This direct, accessible guide uses a human rights perspective to define effectiveness in aid delivery and offer a robust framework for creating sustainable health programs and projects and assessing their progress. Geared toward hands-on professionals in such critical areas as food aid, maternal health, and disease control, it lays out challenges and solutions related to funding, planning, and complexity as individual projects feed into and impact larger health and development systems. Contribu…
Speaking for Patients and Carers draws on original research and is based on a theoretical framework taken from sociology and politics. It examines health consumer groups in the context of specific conditions: arthritis and related conditions, cancer, heart and circulatory disease, maternity and childbirth, and mental health. It also analyzes their interaction with government, health professionals and the media, and assesses their impact on policy.
Winning Grants offers an accessible approach to the grant-writing process. Now in its fourth edition, this new book redefines the proven step-by-step framework to incorporate significant changes that have taken place in the grantseeking landscape since the third edition was published in 2008. It features information on the role of technology (more foundations are going paperless and conducting application submissions via online websites); the explosive growth of donor advised funds the differe…