Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Although some health workers may be familiar with the management of acute pesticide poisoning, chronic effects of pesticide exposure are often overlooked. Acute dermatitis is the second most common occupational disease for all industrial sectors. The rates of dermatitis in the agricultural industry are the highest in any industrial sector.
The Cancer Connection
Cancer still holds the number two spot on the list of top killers of adults; it is the number one cause of death in children. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the incidence of cancer was about 1 in 50 in the United States. |
Devra Davis
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 As one scholar of this epoch describes it,
In Britain, much of the cancer elite—the clinicians, researchers, public health workers, and government officials who made the disease their business—rejected the idea that they should teach the public about cancer symptoms and treatment. . . .The men and women of the British cancer establishment conceived of themselves as managing the frequently irrational demands of a public they characterized as gullible and emotional, a conceptualization of "the public" that they shared with cancer experts abroad and with other medics at home. |
Roberta Bivins
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 Second, neither doctors nor public health workers could agree on a single explanation for cholera—nor, therefore, on a plan to halt spread of the disease, or a cure for it. And finally, Britain had no wish to give additional force to contagionist calls for quarantines or other Hmits to the free movement of people or goods. The Government therefore acted slowly, hesitantly—and still faced outraged opposition from a wary Indian public, which had also not forgotten the 'Mutiny', or the problems with smallpox vaccinations. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Among the health workers who developed AIDS, 90 percent belonged to the major risk group of AIDS cases— highly active homosexuals and intravenous drug users. Among hemophiliacs, who are "naturally" immune-deficient, there are just as many HIV-negatives dying as there are HIV-positives dying. In other words, whether a hemophiliac is infected or not, his chances of developing an AIDS-type disease are exactly the same. Until now, there has not been even one human or animal that has developed AIDS after being infected only with HIV. |
Alex Steffen
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 People who would otherwise never visit an AIDS clinic on their own end up there at the urging of their sangoma, making it possible for them to receive important treatments —and for health workers to track the disease better. cb
HealthStore
Mm HealthStore is a Kenyan franchise model for delivering pharmaceuticals to rural areas; it is owned and operated by nurses, whose salaries are doubled, and gives poor, rural communities access to much-needed medicines. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provided the initial funding for this project, the Chinese Ministry of Health paid the salaries of the approximately 350 health workers. It is my estimate that the Chinese contribution to the project was approximately $5-6 million. This compares with the U.S. contribution of about $2.9 million over a ten-year period. Were the U.S. government to have paid for this service in a similar project in the U.S., it would have cost at least ten times this amount, or $50-60 million. |
Alex Steffen
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| But massive vaccination was an unrealistic goal for complete eradication—tens of millions of infants would have to be vaccinated each year. health workers couldn't keep up.
When an outbreak erupted in Nigeria in 1966, aid workers faced a shortage of vaccines. In order to use their limited supplies efficiently, they mobilized to pay house calls to every home in the area, checking on incidences of smallpox and vaccinating only those in close proximity to ailing victims. This method of creating "circles of immunity" around existing cases proved tremendously effective. |
| Under the appointment of the WHO, Brilliant led a team of thousands of health workers, who made over a billion house calls throughout India and brought about a victory over smallpox in 1980.
Now polio is disappearing in a similar pattern—it's endemic in only four countries, and might be eliminated soon. Unfortunately, other diseases haven't been as responsive to the method Brilliant instituted. Smallpox was eliminated, but yaws, malaria, and yellow fever were not. |
Sue Palmer
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 The issue of daycare is discussed in Chapter 6, but even when a mother is at home, there are now many demands on her time which keep her from the 'dance'. health workers on home visits frequendy report seeing mothers with a baby in one hand and a mobile phone in the other, or failing to make eye contact with their suckling infant because they're simultaneously checking the email or watching Oprah on TV. These mothers are not uncaring or unfeeling - just products of our busy, multi-tasking contemporary culture and utterly unaware of the communicatory needs of their tiny children. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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| It was important that the twenty-four provincial health teams, each comprised of twelve to fifteen health workers, be trained to carry out the blood, food and urine collections and complete the questionnaires in a systematic and standardized manner. To standardize the collection of information, Dr. Chen divided the country into regions. Each region sent trainers to Beijing for the senior training session. They, in turn, returned to their home provinces to train the provincial health teams.
Although the U.S. |
E. Richard Brown
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 The Health Service Act, a bill sponsored by Representative Ronald Dellums, would create a national health service that would employ physicians and all other personnel on a salaried basis, take over the nation's hospitals, control the production of health workers in medical schools and other training programs, eliminate insurance companies from health care, and reduce the hierarchy of power among health workers by subordinating all policy to community-based boards. The Dellums bill would effectively transform the commodity production of medical care into noncommodity "social production. |
John Robbins
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 Supported by laboratory science and sophisticated strategic planning, 100,000 grassroots health workers in India alone visited 150,000 villages every month. All in all, they made more than 2 billion housecalls.41
In order to convince people to be inoculated, health workers would inject themselves in order to show that it was safe. Some injected themselves many hundreds of times with smallpox vaccine over the course of the campaign. |
E. Richard Brown
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| At the beginning of this century two out of every three health workers were physicians. Of the more than 4.7 million health workers today, only one in twelve is a physician. Thus, doctors have increasingly become the managers of patient care rather than the direct providers of it.9
As medical managers, physicians have found themselves drawn out of private practice into employment in hospitals, research, teaching, government, and other institutions. Today four in ten doctors are employed in such institutions, compared with one in ten in 1931. |
Attaining Medical Self SufficiencyDuncan Long
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| When health workers in these areas increased the amount of vitamin A preschool children received, the mortality rates plummeted. This suggests that respiratory, diarrhea, and other infections can frequently be avoided or their severity decreased by getting adequate vitamin A.
A recent study conducted with rats has also suggested that the immune system may be more successful at fighting off diseases it has already encountered when adequate vitamin A is available. |
| Therapist Credentials
As with other health workers, when you're picking a massage therapist, it's important to examine the worker's credentials. This is easier to do in the states that have agencies regulating this industry.
These states usually require 500 hours of training before the state will grant a license to practice within its borders. States that currently issue such licenses include: Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Iowa, Louisiana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, and Washington state. |
John Robbins
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| In order to convince people to be inoculated, health workers would inject themselves in order to show that it was safe. Some injected themselves many hundreds of times with smallpox vaccine over the course of the campaign.
Barely out of medical school, the French physician, Daniel Tarantola volunteered his services to a charitable group which arranged for him to perform primary health care in northern Bangladesh, and he soon became involved in the smallpox campaign. |
Sydney Walker III, M.D.
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 Multiple mental health workers had characterized him as argumentative, prone to violent temper tantrums, aggressive outbursts, physically and verbally abusive. ... In spells of rage he has poked holes in walls and knocked the door off its hinges.
This boy, finally diagnosed by Comings, had been labeled as having childhood schizophrenia and "undersocialized, aggressive conduct disorder" by doctors who had overlooked his TS symptoms.
Conduct disorder is also a common misdiagnosis for children suffering from nutritional deficiencies. |
Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H.
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 We stand ready to go beyond our present participation in WHO's immunization program by increasing the numbers of our epidemiologists and other international health workers available to join in the efforts of developing nations. Moreover, I can announce that, in addition to the services we are already providing, we will make available a further $200,000 in direct support to the WHO expanded program on immunization through a contribution to the Voluntary Fund for Health Promotion [VFHP]. |
Paul Pitchford
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 AMARANTH
Used by the ancient Aztecs as a valuable food and in their worship rituals, amaranth has recently come to the attention of world health workers with the discovery that in areas of Africa and Latin America where it is consumed, there exists no malnutrition. Because of its high nutritional value and ability to thrive in poor soil and during drought conditions, amaranth and plants with similar ¦^^J^ properties (such as quinoa) are considered part of a "bene-m ficial lost storehouse" of the world's agriculture and diet. |
J. E. Williams, O.M.D.
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 Known sources of infection include injection drug use, needle-stick accidents by health workers, contact with infected blood products, sexual contact with menstrual blood in infected persons, infants born to infected women, tattoos, and shared toothbrushes and razors. Though a mosquito vector was ruled out by researchers in the late 1990s, preliminary studies by French scientists at the Hospital Pasteur in Paris strongly suggest that some HCV cases may be mosquito-transmitted.
The Course of HCV Infection. |
Dr. Cass Ingram
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 This is how most health workers contract the disease. However, this mode of transmission is comparatively rare. The vast majority of individuals develop AIDS from sex. Obviously, IV drug abuse is the other major cause. With this disease the individual is essentially a cess pool of infection.
In a crisis setting individuals may come in contact with blood from injury victims. It is crucial to protect yourself from such a potential disaster, since AIDS is largely transmitted by blood. |
Earth RightH. Patricia Hynes
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| Even so, environmental health workers acknowledge that pesticide-related illness is severely underreported. Most medical personnel are not trained to recognize illness and injury due to pesticide exposure. Environmental physicians estimate that 300,000 cases of farm worker poisoning from pesticides occur annually in the United States.
PESTICIDES IN THE FOOD SUPPLY_
The entire picture of the hazards of pesticide use cannot be sketched for three reasons. |
E. Richard Brown
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| They were able to control more and more of the increasingly lucrative medical market, claiming a monopoly of expertise and authority over health care and over the increasing numbers of health workers. But the profession's growing dependence on capital-intensive medicine contained the seeds of their political decline—the loss of their ability to protect the economic relations on which private practice was founded. This contradiction was focused especially in the hospital. |
| Hospitals and their expensive equipment may tie many health workers to monotonous jobs and use funds that might otherwise go for more widely distributed community clinics. Those affected by these technological developments may resist them and force their modification. Workers may organize into unions and gain some control over the relations of production. Communities may organize to block hospital expansion and force development of more community-based clinics. |
| In this model, health workers analyze the different factors that contribute to a health problem and, then, with the people affected develop social and political, as well as medical-technical, strategies for changing them.118 Individually oriented curative medicine is obviously needed because human beings are not perfectly adapted to any physical or social environment. But health care should do more than apply a band-aid to the wounds created by disharmony between people and environment. |
John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton
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 In practice, this means the targeted torture and assassination of teachers, health workers, agricultural technicians and their collaborators in the community. This is not, as many critics charge, "indiscriminate violence against civilians." . . . Rather, the violence is part of a logical and systematic policy, and reflects the changing pattern of the war.50
The War At Home
The most pressing concern of all for the Reagan administration was the need to win the support of the US people for its policies in Central America. |
Gary Null
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 Thus, depending upon whether you share the view of the first or second group of health workers, your attitude toward your own health will vary. If you have the traditional view, you will tend toward passivity ("comply with doctor's orders: take your prescribed medicine"); while with an attitude like that of the alternative therapist, you will tend to be active ("take responsibility for your own health, learn all you can, make your own choices"). Perhaps, by this time, you won't be surprised to find that, according to their view of health, long-term AIDS survivors fall into the second camp. |
John Lauritsen
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 The headline of the 19 July 1991 story reads: "Senate Adopts Tough Measures On health workers With AIDS — Backs Prison and Fine for Failure to Tell Patients." Even reading the story closely it is impossible to determine whether the Helms Amendment applies to health care workers with full-blown AIDS, or merely to those with HIV antibodies. If the Times had been concerned with accuracy it could have quoted the text of the Helms Amendment. |
Berkeley Holistic Health Center and Shepherd Bliss
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| Robert Muller
IT IS with much humility that I speak to doctors, health workers, social workers, and people who are experts in the art of healing,
_I while I am an economist, a lawyer, and a political man. The only wisdom I can share with you is to draw certain conclusions from my 34 years in the first global organization of this planet. My daily work is to deal with most of the world's and humanity's problems and to hear the complaints, the dreams and the wishes of human communities from all around the globe. |
Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D.
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 In an ""intervention study" in 27 cases of infants with "clear nutritional deficiencies" the health workers distributed information on the nutritional content of foods, gave personal advice when it was requested and provided referrals to teachers in macrobiotics for further advice. They even published a newsletter.
The nutritionists recommended that macrobiotics followers include sources of fat, fatty fish and dairy in the diet (13). Unfortunately, none of this led to an improvement in nutritional intake, growth or blood values in the children. |
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