and Medicine (AGEM e.V.) 

Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin

In contemporary times of proliferating neoliberalization, augmenting socio-economic disparity, environmental degradation, and political struggles around identities and belonging, health and well-being are becoming increasingly fragile. Not least, COVID-19 illustrates how intimately entangled economic, ecological, social, cultural, and political factors can be, and how they affect people’s living environments, health, and health care provision. Our conference brings together the fields of medical anthropology, medicine, and public/global health to focus attention on how ‘healthy futures’ can be envisioned, theorized, and actually ‘done’ despite multiple constraints. We gather social scientists, medical professionals, health activists, and artists whose contributions will open up avenues toward an understanding of what is conducive to “good” health.

The conference begins on Thursday, 24 June 2021 at 14.30 CEST  (Central European Summer Time, UTC/GMT +2 hours)

Keynote address "Good for what: Radical health in the midst of an epidemic" by Professor Adia Benton (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois) on Thursday, 24 June 2021, 19-20 CEST.

For further information and free registration, please visit https://nomadit.co.uk/radical-health/

-- 
Dr. Dominik Mattes
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter | Research Associate
Freie Universität Berlin | Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie
DFG SFB 1171 "Affective Societies“
Teilprojekt C03 "Regieren religiöser Vielfalt in Berlin. Affektive Dynamiken der In- und Exklusion im urbanen Raum"

Habelschwerdter Allee 45 | 14195 Berlin | Raum JK30/203

Eroom's Law

Stephanie F. Scholtz

 

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digital literacy health literacy ...	Moore's Law*
social justice 'laws' translated social capital	Eroom's Law

 

*This is not to underestimate the economic impacts of Moore's law, or in both instances the question of access to digital technology and health care.

Kill or Cure? Technology Quarterly - Personalised Medicine, The Economist, 434: 9185; 14-20 March 2020. pp.9-11.

https://www.stephanie-f-scholz.com/

Preventing Overdiagnosis 2022

 

Dear Colleague,

We are extremely pleased and excited to confirm that Preventing Overdiagnosis Evidence, Equity and Post Pandemic Health Care will be hosted by the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada 9-12 June 2022.
 
We are accepting abstracts against the following themes, however this list is by no means exhaustive and we welcome submissions on all aspects of preventing Overdiagnosis:
 

• Equity & Equality: disparities in healthcare provision, marginalized populations, conflicts of interest driving inequity
• Sustainability and lessons learned from COVID-19: repurposing healthcare after a pandemic
• Medicalizing citizens: the harms of screening, disease thresholds, industry influences, the role of media
• The role of specialists in generating Overdiagnosis and their efforts to mitigate it
• Clinical Practice: Other dimensions of ODx, overtesting and the harms of too much medicine

Oral abstracts can also be submitted for virtual presentation in September 2021, November 2021, January 2022 and March 2022.  
 
Submissions will be graded approximately six weeks prior to the session date.  Offering four deadlines e.g. the deadline for September 2021 virtual presentation will be sometime in July 2021.
Please choose Virtual Presentation prior to Calgary 2022 as your preferred means of presentation.
 
NB: Abstracts already submitted can change preferred means of presentation by logging back into the submission portal.
 
Virtual and face to face events will bring you a number of lively plenary debates about controversial and timely issues involving high-profile players from across the healthcare landscape.  
Registration is open

We are also bringing you the Lisa M Schwartz Scholarship an opportunity that provides awardees with PODC registration, funding toward travel and accommodation and the opportunity to present at the conference.

Submissions (made through the abstracts postal) should address an issue of relevance to Dr Schwartz work and interests, and be consistent with the vision and values Dr Schwartz championed in the communication of risk. 
 
Thank you for your patience, keep well.

Conference Scientific Committee 
www.preventingoverdiagnosis.net 
Tw: @PreventingODx