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Primary Health Centers in the Backward Regions of India: An Exclusive Study of PHC, Mura, Dist-Sambalpur, Orissa, India

Deepak Kumar Behera, Orissa (India)

Health is the major indicator of development as countries in which the health system is working are taken in to consideration to be developed. But this is a fallacy so far as the scenario of India is concerned. (more…)

NIH Center of Excellence created at ASU School of Social Work

$7.1 million earmarked for minority health research

Phoenix – The Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center (SIRC) at Arizona State University’s School of Social Work is the recipient of a five-year, $7.1 million grant from The National Institutes of Health (NIH). (more…)

Bill 171: Triumph or Illusion? Recognition of social workers as psychotherapists

Lesley Cooper and Richard Freeland, Kitchener/Ontario (Canada)

The Ontario Association of Social Workers, (Canada) after an extensive and hard fought classical political campaign with strong support from practitioners and educators has succeeded in its campaign to have recognition of social workers as psychotherapists incorporated into Bill 171 (Health System Improvements Act, 2006). (more…)

HIV/AIDS as a social problem: Russian perspectives

O.I. Borodkina, St. Petersburg (Russia)

Russia is the home of Europe’s largest HIV/AIDS epidemic (more…)

The personal is political: health care in Canada

Lesley Cooper and Richard Freeland, Kitchener/Ontario (Canada)

The personal is political. This statement is an activist imperative, used by 1970s feminists to explain the influence of race, class and gender on the exclusion of women from decision making. Prior to this, from a completely different perspective, Mills (1959) made the observation that private pains are the manifestations of public issues. (more…)