Best Evidence Structural Interventions for HIV Prevention
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Rachel E. Golden, Charles B. Collins, Shayna D. Cunningham, Emily N. Newman, Josefina J. Card.
--New York, NY:
Springer
, c2013.
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Best Evidence Structural Interventions for HIV Prevention Rachel E. Golden, Charles B. Collins, Shayna D. Cunningham, Emily N. Newman, and Josefina J. Card In the fourth decade of the HIV epidemic, the signs are both encouraging and alarming: fewer people are dying, and more people are living longer with the help of powerful antivirals, yet many areas of the world are seeing new cases on the rise. Best Evidence Structural Interventions for HIV Prevention reports on successful HIV prevention ini…
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- Golden, Rachel E
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- Rachel E. Golden, Charles B. Collins, Shayna D. Cunningham, Emily N. Newman, Josefina J. Card
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2013
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (viii, 352 p. : ill.)
- ISBN
- 9781461470137
- 9781461470120 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Evidence-Based Medicine
- Harm Reduction
- Health Policy
- Health Promotion
- HIV Infections - prevention & control
- Public Health
- Safe Sex
- Abstract
- Best Evidence Structural Interventions for HIV Prevention Rachel E. Golden, Charles B. Collins, Shayna D. Cunningham, Emily N. Newman, and Josefina J. Card In the fourth decade of the HIV epidemic, the signs are both encouraging and alarming: fewer people are dying, and more people are living longer with the help of powerful antivirals, yet many areas of the world are seeing new cases on the rise. Best Evidence Structural Interventions for HIV Prevention reports on successful HIV prevention initiatives from across the globe, representing countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas at diverse stages of the epidemic. Spotlighting major worldwide objectives--decreasing risks in IV drug use, commercial sex work, and non-commercial sexual activity and promoting HIV screening, voluntary counseling and testing (VCT), and antiretroviral therapy--these rigorously evaluated interventions are analyzed at individual and community levels. Chapters discuss issues regarding availability and accessibility of resources and populations' receptivity to change. And the authors examine related ethical challenges, including whether interventions should also target larger problems fueling the epidemic such as poverty and inequality. Among the programs featured: U.S.: Legal access to needles and syringes; China: Needle social marketing; Tanzania: Go with the Times, a radio soap opera; Dominican Republic: Compromiso Collectivo for female sex workers; France: Prenatal HIV screening; South Africa: Drama-based intervention to promote VCT. These life-saving initiatives are worthy of wider recognition, making Best Evidence Structural Interventions for HIV Prevention a superior reference for graduate students and researchers in public health, HIV/AIDS prevention, and health policy. Policymakers and planners will also find these ideas of great importance.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overview of Structural Interventions to Decrease Injection Drug-Use Risk -- Case Study 1: Legalization of Needle and Syringe Sale and Possession: Effect on Connecticut Injection Drug Users’ Injection Practices -- Case Study 2: The SHAKTI Intervention in Bangladesh: (Stopping HIV/AIDS through Knowledge and Training Initiatives) A Needle Exchange Program’s Effect on Injection Drug Users’ Injection -- Case Study 3: Providing a Safer Injection Facility to Injection Drug Users: InSite: A Safer Injection Facility in Vancouver, British Columbia -- Case Study 4: Needle Social Marketing Strategy in China: Effect on Chinese Injection Drug Users’ Injection Practices -- Case Study 5: The Vietnam and China Cross-Border Project: Effect on HIV Risk Behaviors of Injection Drug Users -- 3. Overview of Structural Interventions to Decrease Noncommercial Sex Risk -- Case Study 6: Louisiana’s Condom Social Marketing Program: Effect of Improved Availability and Access on Use -- Case Study 7: Promoting Sexual Responsibility Among Youth in Zimbabwe: Effect of an Extensive Multimedia Campaign on Indicators of Safer Sex -- Case Study 8: The 100% Jeune Social Marketing Campaign: Effect on Condom Use Among Youth in Cameroon -- Case Study 9: Twenda na Wakati (Lets Go with the Times): Effects of a Radio Soap Opera on HIV/AIDS Prevention in Tanzania -- Case Study 10: A Safer Sex Media Campaign in Lexington, Kentucky: Using Public Service Announcements to Promote Condom Use -- 4. Overview of Structural Interventions to Decrease Commercial Sex Risk -- Case Study 11: Mandatory Condom Law in Nevada Brothels: Using Policy to Change Condom Use Practices -- Case Study 12: Compromiso Collectivo: Reducing HIV Risk Among Female Sex Workers in the Dominican Republic -- Case Study 13: A Social and Structural Intervention in the Philippines: Effect on Condom Use of Establishment- Based Female Sex Workers -- Case Study 14: The 100 % Condom Program in Thailand: Using Public Policy Change to Increase Condom Use in Brothels -- Case Study 15: The Sonagachi Project: Empowering Sex Workers in the Songagchi District of Calcutta, India -- 5. Overview of Structural Interventions to Increase Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) and Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) -- Case Study 16: Mandatory Offering of HIV Screening During Prenatal Visits: The Experience of Southeastern France in Response to National Policy -- Case Study 17: Free Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy in Taiwan: Effect of a Country-Wide Policy on HIV Transmission -- Case Study 18: A Drama-Based HIV Intervention in South Africa: Effect on Voluntary Counseling and Testing -- 6. Conclusion.
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- e-Book
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- Case Reports
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Disability, Health and Human Development
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat43964
Sophie Mitra.
--New York:
Palgrave Macmillan
, c2018.
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This open access book introduces the human development model to define disability and map its links with health and wellbeing, based on Sen’s capability approach. The author uses panel survey data with internationally comparable questions on disability for Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda. It presents evidence on the prevalence of disability and its strong and consistent association with multidimensional poverty, mortality, economic insecurity and deprivations in education, morbidity and e…
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- Author
- Mitra, Sophie
- Responsibility
- Sophie Mitra
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Date of Publication
- c2018
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xxi, 177 p.) : 20 illus., 17 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9781137536389
- 9781137536372 (Print ed.)
- 9781349710706 (Print ed.)
- 9781349710690 (Print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Disabled Persons
- Human Development
- Quality of Life
- Social Planning
- Other Subjects
- Africa
- Specialty
- Public Health
- Abstract
- This open access book introduces the human development model to define disability and map its links with health and wellbeing, based on Sen’s capability approach. The author uses panel survey data with internationally comparable questions on disability for Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda. It presents evidence on the prevalence of disability and its strong and consistent association with multidimensional poverty, mortality, economic insecurity and deprivations in education, morbidity and employment. It shows that disability needs to be considered from multiple angles including aging, gender, health and poverty. Ultimately, this study makes a call for inclusion and prevention interventions as solutions to the deprivations associated with impairments and health conditions.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Human Development Model of Disability, Health and Wellbeing -- 3. Measurement, Data and Country Context -- 4. Prevalence of Functional Difficulties -- 5. Functional Difficulties and Inequalities through a Static Lens -- 6. Dynamics of Functional Difficulties and Wellbeing -- 7. Main Results and Implications.
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- Open access
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- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Making medicines in Africa : the political economy of industrializing for local health
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat41000
edited by Maureen Mackintosh, Geoffrey Banda, Paula Tibandebage, Watu Wamae.
--London:
Palgrave Macmillan
, c2016.
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- edited by Maureen Mackintosh, Geoffrey Banda, Paula Tibandebage, Watu Wamae
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Date of Publication
- c2016
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xxi, 334 pages)
- Series Title
- International political economy series
- ISBN
- 9781137546470
- 9781137571335 (print ed.)
- 9781137546463 (hbk.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Diffusion of Innovation
- Drug Industry - standards
- Economic Development
- Pharmaceutical Preparations - supply & distribution
- Technology, Pharmaceutical - economics
- Technology, Pharmaceutical - methods
- Other Subjects
- Africa
- Contents
- Introduction: African Industrial Development, Values and Health Care -- Part I. The Pharmaceutical Industry in Africa -- 1. Making Medicines in Africa: An Historical Political Economy -- 2. Pharmaceuticals in Kenya: The Evolution of Technological Capabilities -- 3. Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Decline in Tanzania: How Possible Is a Turnaround to Growth? -- 4. Bringing Industrial and Health Policies Closer: Reviving Pharmaceutical Production in Ethiopia -- 5. South-South Collaboration in Pharmaceuticals: Manufacturing Anti-retroviral Medicines in Mozambique -- 6. Can Foreign Firms Promote Local Production of Pharmaceuticals in Africa? -- 7. Raising the Technological Level: The Scope for API, Excipients, and Biologicals Manufacture in Africa -- Part II. Industrialization for Health -- 8. Health Systems as Industrial Policy: Building Collaborative Capabilities in the Tanzanian and Kenyan Health Sectors and Their Local Suppliers -- 9. The Dissemination of Local Health Innovations: Political Economy Issues in Brazil -- 10. Healthy Industries and Unhealthy Populations: Lessons from Indian Problem-Solving -- Part III. Industrial Policies and Health Needs -- 11. Policies to Control Prices of Medicines: Does the South African Experience Have Lessons for Other African Countries? -- 12. Pharmaceutical Standards in Africa: The Road to Improvement and Their Role in Technological Capability Upgrading -- 13. Innovative Procurement for Health and Industrial Development -- 14. Industry Associations and the Changing Politics of Making Medicines in South Africa -- 15. Finance and Incentives to Support the Development of National Pharmaceutical Industries.
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- e-Book
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- Online
Pharmaceutical Policy in Countries with Developing Healthcare Systems
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Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar, editor.
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Adis
, 2017.
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A comprehensive and granular insight into the challenges of promoting rational medicine, this book serves as an essential resource for health policy makers and researchers interested in national medicines policies. Country-specific chapters have a common format, beginning with an overview of the health system and regulatory and policy environments, before discussing the difficulties in maintaining a medicines supply system, challenges in ensuring access to affordable medicines and issues impact…
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- Babar, Zaheer-Ud-Din
- Responsibility
- Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar, editor
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Adis
- Date of Publication
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 430 pages) : 36 illus., 33 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783319516738
- 9783319516721 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Drug and Narcotic Control
- Health Policy
- Health Services Accessibility
- Legislation, Pharmacy
- Abstract
- A comprehensive and granular insight into the challenges of promoting rational medicine, this book serves as an essential resource for health policy makers and researchers interested in national medicines policies. Country-specific chapters have a common format, beginning with an overview of the health system and regulatory and policy environments, before discussing the difficulties in maintaining a medicines supply system, challenges in ensuring access to affordable medicines and issues impacting on rational medicine use. Numerous case studies are also used to highlight key issues and each chapter concludes with country-specific solutions to the issues raised. Written by highly regarded academics, the book includes countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and South America.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- Section I: Low and Lower Middle Income Countries -- 2. Pharmaceutical Policy in the East African Community: Burundi, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania -- 3. Pharmaceutical Policy in Pakistan -- 4. Pharmaceutical Policy in Philippines -- 5. Pharmaceutical Policy in Vietnam -- Section II: Upper Middle Income Countries -- 6. Pharmaceutical Policy in Argentina -- 7. Pharmaceutical Policy in Brazil -- 8. Pharmaceutical Policy In Bulgaria -- 9. Pharmaceutical Policy in China -- 10. Pharmaceutical Policy in Colombia -- 11. Pharmaceutical Policy in Ecuador -- 12. Pharmaceutical Policy in Jordan -- 13. Pharmaceutical Policy in Russia -- 14. Pharmaceutical Policy in South Africa -- Section III: High Income Countries -- 15. Pharmaceutical Policy in Poland -- 16. Pharmaceutical Policy in Saudi Arabia -- 17. Pharmaceutical Policy in Trinidad and Tobago -- 18. Pharmaceutical Policy in United Arab Emirates -- Section IV: Further Perspectives -- 19. Repurposing Medicines: a Case for Low- and Middle-Income Countries with Developing Healthcare Systems -- 20. Pharmaceutical Policy in Countries with Developing Healthcare Systems: Synthesis of Country Case Studies.
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- e-Book
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- Online
Public Health Informatics and Information Systems
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat45210
J.A. Magnuson, Brian E. Dixon, editors.
(Third edition)
--Cham:
Springer
, c2020.
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This 3rd edition of a classic textbook examines the context and background of public health informatics, explores the technology and science underlying the field, discusses challenges and emerging solutions, reviews many key public health information systems, and includes practical, case-based studies to guide the reader through the topic. The editors have expanded the text into new areas that have become important since publication of the previous two editions due to changing technologies and …
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- Magnuson, J.A.
- Dixon, Brian E.
- Responsibility
- J.A. Magnuson, Brian E. Dixon, editors
- Edition
- Third edition
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2020
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 524 p.) : 71 illus., 30 illus. in color
- Series Title
- Health informatics
- ISBN
- 9783030412159
- 9783030412142 (Print ed.)
- 9783030412166 (Print ed.)
- 9783030412173 (Print ed.)
- ISSN
- 1431-1917
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Medical Informatics Applications
- Public Health Informatics
- Organizational Case Studies
- Abstract
- This 3rd edition of a classic textbook examines the context and background of public health informatics, explores the technology and science underlying the field, discusses challenges and emerging solutions, reviews many key public health information systems, and includes practical, case-based studies to guide the reader through the topic. The editors have expanded the text into new areas that have become important since publication of the previous two editions due to changing technologies and needs in the field, as well as updating and augmenting much of the core content. The book contains learning objectives, overviews, future directions, and review questions to assist readers to engage with this vast topic. The Editors and their team of well-known contributors have built upon the foundation established by the previous editions to provide the reader with a comprehensive and forward-looking review of public health informatics. The breadth of material in Public Health Informatics and Information Systems, 3rd edition makes it suitable for both undergraduate and graduate coursework in public health informatics, enabling instructors to select chapters that best fit their students’ needs.
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- Part I. Context for Public Health Informatics -- Public Health Informatics: an Introduction -- History of Public Health Information Systems and Informatics -- Public Health Informatics in the Larger Context of Biomedical and Health Informatics -- Governmental and Legislative Context for Informatics -- Role of Informatics in Bridging Public and Population Health -- Part II. The Science of Public Health Informatics -- Information Infrastructure to Support Public Health -- Data Sources and Data Tools: Preparing for the Open Data Ecosystem -- Public Health Information Standards -- Privacy and Confidentiality of Public Health Information -- Health Systems Security -- Electronic Health Records: Origination, Adoption, and Progression -- Public Health Analytics and Big Data -- Project Management and Public Health Informatics -- Part III. Key Public Health Information Systems -- Informatics in Disease Prevention and Epidemiology -- Public Health Laboratories -- The US National Vital Statistics System -- Syndromic Surveillance – a Practical Application of Informatics -- Part IV. Challenges and Solutions -- New Means of Data Collection and Accessibility -- Interoperability and Health Information Exchange for Public Health -- Geographic Information Systems -- Public Health Decision Support Systems -- Part V. Case Studies: Information Systems and the Strata of Public Health -- Local and Regional Public Health Informatics -- Public Health Informatics and the American Indian/Alaska Native Populations: Improving Community Health Despite Challenges -- Advancing Informatics Policy and Practice: A State Perspective -- National Public Health Informatics, United States -- Perspectives on Global Public Health Informatics -- Improving immunization through informatics: Perspectives from the BID Initiative Partnership with Tanzania and Zambia -- Public Health Informatics: the Path Forward.
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- e-Book
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Structural Dynamics of HIV : Risk, Resilience and Response
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat43207
Deanna Kerrigan, Clare Barrington, editors.
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Springer
, c2018.
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This book examines the structural dynamics of HIV among populations at heightened vulnerability to infection as the result of stigma, discrimination and marginalization. It first examines how the socio-structural context shapes HIV risk and how affected populations and national governments and programs have responded to these structural constraints. Chapters focus on structural determinants of HIV risk among transgender women in Guatemala, migrant workers in Mexico, Nigeria and Vietnam, and peo…
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- Kerrigan, Deanna
- Barrington, Clare
- Responsibility
- Deanna Kerrigan, Clare Barrington, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2018
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xxx, 211 p.) : 14 illus
- Series Vol.
- v. 4
- Series Title
- Social aspects of HIV
- ISBN
- 9783319635224
- 9783319635217 (print ed.)
- 9783319635231 (print ed.)
- 9783319875774 (print ed.)
- ISSN
- 2509-6559
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - prevention & control
- HIV Infections - prevention & control
- Internationality
- Social Determinants of Health
- Abstract
- This book examines the structural dynamics of HIV among populations at heightened vulnerability to infection as the result of stigma, discrimination and marginalization. It first examines how the socio-structural context shapes HIV risk and how affected populations and national governments and programs have responded to these structural constraints. Chapters focus on structural determinants of HIV risk among transgender women in Guatemala, migrant workers in Mexico, Nigeria and Vietnam, and people who inject drugs in Tanzania. Next, the book examines resilience and community empowerment and mobilization among key populations such as female sex workers in the Dominican Republic and India, and young women and girls in Botswana, Malawi and Mozambique. A third set of chapters explores how national responses to HIV have addressed the role of structural factors in diverse political, geographic and epidemic settings including: Brazil, South Africa, Ukraine and the USA. Ultimately, effective and sustainable responses to HIV among marginalized groups must be grounded in an in-depth understanding of the factors that create vulnerability and risk and impede access to services. Throughout, this book brings together a rigorous social science research perspective with a strong rights-based approach to inform improvements in HIV programs and policies. It offers new insights into how to better address HIV and the health and human rights of historically excluded communities and groups.
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- Part I. Risk -- 1. Understanding HIV Disparities Among Transgender Women in Guatemala: Linking Social and Structural Factors to HIV Vulnerability -- 2. From Structural Analysis to Pragmatic Action: The Meso-level Modifiable Social Determinants of HIV Vulnerability for Labor Migrants -- 3. Addressing the Micro- and Macro-Environmental Vulnerabilities to HIV of People Who Inject Drugs in Tanzania: A Case Study of the Muhimbili Medication-Assisted Treatment Clinic -- Part II. Resilience -- 4. No-One-Size-Fits-All: Addressing the Social and Structural Dimensions of Sex Worker Vulnerability to HIV Through Community Mobilization in Avahan -- 5. Abriendo Puertas: A Multi-level Intervention to Improve HIV Outcomes by Addressing Stigma and Discrimination Among Female Sex Workers in the Dominican Republic -- 6. Multi-level Responses to Multi-level Vulnerabilities: Creating an Enabling Environment for HIV Prevention for Girls in Botswana, Malawi, and Mozambique -- Part III. Response -- 7. Sustaining a Rights-Based Response to HIV in Brazil -- 8. Structural Approaches Are Building Power: South Africa’s National HIV Response Among Female Sex Workers (1990–2016) -- 9. Structural Factors and the National HIV/AIDS Strategy of the USA -- 10. Finding and Reforming the (In)visible State: Nongovernmental Organizations and the Response to HIV in Ukraine.
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- e-Book
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