Reversing the Tide

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joia S. Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Equitable Distribution ◽  
Health Delivery ◽  
Aids Activism ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right ◽  
Provision Of Care

This chapter focuses on the emergence of the AIDS pandemic. It covers the emergence of symptoms associated with HIV, the discovery of the virus, and the understanding of its transmission. It emphasizes the importance of AIDS activists in acceleration of the development of drugs that changed the disease from a terminal to chronic disease. AIDS activists throughout the world then worked together to fight for equitable distribution of AIDS treatment. The movement drew an explicit connection between the AIDS pandemic and the right to health and succeeded in garnering novel funding for global health delivery. AIDS changed many things in global health, from patient-led activism to drug discovery to the long-term provision of care. In this book, the global health era is defined as the period after 2000, when AIDS activism helped shift the health paradigm in impoverished countries from prevention only to the delivery of health care.

An Introduction to Global Health Delivery

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joia Mukherjee ◽  
Paul Farmer
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Treatment Access ◽  
The Road ◽  
Health Delivery ◽  
Positive Side ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
The Right

What has called so many young people to the field of global health is the passion to be a force for change, to work on the positive side of globalization, and to be part of a movement for human rights. This passion stems from the knowledge that the world is not OK. Impoverished people are suffering and dying from treatable diseases, while the wealthy live well into their 80s and 90s. These disparities exist between and within countries. COVID-19 has further demonstrated the need for global equity and our mutual interdependence. Yet the road to health equity is long. People living in countries and communities marred by slavery, colonialism, resource extraction, and neoliberal market policies have markedly less access to health care than the wealthy. Developing equitable health systems requires understanding the history and political economy of communities and countries and working to adequately resource health delivery. Equitable health care also requires strong advocacy for the right to health. In fact, the current era in global health was sparked by advocacy—the activist movement for AIDS treatment access, for the universality of the right to health and to a share of scientific advancement. The same advocacy is needed now as vaccines and treatments are developed for COVID-19. This book centers global health in principles of equity and social justice and positions global health as a field to fulfill the universal right to health.

Reversing the Tide

2021 ◽  
pp. 35-63
Author(s):  
Joia S. Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Child Survival ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Treatment Access ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
The World ◽  
Deadly Disease ◽  
The Right

The tide turned in public health due to the fight for AIDS treatment access around the world. While prevention, not treatment was the focus of most health interventions in the 20th century, based on this SPHC model, AIDS resulted in a reversal of the gains made in the child survival revolution. Entire communities collapsed under the weight of AIDS which struck down mothers, fathers, teachers, farmer, and health workers. This chapter focuses on the AIDS pandemic, beginning in the 1980s, and traces the global spread of this deadly disease. Importantly, the chapter covers the emergence of the movement of people living with AIDS both in accelerating the discovery of antiretroviral and as a movement that focused the right to health for all. It is the force of this movement that resulted in novel funding of global health.

Happiness as an Expression of Health

2022 ◽  
pp. 311-332
Author(s):  
Rodolfo Andrade de Carvalho ◽  
Jorge Lima de Magalhães
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
World Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right ◽  
Legal Interventions

Health gained a global prominence and became a right declared by the World Health Organization in 1948. In the 21st century, it is understood as a complete well-being of the individual, far beyond the absence of disease. In this context, the right to happiness translates as an expression of the aspirations for the realization of the right to health. Thus, this chapter aims to understand, in the light of the Freudian perspective, the aspects of soul life that lead the individual to the exhausting task of seeking happiness and seeks to reflect the possible contributions that legal science can offer to the improvement of individual well-being as a right health in the context of global health. Freud's theories about the formation of the psychic apparatus, his conception of malaise caused by culture and legal interventions that can possibly contribute to the reduction of individual unhappiness are presented.

scholarly journals The Human Right to Health and Global Health Politics

2018 ◽  
pp. 491-511
Author(s):  
Gorik Ooms ◽  
Rachel Hammonds
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Universal Health Coverage ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Health Coverage ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Health Politics ◽  
Aids Activism ◽  
The Right ◽  
Universal Health ◽  
Hiv Aids

This chapter discusses how the human right to health could be and has been used to influence global health politics to place greater emphasis on the interests of all people. It explores whether this right is a norm to which states adhere, or could adhere, because they identify with its underlying values. Three important obstacles are addressed. Global HIV/AIDS activism used the right to health to pressure influential states into compliance on concrete measures and therefore defined an important element of the human right to health. Earlier attempts to use this right to influence global health politics failed to advance similarly concrete measures. Those who want to use the right to health in support of universal health coverage should understand the strengths and weaknesses of this tool and advocate for concrete measures rather than broad principles.

The Origins of Human Rights in Global Health

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence O. Gostin ◽  
Benjamin Mason Meier
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Global Health ◽  
International Law ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Right To Health Care ◽  
Global Standards ◽  
The Right

This chapter introduces the foundational importance of human rights for global health, providing a theoretical basis for the edited volume by laying out the role of human rights under international law as a normative basis for public health. By addressing public health harms as human rights violations, international law has offered global standards by which to frame government responsibilities and evaluate health practices, providing legal accountability in global health policy. The authors trace the historical foundations for understanding the development of human rights and the role of human rights in protecting and promoting health since the end of World War II and the birth of the United Nations. Examining the development of human rights under international law, the authors introduce the right to health as an encompassing right to health care and underlying determinants of health, exploring this right alongside other “health-related human rights.”

scholarly journals Boomerang hiring: Strategy for sustainable development in COVID-19 era

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Penumadu V. Raveendra ◽  
Yellappa M. Satish
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Organization Culture ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Hiring Process ◽  
Positive Growth ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Drivers ◽  
Hr Managers ◽  
The Right

BACKGROUND: Many companies are forced to restructure themselves by right sizing due to unexpected fall in demand for their products and services created by the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID 19 not only affected the health of human beings but also their wealth across the world. Global economic parameters are showing a sign of positive growth with decreased number of COVID 19 cases across the world. Many companies are in a dilemma to rehire their former employees or to hire the new candidates to meet the increased demand. OBJECTIVES: The objectives of study are i) to analyze the key drivers for boomerang hiring and ii) to develop a conceptual process for boomerang hiring. METHODS: An exploratory methodology was designed to identify the key drivers of boomerang hiring by studying the various successful stories of those companies which had rehired their former employees. Various papers were reviewed to develop the process for boomerang hiring. RESULTS: Study showed that knowledge about the culture of the company, cost of hiring, morale booster for the existing employees, and customer retention, are the key drivers for boomerang hiring. This hiring process requires special skills from HR Managers, as this decision will impact long term success of the company. CONCLUSION: The process of boomerang hiring cannot be standardized as each organization culture is different and companies cannot have the same strategy for each candidate as every individual is different. Boomerang hiring will work as the right strategy during pandemic situation as former employees would have built relations with the customers. The customers will be happy to see the former employees who had served them better.

scholarly journals A Tiered Framework for Organizing and Categorizing Medical Interoperability

2019 ◽  
Vol 185 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 330-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean D Mclaughlin ◽  
Ramey L Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
National Security ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Security Risks ◽  
Defense Strategies ◽  
The World ◽  
Training Event ◽  
The Way

Abstract Developing, cultivating, and sustaining medical interoperability strengthens the support we provide to the warfighter by presenting our Commanders options and efficiencies to the way we can enable their operations. As our national security and defense strategies change the way our forces are employed to address our security risks throughout the world, some military commands will find they cannot provide adequate medical care without working in concert with willing and available partners.This article proposes a tiered framework that allows medical personnel to further describe and organize their engagement activities around the concept and practicalities of medical interoperability. As resources become diverted to other theaters or missions expand beyond assigned capabilities, medical interoperability provides Commanders with options to medically enable their missions through their partnerships with others. This framework links and connects activities and engagements to build partner capacity with long-term or regional interoperability among our partners and challenges engagement planners to consider ways to build interoperability at all four tiers when planning or executing health engagements and global health development. Using this framework when planning or evaluating an engagement or training event will illuminate opportunities to develop interoperability that might have otherwise been unappreciated or missed.

scholarly journals Global health governance in the sustainable development goals: Is it grounded in the right to health?

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Remco Van de Pas ◽  
Peter S. Hill ◽  
Rachel Hammonds ◽  
Gorik Ooms ◽  
Lisa Forman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Global Health Governance ◽  
Health Governance ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Right

Conference Report: Global Health Security Alliance (GLoHSA), a Product of the World Health Summit

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
John M. Quinn ◽  
Christian Haggenmiller ◽  
James M. Wilson ◽  
Tracey McNamara ◽  
Stefan Goebbels ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Conference Report ◽  
World Health ◽  
Global Health Security ◽  
Health Security ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right ◽  
Key Resources ◽  
Rapid Deployment ◽  
Security Alliance

ABSTRACT Over the past decade, the World Health Summit (WHS) has provided a global platform for policy-makers and decision-makers to interact with academics and practitioners on global health. Recently the WHS adopted health security into their agenda for transnational disease risks (eg, Ebola and antimicrobial resistance) that increasingly threaten multiple sectors. Global health engagement (GHE) focuses efforts across interdisciplinary and interorganizational lines to identify critical threats and provide rapid deployment of key resources at the right time for addressing health security risks. As a product of subject matter experts convening at the WHS, a special side-group has organically risen with leadership and coordination from the German Institute for Defense and Strategic Studies in support of GHE activities across governmental, academic, and industry partners. Through novel approaches and targeted methodology that maximize outcomes and streamline global health operational process, the Global Health Security Alliance (GloHSA) was born. This short conference report describes in more detail the GloHSA.

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