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Close collaboration across agencies and international borders is mandatory for public health officials. A powerful tool for sharing knowledge, knowledge management (KM) can help public health professionals quickly collaborate and disseminate knowledge for solving public health issues worldwide. The latest initiatives for reforming healthcare have put the spotlight on the need for maximizing resources. In addition to providing a platform for sharing knowledge, KM can help healthcare professionals do more with less. One tool, two problems solved. Yet the sharing of knowledge and KM continues to be a major challenge in the public health field. Knowledge Management in Public Health provides a ge...
By presenting chapter-specific roadmaps, this book offers a behind-the-scenes chronology of the response to COVID-19 and provides a rubric for future pandemic response. Targeted at lay and scientific audiences, reflections and lessons learned grant the reader an opportunity to leverage this knowledge and improve the outcomes of future pandemics.
Although knowledge management (KM) has already helped numerous organizations achieve competitive advantages, many organizations have yet to embark on their knowledge management journey. Geared for executives and senior managers, Beyond Knowledge Management: What Every Leader Should Know is concise and easy-to-read. It looks at 10 areas where organi
Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley have been researching quarantine since long before the COVID-19 pandemic. With Until Proven Safe, they bring us a book as compelling as it is definitive, not only urgent reading for social-distanced times but also an up-to-the-minute investigation of the interplay of forces–––biological, political, technological––that shape our modern world. Quarantine is our most powerful response to uncertainty: it means waiting to see if something hidden inside us will be revealed. It is also one of our most dangerous, operating through an assumption of guilt. In quarantine, we are considered infectious until proven safe. Until Proven Safe tracks the history and ...
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隔離的歷史,就是一部公衛發展史 也是一部關於恐懼、濫權與獵巫的歷史 隔離從來不曾消失,未來更將成為常態 你我隨時都可能成為下一個被歧視的「帶原者」 後疫情時代必備讀物 結合田野調查、公衛、歷史與社會學,全面理解隔離的社會心理與意義! 臺灣大學公共衛生學院教授詹長權、東吳大學政治系助理教授 左宜恩 好評推薦 「隔離」(Quarantine)源自義大利文「quarantena」,意思是「四十天」。人類對抗瘟疫最古老的回應,就是把「可能染疫」的人和「健康的人」隔開。隔離是人類面對未知的本能反應,卻也涉及監...
'Manaugh and Twilley shed illuminating light on a phenomenon that seems utterly of the present moment.' Financial Times’ Best Books of the Year 'Startlingly timely, authoritatively researched, and electrifyingly written.' Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity Quarantine has shaped our world, yet it remains both feared and misunderstood. It is our most powerful response to uncertainty, but it operates through an assumption of guilt: in quarantine, we are considered infectious until proven safe. An unusually poetic metaphor for moral and mythic ills, quarantine means waiting to see if something hidden inside of us will be revealed. Unti...