Stretching To Meet Global Health Needs

How to transform the practice of engineering to meet global health needs.

More of the world's population has access to cell phones than to basic sanitation facilities, a gap that can only be closed if the engineering and international aid communities adopt new approaches to design for scarcity and scalability.

Changes in Medical Education Programs to Meet Community Needs

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Organizing integrated health-care services to meet older people’s needs

In most countries, a fundamental shift in the focus of clinical care for older people is needed. Instead of trying to manage numerous diseases and symptoms in a disjointed fashion, the emphasis should be on interventions that optimize older people's physical and mental capacities over their life course and that enable them to do the things they value. This, in turn, requires a change in the way...

Global health response to crises needs reform.

An integrated program to train local health care providers to meet post-disaster mental health needs.

This paper describes a post-disaster mental health training program developed by the International Section of the Department of Psychiatry at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada) and delivered in Grenada after Hurricane Ivan struck the country in September 2004. This train-the-trainer program used an integrated community health model to help local health care providers develop the necessary s...