Nursing Now: A Global Campaign

Oncology nursing essentials: then and now.

Forty years ago, in 1975, if you were a practicing clinical oncology nurse, you may have been working in an inpatient setting, acting as a primary care nurse during your 8- to 10-hour shift, and caring for patients with lymphoma or leukemia who were receiving multiple-day infusion treatment. These patients, most of whom were receiving a variation of standard chemotherapy regimens, were treated ...

Global Health: Where to Now?

The recently evolving global financial crisis reveals both the fragile state of the global economy and the major long-term implications of an increasingly unfair global economy for global health and human flourishing. We are also at a critical juncture in world history in relation to understanding and endeavoring to counteract the adverse effects of modern life on climate change and our natural...

Nursing with a global view.

Global lessons from India's poliomyelitis elimination campaign.

a The INCLEN Trust International, 2nd floor, F 1/5, Okhla Industrial Area, Phase I, New Delhi 110020, India. b University College of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. c Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Correspondence to Narendra K Arora (e-mail: [email protected]). (Submitted: 22 September 2009 – Revised version received: 12 ...

The Global Campaign to Eliminate Leprosy

A lthough leprosy is no longer a health problem in developed countries, it continues to affect millions of people in large parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Effective chemotherapeutic treatments are available that have reduced the global disease burden dramatically, but there remain important challenges to fi ghting and controlling the disease. Leprosy is a chronic infection of the skin...