[PDF] Saving Lives eBook

Author : Sandy Summers
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 35,67 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199337063

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This fully updated and expanded edition of Saving Lives highlights the essential roles nurses play in contemporary health care and how this role is marginalized by contemporary culture. Through engaging prose and examples drawn from television, advertising, and news coverage, the authors detail the media's role in reinforcing stereotypes that fuel the nursing shortage and devalue a highly educated sector of the contemporary workforce. Perhaps most important, the authors provide a wealth of ideas to help reinvigorate the nursing field and correct this imbalance.

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 24,4 MB
Release : 2004-09-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309165938

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For more than 50 years, low-cost antimalarial drugs silently saved millions of lives and cured billions of debilitating infections. Today, however, these drugs no longer work against the deadliest form of malaria that exists throughout the world. Malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africaâ€"currently just over one million per yearâ€"are rising because of increased resistance to the old, inexpensive drugs. Although effective new drugs called "artemisinins" are available, they are unaffordable for the majority of the affected population, even at a cost of one dollar per course. Saving Lives, Buying Time: Economics of Malaria Drugs in an Age of Resistance examines the history of malaria treatments, provides an overview of the current drug crisis, and offers recommendations on maximizing access to and effectiveness of antimalarial drugs. The book finds that most people in endemic countries will not have access to currently effective combination treatments, which should include an artemisinin, without financing from the global community. Without funding for effective treatment, malaria mortality could double over the next 10 to 20 years and transmission will intensify.

Author : Michael Neuman
Publisher : Hurst & Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,40 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849046510

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Much like the large commercial companies, most humanitarian aid organizations now have departments specifically dedicated to protecting the security of their personnel and assets. The management of humanitarian security has gradually become the business of professionals who develop data collection systems, standardized procedures, norms, and training meant to prevent and manage risks. A large majority of aid agencies and security experts see these developments as inevitable - all the more so because of quantitative studies and media reports concluding that the dangers to which aid workers are today exposed are completely unprecedented. Yet, this trend towards professionalization is also raising questions within aid organizations, MSF included. Can insecurity be measured by scientific means and managed through norms and protocols? How does the professionalization of security affect the balance of power between field and headquarters, volunteers and the institution that employs them? What is its impact on the implementation of humanitarian organizations' social mission? Are there alternatives to the prevailing security model(s) derived from the corporate world? Building on MSF's experience and observations of the aid world by academics and practitioners, the authors of this book look at the drivers of the professionalization of humanitarian security and its impact on humanitarian practices, with a specific focus on Syria, CAR and kidnapping in the Caucasus.

Author : W. Ian Thomas
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 15,14 MB
Release : 1989-11-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310332621

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This book, with deep reverence for its subject, takes readers along on a journey of consideration to discover the deeper meanings of the Christian life.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 39,49 MB
Release : 2019-06-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309486483

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The opioid crisis in the United States has come about because of excessive use of these drugs for both legal and illicit purposes and unprecedented levels of consequent opioid use disorder (OUD). More than 2 million people in the United States are estimated to have OUD, which is caused by prolonged use of prescription opioids, heroin, or other illicit opioids. OUD is a life-threatening condition associated with a 20-fold greater risk of early death due to overdose, infectious diseases, trauma, and suicide. Mortality related to OUD continues to escalate as this public health crisis gathers momentum across the country, with opioid overdoses killing more than 47,000 people in 2017 in the United States. Efforts to date have made no real headway in stemming this crisis, in large part because tools that already existâ€"like evidence-based medicationsâ€"are not being deployed to maximum impact. To support the dissemination of accurate patient-focused information about treatments for addiction, and to help provide scientific solutions to the current opioid crisis, this report studies the evidence base on medication assisted treatment (MAT) for OUD. It examines available evidence on the range of parameters and circumstances in which MAT can be effectively delivered and identifies additional research needed.

Author : Peter Singer
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 36,92 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0812981561

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Argues that for the first time in history we're in a position to end extreme poverty throughout the world, both because of our unprecedented wealth and advances in technology, therefore we can no longer consider ourselves good people unless we give more to the poor. Reprint.

Author : Jonathan Glover
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 1990-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0141949732

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The moral problems of abortion, infanticide, suicide, euthanasia, capital punshiment, war and othe life-or-death choices.

Author : Newt Gingrich
Publisher :
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 21,17 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Medical
ISBN :

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Medical care, United States.

Author : Randi McGinn
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 18,98 MB
Release : 2014-11-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781941007204

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Trial techniques of trial lawyer Randi McGinn

Author : Robert E. Allinson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 18,35 MB
Release : 2006-05-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1402029802

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This is a pioneering work. Recent disasters such as the tsunami disaster continue to demonstrate Professor Allinson’s thesis that valuing human lives is the core of ethical management. His unique comparison of the ideas of the power of Fate and High Technology, his penetrating analysis of the very concept of an "accident", demonstrate how concepts rule our lives. His wide-ranging investigation of court cases and government documents from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, and from places as diverse as the USA, UK and New Zealand provide ample supporting evidence for the universality and the power of explanation of his thesis. Saving Human Lives will have an impact beyond measurement on the field of management ethics.