The HIV Pandemic : Local and global implications

ISBN-13: 9780198528432 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 840 str.

Eduard J. Beck; Nicholas Mays; Alan W. Whiteside

Opis

Offers a multi-country comparative study that examines how the response to the common, global threat of HIV is shaped by the history, culture, institutions and health systems of the individual countries affected. This book shows that all parts of the health system must be involved: policy makers, healthcare professionals and users of the services.

Recenzje

This book is timely for framing the first 26 years of the epidemic from a perspetive that encompasses policy and the delivery of medical care...The in-depth, well-organised country reports provide a baseline that will serve particularly well for those interested in international policy issues in public health...this book is important, and perhaps the best of its kind.

O autorze

Alan W Whiteside is an elected Member of Governing Council of the International AIDS Society, a member of the Governing Council of Waterford Kamhlaba College, and one of the Commissioners of the UN Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa. He has written the forthcoming OUP book HIV/AIDS: A Very Short Introduction. Nicholas Mays has served as Director of Health Services Research at the King's Fund, the UK's leading independent health policy and management foundation. He has also acted as principal adviser in the Social Policy Branch of the New Zealand Treasury. Professor Mays is editor of the Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, published by the Royal Society of Medicine Press. Eduard Beck has recently taken up a post in the HIV Department of the World Health Organisation in Geneva.