Last year when I took Policy Analysis Course with Professor Foster, I never thought that one day I will meet the architecture of Policymaker Software. This tool is a Window-based software program for analyzing the political dimensions of public policy. This tool provides a computer-assisted guide for strategic thinking about policy reform. The software leads [...]
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CDC describes Ebola as a hemorrhagic fever (Ebola HF) that is a severe, often-fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanzees) that has appeared sporadically since its initial recognition in 1976.The disease is caused by infection with Ebola virus, named after a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) [...]
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KaiserEDU.org invites undergraduate and graduate-level students in all disciplines to submit an original essay for the website’s annual competition. Students are asked to submit entries by March 17, 2008 in response to the following topic:
Topic:
The date is November 24th, 2008. You have just started a job as an analyst working on the President-elect’s health care [...]
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Prof. Bicknell believes the public health for the next 50 years is “The art and science of deciding who lives a longer, less miserable and happier life”. It means public health mission is to increase lives of people (quantity) with less misery (quality). Avicenna an Iranian physician and philosopher (980-1037 C.E.), believed that the quality of [...]
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Road Traffic Injuries are responsible for a global health burden similar to malaria and tuberculosis. Tuberculosis and Malaria are in the international global agenda and receive enough attention in media and political community, but Road Traffic Injuries are ignored by most of health policy makers and it doesn’t receive enough attention even from academia.
During my [...]
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The first time that I was impressed with an organization who shares information easily and openly with interested people, was when I visited WWF-Pakistan in Oct 2000. After I came to the US, I found a lot of open doors who let you in easily and they share their findings generously.
Today I learned about OPENCOURSEWARE [...]
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Some authorities treat the sick as potential enemies in the pandemic preparations for example in Flu Pandemic. Experts call this approach as a misguided approach to pandemic preparation that relies on a law enforcement/national security approach, rather than a public health approach to the problem, and which exposes nations to unnecessary risk.
Professor Annas as one [...]
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Nomination deadline: Feb. 1, 2008.
The Excellence in Media Award for Global Health is given each year to a journalist (print, electronic, and/or visual) who has in the prior year most effectively captured the essence of a major issue in global health and conveyed it to a broad audience.The Global Health Council recognizes the vital role [...]
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Geographical Information System (GIS) is a powerful computer-aided database management and mapping technology that uses for organizing and storing large amount of multi-purpose information. GIS provides an interface between the data and a map. For example by using GIS maps we can show visually the trends of disease or injuries in a particular geographical region, [...]
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I like this term “Policy Window”. It feels smart; you can see the framework that is not always visible to most of people. As a Health Policy Maker, you have to be able to see this window in your journey for increasing the public value, addressing public health problems and making a difference. So what [...]
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“The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.” -Stephen R. Covey
Have you ever thought to write down your personal mission statement? Do you know how important could be having a clear personal statement to show your meaning of life?
The sense [...]
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Some people work full time, they have spouse and kids, at the same time they are students and also do a lot of volunteer activities like helping their kids to sell cookies for the Girl Scouts, planting trees, go to walk for breast cancer or heart disease, serve communities in the events, or blogging daily [...]
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Surprisingly Health and Human Rights as a unique field (one concept) is a young, but rapidly growing and dynamic field. When we think about public health, unconsciously we consider it as a human right, these two words had evolved parallel but it took a long time until finally this field was introduced as a unique [...]
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Call for Nominations
The Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health & Human Rights was established in 1999 to honor Dr. Jonathan Mann and highlight the vital link between health and human rights. The award is bestowed annually to a leading practitioner in health and human rights and comes with a substantial financial reward.
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Statistical Analysis Software or SAS is a popular tool which is used extensively in public health academia and business. When I decided to refresh my knowledge about this software I found myself alone, since people usually don’t have enough time to sit with you and let you digest step by step this useful tool. I [...]
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Call for Nominees
The Best Practices in Global Health Award is given annually to celebrate and highlight the efforts of a public health practitioner or organization dedicated to improving the health of disadvantaged and disenfranchised populations, and to recognize the programs that effectively demonstrate the link between health, poverty and development. The person or organization selected [...]
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One of the concepts that a health policy maker should be aware about it, is the measurement of opportunity cost in a policy or program. For example, if a city decides to build a hospital on vacant land it owns, the opportunity cost is the value of the benefits forgone of some other thing which [...]
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Are you happy? When do people feel happiness? If they don’t have anything to eat make them happy, or if their babies are dying from pneumonia is a happy situation. If they live under Bomb and there is no hope in their country makes them feel as developed and happy nation. Of course, normal human [...]
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Dr. George Lakaoff a professor of cognitive linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley believes that “Global warming” is the wrong term: “Warm” seems nice. So people think, “Gee, I like global warming, Pittsburgh will be warmer.” “Climate change” is the attempt to be scientific and neutral. “Climate crisis” would be a more effective term. [...]
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A landmark study conducted by BUSPH International Health Professor Donald Thea and colleagues from Pakistan and WHO, showing that children with severe pneumonia can be treated as effectively at home as they can be in hospitals, could change the way the illness is managed in developing countries, saving lives and taking pressure off health systems. [...]
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Needs assessments play a vital role in strategic planning and in program and policy development process. In the needs assessment process, we try to learn about current needs for services and an assessment of effectiveness of past programs to meet those needs.
When we talk about needs assessment we can look at it in an individual [...]
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When I was a medical student in 80s a friend of mine who studied Philosophy at that time, always quoted a message from one of the Greek ancient philosophers about “Physicians”, the quote was something like: The “mean Docs” want people sick to make more money. This quote always leads me to avoid being a [...]
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