Posted on May 27, 2008 by moattari
Preventing chronic diseases: a vital investment, is a Book wrote by WHO. You can see the book below. I found it very useful for understanding the current challenges in global health.
Key messages
Table of contents
Key messages
Chronic diseases: major cause of death
Poorest countries are the worst affected
The risk factors are widespread
Misunderstanding #10
Misunderstanding #9
Misunderstanding #8. Story of Roberto [...]
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Posted on March 3, 2008 by moattari
In academia, usually we love to add some new pages to the human knowledge; we are looking for increasing the current knowledge most of the time. Therefore, usually we forget that we already have a lot of existing knowledge and data and we rarely take advantage of using these data. Our goal is to make [...]
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Posted on February 28, 2008 by moattari
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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Posted on February 14, 2008 by moattari
From Alma Ata to the Global Fund: The history of International health policy is a report prepared by the Italian Global Health Watch, published in the Social Medicine (Volume 3, Number 1, January, 2008). This paper traces the evolution of international health policies and international health institutions, starting from the birth of the World Health [...]
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Posted on February 12, 2008 by moattari
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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Posted on January 28, 2008 by moattari
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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Posted on January 24, 2008 by moattari
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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Posted on January 20, 2008 by moattari
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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Posted on January 11, 2008 by moattari
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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