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The Roles of U.s. Institutions of Higher Education in Community Health Care; Proceedings of an Invitational Workshop
The Roles of Us Institutions of Higher Education in Community Health Care Proceedings of an Invitational Workshop Author:Institute of Medicine General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1984 Original Publisher: National Academy Press Subjects: Public health Medical policy Community health services Medical / Health Care Delivery Medical / Health Policy Medical / Public Health Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no ... more »illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: I think we must try and look into ways in which we perceive institutions as themselves seeing their role in Health for All -- how governments themselves perceive institutions, that is, what roles they envisage for themselves. Second, what forms of tertiary education are there? As you are all no doubt aware, there are as many interpretations of tertiary education as there are countries, and there are even countries without universities or tertiary institutions. What role do we envisage for them in this new movement of universities and health for all? Then, sir, there is the problem of academic leadership within universities in terms of understanding the whole purpose of Health for All. Having had the opportunity of serving a sentence of hard labor as university vice chancellor in two institutions in Nigeria, I can visualize a situation in which a topic like "Universities and Health for All (HFA)" is brought into the senates of the universities and professors of, shall we say solid-state physics or Islamic studies, promptly ask what all this has to with his subject! The answer, of course, would be that it might be naive of us as university personnel to imagine that everyone will rise to this credo in a very positive way. I can see that the faculties or disciplines that would be most closely associated with trying to understand what Health for All means will be the social sciences, agriculture, nutrition, and other ...« less