While i intend to write more about Packard’s new book (delightfully if uncomfortably subtitled, interventions into the lives of others) once i am through with it, a paragraph in the opening chapter seemed both so important and accurate as to merit sharing immediately — particularly given the lessons it may hold for the Universal Health CoverageContinue reading “Packard on History of Global Health: devastating first chapter (we need to do better)”
Tag Archives: Global health
ebola and public health ethics (ebolaethics?)
via reuters, KFF recently posted a short article about the ethics of giving experimental treatment to the ‘hero doctor’ Sheik Umar Khan — and, really, to any of the trained health professionals who continue to show up to work even though they were at very real risk in Sierra Leone, in Liberia, in Nigeria and,Continue reading “ebola and public health ethics (ebolaethics?)”
see wound, insert (new, improved, foreign) salt
perhaps like many people in public health, i take the fortification of salt with iodine – the prevention of several thyroid-related disorders and the widespread return of the neck ruff – as one of public/global health’s major achievements. up there with smallpox, water treatment (for sanitation and potentially with fluoride) and really-we-are-nearly-there-but-stuff-keeps-happening polio. the WHO declaredContinue reading “see wound, insert (new, improved, foreign) salt”
Rethinking the use of the word ‘simple’ in global health solutions
Karen had a nice post this week about how we talk about ‘simple’ solutions to global health problems, here. There are at least four reasons that we might apply the word simple when we are talking about global health solution concepts: 1. The concept is relatively obvious because it relates to basic aspects of life,Continue reading “Rethinking the use of the word ‘simple’ in global health solutions”
Heather E. Lanthorn 