Measles control in Africa : a practical and theoretical epidemiological challenge

Presented at the 97th annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Nov. 12, 1969.Source: David J. Sencer CDC Museum at the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the The Global Health Chronicles [https://globalhealthchronicles.org/items/show/3051 ].1969684

Shaping Regional Economies to Sustain Quality Work: The Cooperative Health Care Network

This chapter chronicles a creative response to social retrenchment, a saga of strategic deployment of accessible resources and a reshaping of regional economic forces for the benefit of targeted labor markets. While charting its own course, CHCB is part of a mutually supportive network of health care employers and trainers, including successful home care companies in Philadelphia and the South Bronx. Together, these three corporations form the core of the Cooperative Health Care Network and employ over 500 home health aides. About 80 percent of the employees were formerly dependent on public assistance. The network [network] experience and their applicability to other employer initiatives or to broader public policy

Religious Healing in the Courts: The Liberties and Liabilities of Patients, Parents, and Healers

Accordingly, in light of this struggle to balance public health with religious liberty, this Article chronicles the evolving liberties and liabilities of religious patients, parents, and healers over the course of the twentieth century and examines the current state of religious healing law. Throughout, it advocates the greatest possible liberty for religious healing consistent with public and family security, as well as advocating equal protection under the law for all involved in religious treatment, whether they are members of organized religious groups or individual practitioners

Spartan Daily, November 17, 1998

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A Discordant Voice from the Trenches: Juan José de Soiza Reilly's War Chronicles

The First World War represented a deep crisis of the European civilization that called into question the values and certitudes of the Belle Époque society. Trenches became the symbol of the dehumanization produced by a conflict that marked a watershed in modern history. As a global conflict, its impact was felt beyond the confines of Europe, involving even neutral countries, puzzled by that unexpected spectacle of violence. In this new scenery, war correspondents were first-hand witnesses of the horrors of the battlefields, transmitted through their journalistic contributions to a public opinion profoundly shaken by this new kind of warfare. Non-European war correspondents were exceptional cultural mediators between the experiences of the theater of war and distant regions like Latin America, contributing to disseminate different understandings of the wartime crisis. This article aims to explore the response of the Argentine war correspondent Juan José de Soiza Reilly (1879-1959) to the challenge of making the nature of the Great War intelligible to his readers. He embodied the new figure of the professional journalist-writer who contributed to establishing commercial mass press as the fulcrum of Argentine cultural life and as the field of convergence of literature and journalism at the beginning of the twentieth century. The primary sources of this study are Soiza Reilly’s war chronicles, published by two large circulation periodicals, the newspaper La Nación and the illustrated magazine Fray Mocho, from October 1914 to October 1916. Those contributions were the result of his more than two years’ experience in the Western and Eastern fronts. Soiza Reilly’s perspectives on the First World War were clearly unconventional for his national framework, where most of the intellectuals and the press took sides early in favor of the Allies, due to the deep-rooted Francophilia prevailing in Argentine cultural field. As a result, they devoted themselves to arguing over the question of the war responsibilities and the belligerents’ attributes. Unlike them, Soiza Reilly denounced the absurdity of the war, which he strongly condemned, and made a pacifist profession of faith. In addition, far from the Argentine social consensus, he was often critical of the Allies and sympathetic to the German Empire. However, since Italy’s entry into the war in May 1915, Soiza Reilly adopted a belligerent attitude in favor of the Allies, expressing an intense admiration for Italy and a virulent anti-Austrian sentiment. These two last features were very unusual in the Argentine context, where the devotion for France was hegemonic as well as the vehement anti-German stance. Through the analysis of Soiza Reilly’s war chronicles and reportages, this article intends to shed light on the reception of the war in a neutral country, the general climate of public opinion, and its dissensions around the significance of the Great War.Fil: Tato, María Inés. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana "Dr. Emilio Ravignani". Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana "Dr. Emilio Ravignani"; Argentin

Working Toward Social Justice: Center for Research on Minority Health Summer Workshop on Health Disparities

Health disparities research encompasses a complex web of areas of cross-disciplinary expertise from fields such as health policy, public health, economics, sociology, psychology, anthropology, communications, genetics, biology, environmental science, ethics, and law. Dissemination of health disparities research is paramount to educating and training professionals, academics, community leaders, students and others about the subject area, and providing them with the necessary tools to affect change and eliminate health disparities. This paper chronicles the development of a unique health disparities and social justice research educational program held annually by The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Center for Research on Minority Health. The program is composed of a college semester course and summer workshop, which in the past five years, has become a preeminent program in the United States. The program's impetus, premise, evaluation, and future directions are discussed

¡Yo no estoy loco/a! Improving Treatment Engagement for Latinos using an E-E Video

Purpose/Background: Approximately 30% of Latinos experience some form of psychiatric illness in their lifetime. Despite the high prevalence rate of mood disorders among Latinos and the availability of empirically supported treatments that target anxiety and depression, Latinos underutilize behavioral health services. Perceived stigma associated with the pursuit of behavioral health services disproportionately restricts mental health care in Latinos. The research team created an Entertainment- Education (E-E) telenovela-style video (in Spanish), which acted as the experimental intervention in the proposed project. The experimental intervention is based on the E-E model which incorporates health and educational messages in an entertaining, story-telling narrative using characters who have characteristics, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that are similar to those of the targeted audience to maximize social validity. The video chronicles the story of Ana who while having pan y café (sweet bread and coffee) with two family members, shares her challenges with depression and her successful outcome with therapy. The video utilizes the genre of the telenovela which creates an entertaining environment where the audience is captivated by the content and absorbs the messages portrayed. Materials & Methods: Study Site. Community Health Alliance (CHA) is a Federally Qualified Health Center that provides integrated medical services. CHA annually sees 33,000 patients over the course of 92,000 visits a year. Of the thousands of visits made by patients each year, 58% of the patients seen at CHA identify as being Latino and Spanish-speaking. The study was be conducted at the main clinic, which is located in a Latino neighborhood. Participants: Participants consisted of Spanish-speaking, Latino adults who endorsed symptoms of depression on the Patient Health Questionnaire-9. Participants were randomly assigned to treatment as usual (TAU) or the intervention condition. Treatment as usual included a brochure on depression and referral information to a behavioral health clinic. In the intervention condition participants received TAU + the E-E video. In both conditions the participants completed a basic demographic form and both before and after TAU or the intervention condition participants completed the Depression Stigma Scale (DSS); the Depression Literacy Scale (D-Lit); and the Attitudes Towards Seeking Professional Help (ATSPH) questionnaire. Results: Data collection is currently underway. A preliminary review of the data indicates that the Latinos in our sample have low levels of mental health literacy, high levels of stigma, and moderate attittudes towards seeking professional help. The E-E video appears to reduce stigma, increase mental health literacy, and improve attitudes towards seeking professional help. We plan to utilize Hotelling\u27s T 2 test to to examine differences in scores on the DSS, D-lT, and ATSPH for the TAU vs. TAU + the E-E video condition. Discussion/Conclusion: Given the high rates of mood disorders among Latinos, the availability of empirically supported treatments for mood disorders, the low treatment-seeking rates of Latinos who have a mood disorder, and the evidence that indicates that stigma and mental health literacy mediate the relationship between ethnicity and behavioral health service use, it is necessary to develop interventions aimed at reducing stigma and increasing mental health literacy. Such interventions have the potential to improve attitudes towards help-seeking and ultimately improve treatment seeking rates among Latinos. The results from this study suggest that utilizing a culturally-specific intervention (a telenovela-style video) targeted at reducing stigma and increasing mental health literacy may be an effective way of reducing the behavioral health service use disparity between Latinos and non-Latino Whites. This is a low-cost and easily disseminable intervention and as such holds promise for behavioral health service use disparity between Latinos and non-Latino Whites. Future researchers should examine similar interventions with other ethnic groups

Pareto's Chronicles: Liberty and the Left

The ‘second series’ of the Giornale degli Economisti commenced in 1890. It revealed a notable change in editorial direction from the earlier series, which was a direct result of Alberto Zorli being joined by leading liberal intellectuals, Ugo Mazzola, Antonio de Viti de Marco and Maffeo Pantaleoni, as the Journal’s proprietary directors. In regard to economic science, the second series saw the Journal establish itself as the leading Italian distributor of the new marginalism. In regard to politics, it became a leading advocate for liberal policy. To that end, the Journal published a special feature from 1891 entitled ‘cronaca’, which critically chronicled practical developments in Italian public policy, public finances and the state of the economy. In 1893 Pareto took over from Ugo Mazzola as author of the chronicles, a role he continued to perform until 1897. His contributions were, overwhelmingly, critical of interventionist and militaristic actions of the Italian Government. The purpose of this paper is to place Pareto’s chronicles in their historical context and search for comments that hint at the subsequent development of sociological theory. This will be achieved by: interpreting Pareto’s ‘cronaca’ with reference to political developments in Italy from the 1880s to 1897; identifying practical illustrations in the ‘cronaca’ concerning liberty and the extreme left in Italian society; and identifying three broad consistencies between Pareto’s ‘non-scientific’ ‘Cronaca’ and his scientific ‘General Sociology’.Cronaca, Chronicle, Vilfredo Pareto, General Sociology