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Global health priorities – priorities of the wealthy? [PDF]
Globalization and Health, 2005 AbstractHealth has gained importance on the global agenda. It has become recognized in forums where it was once not addressed. In this article three issues are considered: global health policy actors, global health priorities and the means of addressing the identified health priorities.
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Rehabilitation Is a Global Health Priority [PDF]
American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, 2020 Abstract Optimizing functioning at all ages is a major global public health goal. Rehabilitation is unique in its contribution to this public health agenda because of its focus on optimizing function. In this editorial, the editors of leading rehabilitation journals make the case for fully integrating rehabilitation into a nation’s ...
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Public health priorities [PDF]
Tobacco Control, 1999 Editor,—The 15 July 1998 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association ( JAMA ) was dedicated to reports on the process of research publication. It included an article lead authored by the then editor of JAMA , entitled “A comparison of the opinions of experts and readers as to what topics a general medical journal ( JAMA ) should address.”1
Dennis R. Wahlgren, Melbourne F. Hovell
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The badness of death and priorities in health [PDF]
BMC Medical Ethics, 2016 The state of the world is one with scarce medical resources where longevity is not equally distributed. Given such facts, setting priorities in health entails making difficult yet unavoidable decisions about which lives to save. The business of saving lives works on the assumption that longevity is valuable and that an early death is worse than a late ...
Solberg, Carl T, Gamlund, Espen
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Women’s health priorities and interventions [PDF]
BMJ, 2015 Building on the unfinished agenda, Marleen Temmerman and colleagues elaborate actions needed to improve the health and wellbeing of women and girls around the ...
Temmerman, Marleen +4 more
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A sexual health prevention priority [PDF]
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2008 Wittet and Tsu are right to point to the link between cervical cancer deaths and achieving the MDGs and the inequity in the burden of cervical cancer between developed and developing countries. Any programme that reduces cervical cancer incidence and mortality rates in low-income and lower middle-income countries is clearly to be welcomed.
Alison Hann, Stephen Peckham
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‘The dangers attending these conditions are evident’: public health and the working environment of Lancashire textile communities, c.1870–1939 [PDF]
, 2013 This article examines the position of the working environment within public health priorities and as a contributor to the health of a community. Using two Lancashire textile towns (Burnley and Blackburn) as case studies and drawing on a variety of ...
Greenlees, Janet
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Stakeholders' Participation in Planning and Priority Setting in the Context of a Decentralised Health Care system: the case of prevention of mother to child Transmission of HIV Programme in Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2013 In Tanzania, decentralisation processes and reforms in the health sector aimed at improving planning and accountability in the sector. As a result, districts were given authority to undertake local planning and set priorities as well as allocate ...
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Health priorities for sustainable development
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 The right to health has been repeatedly recognized as one of the core human rights, essential for human functioning, human dignity, economic well-being, and development. But the right to health continues to elude hundreds of millions and with Covid-19, perhaps billions of people.
Lisa E. Sachs, Jeffrey D. Sachs
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Research Priorities for Children's Nursing in Ireland: A Delphi Study [PDF]
, 2014 This paper is a report of a study which identified research priorities for children's nursing in an acute care setting in Ireland. A limited number of studies have examined research priorities for children's nursing. This study was undertaken against the
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