Tuesday, August 3, 2010

[EQ] Health Assets in a Global Context - Theory, Methods, Action

Health Assets in a Global Context - Theory, Methods, Action

Publisher: Springer New York -DOI10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8 - July 2010

ISBN     978-1-4419-5920-1 (Print) 978-1-4419-5921-8 (Online)

Edited by Antony Morgan, Maggie Davies, and Erio Ziglio

Available online at: http://bit.ly/auIY7y

 

“……As global health inequities continue to widen, policymakers are redoubling their efforts to address them. Yet the effectiveness and quality of these programs vary considerably, sometimes resulting in the reverse of expected outcomes.
While local political issues or cultural conflicts may play a part in these situations, an important new book points to a universal factor: the prevailing deficit model of assessing health needs, which puts disadvantaged communities on the defensive while ignoring their potential strengths.

 

The asset model proposed in Health Assets in a Global Context offers a necessary complement to the problem-focused framework by assessing multiple levels of health-promoting aspects in populations, and promoting joint solutions between communities and outside agencies.

The book provides not only rationales and methodologies (e.g., measuring resilience and similar elusive qualities) but also concrete examples of asset-based initiatives in use across the world on the individual and community levels, including:


 • Strengthening the assets of disadvantaged women (Germany).
 • Sustainable community-based development programs (India).
 • Using parental assets to control child malaria (West Africa).
 • Asset/evidence-based health promotion in the schools (Romania).
 • Evaluating asset-based programs (Latin America).
 • Using social capital to promote health equity (Australia). …………..”


Content:

Chapter

Revitalising the Public Health Evidence Base: An Asset Model

Antony Morgan and Erio Ziglio  

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_1

 

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A Salutogenic Approach to Tackling Health Inequalities

Bengt Lindström and Monica Eriksson

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_2

 

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A Theoretical Model of Assets: The Link Between Biology and the Social Structure

Michael P. Kelly

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_3

 

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Asset Mapping in Communities

John McKnight

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_4

 

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Assets Based Interventions: Evaluating and Synthesizing Evidence of the Effectiveness of the Assets Based Approach to Health Promotion

Marcia Hills, Simon Carroll and Sylvie Desjardins

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_5

 

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Resilience as an Asset for Healthy Development

Mel Bartley, Ingrid Schoon, Richard Mitchell and David Blane

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_6

 

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How to Assess Resilience: Reflections on a Measurement Model

Nora Wille and Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_7

 

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Measuring Children’s Well-Being: Some Problems and Possibilities

Virginia Morrow and Berry Mayall

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_8

 

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The Relationship Between Health Assets, Social Capital and Cohesive Communities

Ichiro Kawachi

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_9

 

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Community Empowerment and Health Improvement: The English Experience

Jennie Popay

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_10

 

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Strengthening the Assets of Women Living in Disadvantaged Situations: The German Experience

Alfred Rütten, Karim Abu-Omar, Sabine Seidenstücker and Sabine Mayer

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_11

 

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Sustainable Community-Based Health and Development Programs in Rural India

Alok Mukhopadhyay and Anjali Gupta

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_12

 

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The Application and Evaluation of an Assets-Based Model in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Experience with the Healthy Settings Approach

Maria C. Franceschini, Marilyn Rice and Cristina Raquel C. Garcia

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_13

 

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Parents and Communities’ Assets to Control Under-Five Child Malaria in Rural Benin, West Africa

David Houéto and Alain Deccache

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_14

 

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Strengthening Asset Focused Policy Making in Hungary

Péter Makara, Zsófia Németh and Ágnes Taller

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_15

 

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How Forms of Social Capital Can Be an Asset for Promoting Health Equity

Fran Baum

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_16

 

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Internal and External Assets and Romanian Adolescents’ Health: An Evidence-Based Approach to Health Promoting Schools Policy

Adriana Baban and Catrinel Craciun

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_17

 

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Bringing It All Together: The Salutogenic Response to Some of the Most Pertinent Public Health Dilemmas

Monica Eriksson and Bengt Lindström

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_18

 

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[EQ] Public-private partnerships for public health

Public-private partnerships for public health

Edited by Michael R. Reich.

Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

 ISBN 0-674-00865-0 (paperback) Cambridge, Massachusetts USA

Available online PDF [218p.] at:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/michael-reich/files/Partnerships_book.PDF

 

".......Global health problems require global solutions, and public-private partnerships are increasingly called upon to provide these solutions. Such partnerships involve private corporations in collaboration with governments, international agencies, and non-governmental organizations. They can be very productive, but they also bring their own problems. This volume examines the organizational and ethical challenges of partnerships and suggests ways to address them.

 

How do organizations with different values, interests, and worldviews come together to resolve critical public health issues?
How are shared objectives and shared values created within a partnership?
How are relationships of trust fostered and sustained in the face of the inevitable conflicts, uncertainties, and risks of partnership?
This book focuses on public-private partnerships that seek to expand the use of specific products to improve health conditions in poor countries. The volume includes case studies of partnerships involving specific diseases such as trachoma and river blindness, international organizations such as the World Health Organization, multinational pharmaceutical companies, and products such as medicines and vaccines. Individual chapters draw lessons from successful partnerships as well as troubled ones in order to help guide efforts to reduce global health disparities......."



Contents

PREFACE

CHAPTER 1  Introduction: Public-Private Partnerships for Public Health Michael R. Reich

CHAPTER 2  Public-Private Partnerships: Illustrative Examples Adetokunbo O. Lucas

CHAPTER 3  Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International - Trachoma Initiative - Diana Barrett, James Austin, and Sheila McCarthy

CHAPTER 4  The Ethics of Public-Private Partnerships Marc J. Roberts, A.G. Breitenstein, and Clement S. Roberts

CHAPTER 5  A Partnership for Ivermectin: Social Worlds and Boudary Objects - Laura Frost, Michael R. Reich, and Tomoko Fujisaki

CHAPTER 6  The Last Years of the CVI and the Birth of the GAVI William Muraskin

CHAPTER 7  The World Health Organization and Global Public-Private Health Partnerships: In Search of “Good” Global Governance Kent Buse and Gill Walt

 

Seven habits of highly effective global public–private health partnerships: Practice and potential

Kent Buse, a,  and Andrew M. Harmer

A Overseas Development Institute, London, UK

Social Science & Medicine - Volume 64, Issue 2, January 2007, Pages 259-271

 

Abstract: http://tinyurl.com/2put3f

Article Outline

Introduction

GHPs: the value added to international health

Seven unhealthy habits

Unhealthy habit 1: GHP alignment: ‘out of sync’

Unhealthy habit 2: GHPs are not representative of their stakeholders

Unhealthy habit 3: poor governance

Unhealthy habit 4: vilification of the public sector

Unhealthy habit 5: inadequate finance

Unhealthy habit 6: poor harmonization

Unhealthy habit 7: inadequate incentives to partner facing staff

Conclusions: seven habits of highly effective partnerships


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