Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Health Policy

In 2011, Dr. Peter J. Hotez relocated to Houston to launch Baylor's National School of Tropical Medicine. He was shocked to discover that a number of neglected diseases often associated with developing countries were widespread in impoverished Texas communities. Despite the United States' economic prowess and first-world status, an estimated 12 million Americans living at the poverty level currently suffer from at least one neglected tropical disease, or NTD. Hotez concluded that the world's neglected diseases--which include tuberculosis, hookworm infection, lymphatic filariasis, Chagas...

Designed for professionals and aspiring professionals in public policy, public health, and related programs, Public Health Leadership illustrates the complexity of contemporary issues at the intersection of public health and healthcare and the compelling need to engage numerous public and private stakeholders to effectively advance population health. Offering real-world case studies and cutting-edge topics in public health and healthcare, this book will complement existing primers and introductory books in public health to help students and practitioners bridge concepts and...

Directed at a diverse audience of students, legal and public health practitioners, and anyone interested in understanding what human rights-based approaches (HRBAs) to health and development mean and why they matter, Power, Suffering, and the Struggle for Dignity provides a solid fo

Directed at a diverse audience of students, legal and public health practitioners, and anyone interested in understanding what human rights-based approaches (HRBAs) to health and development mean and why they matter, Power, Suffering, and the Struggle for Dignity provides a solid...

Claiming 1.5 million lives in 2015, tuberculosis is the world's most deadly infectious disease. Because of the population it overwhelmingly affects, however, pharmaceutical companies are uninterested in developing better drugs for the disease. Compound Solutions examines Product Development Partnerships (PDPs), which arose early in the twenty-first century to develop new drugs and vaccines for infectious diseases in low-income countries. Here, for the first time, is a sustained examination of PDPs: the work they do, the partnerships they form, their mission, and their underlying...

Dieses Buch ist ein Beitrag zur ethischen Bewertung von Carrier-Screening. Zypern fuhrte 1983 als weltweit erstes Land einen verpflichtenden Gentest ein: Vor Eheschlieung mussen beide Partner untersuchen lassen, ob sie Trager eines Gens (-Carrier-) fur Thalassamie sind, eine autosomal rezessiv vererbte Bluterkrankung. Dadurch sollen die durch die Geburt von Kindern mit Thalassamie entstehenden Kosten gesenkt und entstehendes Leid fur Familien vermieden werden. Interviews mit betroffenen Paaren auf Zypern uber deren Erfahrungen mit dem Thalassamie-Programm geben Aufschlusse uber die Folgen...