JEC Course - Health Systems: Find Books

This concise reference provides a one-stop point of research that examines major aspects of health care systems for over 190 countries worldwide. In a consistent format, ten major health care categories are systematically examined for each country: 1. Emergency Health Services; 2. Costs of Hospitalization; 3. Costs of Drugs; 4. Major Health Issues; 5. Government Role in Health Care; 6. Insurance; 7. Access to Health Care; 8. Health Care Facilities; 9. Health Care Personnel (doctor level of training, etc.); and 10. Public Health Programs.

This classic text, formerly known as the Basch textbook, now completely revised in an updated new edition, brings together information that students and professionals working in the wide variety of disciplines concerned with international health will find in no other single source. It synthesizes historical, cultural, environmental, economic and political considerations to provide a comprehensive global overview of the many factors that determine the health of individuals and populations.

Where No Doctor Has Gone Before looks at the dynamics of Cuban medical internationalism to understand the impact of Cuba's programs within the global health landscape. Topics addressed include the growing moral divide in equitable access to health care services, with a focus on medical tourism and Cuba's alternative approach to this growing trend. Also discussed is the hidden curriculum in mainstream medical education that encourages graduates to seek lucrative positions rather than commit to service for the marginalized. An acknowledgement of Cuba's tremendous commitment, the book reveals a compelling model of global health practice that not only meets the needs of the marginalized but facilitates an international culture of cooperation and solidarity.

"World Health Systems Challenges and Perspectives, Second Edition, focuses on the realities of 26 health systems around the world. The majority of chapters are written by a representative of each country, who gives readers a first-hand glimpse at the country's health system and the health status. Six introductory chapters provide a framework to help you understand key concepts applicable to all health systems. New introductory chapters focus on defining a health system, health system strengthening, health system regulation, and the politics of health system reform.

Chapters: Cultura, historia y enfermedad : a modo de introducción / Diego Armus -- Viruela, vacunación en indígenas en la pampa argentina del siglo XIX / María Silvia Di Liscia -- Andanzas de un curandero en Colombia : Miguel Perdomo Neira y "la lucha entre el buen sentido y la ignorancia ciega" / David Sowell -- Civilizando la Ciudad de los Reyes : higiene y vivienda en Lima, 1890-1920 / David Parker -- Infección y subersión en Chile al despuntar el siglo XX : el cuento de las ratas y de algunos animales de la selva / María Angélica Illanes -- La vida en reclusión : cotidianidad y estado en el Manicomio General La Castañeda / Cristina Rivera-Garza -- El viajo al centro : tísicas, costureritas y milonguitas en Buenos Aires (1910-1940) / Diego Armus -- La voluntad radiante del Profesor Carbell : medicina popular y populismo médico en Costa Rica en el decenio de 1930 / Steven Palmer -- La difusión de una dietética moderna en Colombia : la revista Cromos entre 1940 y 1986 / Zandra Pedraza Gomez -- Combinar recursos curativos : un pueblo mexicano en las últimas décadas del siglo XX / María Eugenia Módena -- Estrategias de la creencia en situaciones críticas : el cáncer y la crotoxina en Buenos Aires e mediados de los años ochenta / Emilio de Ípola -- Brujería, política y concepciones sobre el sida en el Haití rural / Paul Farmer.

Chapters: Médicos de antaño, curanderos de hogaño -- Los médicos celestiales -- Los médicos de carne y hueso -- Cirujanos romancistas y bárbaros eminentes -- Los viejos de buena memoria -- Médicos y medicamentos del siglo XIX -- Los negros curanderos -- Veraces y espontáneos consejos de los viejos curanderos -- El recetario de un arará (dahomey) -- Índice del herbolario cubano, plantas indígenas e importadas.

This book by Miguel De La Torre offers a fascinating guide to the history, beliefs, rituals, and culture of Santería -- a religious tradition that, despite persecution, suppression, and its own secretive nature, has close to a million adherents in the United States alone. Santería is a religion with Afro-Cuban roots, rising out of the cultural clash between the Yoruba people of West Africa and the Spanish Catholics who brought them to the Americas as slaves. As a faith of the marginalized and persecuted, it gave oppressed men and women strength and the will to survive. With the exile of thousands of Cubans in the wake of Castro's revolution in 1959, Santería came to the United States, where it is gradually coming to be recognized as a legitimate faith tradition. Apart from vague suspicions that Santería's rituals include animal sacrifice and notions that it is a "syncretistic” form of Catholicism, most people in America's cultural and religious mainstream know very little about this rich faith tradition -- in fact, many have never heard of it at all. De La Torre, who was reared in Santería, sets out in this book to provide a basic understanding of its inner workings. He clearly explains the particular worldview, myths, rituals, and practices of Santería, and he discusses what role the religion typically plays in the life of its practitioners as well as the cultural influence it continues to exert in Latin American communities today. In offering a balanced, informed survey of Santería from his unique "insider-outsider” perspective, De La Torre also provides insight into how Christianity and Santería can enter into dialogue -- a dialogue that will challenge Christians to consider what this emerging faith tradition can teach them about their own. Enhanced with illustrations, tables, and a glossary, De La Torre's Santería sheds light on a religion all too often shrouded in mystery and misunderstanding.