Foreword Billie Lee Turner II Chapter 1: Human Health at the Nexus of Ecologies and Politics Kelley A. Crews and Brian King Section I: Health within Social and Ecological Systems Chapter 2: Positioning Health in a Socio-Ecological Systems Framework Kelley A. Crews Chapter 3: Capitals and Context: Br...
Kelley Lee, Anna Gilmore, Jeff Collin
Decades after the health risks of smoking became known, a key turning point in tobacco control efforts came in the 1990s when internal documents of the tobacco industry began to be made public for the first time. Initially disclosed by company insiders uncomfortable with industry activities (Glantz ...
Kelley Lee
This comparative study of the determinants of family planning policy initiation and implementation focuses on four pairs of countries: Zambia/Zimbabwe, Algeria/Tunisia, Pakistan/Bangladesh, and Philippines/Thailand. The conclusion is drawn that global efforts had an influence on national policy make...
Harley Feldbaum, Preeti Patel, Egbert Sondorp, Kelley Lee
The security and foreign policy communities have increasingly addressed global health problems as threats to national security. Global health is a humanitarian endeavour that seeks to improve the world's health including the most vulnerable peoples, while national security works to protect the inter...
J. Patrick Vaughan, Sigrun Møgedal, Gill Walt, Stein-Erik Kruse et al.
The findings and conclusions of an international policy study are presented on the effects of donors and their voluntary financial contributions upon the World Health Organization. Such extrabudgetary funds now account for over a half of the total expenditure of the Organization and more than 80% of...
Paul Kelly, Kelley VanBuskirk, David Coomes, Samer Mouksassi et al.
BACKGROUND: Environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) is an asymptomatic intestinal disorder associated with growth impairment, delayed neurocognitive development, and impaired oral vaccine responses. OBJECTIVES: We set out to develop and validate a histopathologic scoring system on duodenal biopsies ...
Kelley Lee, Natalia Carrillo Botero, Thomas E. Novotny
BACKGROUND: Deforestation due to tobacco farming began to raise concerns in the mid 1970s. Over the next 40 years, tobacco growing increased significantly and shifted markedly to low- and middle-income countries. The percentage of deforestation caused by tobacco farming reached 4 % globally by the e...
Kelley VanBuskirk, Monica Mweetwa, Tad Kolterman, Shyam S. Raghavan et al.
BACKGROUND: Environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) is characterized by reduced absorptive capacity and barrier function of the small intestine, leading to poor ponderal and linear childhood growth. OBJECTIVES: To further define gene expression patterns that are associated with EED to uncover new pa...
Zehra Jamil, Kelley VanBuskirk, Monica Mweetwa, Samer Mouksassi et al.
BACKGROUND: Environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) is a precursor of growth faltering in children living in impoverished conditions who are frequently exposed to environmental toxins and enteropathogens, leading to small bowel inflammatory, malabsorptive, and permeability derangements and low-grade...
Lubaina Ehsan, David Coomes, Paul Kelly, Adam R Greene et al.
BACKGROUND: Environmental enteric dysfunction (EED), a chronic inflammatory condition of the small intestine, is an important driver of childhood malnutrition globally. Quantifying intestinal morphology in EED allows for exploration of its association with functional and disease outcomes. OBJECTIVES...
Mélodie Ruwet, Michelle Rourke, Kaosar Afsana, Fatimah Ahamad et al.
The One Health concept emphasizes the interdependence of human, animal and environmental health. While the term “One Health” has only gained traction in this century, the idea itself is much older. For instance, many Indigenous Peoples and local communities have traditional cosmologies that recogniz...
Geir Inge Orderud, Jintu Gu, Jing Luo
AbstractChina has in recent decades undergone profound changes and continues to do so— changes that are transforming the social fabric, motivating studies on how self-reported social status is changing in different parts of China. Applying a realist approach, the study emanates from theories on self...
Earnest Brandenburg, Gregg Phifer, Max Fuller, Waldo W. Braden et al.
MEETING OF MINDS: A WAY TO PEACE THROUGH MEDIATION. By Elmore Jackson. New York: McGraw‐Hall Book Co., 1952; pp. xix+200. $3.50. COMPOSING THE SPEECH. By Glen E. Mills. New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1952; pp. 431. $5.00. PERSUASION: A MEANS OF SOCIAL CONTROL. By Winston Lamont Brembeck and William ...