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Raised in a Greek immigrant family amid New England's industrial decline, Manny Voulgaropoulos wanted to explore exotic places. His ticket to adventure was medical school in Belgium, where he learned how Belgium's colonization of the Congo exploited its indigenous people. His medical training, originally a passport to travel the world, became his means to alleviate suffering of poor and underprivileged people. A serendipitous meeting with Tom Dooley, the Jungle Doctor, brought him to Kratie, Cambodia in 1958 as the Indochina war was brewing. In Kratie Manny was the Great White Doctor treating hundreds every day just as Tom Dooley had done. After repeatedly seeing the same people with the sam...
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Program Dharma merupakan model pemberdayaan masyarakat yang dapat diaplikasikan pada semua desa di Bali. Pilot project telah dilakukan di dua desa dan satu kelurahan wilayah pariwisata Sanur sejak tahun 2016 sampai saat ini. Pada tahun 2019, Program Dharma diperluas ke wilayah Desa Jagapati dan Sibang Kaja, Kabupaten Badung serta Desa Purwakerthi dan Desa Bunutan Kabupaten Karangasem. Kelemahan dan kekurangan dalam pilot project tersebut kemudian disempurnakan sebelum diterapkan pada desa lain di Bali. Program yang telah kami lakukan di desa Pilot Project kami tuang dalam buku panduan Program Dharma ini.
COVID-19: Surviving a Pandemic provides critical insights into survival strategies employed by communities and individuals around the world during the pandemic. A central question since this pandemic began has been how to survive it. That question has applied not just to staying alive, but also to staying healthy, both physically and mentally. Survival is certainly key, but surviving, and what that means, is also critical. The scholarship included in this volume will take a closer look at what it means to survive by addressing such issues as the importance of ethnicity in vaccine uptake, the gendered and racialized impacts of the pandemic, the impact on those with disabilities, questions of food security, and what it means to grieve. Drawing on the expertise of scholars from around the world, the work presented here represents a remarkable diversity and quality of impassioned scholarship on the impact of COVID-19 and is a timely and critical advance in knowledge related to the pandemic.
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Dibesarkan dalam disiplin positivisme pendidikan dokter yang kemudian tertarik pada aspek sosial kedokteran dalam bentuk pendidikan kesehatan masyarakat di jenjang magister dan doktor membawa saya menjalani adaptasi perjalanan keilmuan. Dimulai dengan mengenal dan memanfaatkan paradigma interpretivisme dan konstruktivisme dalam menganalisis masalah kesehatan dan kemudian mengembangkan intervensi kesehatan yang sesuai dengan konteks masalah dan subyek penerima tanpa melupakan pentingnya pendekatan obyektif dalam melakukan evaluasi keberhasilannya. Perjalanan karir akademik saya yang belum terlalu panjang sudah memberi kepastian pada keyakinan pribadi tentang aspek multi-dimensi kesehatan dan pentingnya pendekatan multi-disiplin dalam mengatasi masalah kesehatan masyarakat. Pengembangan penelitian secara inter-disiplin bahkan trans-disiplin diperlukan untuk mewujudkan studi implementasi yang berpusat pada pemberdayaan dan upaya mengatasi akar masalah kesehatan masyarakat. Hal ini sekaligus berfungsi mendorong penelitian dengan tingkat kesiapan teknologi yang tinggi sekaligus memicu pendidikan kesehatan yang responsif dan komprehensif (merdeka).