Role of Canadian Physical Therapists in Global Health Initiatives: SWOT Analysis

2007 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 272-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Alappat ◽  
Gary Siu ◽  
Aaron Penfold ◽  
Brendan McGovern ◽  
Jennifer McFarland ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Physical Therapists ◽  
Global Health Initiatives ◽  
Health Initiatives

scholarly journals Peopling Global Health

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 376-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Biehl ◽  
Adriana Petryna
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
International Health ◽  
Tropical Medicine ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Global Health Initiatives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health Initiatives

The field of Global Health brings together a vastly diverse array of actors working to address pressing health issues worldwide with unprecedented financial and technological resources and informed by various agendas. While Global Health initiatives are booming and displacing earlier framings of the field (such as tropical medicine or international health), critical analyses of the social, political, and economic processes associated with this expanding field — an “open source anarchy” on the ground — are still few and far between. In this essay, we contend that, among the powerful players of Global Health, the supposed beneficiaries of interventions are generally lost from view and appear as having little to say or nothing to contribute. We make the case for a more comprehensive and people-centered approach and demonstrate the crucial role of ethnography as an empirical lantern in Global Health. By shifting the emphasis from diseases to people and environments, and from trickle-down access to equality, we have the opportunity to set a humane agenda that both realistically confronts challenges and expands our vision of the future of global communities.

scholarly journals The power-trust cycle in global health: Trust as belonging in relations of dependency

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Emma-Louise Anderson ◽  
Laura Considine ◽  
Amy S. Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Positive Health ◽  
Global Health Initiatives ◽  
Health Initiatives ◽  
Power Trust ◽  
Trust And Power ◽  
Positive Health Outcomes ◽  
Exercise Of Discretion ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Trust between actors is vital to delivering positive health outcomes, while relationships of power determine health agendas, whose voices are heard and who benefits from global health initiatives. However, the relationship between trust and power has been neglected in the literatures on both international politics and global health. We examine this relationship through a study of relations between faith based organisations (FBO) and donors in Malawi and Zambia, drawing on 66 key informant interviews with actors central to delivering health care. From these two cases we develop an understanding of ‘trust as belonging’, which we define as the exercise of discretion accompanied by the expression of shared identities. Trust as belonging interacts with power in what we term the ‘power-trust cycle’, in which various forms of power undergird trust, and trust augments these forms of power. The power-trust cycle has a critical bearing on global health outcomes, affecting the space within which both local and international actors jockey to influence the ideologies that underpin global health, and the distribution of crucial resources. We illustrate how the power-trust cycle can work in both positive and negative ways to affect possible cooperation, with significant implications for collective responses to global health challenges.

Reducing road traffic deaths: where should we focus global health initiatives?

2018 ◽  
Vol 229 ◽  
pp. 337-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ya-Ching Hung ◽  
Yanik J. Bababekov ◽  
Sahael M. Stapleton ◽  
Swagoto Mukhopadhyay ◽  
Song-Lih Huang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Global Health Initiatives ◽  
Health Initiatives
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