Religion in Global Health and Development

The COVID-19 pandemic has made evident that the field of global health – its practices, norms, and failures – has the power to shape the lives of billions. Global health perspectives on the role of religion, however, are strikingly limited. Uncovering the points where religion and global health have connected across the twentieth century, focusing on Ghana, provides an opportunity to challenge narrow approaches. In Religion in Global Health and Development Benjamin Walker shows that the religious features of colonial state architecture were still operating by the turn of the twenty-first century. Walker surveys the establishment of colonial development projects in the twentieth century, with a focus on the period between 1940 and 1990. Crossing the colonial-postcolonial divide, analyzing local contexts in conjunction with the many layers of international organizations, and identifying surprisingly neglected streams of personnel and funding (particularly from Dutch and West German Catholics), this in-depth history offers new ways of conceptualizing global health. Patchworks of international humanitarian intervention, fragmented government services, local communities, and the actions of many foreign powers combined to create health services and the state in Ghana. Religion in Global Health and Development shows that religion and religious actors were critical to this process – socially, culturally, and politically

Religion in Global Health and Development

The COVID-19 pandemic has made evident that the field of global health – its practices, norms, and failures – has the power to shape the lives of billions. Global health perspectives on the role of religion, however, are strikingly limited. Uncovering the points where religion and global health have connected across the twentieth century, focusing on Ghana, provides an opportunity to challenge narrow approaches. In Religion in Global Health and Development Benjamin Walker shows that the religious features of colonial state architecture were still operating by the turn of the twenty-first century. Walker surveys the establishment of colonial development projects in the twentieth century, with a focus on the period between 1940 and 1990. Crossing the colonial-postcolonial divide, analyzing local contexts in conjunction with the many layers of international organizations, and identifying surprisingly neglected streams of personnel and funding (particularly from Dutch and West German Catholics), this in-depth history offers new ways of conceptualizing global health. Patchworks of international humanitarian intervention, fragmented government services, local communities, and the actions of many foreign powers combined to create health services and the state in Ghana. Religion in Global Health and Development shows that religion and religious actors were critical to this process – socially, culturally, and politically

Mine Injury Casualties Report from the Iraq-Kuwait DMZ

After the implementation of the UN Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission (UNIKOM) at the end of the first Gulf War in 1990, a medical team was set up in 1991 to support the UN troops in their difficult tasks in the demilitarised zone (DMZ), a remote desert area between Kuwait and Iraq. The medical team was designed to take care of the medical treatment for the UNIKOM members and the nomadic people living in the DMZ as pointed out in UN Secretary-General reports S/2001/287 and S/2001/913 on the official UN website

Origin and first dichotomies of perissodactyls (Mammalia, Laurasiatheria) : early Eocene fauna from the Paris Basin

Les périssodactyles (comprenant aujourd’hui les chevaux, les rhinocéros et les tapirs) apparaissent au début de l’Éocène et se dispersent rapidement dans tout l’hémisphère Nord. Leur origine géographique, probablement asiatique, ainsi que leur origine phylogénétique est actuellement débattue. Ce travail présente une étude et une révision des périssodactyles hippomorphes de l’Éocène inférieur (MP7-MP10) d’Europe, ainsi qu’une nouvelle phylogénie pour tenter de répondre à ces questions. La majorité du matériel est inédite et provient du bassin de Paris, ainsi que du sud de la France. Douze espèces d’hippomorphes, dont deux nouvelles, et une nouvelle espèce d’isectolophidé ont été identifiés dans l’Éocène inférieur d’Europe. Les faunes rapprochés du MP7 présentent des différences entre le nord et le sud de l’Europe, confirmant l’hypothèse d’une barrière climatique. Un renouvellement des périssodactyles au niveau générique s’effectue entre les sites rapprochés du MP7 et ceux rapprochés du MP8-9, ainsi qu’une homogénéisation des espèces entre le nord et le sud de l’Europe. Les sites MP8-9 et ceux proches du MP10 possèdent des faunes de périssodactyles similaires. L’étude phylogénétique indique que les hippomorphes européens sont paraphylétiques, et que les équidés nord-américains s’enracinent dans ce groupe, ainsi que les paléothères européens. Plusieurs évènements de dispersions ont eu lieu très tôt à l’Éocène depuis l’Asie. Deux épisodes de dispersions vers l’Europe ont eu lieu pour les tapiromorphes, un premier (MP7) amenant les isectolophidés qui s’éteindront rapidement en Europe, et un second (MP8-9) apportant des tapiromorphes plus dérivés.Perissodactyls (nowadays including horses, rhinos and tapirs) appear at the beginning of the Eocene, and quickly spread into the whole Northern Hemisphere. The center of origin is still debated but the Asian hypothesis is favored, and their phylogenetic affinities are also matter of debate, mostly since the discovery of cambaytheres in India and the genetic affinities with the South American Native Ungulates. This work provides a review of hippomorph perissodactyles of the early Eocene (MP7- MP10) of Europe, and presents a new phylogeny to answer the question of their origin. Most of the material is unpublished and comes from the Paris Basin, as well as Southern France. Twelve hippomorph species, including two new species, and a new species of isectolophid have been identified for the early Eocene of Europe. Faunas close to the MP7 reference-level show differences between Northern and Southern Europe, confirming the hypothesis of a climatic barrier. A turnover of perissodactyls at the generic level takes place between the sites close to MP7 and those close to MP8- 9, and a homogenization of species between Northern and Southern Europe occurs. The sites close to MP8-9 and MP10 have similar perissodactyl faunas. The phylogenetic study indicates that European hippomorphs are paraphyletic, and that North American equids are rooted in this group, as well as European paleotheres. Several dispersal events occurred from Asia very early in the Eocene. Two episodes of dispersions towards Europe took place for the tapiromorphs, a first (MP7) bringing the isectolophids which will go extinct quickly in Europe, and a second one (MP8-9) bringing more derived tapiromorphs

Reframing International Health and Development: Medical Mission in Ghana, c.1919-1983

In analysing medical mission in Ghana this thesis argues for a new historical framework for twentieth-century international health which is not determined by the Cold War, the postwar growth of the international community or by imperial powers working in their former colonies. Instead, this thesis shows how the emergence and growth of national and international health in the Gold Coast (Ghana from 1957) between 1919 and 1983 was formed substantially through the local and global interests, funding and denominational cultures of medical mission

End of life care in the community :The role of ambulance clinicians

Ambulance clinicians are frequently called to patients who are approaching the end of their life. This article presents an overview of some of the issues that impact on the delivery of care to patients at the end of life, including symptom and urgent care needs in the last few days of life, preferences for care/place of care and coordination of care. Each of these areas pose different challenges for ambulance clinicians. As a way of addressing some of the issues, this article outlines an online education package in end of life care, which has been specifically designed for ambulance clinicians in response to an analysis of their training needs. The learning outcomes and educational approach is described. The education aims to help equip ambulance clinicians with the knowledge and confidence that they need to deliver high-quality urgent end of life care. </jats:p

Profil moléculaire de sensibilisation aux acariens domestiques dans une population marseillaise

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