Global Health
What do you think? Is there a responsibility to local community healt or global health?
It seems there are huge efforts helping people abroad when there are local people who need our resources just as much. Why should global health be more important than the health of local communities? Or visa versa, why should local community health be more important than global health? All opinions are welcome.
It seems its just in our nature to look past our own neighborhoods to want to help others, but that doesn’t mean its right and there are plenty of opportunities to help close to home, my church does some but not enough, and I can tell its not enough by the crime and poverty that is still in my neighborhood, if each one of us was helping the other all that would go away, great question, it makes us all think, and thats a good thing!!
Global Health Challenges in Bangladesh – Urban Slums
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What’s Killing Us: A Practical Guide to Understanding Our Biggest Global Health Problems In the past decade, we’ve changed the way we collectively view the health of the 7 billion people who occupy this planet. Health issues were once seen as an isolated national or regional problem; now they are a global concern. In ‘What’s Killing Us: A Practical Guide to Understanding Our Biggest Global Health Problems,’ 2011 TED Senior Fellow and health care expert Alanna Shaikh lays out the mo… |
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Global Health 101 (Essential Public Health) $49.93 Global Health 101, Second Edition (Formerly Titled Essentials Of Global Health) Is A Clear, Concise, And User-Friendly Introduction To The Most Critical Issues In Global Health. It Illustrates Key Themes With An Extensive Set Of Case Studies, Examples, And The Latest Evidence. While The Book Offers A Global Perspective, Particular Attention Is Given To The Health-Development Link, To Developing Co… |
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Environmental Health: From Global to Local (Public Health/Environmental Health) $48.94 The second edition of Environmental Health: From Global to Local, a comprehensive introductory text, offers an overview of the methodology and paradigms of this burgeoning field, ranging from ecology to epidemiology, from toxicology to environmental psychology, and from genetics to ethics. Expert contributors discuss the major issues in contemporary environmental health: air, water, food safety, … |
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Threelac Probiotic Bonus Pack 60 Pkts Plus 20% More Free $49.95 Threelac is a lemon-flavored dietary supplement to help support healthy intestinal flora & digestion. The strains of friendly bacteria in ThreeLac were specifically chosen for their unique ability to survive the gastric juices in your stomach and remain alive once they reach your digestive tract. GHT3 Proprietary Probiotic Blend: Bacillus Coagulans, Fructo-Oligosaccharides (FOS), Refind Dry Yeast … |
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Global Health Trax Active Digestive Enzymes — 90 Capsules $33.89 Active Digestive Enzymes provide enzyme reinforcements to allow the body to make enough metabolic enzymes for our immune protection. No mineral, vitamin, or hormone can do any work without enzymes. Enzymes are needed for our body to build proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. With plant enzyme-rich nutrients included in each capsule, they offer the perfect balance of a FULL-SPECTRUM enzyme support pr… |
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21 Debated Issues in World Politics $73.19 This collection of recent, opposing articles on 21 of the most talked-about topics in world politics offers readers a way to tie together theory and concepts with today”s headlines. Its informative yet provocative readings encourage discussions, questions, and analytical and critical thought. A seven-part organization covers complexities under the headings of: Global Community, Democracy in the World, Terrorism and Response, Nuclear Weapons and NATO, International Conflict Resolution, International Political Economy, and Environment and Health. MARKET For anyone interested in international relations, global issues, and world politics. |
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21St Century Skills $19.95 This important resource introduces a framework for 21st-century learning that maps out the skills needed to survive and thrive in a complex and connected world. 21st-century content includes the basic core subjects of reading, writing, and arithmetic–but also emphasizes global awareness, financial/economic literacy, and health issues. |
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A Call to Action $2.82 Is our healthcare system really in crisis? That’s a question Hank McKinnell one of the world’s most influential coporate leaders encounters every day. His answer may surprise you. While McKinnell agrees that there is a crisis, he doesn’t think the problem is with healthcare –rather, he asserts the crisis is in sick-care. Healthcare systems around the world, McKinnell argues, are focused on sickness and its management rather than health. As a result, dialogue about how to sustain health now takes a back seat to arguments about cost–containing it, avoiding it, or shifting it to someone else. The result? A near-universal belief that healthcare is becoming unaffordable, fragmented, and impersonal. Focusing only on the cost of care is looking at the healthcare problem though the worong end of the telescope, says McKinnell, the chairman and CEO of Pfizer. The real focus should be on the horrific cost of disease. In America, the sick-care system delivers the world’s most sophisticated procedures, while skimping on vaccines, hampering the fight against AIDS, and intruding into one of life’s most personal relationships – doctor and patient.Groundbreaking and provocative, A Call to Action, reframes the dialogue on healthcare and offers people a way out of the zero-sum, win-or-lose game they now encounter. Distilling more than 30 years of experience in global healthcare, McKinnell provides concrete action steps to build cost-effective, inclusive healthcare that he believes can extend millions of lives and save billions of dollars over the next generation. He addresses: A new, prevention-based approach to employee healthcare Why pharmaceutical companies have lost trust, andwhat they must do to regain itWhy Americans pay more for prescription drugs than people in Canada and Europe How competition can spur the healthcare industry to improve services and contain pricesHow new technologies can reduce medical errors and improve the dialogues between patient and doc |
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A Citizen’s Guide to Ecology $21.49 The earth is continuously changing and evolving yet it is unclear how environmental changes will affect us in years to come. What changes are inevitable? What changes, if any, are beneficial? And what can we do as citizens of this planet to protect it and our future generations? Larry Slobodkin, one of the leading pioneers of modern ecology, offers compelling answers to these questions in A Citizen’s Guide to Ecology. He provides many insights into ecology and the processes that keep the world functioning. This important guide introduces observations that underlie arguments about all aspects of the natural environment-including both global and local issues. To clarify difficult concepts; Slobodkin uses lake, ocean, and terrestrial ecosystems to explain ecological energy flows and relationships on a global scale. The book presents a clear and current understanding of the ecological world, and how individual citizens can participate in practical decisions on ecological issues. It tackles such issues as global warming, ecology and health, organic farming, species extinction and adaptation, and endangered species. An excellent introduction and overview, A Citizen’s Guide to Ecology helps us to understand what steps we as humans can take to keep our planet habitable for generations to come. |
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A Companion to Medical Anthropology $199.95 In a global environment of enormous health challenges, medical anthropologists offer important understandings of health systems and healing practices around the world. These leading international scholars assess our persisting problems of malnutrition, chronic and infectious diseases, and the influence of escalating levels of inequality, poverty, war, and genocide. A Companion to Medical Anthropology examines the key issues and controversies in medical anthropology today. Singer and Erickson present a thorough assessment of a specific area of medical anthropology, including expert overviews of major topics such as environmental health, global health, biotechnology, syndemics, nutrition, substance abuse, infectious disease, and sexuality and reproductive health. The authors also provide a guide to future trends and the emerging issues that will shape the future of medical anthropology and global health for years to come – |
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A Pace of Grace $17 From The Publisher:In today’s anxiety-ridden, stress-infused world, even a moment of quiet reflection has become a time-consuming luxury most of us just can’t afford. How did we reach this point? How did we lose our direction and sense of control? And, most important, how can we reclaim our lives?Linda Kavelin Popov asked herself these same questions, after the pressures of her own workaholic lifestyle nearly destroyed her. Now, as cofounder of the International Virtues Project she helps others achieve a pace of grace–a pace for our lives that can balance and sustain us physically and spiritually.Through a four-part program that teaches you how to purify your life, pace yourself, practice the presence, and plan a sustainable life, A Pace of Grace offers simple ways to rediscover the essential elements of a life well lived. Complete with Linda’s ten rules for health, this comprehensive guide is the first step in recapturing the joy and vibrancy inherent in each of us.About The Author:Linda Kavelin Popov is the author of The Family Virtues Guide and is one of the founders and directors of the Virtues Project International. She travels around the world in support of the project’s initiatives, speaking to communities, businesses, and governmental organizations. The United Nations Secretariat has honored the Virtues Project as a model for global reform for people of all cultures. She lives in the Gulf Islands near Victoria, British Columbia. |
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A Plague of Frogs: The Horrifying True Story $0.99 In the tradition of The Hot Zone comes an explosive investigation into a global catastrophe in the making. Moving from America’s swamps and wetlands to laboratories and government back rooms, Souder dramatically reveals the warning implicit in an outbreak of mutated frogs, explaining the importance of the amphibians to our fragile ecosystems and suggesting what their possible extinction means to the habitability of the planet for all species, including the human race. From the Publisher In the summer of 1995, a group of Minnesota children came upon a pond populated by frogs with nine legs, missing legs, a row of limbs fanning out from their backsides, and eyes in the wrong places. Since then, deformed frogs have been turning up in lakes and ponds across the country and as far away as Japan. This phenomenon, and its implications of worldwide environmental contamination, has been the subject of intense newspaper and television coverage. Written by the only journalist granted access to secret hot spots where these deformed frogs are tested, and brainstorming sessions among the researchers, this compelling, fast-paced narrative is the first to offer a complete picture of what is quite possibly a global catastrophe in the making. Moving from America’s swamps and wetlands to laboratories and the back rooms of government, William Souder dramatically reveals the warning implicit in this outbreak, explaining the importance of frogs to our fragile eco-systems and suggesting what their possible extinction means to the habitability of the planet for all species, including the human race. Publishers Weekly The world’s frogs are disappearing, and frog deformities are proliferating–a potential warning sign of a looming, environmentally triggered human health disaster. That’s the message of this shocking and important report from journalist Souder, who broke this story in the Washington Post after a group of Minnesota schoolchildren found a |
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A Practical Guide to Global Health Services $15.48 A Practical Guide to Global Health Services |
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A Reader in Medical Anthropology $64.95 A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities brings together articles from the key theoretical approaches in the field of medical anthropology as well as related science and technology studies. The editors” comprehensive introductions evaluate the historical lineages of these approaches and their value in addressing critical problems associated with contemporary forms of illness experience and health care.Presents a key selection of both classic and new agenda-setting articles in medical anthropologyProvides analytic and historical contextual introductions by leading figures in medical anthropology, medical sociology, and science and technology studiesCritically reviews the contribution of medical anthropology to a new global health movement that is reshaping international health agendas |
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AIDS Vaccine Development: Challenges and Opportunities $116.33 The HIV/AIDS pandemic is the most devastating global public health crisis since the great plagues of the Middle Ages, with more than 14,000 new HIV infections and 8,000 deaths due to AIDS every day. Although successful vaccines have been developed for most common childhood diseases, the development of a vaccine against the AIDS virus is a much greater challenge. More than 20 years after the discovery of the virus, the goal of a licensed and globally accessible vaccine is still several years away. AIDS Vaccine Development reviews the scientific challenges that have impeded the search for an effective AIDS vaccine and discusses current novel research that is accelerating progress. In a series of mini-reviews by the world”s leading experts in AIDS vaccine research, the book provides essential reading for everyone interested in the current progress and future direction of AIDS vaccine development. |
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