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PublisherPalgrave Macmillan

ISBN-101137456027

ISBN-139781137456021

eBay Product ID (ePID)201726778

Product Key Features

Number of PagesX, 221 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameMaking Global Health Care Innovation Work : Standardization and Localization

Publication Year2014

SubjectPublic Health, Developing & Emerging Countries, Sociology / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Disease & Health Issues, Life Sciences / Biology

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSocial Science, Science, Medical

AuthorNora Engel

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight139.1 Oz

Item Length8.8 in

Item Width5.4 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2014-017360

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Table Of ContentPART I: PUTTING STANDARDS TO USE IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS 1. Informed Consent And Knowledge Translation: Perspectives On Clinical Trials From A Ghanaian Community; Lloyd Akrong, Klasien Horstman, and Daniel K. Arhinful 2. Local Perspectives On Universal Bioethics: A Qualitative Study On Informed Consent, South India; Inge A. S. Van Alphen, Nora Engel, and Mario Vaz 3. Payments In Clinical Research: Views And Experiences Of Participants In South Africa; Olga Zvonareva and Nora Engel 4. Community Health Workers In A Community-Based Tuberculosis Programme: Linking Different Social Worlds; Phuong Nguyen Thi Mai and Nora Engel 5. The Forgotten Age Group: Why Children Aged 5-14 Are Succumbing To Malaria. An Exploratory Study in Western Kenya; Marianne Eelens and Agnes Meershoek PART II: REDESIGNING STANDARDS AND MAKING PUBLIC HEALTH TRADE-OFFS 6. The Translation Of Nutri-Epigenetics Into Public Health Policy: The Case Of Folic Acid Supplementation; Maria M.C. Verhagen, Angela Brand, and Elena Ambrosino 7. Social Confounders Of Vaccine Response; Meilee Ling, Angela Brand, and Elena Ambrosino 8. Different Perspectives on Research and Development Incentives for Diseases of the Poor; Lois A. Murray and David Townend 9. The Influence Of Intellectual Property Protection On Drug Development For Neglected Tropical Diseases; Aimée Uwland and David Townend

SynopsisGlobal Health involves, among many things the intensified travelling of people, resources, technologies, knowledge, standards, and ideas. This book describes what happens when innovations are transferred to new settings: What work is needed to make them work, but also how they change the setting into which they are introduced., Global Health is increasingly becoming a political, professional, and academic field of its own. New players and cross-border collaborations have emerged to solve some of the world's most daunting public health problems, resulting in a multitude of global health care innovations across different institutional and cultural settings. With these innovations often comes the underlying assumption that we can find universal solutions if only we can overcome the challenges posed by different contexts. Making Global Health Care Innovations Work is the first book that studies this tension between universal and localized health care innovations and provides a diverse account on how global health care innovations are and can be connected to local practices. Using approaches from science and technology studies (STS), innovation studies, development studies, and public health, the book contributes to the discussion on standardization and localization of global health innovations.

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