Everything I Know About Health Care I Learned in the Pentagon in World War II

2019 ◽  
pp. 7-13
Author(s):  
Eli Ginzberg
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
World War

The Roots of Global Health Inequity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joia S. Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The Impact

This chapter outlines the historical roots of health inequities. It focuses on the African continent, where life expectancy is the shortest and health systems are weakest. The chapter describes the impoverishment of countries by colonial powers, the development of the global human rights framework in the post-World War II era, the impact of the Cold War on African liberation struggles, and the challenges faced by newly liberated African governments to deliver health care through the public sector. The influence of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund’s neoliberal economic policies is also discussed. The chapter highlights the shift from the aspiration of “health for all” voiced at the Alma Ata Conference on Primary Health Care in 1978, to the more narrowly defined “selective primary health care.” Finally, the chapter explains the challenges inherent in financing health in impoverished countries and how user fees became standard practice.

Quality Assessment of Ethics in Health Care: The Accountability Revolution

1994 ◽  
Vol 20 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 105-128
Author(s):  
Susan M. Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Central Place ◽  
World War ◽  
New Era ◽  
The Third ◽  
Cost Cutting ◽  
Global Budgeting

Writing in 1988, Arnold Relman heralded the dawning of the “third revolution“ in medical care. The first revolution, at the end of World War II, had inaugurated an Era of Expansion, with an explosion of hospitals, physicians, and research. Medicare and Medicaid were passed, and medicine experienced a golden age of growth. Inevitably, according to Relman, this yielded to an Era of Cost Containment starting in the 1970s. The federal government and private employers revolted against soaring costs, brandishing the weapons of prospective payment, managed care, and global budgeting. Yet these blunt instruments of cost-cutting eventually produced concern over how to evaluate the quality of health care, to promote the good while trimming the bad. Thus Relman announced the arrival of the Era of Assessment and Accountability.This chronology helps explain the current importance of quality. Quality assessment and more recently, quality improvement techniques, occupy a central place in this new era.

The Postwar Moment

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isser Woloch
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Full Employment ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Planning ◽  
World War ◽  
National Health Care ◽  
Price Controls ◽  
Common Agenda

Toward the end of World War II, the three democracies faced a common choice: return to the civic order of prewar normalcy or embark instead on a path of progressive transformation. This book assesses the progressive agendas that crystallized in each of the allied democracies: their roots in the interwar decades, their development during wartime, the struggles to enact them in the early postwar years, and the mixed outcomes in each country. The book examines three progressive postwar manifestos that reveal a common agenda in the three nations. The issues at stake included priorities for reconstruction or reconversion; “full employment” via economic planning; price controls; the roles of trade unions; expansion of social security; national health care; public housing; and educational reform. The book persuasively adds the United States to a discussion that is usually focused solely on Europe.

Benefits of Remote Microphone Technology in Health Care Management for the World War II Generation

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 1379-1384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda M. Thibodeau
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Care Setting ◽  
Auditory Signal ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
World War ◽  
Medical Settings ◽  
Communication Challenges ◽  
Hospital Stays ◽  
Personal Devices

Purpose The purpose of this article was to provide a review for hearing care providers of the need for improving the auditory signal for older adults who are often faced with hearing challenges in medical settings. Personal devices worn at the ear level may not reduce communication challenges that result from noise, reverberation, and distance. The use of a remote microphone may greatly enhance the audibility of the health care provider's voice and reduce the stress caused by miscommunication. Suggestions for optimal use of remote microphone technology in medical settings are provided in 3 settings: office appointment, hospital stays, and living with caregivers/nurses. Conclusions Use of remote microphone technology in conjunction with personal ear-level technology may significantly facilitate communication in the health care setting. In addition to providing a higher quality signal when worn by a speaker, the microphone may serve as a reminder to the health care provider to speak more slowly and clearly, as well as to ask for confirmation that the correct information was received.

scholarly journals PROFESSOR A.YA. ALYMOV AND DOMESTIC EPIDEMIOLOGY (ON THE 120TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH)

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 56-57
Author(s):  
M. Sh Knopov ◽  
V. K Taranukha
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Medical Service ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
World War ◽  
Public Figure ◽  
Medical Health Care ◽  
Medical Health ◽  
120Th Anniversary

In the paper there is presented the life and creative work way of a prominent epidemiologist of our country, a talented organizer of medical health care, well-known public figure, a wonderful teacher, chief epidemiologist of the Navy during World War II, corresponding member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, Professor, General-Major of Medical Service Andrey Yakovlevich Alymov/

The life, times, and health care of Harry L Hopkins: Presidential advisor and perpetual patient

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-59
Author(s):  
Theodore N Pappas ◽  
Sven Swanson
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Medical History ◽  
Nutritional Supplementation ◽  
World War ◽  
Autopsy Findings ◽  
The World

Harry Hopkins was the most important nontitled allied leader in World War II. He was the advisor to President Roosevelt who managed the diplomacy between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin from 1941 to 1946. Throughout these times, Hopkins was ill and required transfusions, admissions to the hospital, and nutritional supplementation to keep him well enough to travel the world and manage the allied war diplomacy. There has been no unifying theory to account for all his symptoms and his reported pathologic and autopsy findings. In this paper, we will review his political and medical history and a differential diagnosis of his illness.

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