Addressing Diseases Of Poverty
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Addressing Diseases Of Poverty
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Author : WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Addressing Diseases Of Poverty written by WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Social Science categories.
"Many countries in the Asia Pacific region continue to show impressive economic growth and development despite the turmoil facing much of the world, raising the standard of living for millions of people. However, amid this growth, more than a billion people remain left behind because of widening disparities and unequal access to opportunities for health, development and prosperity. These are the people who are most vulnerable to diseases resulting from poverty, including neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Common NTDs trap communities in a cycle of malnutrition and anaemia, poor learning, lower productivity and poor maternal and child health outcomes and, depending on the type of NTD, complications and disabilities such as blindness, swelling of limbs, organ failure or brain damage. NTD elimination and control efforts are recognized as one of the most cost-effective interventions in global health today. In addition to preventing and reducing disease and disability, NTD elimination and control efforts help maximize the impact of cross-sectoral programmes. These programmes include education, water and sanitation, food safety, nutrition and climate change adaptation. It is critical to work across sectors and leverage integrated approaches at a time when donors, policy-makers and programme managers must improve efficiency to achieve scale and impact with limited resources. This publication underscores the importance of tackling NTDs in order to help alleviate suffering, reduce poverty and ensure the continued social and economic growth of the region. As a joint production by the World Health Organization Regional Offices for South-East Asia and the Western Pacific, the Asian Development Bank and the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases at the Sabin Vaccine Institute, this publication highlights the need for greater crosssectoral partnership and additional investments. The Asia Pacific region has achieved remarkable success in tackling these debilitating diseases under the leadership of governments in endemic countries and with the support of partners worldwide. Lymphatic filariasis has been eliminated in three countries and 10 others are awaiting verification of elimination or are in the surveillance stage before verification by 2016. WHO targets for deworming school-age children have been reached in five countries, and trachoma elimination is expected to be achieved in six countries by 2016."--Page iv
Fighting The Diseases Of Poverty
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Author : Philip Stevens
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Fighting The Diseases Of Poverty written by Philip Stevens and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Social Science categories.
Public discussion of global healthcare issues is dominated by those who believe that top-down, government-driven interventions are the solution to the myriad health problems suffered by people in less developed countries. This thinking is responsible for a plethora of harmful policies, ranging from a drive towards socialized healthcare systems, to calls for the centralization and semi-nationalization of pharmaceutical research and development, to impractical but grandiose UN-sponsored schemes for tackling HIV/AIDS and malaria.In spite of the abysmal track record of top-down approaches, non-governmental organizations and UN agencies continue to promote them, to the detriment of the private sector, economic development, and human health. The resulting politicization of diseases such as HIV/AIDS has led to a diversion of resources away from more easily treatable diseases that affect more people. Meanwhile, cost-effective and simple interventions such as vaccination are being subordinated to other more politically correct diseases.This centralizing mindset has also resulted in many governments in less developed countries attempting to plan and control universal healthcare systems, which has encouraged rationing, inequitable access, and entrenched corruption. It has also seriously undermined the effectiveness of overseas development aid. Moreover, the politicization of diseases such as HIV/AIDS has led to a diversion of resources away from more easily treatable diseases that affect more people. As a result, cost-effective and simple interventions are neglected by donors.There has to date been little public discussion of the role of markets and their underlying institutions--property rights and the rule of law--in improving human health. Economic growth and globalization has led to unprecedented improvements in human health. The challenge is to enable the poorest countries to take part more fully in this process. This work demonstrates how current
Integrating Poverty And Gender Into Health Programmes
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Author : World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Western Pacific
language : en
Publisher: World Health Organization
Release Date : 2006
Integrating Poverty And Gender Into Health Programmes written by World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Western Pacific and has been published by World Health Organization this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Medical categories.
Although poverty and gender significantly influence health and socio-economic development, health professionals are not always adequately prepared to address such issues in their work. This publication, one of a set of modules intended for use in pre-service and in-service training of health professionals in the Western Pacific Region, focuses on the inter-relationship between poverty and health, including definitions of poverty and its multiple dimensions; indicators of poverty including methods of determining the prevalence of poverty and inequality within a community; how the health care system can address issues of poverty, with a special focus on low-income women and those from other marginalised or vulnerable groups.
Research Priorities For The Environment Agriculture And Infectious Diseases Of Poverty
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Author : TDR Thematic Reference Group on Environment, Agriculture and Infectious Diseases of Poverty
language : en
Publisher: World Health Organization
Release Date : 2013
Research Priorities For The Environment Agriculture And Infectious Diseases Of Poverty written by TDR Thematic Reference Group on Environment, Agriculture and Infectious Diseases of Poverty and has been published by World Health Organization this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Medical categories.
The Thematic Reference Group on Environment, Agriculture and Infectious Diseases of Poverty (TRG 4) addresses the nature of the intersections and interactions between environment, agriculture and infectious diseases of poverty in order to identify research priorities for improved disease control. This report reviews the connections between environmental change, modern agricultural practices and the occurrence of infectious diseases--especially those of poverty--and proposes a methodology that can be used to prioritize research on such diseases. Although there is some comprehension of the underlying and growing systemic influence of today s large-scale social and environmental changes on some infectious diseases, the significance and potential future impacts of these changes are poorly understood. Nevertheless, such changes now constitute a significant influence on the working of the Earth's systems that will have increasing consequences for patterns of occurrence of infectious diseases. Many of these changes are illustrated in this report. A common theme of this report is bidirectional causation, effectively "trapping" complex, linked eco-social systems in stable states that are resistant to intervention. For example, poverty is associated with ill health, low education and often with poor diets, either because of under-nutrition (and diarrhoea) or intakes that have excessive calories but insufficient micronutrients. In either case, poverty impairs health; and ill health impairs the escape from poverty. Another example is provided by a recent abundant agricultural harvest in India that has far exceeded storage capacity. A substantial fraction of this harvest will be wasted due to inadequate storage. Some grain that is badly stored will be contaminated by aflatoxins and other fungi, which increases the risk of cancer. This report presents the case for a more integrated approach across sectors, research disciplines and diseases, taking greater account of the increasingly widespread and systemic influences on disease emergence and spread.
Health And Poverty
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Author : Gijsbertus Engelinus Laurentius Walraven
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2011
Health And Poverty written by Gijsbertus Engelinus Laurentius Walraven and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Medical categories.
First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Reducing The Impact Of Poverty On Health And Human Development
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Author : Stephen G. Kaler
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 2008-07-08
Reducing The Impact Of Poverty On Health And Human Development written by Stephen G. Kaler and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-08 with Medical categories.
This work examines the many ways in which poverty contributes to ill health among the poor and to impeded development among poor children. The volume is a response to a request by the Council of Science Editors that journals all over the world publish an issue in October 2007 addressing the theme of poverty and human development.
City Of Plagues
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Author : Susan Craddock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
City Of Plagues written by Susan Craddock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
"Disease may not discriminate, but it can help those who do. Focusing on San Francisco between 1860 and 1940, Susan Craddock considers that the devastations caused by tuberculosis, plague, smallpox, and syphilis were derived in part from their use as political tools and disciplinary mechanisms." "The recent outbreaks of AIDS in San Francisco and tuberculosis in New York suggest that little has changed - and that, as Craddock argues, unless health policies begin to address economic inequity, poor housing, and racial and gender discrimination, disease will continue to characterize and shape urban society."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Communities In Action
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Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2017-04-27
Communities In Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-27 with Medical categories.
In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Addressing Poverty In Tb Control
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: WHO
Release Date : 2005
Addressing Poverty In Tb Control written by and has been published by WHO this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Medical categories.
"Explicitly addressing poverty in the context of TB control is essential to meet the needs of three overlapping constituencies: individual patients, poor and marginalized communities and countries threatened by the disease. WHO joins with its partners to offer this document, which we hope will accelerate progress towards the equitable provision of TB services to all in need and advance the connection between key disease control programmes and strategies to address the social determinants of health."--P. 5.
Integrating Poverty And Gender Into Health Programmes
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Author : WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific
language : en
Publisher: Wpro Publication
Release Date : 2008
Integrating Poverty And Gender Into Health Programmes written by WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific and has been published by Wpro Publication this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Medical categories.
This module is designed to build the capacity of health professionals to analyse and to address the interrelationship between gender and health. The enhanced commitment to addressing gender-based inequalities increasingly requires that health professionals have the knowledge, skills and tools to respond more effectively to the health needs of men and women. Adding gender analysis to the tools employed by health professionals can enable them to design and implement more equitable and effective health progammes. Yet, currently health professionals are not always adequately prepared to address gender issues in their work. This module is designed to help fill this gap. This module, which is part of a Sourcebook for health professionals, is intended to be used in pre-service and in-service training of health professionals. The module on Sexual and Reproductive health is designed to improve the awareness, knowledge and skills of health professionals on sexual and reproductive health. It is divided into six sections: Section 1 provides an overview of key concepts in sexual and reproductive health and reviews the global and regional burden of mortality and morbidity related to sexual and reproductive health; Section 2 examines What the links are between poverty, gender and sexual and reproductive health; Section 3 discusses why it is important for health professionals to address poverty and gender concerns in sexual and reproductive health, from efficiency, equity and human rights perspectives; Section 4 discusses how health professionals can address poverty and gender concerns in sexual and reproductive health policies, plans and programmes; Section 5 provides notes for facilitators and finally Section 6 contains a collection of tools, resources and references to support health professionals in their work in this field.