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Every nation in Asia has dealt with COVID-19 differently and with varying levels of success in the absence of clear and effective leadership from the WHO. As a result, the WHO's role in Asia as a global health organization is coming under increasing pressure. As its credibility is slowly being eroded by public displays of incompetence and negligence, it has also become an arena of contestation. Moreover, while the pandemic continues to undermine the future of global health governance as a whole, the highly interdependent economies in Asia have exposed the speed with which pandemics can spread, as intensive regional travel and business connections have caused every area in the region to be hit hard. The migrant labor necessary to sustain globalized economies has been strained and the security of international workers is now more precarious than ever, as millions have been left stranded, seen their entry blocked, or have limited access to health services. This volume provides an accessible framework for the understanding the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia, with a specific emphasis on global governance in health and labor.

pt. 1. Introduction / Fiona Sim and Jenny Wright -- pt. 2. Public health functions / Fiona Sim and Jenny Wright -- pt. 3. Settings for public health practice / Fiona Sim and Jenny Wright -- pt. 4. Getting into public health / Fiona Sim and Jenny Wright -- pt. 5. How to proceed from here / Fiona Sim and Jenny Wright.

Chapter 1. Introduction to Health Services Planning -- Chapter 2. Introduction to Health Services Planning -- Chapter 3. The Social and Health Systems Context for Health Services Planning -- Chapter 4. The Changing Environment for Health Planning -- Chapter 5. Health Services Demand and Utilization -- Chapter 6. The Planning Process -- Chapter 7. The New Community Assessment Process -- Chapter 8. The Planning Audit -- Chapter 9. Strategic Planning -- Chapter 10. Marketing Planning -- Chapter 11. Business Planning -- Chapter 12. Research Methods for Health Services Planning -- Chapter 13. Information Sources and Data Management -- Chapter 14. The Future of Health Services Planning.

OBJECTIVE: To disentangle the relationships among food insecurity, health care utilization, and health care expenditures. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING: We use national data on 13 465 adults (age ≥ 18) from the 2016 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), the first year of the food insecurity measures. STUDY DESIGN: We employ two‐stage empirical models (probit for any health care use/expenditure, ordinary least squares, and generalized linear models for amount of utilization/expenditure), controlling for demographics, health insurance, poverty status, chronic conditions, and other predictors. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Our results show that the likelihood of any health care expenditure (total, inpatient, emergency department, outpatient, and pharmaceutical) is higher for marginal, low, and very low food secure individuals. Relative to food secure households, very low food secure households are 5.1 percentage points (P < .001) more likely to have any health care expenditure, and have total health care expenditures that are 24.8 percent higher (P = .011). However, once we include chronic conditions in the models (ie, high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, emphysema, high cholesterol, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, and asthma), these underlying health conditions mitigate the differences in expenditures by food insecurity status (only the likelihood of any having any health care expenditure for very low food secure households remains statistically significant). CONCLUSIONS: Policy makers and government agencies are focused on addressing deficiencies in social determinants of health and the resulting impacts on health status and health care utilization. Our results indicate that chronic conditions are strongly associated with food insecurity and higher health care spending. Efforts to alleviate food insecurity should consider the dual burden of chronic conditions. Finally, future research can address specific mechanisms underlying the relationships between food security, health, and health care.

Since the World Health Organization launched its commission on the social determinants of health (SDOH) over a decade ago, a large body of research has proven that social determinants-defined as the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age-are significant drivers of disease risk and susceptibility within clinical care and public health systems. Unfortunately, the term has lost meaning within systems of care because of misuse and lack of context. As many disparate health outcomes remain, including higher risk of maternal mortality among Black women, a deeper understanding of the SDOH-and what forces underlie their distribution-is needed. In this article, we will expand our review of social determinants of maternal health to include the terms "structural determinants of health" and "root causes of inequities" as we assess the literature on this topic. We hypothesize that the addition of structural determinants and root causes will identify racism as a cause of inequities in maternal health outcomes, as many of the social and political structures and policies in the United States were born out of racism, classism, and gender oppression. We will conclude with proposed practice and policy solutions to end inequities in maternal health outcomes.

Foreword / P. Guillaume Poliquin, Public Helath Agency of Canada -- Foreword / Éric Laliberté, Canadian Space Agency -- Introduction to public health and Earth observation -- Earth observation and public health priority application and research areas by theme -- Needs, challenges, and opportunities - a review by experts / Stéphanie Brazeau, Cécile Vignolles, Ramesha S. Krishnamurthy, Juli Trtanj, John Haynes, Steven Ramage, Thibault Catry, Serge Olivier Kotchi, Marion Borderon, Michael Gill, Nicholas H. Ogden, Antoinette Ludwig, Guy Aube, Jan C Semenza, Joaquin Trinanes, Didier Davignon -- Conclusions and opportunities.

This ground-breaking study offers new challenges to those teaching, studying or developing strategies and policies in health and the environment.Bringing together a variety of approaches from different perspectives and different locations, the contributors examine the various dimensions of health ecology in a human ecology framework, examining how local, regional and global factors impinge upon the health and environment of individuals, communities and the globe

The Health Communication major prepares students to communicate and promote positive health behaviors in professional health care settings and in health advocacy. Our students learn to design, evaluate, and implement health communication programs in a variety of professional settings. We take an interdisciplinary approach by emphasizing the intersection of strategic communication and health promotion as the foundation for educating individuals and creating healthier communities. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services sees health communication as fundamental to all health–related occupations. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 20 of the 30 fastest growing occupations are related to healthcare and health education. A sample of job titles is listed below. • Patient/ Victims Advocate • Patient Services Coordinator • Healthcare Marketing/ PR specialist • Director of Employee Health & Wellness programs • Human Resources Benefits Coordinator • Health Educator • Occupational Health Program Manager • Hospital/ Practice Administrator • Health Promotion Specialist • Community Outreach Coordinator • Lobbyist • Social Worker • Pharmaceutical Salesperson • Positions in government and social service agencies With advanced/additional degrees, health communication provides an excellent basis for careers in: • Medicine • Nursing • Health Care Law • Research • Counseling ; https://thekeep.eiu.edu/commstudies_curriculum_programs/1005/thumbnail.jpg

Introduction -- Documenting the U.S. Health disadvantage -- Shorter lives -- Poorer health throughout life -- Explaining the U.S. Health disadvantage -- Framing the question -- Public health and medical care systems -- Individual behaviors -- Social factors -- Physical and social environmental factors -- Policies and social values -- Future directions for understanding the U.S. Health disadvantage -- Research agenda -- Next steps