1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480534903321

Autore

Brouwer Steve <1947->

Titolo

Revolutionary doctors [[electronic resource] ] : how Venezuela and Cuba are changing the world's conception of health care / / by Steve Brouwer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Monthly Review Press, c2011

ISBN

1-58367-269-9

1-58367-268-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

362.109

Soggetti

Community health services - Venezuela

Community health services - Cuba

Medical education - Venezuela

Medical education - Cuba

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Where Do Revolutionary Doctors Come From?""; ""2. Solidarity and Internationalism""; ""3. Creating Two, Three . . . One Hundred Thousand Che Guevaras""; ""4. Medicine in Revolutionary Cuba""; ""5. Barrio Adentro""; ""6. Witnessing Barrio Adentro in Action""; ""7. New Doctors for Venezuela""; ""8. Building Community Medicine on a Daily Basis""; ""9. Revolutionary Medicine in Conflict with the Past""; ""10. The Battle of Ideas and the Battle for Our America""; ""11. The War on Ideas: The U.S. Counterinsurgency Campaign""

""12. Practicing Medicine, Practicing Revolution""""Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Sommario/riassunto

Revolutionary Doctors gives readers a first-hand account of Venezuela's innovative and inspiring program of community healthcare, designed to serve-and largely carried out by-the poor themselves. Drawing on long-term participant observations as well as in-depth research, Brouwer tells the story of Venezuela's Integral Community



Medicine program, in which doctor-teachers move into the countryside and poor urban areas to recruit and train doctors from among peasants and workers. Such programs were first developed in Cuba, and Cuban medical personnel play a key role in Venezuela today as advisor

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910695382803321

Autore

Kiska Wendy

Titolo

The risk exposure of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : Congress of the U.S., Congressional Budget Office, , [2005]

Descrizione fisica

ix, 30 pages : digital, PDF file

Collana

A CBO paper

Altri autori (Persone)

LucasDeborah

PhaupMarvin

Soggetti

Pension trust guaranty insurance - United States - Finance

Defined benefit pension plans - United States - Finance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Mar. 30, 2006).

"Wendy Kiska (CBO), Deborah Lucas (Northwestern University and the National Bureau of Economic Research), and Marvin Phaup (CBO) prepared the report"--Pref.

"September 2005."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910813470903321

Titolo

Risky business : Canada's changing science-based policy and regulatory regime / / G. Bruce Doern and Ted Reed, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2000

©2000

ISBN

1-282-03727-7

9786612037276

1-4426-7939-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (402 p.)

Collana

Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy

Disciplina

338.971/06

Soggetti

Science and state - Canada

Administrative agencies - Canada

Livres numeriques.

e-books.

Electronic books.

Canada

Canada Administration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

PREFACE -- CONTRIBUTORS -- 1 Canada's Changing Science-Based Policy and Regulatory Regime: Issues and Framework -- Part 1: Macro-Issues and Policy Controversies -- 2 Government Science and the Public Interest -- 3 Between Expertise and Bureaucracy: Risk Management Trapped at the Science-Policy Interface -- 4 Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Mad Cow Disease): Lessons for Public Policy -- 5 Can Eco-Labelling Undermine International Agreement on Science-Based Standards?

6 Risk-Based Regulatory Responses in Global Food Trade: A Case Study of Guatemalan Raspberry Imports into the United States and Canada, 1996-1998 -- 7 Socioeconomic versus Science-Based Regulation: Informal Influences on the Formal Regulation of rbST in Canada -- Part 2: Science in Regulatory and Risk Management Institutions -- 8 The



Therapeutic Products Programme: From Traditional Science-Based Regulator to Science-Based Risk-Benefit Manager? -- 9 The Canadian Food Inspection Agency: Modernizing Science-Based Regulation.

10 The Pest Management Regulatory Agency: The Resilience of Science in Pesticide Regulation -- 11 Fisheries and Oceans Canada: Science and Conservation -- 12 Patient Science versus Science on Demand: The Stretching of Green Science at Environment Canada -- 13 A Question of Balance: New Approaches for Science-Based Regulation -- 14 Central Agencies, Horizontal Issues, and Precarious Values: Coordinating Science Policy in the Federal Government -- 15 Conclusions: New Institutions and Prospects for Change.

Sommario/riassunto

Risky Business is a comprehensive look at Canada's science-based policy and regulatory regime. It asks what risks Canadians might be exposed to as fiscal pressures strain the capacity of regulators in areas such as food, drugs, pesticides, fisheries, and the environment. The first part of this book focuses the reader's attention on diverse and major themes and issues that pervade science-based regulatory regimes today. The second part suggests a framework for analysis and endeavours to present both sympathetic and critical perspectives on the inner-workings of regulatory departments and agencies in the area of the protection of human and environmental health and safety. Covering such topics as the organizational evolution of regulatory agencies, regulatory bodies' changing sources and levels of funding, a review of the independence of science, and the increased potential for realization of risk, these essays point to the need for these regulators to operate with openness and accessibility in order to maintain public confidence. Indeed, the contributors argue that this openness is crucial to both democratic governance and the development of innovative knowledge economies.