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135182
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As the world has become more interconnected, the need for coordinated responses to shared global public health threats has increased. A small but growing cadre of diplomats known as health attachés is key among the practitioners of global health diplomacy (GHD) who employ the tools of diplomacy and statecraft to bridge governments’ public health and foreign policy objectives.
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134966
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Justification in public discourse is an inevitable part of the process when states attempt to regulate accelerating markets. In this process, policymakers define problems to be solved and attribute values to good policy. Those qualities are constantly negotiated, and to analyse them is essential for understanding the processes and ways different actors take control of political debates. This article examines a public discussion on health reform in the Czech Republic between 2006 and 2008. At that time, the government tried to promote a comprehensive reform for cost containment. The reform corresponded with a shift from a social democratic state paradigm to a neoliberal paradigm in health-care provision which can be observed also in other post-communist countries. In this case, controlling health-care costs gained a top priority in a discourse driven by the combination of factors including scarcity, the ageing of the population and patient responsibility. The authors of the reform used a “funnel strategy” where an original broader set of issues was narrowed to predominantly the economic aspects of reform. The wasting of money in health care was associated primarily with personal patient responsibility. While the distribution of care provided by hospital professionals was considered reasonable, the way in which patients consumed health care was questioned. This categorization replicated dominant media representations of professional medicine as a way to treat sickness competently and successfully by doctors in hospitals using the latest technology and fast-acting drugs
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135793
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This study examined secondary school teachers’ understanding of the HIV and AIDS education policy and curriculum in Zimbabwe. The study was informed by the Concerns-Based Adoption Model. Twenty teachers, four school heads from the participating schools and two Ministry of Education officials from Masvingo provincial offices participated in the study. Data for the qualitative case study were collected via individual interviews, focus group interviews and open-ended questionnaires. The study found that teachers had mixed perceptions of the HIV and AIDS school policy. Few teachers had a clear understanding of the policy and curriculum innovation while most of them were uninformed, ignorant, frustrated or confused regarding this policy and the implementation thereof. Overall, there was a disjunction between policy, curriculum requirements and teacher understanding and conceptualisation of the subject area due to a lack of professional qualifications and the non-availability of policy and curriculum documents. It is recommended that the Ministry of Education should become proactive in developing teachers’ knowledge and skills via significant and ongoing professional development and training for all teachers in HIV and AIDS education. School heads should provide support with regard to enhancing teachers’ understanding of HIV and AIDS education for effective implementation of the subject area in schools.
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