Jenny Wright, Fiona Sim, and Katie Ferguson
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781447300335
- eISBN:
- 9781447311690
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447300335.003.0007
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
This chapter widens the history from consideration of specialists to outline key changes from 2005 for public health practitioners from all backgrounds, as well as the attention given to others in ...
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This chapter widens the history from consideration of specialists to outline key changes from 2005 for public health practitioners from all backgrounds, as well as the attention given to others in the workforce who could benefit the public's health and ways, such as via specific networks, their development needs could be met. As part of this response to continuing public health challenges as outlined in the 2005 Choosing Health White Paper, the mid-2000s saw the development of national agreement on the core competencies for anyone working in public health as well as those skills needed for specific areas of practice, leading to development of a competency framework applicable to the whole public health workforce. The UKPHR from 2008 opened for registration of public health practitioners in addition to specialists.Less
This chapter widens the history from consideration of specialists to outline key changes from 2005 for public health practitioners from all backgrounds, as well as the attention given to others in the workforce who could benefit the public's health and ways, such as via specific networks, their development needs could be met. As part of this response to continuing public health challenges as outlined in the 2005 Choosing Health White Paper, the mid-2000s saw the development of national agreement on the core competencies for anyone working in public health as well as those skills needed for specific areas of practice, leading to development of a competency framework applicable to the whole public health workforce. The UKPHR from 2008 opened for registration of public health practitioners in addition to specialists.
Veena Das
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780823261802
- eISBN:
- 9780823268917
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823261802.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This book inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. Focusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, it stitches together three ...
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This book inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. Focusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, it stitches together three different sets of issues. First, it examines the different trajectories of illness: What are the circumstances under which illness is absorbed within the normal and when does it exceed the normal. A second set of issues involves how different healers understand their own practices. The book asks: What is expert knowledge? What is it that the health practitioner knows and what does the patient know? How are these different forms of knowledge brought together in the clinical encounter, broadly defined? Finally, the book interrogates the models of disease prevalence and global programming that emphasize surveillance over care and deflect attention away from the specificities of local worlds. Yet the analysis offered retains an openness to different ways of conceptualizing “what is happening” and stimulates a conversation between different disciplinary orientations to health, disease, and poverty. Most studies of health and disease focus on the encounter between patient and practitioner within the space of the clinic. This book instead privileges the networks of relations, institutions, and knowledge over which the experience of illness is dispersed. It helps us see how illness is bound by the contexts in which it occurs, while also showing how illness transcends these contexts to say something about the nature of everyday life and the making of subjects.Less
This book inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. Focusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, it stitches together three different sets of issues. First, it examines the different trajectories of illness: What are the circumstances under which illness is absorbed within the normal and when does it exceed the normal. A second set of issues involves how different healers understand their own practices. The book asks: What is expert knowledge? What is it that the health practitioner knows and what does the patient know? How are these different forms of knowledge brought together in the clinical encounter, broadly defined? Finally, the book interrogates the models of disease prevalence and global programming that emphasize surveillance over care and deflect attention away from the specificities of local worlds. Yet the analysis offered retains an openness to different ways of conceptualizing “what is happening” and stimulates a conversation between different disciplinary orientations to health, disease, and poverty. Most studies of health and disease focus on the encounter between patient and practitioner within the space of the clinic. This book instead privileges the networks of relations, institutions, and knowledge over which the experience of illness is dispersed. It helps us see how illness is bound by the contexts in which it occurs, while also showing how illness transcends these contexts to say something about the nature of everyday life and the making of subjects.
Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger and Ashfaq Khalfan
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199276707
- eISBN:
- 9780191699900
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199276707.003.0013
- Subject:
- Law, Environmental and Energy Law
While health has long been central to the sustainable development agenda, academics and scholars are only just beginning to analyse the relevance of international health law to sustainable ...
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While health has long been central to the sustainable development agenda, academics and scholars are only just beginning to analyse the relevance of international health law to sustainable development law. This work requires a great deal of future development, and this chapter simply presents a starting point, the identification of a future legal research agenda. Such an agenda seeks to encourage public health practitioners and international legal specialists to consider health law from a genuinely global perspective. This chapter argues that the future legal research agenda in health law and sustainable development will focus on intersections between health regimes and others. To provide a flavour of recent debates, the chapter surveys recent trends in international health law, examining certain selected areas of law in more detail.Less
While health has long been central to the sustainable development agenda, academics and scholars are only just beginning to analyse the relevance of international health law to sustainable development law. This work requires a great deal of future development, and this chapter simply presents a starting point, the identification of a future legal research agenda. Such an agenda seeks to encourage public health practitioners and international legal specialists to consider health law from a genuinely global perspective. This chapter argues that the future legal research agenda in health law and sustainable development will focus on intersections between health regimes and others. To provide a flavour of recent debates, the chapter surveys recent trends in international health law, examining certain selected areas of law in more detail.
David J. Hunter and Neil Perkins
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781447301325
- eISBN:
- 9781447311942
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447301325.003.0005
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
This chapter presents qualitative research findings of the views of frontline practitioners and service users of public health partnerships in four selected tracer issues. The topics examined ...
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This chapter presents qualitative research findings of the views of frontline practitioners and service users of public health partnerships in four selected tracer issues. The topics examined include: the benefits and barriers to partnership working, the effectiveness of partnerships in providing a more seamless service for users, and what is needed to improve services for users through the aegis of partnership working.Less
This chapter presents qualitative research findings of the views of frontline practitioners and service users of public health partnerships in four selected tracer issues. The topics examined include: the benefits and barriers to partnership working, the effectiveness of partnerships in providing a more seamless service for users, and what is needed to improve services for users through the aegis of partnership working.
Veena Das
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780823261802
- eISBN:
- 9780823268917
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823261802.003.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This chapter examines the ways in which illness is made knowable in the course of clinical and social transactions by focusing on one of the neighborhoods in East Delhi, Bhagwanpur Kheda. More ...
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This chapter examines the ways in which illness is made knowable in the course of clinical and social transactions by focusing on one of the neighborhoods in East Delhi, Bhagwanpur Kheda. More specifically, it considers the way people interact with health practitioners and understand their illnesses, along with the frequency of their visits to the practitioners. Drawing on a survey of sample households in Delhi over a two-year period (2001–2003) carried out under the auspices of the Institute of Socio-Economic Research in Development and Democracy (ISERDD), the chapter shows that there are no firm epistemic understandings of why illness happens; people often put together a narrative of illness that borrows vocabularies from different medical systems (Ayurvedic, allopathic) as well as vocabularies of the occult. It suggests that there are no well-made ontologies that could account for the movement between disease as it inhabits the human body versus when it exists as an abstraction in textbooks or other discursive forms.Less
This chapter examines the ways in which illness is made knowable in the course of clinical and social transactions by focusing on one of the neighborhoods in East Delhi, Bhagwanpur Kheda. More specifically, it considers the way people interact with health practitioners and understand their illnesses, along with the frequency of their visits to the practitioners. Drawing on a survey of sample households in Delhi over a two-year period (2001–2003) carried out under the auspices of the Institute of Socio-Economic Research in Development and Democracy (ISERDD), the chapter shows that there are no firm epistemic understandings of why illness happens; people often put together a narrative of illness that borrows vocabularies from different medical systems (Ayurvedic, allopathic) as well as vocabularies of the occult. It suggests that there are no well-made ontologies that could account for the movement between disease as it inhabits the human body versus when it exists as an abstraction in textbooks or other discursive forms.
Veena Das
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780823261802
- eISBN:
- 9780823268917
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823261802.003.0009
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This book explores the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty, drawing on the concepts of affliction and suffering. Focusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, it ...
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This book explores the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty, drawing on the concepts of affliction and suffering. Focusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, it demonstrates the differential distribution of life chances and the surge of aspirations on the part of the poor for improvement in their material and social conditions. It considers the way in which people understand their illnesses and interact with health practitioners, along with the frequency of visits to the practitioners. It also examines the implications of medical technologies for kinship obligations; how practitioners with different kinds of training, including apprenticeship, see their own practices of healing; and how theories embedded in the everyday experiences of patients and healers might be made to speak critically to the expert discourses of global health.Less
This book explores the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty, drawing on the concepts of affliction and suffering. Focusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, it demonstrates the differential distribution of life chances and the surge of aspirations on the part of the poor for improvement in their material and social conditions. It considers the way in which people understand their illnesses and interact with health practitioners, along with the frequency of visits to the practitioners. It also examines the implications of medical technologies for kinship obligations; how practitioners with different kinds of training, including apprenticeship, see their own practices of healing; and how theories embedded in the everyday experiences of patients and healers might be made to speak critically to the expert discourses of global health.
Pablo F. Gómez
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781469630878
- eISBN:
- 9781469630892
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469630878.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This chapter describes the sanitary conditions of the seventeenth-century Caribbean, the diversity of ideas about illnesses, spaces for healing and diseasing, and the multitude of practitioners who ...
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This chapter describes the sanitary conditions of the seventeenth-century Caribbean, the diversity of ideas about illnesses, spaces for healing and diseasing, and the multitude of practitioners who operated in this context. It introduces a Caribbean geography of health and disease, the contours of which appear familiar, but upon closer scrutiny morph into unsettling spaces. Rather than being mere reproductions of Old World hierarchies and dynamics, the chapter shows, Caribbean landscapes of healing were created anew through the multiple encounters that occurred between mostly black historical actors in the highly competitive cultural economy based on the experiential that developed in the region. These were arenas in which a variety of actors deployed multiple visions of the natural, cultural, and social world of the early modern Atlantic. The multiplicity of origins of practitioners of African descent implies that analysis of their historical circumstances cannot be contained in simple dialectic terms of continuities, ruptures, or coarsely defined hybridities. By unmasking muddying labels and maps of social and physical landscapes conceived through Old World imaginaries, we begin to perceive the countless ways in which black Atlantic actors usurped canonical and mundane spaces in which to enact their own corporeal encounters.Less
This chapter describes the sanitary conditions of the seventeenth-century Caribbean, the diversity of ideas about illnesses, spaces for healing and diseasing, and the multitude of practitioners who operated in this context. It introduces a Caribbean geography of health and disease, the contours of which appear familiar, but upon closer scrutiny morph into unsettling spaces. Rather than being mere reproductions of Old World hierarchies and dynamics, the chapter shows, Caribbean landscapes of healing were created anew through the multiple encounters that occurred between mostly black historical actors in the highly competitive cultural economy based on the experiential that developed in the region. These were arenas in which a variety of actors deployed multiple visions of the natural, cultural, and social world of the early modern Atlantic. The multiplicity of origins of practitioners of African descent implies that analysis of their historical circumstances cannot be contained in simple dialectic terms of continuities, ruptures, or coarsely defined hybridities. By unmasking muddying labels and maps of social and physical landscapes conceived through Old World imaginaries, we begin to perceive the countless ways in which black Atlantic actors usurped canonical and mundane spaces in which to enact their own corporeal encounters.
Emma Williamson
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861342157
- eISBN:
- 9781447302148
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861342157.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Marriage and the Family
This chapter examines the types of injuries that the participating women sustained as a result of domestic violence and contextualises this data with information from other research. Making a ...
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This chapter examines the types of injuries that the participating women sustained as a result of domestic violence and contextualises this data with information from other research. Making a distinction between physical and non-physical injuries proved important in relation to the response of health practitioners as well as the women from stage one. Just as definitions of violence and abuse can be problematic, so too do women who experience domestic violence feel these contradictions. This is compounded by abuse, which has a non-physical health impact and results in injuries that cannot be seen either by the participating women or ‘others’.Less
This chapter examines the types of injuries that the participating women sustained as a result of domestic violence and contextualises this data with information from other research. Making a distinction between physical and non-physical injuries proved important in relation to the response of health practitioners as well as the women from stage one. Just as definitions of violence and abuse can be problematic, so too do women who experience domestic violence feel these contradictions. This is compounded by abuse, which has a non-physical health impact and results in injuries that cannot be seen either by the participating women or ‘others’.
