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Carl E. Taylor
Carl Ernest Taylor, MD, DrPH (July 26, 1916 – February 4, 2010) was a key contributor to the Alma Ata Declaration. At the age of 88, he assumed the position of Country Director for the nonprofit organization Future Generations Afghanistan where he led innovative field-based activities until age 90. Early life and education Taylor was born in Landour, a small hill station contiguous with Mussoorie in the Western Himalayas. His parents were medical missionaries in the region. He spent his early years assisting his parents with a mobile clinic in riverine jungles along the Ganges river, where the river leaves the Himalayas and enters the Gangetic Plain. He came back to the US and earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. After that, he started practising medicine in Panama where he also met and married his wife. They were together for 58 years until she died in 2001. In 1947, he returned to India and became the director of Fatehgarh Presbyterian Hospital, near Agr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landour
Landour, a small cantonment town contiguous with Mussoorie, is about from the city of Dehradun in Dehradun district in the northern state of Uttarakhand in India. The twin towns of Mussoorie and Landour, together, are a well-known British Raj-era hill station in northern India. Mussoorie-Landour was widely known as the "Queen of the Hills". The name Landour is drawn from Llanddowror, a village in Carmarthenshire in southwest Wales. During the Raj, it was common to give nostalgic English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish names to one's home (or even to British-founded towns), reflecting one's ethnicity. Names drawn from literary works were also common, as from those by Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson and many others. Location and climate Landour is located in the Lower Western Himalaya, in the Mussoorie Range, the second of the five parallel folds of the Himalaya. On average, Landour is about above Mussoorie, which itself is mostly at an altitude ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gangetic Plain
The Indo-Gangetic Plain, also known as the Northern Plain or North Indian River Plain, is a fertile plain spanning across the northern and north-eastern part of the Indian subcontinent. It encompasses northern and eastern India, eastern Pakistan, southern Nepal, and almost all of Bangladesh. It is named after the two major river systems that drain the region–Indus and Ganges. It stretches from the Himalayas in the north to the northern edge of the Deccan plateau in the south, and extends from North East India in the east to the Iranian border in the west. The region is home to many major cities and nearly one-seventh of the world's population. As the region was formed by the deposits of the three major rivers–Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra, the plains consists of the world's largest expanse of uninterrupted alluvium. Due to its rich water resources, it is one of the world's most densely populated and intensely farmed areas. History The region was home to the Indus Vall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 Deaths
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked below. 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Earlier years ''Deaths in years earlier than this can usually be found in the main articles of the years.'' See also * Lists of deaths by day * Deaths by year (category) {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Health
International health, also called ''geographic medicine'', '' international medicine'', or ''global health'', is a field of health care, usually with a public health emphasis, dealing with health across regional or national boundaries. One subset of international medicine, travel medicine, prepares travelers with immunizations, prophylactic medications, preventive techniques such as bed nets and residual pesticides, in-transit care, and post-travel care for exotic illnesses. International health, however, more often refers to health personnel or organizations from one area or nation providing direct health care, or health sector development, in another area or nation. It is this sense of the term that is explained here. More recently, public health experts have become interested in global processes that impact human health. Globalisation and health, for example, illustrate the complex and changing sociological environment within which the determinants of health and disease express ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global Health
Global health is the health of populations in a worldwide context; it has been defined as "the area of study, research, and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide". Problems that transcend national borders or have a global political and economic impact are often emphasized. Thus, global health is about worldwide health improvement (Global mental health, including mental health), reduction of Health disparities, disparities, and protection against global threats that disregard national borders, including List of causes of death by rate, the most common causes of human death and years of life lost from a global perspective. Global health is not to be confused with international health, which is defined as the branch of public health focusing on Developing country, developing nations and Aid, foreign aid efforts by Developed country, industrialized countries. One way that global health can be measured is through t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abhay And Rani Bang
Abhay Bang and Rani Bang are Indian activists and community health researchers working in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra, India. They have developed initiatives and programs aimed at reducing infant mortality rates. Their initiatives have been endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for work carried out across India and in parts of Africa. Abhay and Rani Bang also founded the non-profit Society For Education, Action, and Research in Community Health (SEARCH), which is involved in rural health service and research. They won the Maharashtra Bhushan Award, and have been awarded honorary doctorates from the Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences at Lucknow. SNDT Women's University, Mumbai has also awarded a doctorate ''honoris causa'' to Rani Bang. ''The Lancet'' described the couple as "the pioneers of health care in rural India". Abhay and Rani Bang were the first recipients of the Distinguishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamkhed
Jamkhed is a census town in Ahmednagar district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Jamkhed is in between the Ahmednagar and Beed. Jamkhed is very well known for its comprehensive rural health project CRHP. It also has Jamkhed homeopathic college, nursing college. Geography Jamkhed is located at . It has an Area of 1935 Sq feet. Demographics India census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ..., Jamkhed had a population of 16. Males constituted 52.7% of the population and females 47.3%. Jamkhed had an average literacy rate of 69%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy was 76%, and female literacy was 63%. In Jamkhed, 14% of the population was under 6 years of age. References {{reflist External links The Comprehensive Rural Health Project, J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comprehensive Rural Health Project
The Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP) is a non profit non-governmental organisation located in the Ahmednagar District of Maharashtra State in India. The organization works with rural communities to provide community-based primary healthcare and improve the general standard of living through a variety of community-led development programs, including Women's Self-Help Groups, Farmers' Clubs, Adolescent Programs, and Sanitation and Watershed Development Programs. CRHP was founded in 1970 by Dr. Raj and Dr. Mabelle Arole, who conceived the Organisation's model while on a Fulbright Scholarship in Maharashtra. The work of CRHP has been recognized by the Government of Maharashtra and UNICEF, as well as being introduced to 178 countries across the world. The purpose of CRHP is to help provide healthcare to the poor. History Founders: Dr.Raj and Dr.Mabelle Arole Dr.Raj and Dr.Mabelle Arole came from very different backgrounds but found unity in common purpose. Raj Arole, born in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primary Health Care
Primary health care (PHC) is a whole-of-society approach to effectively organise and strengthen national health systems to bring services for health and wellbeing closer to communities. Primary health care enables health systems to support a person’s health needs – from health promotion to disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, palliative care and more. It is essential health care that is based on scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods and technology. This makes universal health care accessible to all individuals and families in a community. PHC initiatives allow for the full participation of community members in implementation and decision making. Services are provided at a cost that the community and the country can afford at every stage of their development in the spirit of self-reliance and self-determination.World Health OrganizationDeclaration of Alma-Ata.Adopted at the International Conference on Primary Health Care, Alma-Ata, USSR, 6–12 Septemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JHSPH
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is the public health graduate school of Johns Hopkins University, a private research university primarily based in Baltimore, Maryland. It was founded as the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1916. As of 2024, it claims 16% of all grants and contracts awarded to the 60 accredited schools of public health in the United States, and offers twenty-eight graduate degree programs across ten departments, included nine master's programs, two doctoral programs, and seventeen combined/dual degree programs. The Bloomberg School is located on the Johns Hopkins medical campus in East Baltimore, adjacent to the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and the School of Nursing. History In 1913, the Rockefeller Foundation sponsored a conference on the need for public health education in the United States. Foundation officials were convinced that a new profession of public health was needed. It would ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sushila Nayyar
Sushila Nayyar, also spelt 'Nayar' (26 December 1914 – 3 January 2001), was an Indian physician, a lifelong follower of Mahatma Gandhi, and a politician. She played a leading role in public health, medical education and social and rural reconstruction in India. She became Gandhi's personal physician and an important member of his inner circle. Later, she wrote several books based on her experiences. Her brother, Pyarelal Nayyar, was the personal secretary to Gandhi. In post-Independent India, she contested elections for political office and served as India's health minister. Biography Early life and education She was born on 26 December 1914 in Kunjah, a small town in the Gujarat district of Punjab (now in Pakistan). She developed an early attraction to Gandhian ideals through her brother and had even met Gandhi as a young child in Lahore. She came to Delhi to study medicine at Lady Hardinge Medical College, from where she earned her MBBS and MD. Throughout her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Partition Of India
The partition of India in 1947 was the division of British India into two independent dominion states, the Dominion of India, Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan. The Union of India is today the Republic of India, and the Dominion of Pakistan is the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the People's Republic of Bangladesh. The Partition (politics), partition involved the division of two provinces, Bengal and the Punjab Province (British India), Punjab, based on district-wise Hindu or Muslim majorities. It also involved the division of the British Indian Army, the Royal Indian Navy, the Indian Civil Service, the History of rail transport in India, railways, and the central treasury, between the two new dominions. The partition was set forth in the Indian Independence Act 1947 and resulted in the dissolution of the British Raj, or Crown rule in India. The two self-governing countries of India and Pakistan legally came into existence at midnight on 14–15 August 1947. The partiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
