scholarly journals Measuring Success in Global Health Training: Data From 14 Years of a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine

2017 ◽  
Vol 64 (12) ◽  
pp. 1768-1772 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph D. Tucker ◽  
Molly A. Hughes ◽  
Ravi V. Durvasula ◽  
Joseph M. Vinetz ◽  
Victoria P. McGovern ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Tropical Medicine ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Health Training ◽  
Postdoctoral Fellowship

scholarly journals Reflective Practice and Competencies in Global Health Training: Lesson for Serving Diverse Patient Populations

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Castillo ◽  
Linda M. Goldenhar ◽  
Raymond C. Baker ◽  
Robert S. Kahn ◽  
Thomas G. DeWitt
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Reflective Practice ◽  
The United States ◽  
Tropical Medicine ◽  
Health Training ◽  
American Society ◽  
Diverse Patient Populations

Abstract Background Resident interest in global health care training is growing and has been shown to have a positive effect on participants' clinical skills and cultural competency. In addition, it is associated with career choices in primary care, public health, and in the service of underserved populations. The purpose of this study was to explore, through reflective practice, how participation in a formal global health training program influences pediatric residents' perspectives when caring for diverse patient populations. Methods Thirteen pediatric and combined-program residents enrolled in a year-long Global Health Scholars Program at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center during the 2007–2008 academic year. Educational interventions included a written curriculum, a lecture series, one-on-one mentoring sessions, an experience abroad, and reflective journaling assignments. The American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene global health competencies were used as an a priori coding framework to qualitatively analyze the reflective journal entries of the residents. Results Four themes emerged from the coded journal passages from all 13 residents: (1) the burden of global disease, as a heightened awareness of the diseases that affect humans worldwide; (2) immigrant/underserved health, reflected in a desire to apply lessons learned abroad at home to provide more culturally effective care to immigrant patients in the United States; (3) parenting, or observed parental, longing to assure that their children receive health care; and (4) humanitarianism, expressed as the desire to volunteer in future humanitarian health efforts in the United States and abroad. Conclusions Our findings suggest that participating in a global health training program helped residents begin to acquire competence in the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene competency domains. Such training also may strengthen residents' acquisition of professional skills, including the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education competencies.

scholarly journals Introducing activities of the Archives of Infectious Diseases History (AIDH) project: Historical epidemiology

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wataru Iijima ◽  
Hiroki Inoue ◽  
Tomoo Ichikawa
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Lymphatic Filariasis ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Brugia Malayi ◽  
Tropical Medicine ◽  
Historical Epidemiology ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Control

AbstractThe AIDH is a project as a historical epidemiology. The AIDH aims to collect, maintain, and manage past epidemiological materials and to offer these materials to persons who are interested in the history and in the fields of tropical medicine and global health. In this paper, we introduce our purpose and activities and show a hypothesis about lymphatic filariasis with Brugia malayi in Japan as a case of historical epidemiology. We hope to build fruitful ties between historians and scholars of tropical medicine and global health workers through an interdisciplinary approach to the history of control of infectious diseases.

Nutritional Recommendation for COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 753-757
Author(s):  
Anagha Gulhane ◽  
Shamli Hiware
Keyword(s):  
Immune System ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Immune Function ◽  
The Body ◽  
Health Issue ◽  
System Quality ◽  
Life Phase ◽  
Global Health Issue ◽  
Nutritional Recommendation

It is the most unreliable truth that anybody can get infected by the COVID-19, and nobody can escape from the danger of getting tainted by the virus. Yet, the line of hope is that anyone and everyone can boost their resistance, thus avoid the risk of getting affected by the illness. The immunity of humans pulls down as they grow older. If their immune system is robust, them falling sick is feeble. If their resistance is weak, them getting ill is sound. Several factors affect the immune system and its ability, including its nourishment. A two-way connection between nutrition, infection and immunity presents. Changes in one part will affect the others part in our body that's the nature's rule. Well defined immune system quality which is present between each life phase may influence the type, generality and the degree of infections. At the same time, low nutrition to the body will decrease the immune function and expose the body to the danger of getting infected by infectious diseases. Different quantity of micronutrients is required for increasing the immunity power of our body. Generally the vitamins A,C,D,E,B2,B6,B12, iron, zinc and selenium.The deficiencies of micronutrients are acknowledged as a global health issue, and also low nutrition makes it prone to establishes the infections in the body.

scholarly journals Global health training and postgraduate medical education in Australia: the case for greater integration

2013 ◽  
Vol 198 (6) ◽  
pp. 316-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob D Mitchell ◽  
Jennifer C Jamieson ◽  
Jake Parker ◽  
Fred B Hersch ◽  
Zoe Wainer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Postgraduate Medical Education ◽  
Health Training

Providing Global Health Training in an Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Program [125]

2015 ◽  
Vol 125 ◽  
pp. 45S ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa M. Nathan ◽  
Erin M. Conroy ◽  
Jennifer Pitotti ◽  
Irwin R. Merkatz ◽  
Erika H. Banks
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Residency Program ◽  
Obstetrics And Gynecology ◽  
Health Training

scholarly journals Global Health and the Infectious Diseases Physician-Scientist Workforce

2018 ◽  
Vol 219 (6) ◽  
pp. 1007-1008
Author(s):  
Russell R Kempker ◽  
Henry M Blumberg
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Physician Scientist

scholarly journals Imported Malaria in the Material of the Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine: A Review of 82 Patients in the Years 2002–2014

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Kuna ◽  
Michal Gajewski ◽  
Beata Szostakowska ◽  
Waclaw L. Nahorski ◽  
Przemyslaw Myjak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Severe Malaria ◽  
Clinical Analysis ◽  
Tropical Medicine ◽  
Imported Malaria ◽  
University Center ◽  
The World ◽  
Who Standards ◽  
Elevated Creatinine ◽  
The University

Malaria is, along with tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, one of the three most dangerous infectious diseases in the world. In the absence of native cases since 1963, malaria has remained in Poland an exclusively imported disease, mainly occurring in people travelling to tropical and subtropical areas for professional reasons. The aim of this study was the epidemiological and clinical analysis of 82 patients admitted to the University Center for Maritime and Tropical Medicine (UCMTM), Gdynia, Poland, with a diagnosis of malaria between 2002 and 2014. The “typical” patient with malaria was male, middle-aged, returned from Africa within the preceding 4 weeks, had not used appropriate chemoprophylaxis, and had not applied nonpharmacological methods of prophylaxis, except for window insect screens.P. falciparumwas the most frequent species. The most common symptoms included fever, shivers and intensive sweating, thrombocytopenia, elevated creatinine, LDH, D-dimers and CRP, hepatomegaly, and splenomegaly. Within the analyzed group, severe malaria according to WHO standards was diagnosed in 20.7% of patients. Our report presents analysis of the largest series of patients treated for imported malaria in Poland.

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