One of my favorite TV productions is The Commanding Heights by PBS. In this show you can grasp a concentration of change from economic, social and political viewpoints in the world during 20th century.
The Commanding Heights Storyline provides a complete netcast of the six-hour television program as originally broadcast — in three two-hour episodes. The [...]
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“Extreme poverty can be ended, not in the time of our grandchildren, but our time.” Thus forecasts Jeffrey D. Sachs, whose twenty-eight years of experience observing the world from many vantage points has helped him shed light on the most vital issues facing our planet: the causes of poverty, the role of rich-country policies, and [...]
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If you are interested in the idea of development and you are familiar with the concept of sustainable development most likely you know Professor Sen. He is winner of Noble prize of Economy in 1998 “for his contributions to welfare economics” for his work on famine, human development theory, welfare economics, the underlying mechanisms of [...]
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Dr. Saeid Shahraz a post doctorate fellow at Harvard Initiative for Global Health created a blog to share with other interested people his concerns about healthcare system in Iran as an example of a developing country. Dr. Shahraz tries to comment on the major challenges of the healthcare system in Iran.
Healthcare disparity, quality and [...]
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As a health professional or health student you need to know a minimum of the health terminology and historical events as well as ongoing debates. For example you have to know the differences between reliability and validity, sensitivity and specificity, bias and confounding factors, also you must be able to explain the John Snow approach [...]
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GINI index is a measure of income inequality in a society. A society that scores 0.0 on the Gini scale has perfect equality in income distribution. Higher the number over zero means higher inequality. The Gini coefficient was developed by an Italian statistician Corrado Gini and published in his 1912 paper “Variabilità e mutabilità” [...]
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In this program, two human rights advocates discuss the ethics of access to care and protection from secret experiments. Dr. Jonathan Moreno, director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia and author of Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans, is a commentator and columnist for ABCNews.com. He is also [...]
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The Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) represents the 40 Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH)-accredited schools of public health (SPH) in North America.
The ASPH Public Health Policy Fellow will be placed in either a congressional or committee office, to be determined, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Selected fellows are required to [...]
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The current presidential race in the United States is one of the exciting episodes of the history of the American nation. This nation as a generous and patriot nation is an example of change for making a difference. If you look at the history of this country you will be impressed with the amount [...]
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Last week in a Medical Care Class at the BU school of public health, we discussed about the health market, professor said that the health market is an imperfect market, because it doesn’t have the characteristics and assumptions adhered to a perfect market. A perfect market has some assumptions like rationality of the market [...]
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Placing global health in the spot light of public attention is a critical first step toward improving the lives of billions of people around the world. Some preventable diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, TB, and injuries like Road Traffic Injuries are responsible for death of millions of people each year. In searching some valuable articles [...]
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Today through a telephone conversation with Dr. Mark Rosenberg, the Executive Director of the Task Force for the child survival and development, I learned that Sweden is leading the field of road safety in the world.
Have you ever heard that Sweden argue that Road Traffic Injuries can be eradicated as Smallpox was in 1980. Smallpox [...]
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