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The global health community is broadly in agreement that achievement of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) hinges upon both an escalation of the financial resources dedicated to primary health care (PHC) and a more effective use of those resources: more money, better spent. This book introduces and explicates the end-to-end resource tracking and management (RTM) framework, which includes five components that determine effective and efficient financing for PHC: resource mobilization, allocation, utilization, productivity, and targeting.In addition, this book compiles detailed results from the most recent RTM-based resource tracking efforts for PHC in selected countries. This is to demonstrate how the RTM framework can be used to bring a set of separate resource tracking efforts at different stages of flow of funds into a comprehensive process with an end-to-end 'storyline'. In order to build a functional PHC system that addresses access, quality, and equity issues, this book highlights the key (public) financing issues that researchers, technical advisors, and policy makers would need to address in addition to more resources.<b>Contents:</b> <ul><li><b><i>Introduction:</i></b><ul><li>From Resources to Beneficiaries: Introducing an End-to-End Resource Tracking and Management Framework and its Application for Primary Health Care Development in LMICs <i>(Hong Wang, Daniel H Kress and Peter Berman)</i></li><li>Five Decades of Health Resource Tracking and Beyond <i>(Nirmala Ravishankar, Ravi Rannan-Eliya, Hong Wang and Peter Berman)</i></li></ul></li><li><b><i>Resource Mobilization:</i></b><ul><li>Estimating Financing Needs Using Examples from LMICs <i>(David Collins and Jean Kagubare)</i></li><li>Resource Mobilization for Health in Devolved Context: The Ethiopian Experience <i>(Abebe Alebachew, Carlyn Mann, Workie Mitiku and Peter Berman)</i></li><li>How Much Do Countries Spend on Primary Care in the Americas? <i>(Camilo Cid Pedraza, Claudia Pescetto, James Fitzgerald and Amalia del Riego)</i></li></ul></li><li><b><i>Resource Allocation:</i></b><ul><li>Resource Allocation in Ethiopia, Nigeria and India <i>(David Collins, Peter Berman, Karima Saleh and Hong Wang)</i></li></ul></li><li><b><i>Resource Utilization:</i></b><ul><li> Resource Tracking for Primary Health Care in Selected States in Nigeria: Findings from a Prospective Public Expenditure Tracking Survey <i>(Karima Saleh, Bernard Gauthier and Obert Pimhidzai)</i></li><li>Underutilization in the National Health Mission: A Story of Misaligned Public Financing and Health Financing Objectives in India <i>(Rajesh Jha and Manjiri Bhawalkar)</i></li></ul></li><li><b><i>Resource Productivity:</i></b><ul><li>Measuring Technical Efficiency of Primary Health Care Providers: An Analysis from Ethiopia <i>(Carlyn Mann and Peter Berman)</i></li><li>Productivity of Health Workers in Primary Healthcare Facilities in Nigeria: Why is the Average Caseload Estimated to be Low? <i>(Yanfang Su, Daniel H Kress and Hong Wang)</i></li><li>Linkage Between Human and Financial Resources for Primary Health Care and the Activity Levels of Health Services: An Exploratory Study from Uttar Pradesh, India <i>(Manjiri Bhawalkar, Rajesh Jha and Diana Bowser)</i></li><li>Productivity Analysis Using Actual and Normative Cost Data <i>(David Collins and Jean Kagubare)</i></li></ul></li><li><b><i>Resource Targeting:</i></b><ul><li>Are Health Resources Targeting the Poor Effectively in a Low-Income Context? Evidence from Ethiopia <i>(Girmaye D Dinsa, Peter Berman and Carlyn Mann)</i></li></ul></li><li><b><i>Conclusion:</i></b><ul><li>An Application of the RTM Framework to Understand Primary Health Care in Nigeria <i>(Daniel H Kress, Hong Wang and Yanfang Su)</i></li><li>Using Resource Tracking and Management Framework for Health to Strengthen Health Financing Capacity: Experience from India <i>(Rajesh Jha and Manjiri Bhawalkar)</i></li><li>Applying the Resource Tracking and Management Framework to Improve Ethiopia's Primary Health Care System <i>(Carlyn Mann, Peter Berman, Abebe Alebachew and Girmaye Dinsa)</i></li></ul></li></ul><br><b>Readership:</b> Health economists as well as students and researchers who want to work in this area for their career development and to improve the performance of primary health care worldwide.Health Financing;Public Financial Management;Resource Tracking;Health Economics;Health Policy0<b>Key Features:</b><ul><li>Introduce a comprehensive end-to-end resource tracking and management (RTM) framework</li><li>Bring both quantitative and qualitative RTM information to guide evidence-based policy development and implementation</li><li>Focus on primary health care, the cornerstone of health care system and pathways to universal health coverage (UHC)</li></ul>

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“This is a prayer book for revolution–a revolution of love and compassion and justice,” Shane Claiborne writes in the foreword. The prayers in this collection are meant to be prayed in community.
Rally is a prayer book for faith communities searching for words to respond to the injustices around them. It’s a prayer book for Christian activists who believe in putting feet to their prayers. The book supplies words for concerned Christians who yearn to lift their voices to God about such issues as racism; the abuse of power and privilege; mistreatment of migrants and refugees; lives tragically lost; our violent society; white supremacy; and people being marginalized because of their gender, ethnic identity, sexual orientation, or economic status. Rally contains prayers for perpetrators, for loving our bodies, for listening to one another, for those who have been wounded by the church. In this resource, readers will find prayers that evoke hope and connection, guidance for sifting through the news and social media headlines, laments about destruction of the earth, and pleas for loving alike though we don’t think alike.
The beauty of this book lies in the rich variety of voices and experiences of its writers—leaders who work at the intersection of Christianity and social justice and who want to resource those who gather to lament the needs and celebrate the possibilities of a better world. “Lord, stir us up to holy action,” cries this powerful book. Rally spurs people to compassionately continue the important work of loving God and neighbor until all of God’s people feel safe and seen.

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This book occurs at the intersection of philosophy, critical theory, psychoanalysis and the visual arts. Each chapter looks at art produced in various traumatogenic cultures: detention centres, post-Holocaust film, autobiography and many more.Other chapters look at the Juarez femicides, the production of collective memory, of makeshift memorials, acts of forgiveness and contemporary forms of trauma. The book proposes new ways of &#39;thinking trauma&#39;, foregrounding the possibility of healing and the task that the critical humanities has to play in this healing. Where is its place in an increasingly terror-haunted world, where personal and collective trauma is as much of an everyday occurrence as it is incomprehensible?What has become known as the &#39;classical model of trauma&#39; has foregrounded the unrepresentability of the traumatic event. New, revisionist approaches seek to move beyond an aporetic understanding of trauma, investigating both intersubjective and intrasubjective psychic processes of healing. Traumatic memory is not always verbal and &#39;iconic&#39; forms of communication are part of the arts of healing .

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Human rights, real rights, and data rights will be the three categories of fundamental rights of mankind in the future. Data rights, in essence, are the rights to share and the ultimate manifestation of data ownership. They aim at the effective use of data and holds special significance for our future life. – People.cn The digital civilization is the value justification and driving force of the creation of the data rights law, while the data rights law offers basis for the existence of the digital civilization, helping maintain its systems and improving its order. – Democracy and Law Times The research of the data rights law is a grand groundbreaking project and a major social and academic issue that future generations will have to continue to work on. – China and Africa Daily In this sense, the data rights law is the product of a leap of our civilization and its order, and it pushes for the leap of the human world from the industrial civilization to the digital civilization. – eztv.vip The proposal of the data rights law has laid a legal foundation for us to safeguard national data sovereignty, take form hold on our right to formulate data rights rules, have our voice heard in the international community in the field of data rights, and promote the rule of law in global cyberspace governance. It is of special importance to the building of a community with a shared future in cyberspace. – World Chinese Weekly

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Can we all learn from failure equally? Failure Pedagogies examines the ways failure is often appropriated to advantage those most likely to be insulated from the risks associated with pursuing it as a creative strategy._Contributors ask questions that examine what happens when failures do not necessarily lead to progress or innovation: How is risk distributed? For whom is failure «safe» and why? For whom is failure a real end rather than an opening to generative possibilities? To address these questions, we focus largely on pedagogical settings—classrooms, universities, and the conventions that reign there—but also confi gure pedagogy as a broad cultural practice that teaches acceptable and unacceptable forms of resistance, subversion, and risk. Contributors focus on a range of topics, including teaching and failure, language failures, fake news, disaster response failures, academic racism, sexual harassment and gender bias, queer failure, intersectionality and infertility activism, and institutional failures to imagine disabled bodies. Failure Pedagogies will be of interest to scholars, students, and teachers of writing, rhetoric, and popular culture.

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The Faces of Depression in Literature brings together some of the best-known specialists and scholars on the topic of depression in literature worldwide to offer a multidisciplinary approach concerning the philosophical, theological, and literary narratives of depression over time and their approximations to the current, clinical understanding of Major Depressive Disorder. The authors clarify the background of depression by paying attention to its representation through these narratives and revalue them as a means of acquiring knowledge in an interdisciplinary way. This pioneering initiative fills the knowledge gap that still exists concerning the nature of depression from a multidisciplinary perspective that takes into account some cross-cutting narratives. The authors give voice to the forgotten manifestations of depression found in literature, philosophy, theology, and even early medical works. The Faces of Depression in Literature is for graduates and researchers on depression from a cultural and social point of view, including philosophers, historians, cultural theorists, literature and art experts and enthusiasts, as well as artists and writers themselves, specialists in mental health and cognitive psychology, and anyone interested in a better understanding of the human condition.

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Poetry and story can tell the deepest truths about who we are as human beings. In Living the Story, Joe Cassidy explores how Ignatian spirituality can help us discover the power of story in the scriptures.

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Turkey's mixed human rights record has been highly politicized in the debate surrounding the country's probable ascendance to membership in the European Union. Beginning with the foundation of a secular republic in 1923, and continuing with founding membership in the United Nations and participation in the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Turkey made significant commitments to the advancement of human rights. However, its authoritarian tradition, periods of military rule, increasing social inequality, and economic crises have led to policies that undermine human rights. While legislative reforms and civil social activism since the 1980s have contributed greatly to the advancement of human rights, recent progress is threatened by the rise of nationalism, persistent gender inequality, and economic hardship.In Human Rights in Turkey , twenty-one Turkish and international scholars from various disciplines examine human rights policies and conditions since the 1920s, at the intersection of domestic and international politics, as they relate to all spheres of life in Turkey. A wide range of rights, such as freedom of the press and religion, minority, women's, and workers' rights, and the right to education, are examined in the context of the history and current conditions of the Republic of Turkey.In light of the events of September 11, 2001, and subsequent developments in the Middle East, recent proposals about modeling other Muslim countries after Turkey add urgency to an in-depth study of Turkish politics and the causal links with human rights. The scholarship presented in Human Rights in Turkey holds significant implications for the study of human rights in the Middle East and around the globe.

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All the Women in My Family Sing  is an anthology documenting the experiences of women of color at the dawn of the twenty-first century. It is a vital collection of prose and poetry whose topics range from the pressures of being the vice-president of a Fortune 500 Company, to escaping the killing fields of Cambodia, to the struggles inside immigration, identity, romance, and self-worth. These brief, trenchant essays capture the aspirations and wisdom of women of color as they exercise autonomy, creativity, and dignity and build bridges to heal the brokenness in today’s turbulent world. Sixty-nine authors – African American, Asian American, Chicana, Native American, Cameroonian, South African, Korean, LGBTQI – lend their voices to broaden cross-cultural understanding and to build bridges to each other’s histories and daily experiences of life. America Ferrera’s essay is from her powerful speech at the Women’s March in Washington D.C.; Natalie Baszile writes about her travels to Louisiana to research Queen Sugar and finding the “painful truths” her father experienced in the “belly of segregation;” Porochista Khakpour  tells us what it is like to fly across America under the Muslim travel ban; Lalita Tademy writes about her transition from top executive at Sun Microsystems to NY Times bestselling author. This anthology is monumental and timely as human rights and justice are being challenged around the world. It is a watershed title, not only written, but produced entirely by women of color, including the publishing, editing, process management, book cover design, and promotions. Our vision is to empower underrepresented voices and to impact the world of publishing in America – particularly important in a time when 80% of people who work in publishing self-identify as white (as found recently in a study by Lee & Low Books, and reported on NPR).

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