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Unhealthy Work: Causes, consequences, cures |
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 07:32 |
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 "Work, so fundamental to well-being, has its darker and more costly side. Work can adversely affect our health, well beyond the usual counts of injuries that we think of as "occupational health." The ways in which work is organized-its pace and intensity, degree of control over the work process, sense of justice, and employment security, among other things-can be as toxic to the health of workers as the chemicals in the air."
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In search of the public health paradigm for the 21st century: the political dimensions of public health |
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Written by Ilona Kickbusch
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Monday, 11 January 2010 00:00 |
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There are increasing warnings of not only of a "crisis in global health governance" but also of a "crisis in competency" in public health. With this in mind this paper discusses 21st century public health in view of the seminal trends which have led to a renewed political debate on public health and the characteristics of the new public health landscape as an amalgam of "healthscapes" and as networks.
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Nigel Crisp's new book: "Turning the world upside down - the search for global health in the 21st Century" |
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 The most striking thing about health in the 21st Century is that the whole world is now so interconnected and so interdependent. This interdependence is changing the way we see health, creating a new global perspective and will affect the way we need to act.
Turning the world upside down is a search to understand what is happening and what it means for us all. It is based on the authors journey from running the largest health system in the world to working in some of the poorest countries and draws on his experiences to explore new ideas and innovations from around the world.
The book has three unique features:
- Describes what rich countries can learn from poorer ones, as well as the other way round.
- Deals with health in rich and poor countries in the same way, not treating them as totally different things, and suggests that instead of talking about international development we should talk about co-development.
- Sets out a new vision for global health, based on our interdependence, our desire for independence and our rights and accountabilities as citizens of the world.
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European Cooperation on Future Crises: Toward a Public Good |
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Friday, 27 November 2009 12:59 |
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 This paper by Mark Rhinard, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, succinctly explains the paradox that currently characterizes European cooperation on internal security and safety issues, generally, and specifically in public health matters. The paper shows why this paradox reflects the cooperation difficulties of producing a transnational public good and gives a succinct intoduction to collective action literature and public goods theory as a powerful way to understand the problem.
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The European Approach to Global Health Identifying Common Ground for a U.S.–EU Agenda A Report of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center |
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Written by Gaudenz Silberschmidt
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Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:28 |
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This text offers a personal view on what Europe is doing and thinking about global health and where there might be further opportunity for transatlantic collaboration. It is based mainly on my experience as vice director and head of international affairs of the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (corresponding to an assistant secretary for international affairs of the ministry of health) and my two-month sabbatical as a visiting fellow with the CSIS Global Health Policy Center in November / December 2008.
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