Political Economy of Healthcare and Forced Migration in Developing Countries: Assessment of Syrian Refugees ’ Access to Healthcare in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey
Gizem Nazlican Guner (Middle East Technical University), Political Economy of Healthcare and Forced Migration in Developing Countries: Assessment of Syrian Refugees ’ Access to Healthcare in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, SSRN (2021): Huge influx of refugees, following 2011 Syrian civil war... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 13, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
The War in Afghanistan Has Not Ended If “Over the Horizon” Operations Continue
Jordan CohenSecretary of Defense Lloyd Austin recently testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee and said that despite not having U.S. troops in Afghanistan, the difficulty of “over the horizon operations” can be overcome by using intelligence from “a variety of sources. ” These types of operations rely on intelligence and the ability to station U.S. soldiers in partner countries. In return, the U.S. is technically still fighting, though without directly risking American lives. If this continues, it means that the U.S. is not withdrawing from Afghanistan, instead choosing to continue fighting a losi...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 13, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Jordan Cohen Source Type: blogs
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I ' m not an expert on Lebanon nor particularly on the category of crisis that land is experiencing right now, but I do think I understand it well enough to draw some broad lessons.The consequences for the Lebanese are horrific.If you have a NYT read left this month this by Lina Mounzer is hard to read. An excerpt:I begin my days in Beirut already exhausted.. . . .Every few days there ’s a new low to get used to. One recent morning I needed to exchange some dollars to buy groceries, chieflybread.. . .Once I had my money, I headed to the supermarket, and on my way I encountered a tiny old woman sitting on the pavement. I ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - September 4, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Mass Movement
I ' m not talking about social protest, but the long-running crisis on the planet of displaced people. While war and civil conflict are one cause, many populated areas of earth are becoming uninhabitable because of climate change -- and that in turn is an underlying cause of much of the conflict. The horrific Syrian civil war had its origin in climate change, as agricultural regions dried up and masses of people moved to cities. The war in Yemen as well is driven by water shortage. But the problem is far more widespread.This Kos diary by Pakololo is a good resource and gets you past any paywalls. So what is going to h...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 23, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Following up on we're number last . . .
.The U.S. not only has the lowest life expectancy among the wealthy countries, it also has lower life expectancy than many low and middle income countries. In fact life expectancy in Cuba is higher than life expectancy in the U.S. Here ' s a snapshot of part of the list. (I expect that given its recent catastrophic problems, Lebanon has slipped. The country with the longest life expectancy at birth is Japan. I didn ' t know either -- Mayotte is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, an overseas department of France.) Cuba, despite being obviously a poor country and despite its governments many failings, has univers...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 5, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: A complicated parable
Judges 9 is one of the longest chapters in the Bible. Were I the responsible medieval monk, I might have cut it in half, but it does tell a single story, the biography of Abimelek. (More often spelled Abimelech but this is the NIV spelling.) A point that strikes me about this, which I haven ' t seen noted in commentary, is that up until this moment secular leadership has not been hereditary. This is the book of Judges, not Kings. Yet when Abimelek claims hereditary leadership, the people go along with it, even though he has murdered all but one of his brothers. (Remember that Jerub-Baal and Gideon arethe same person.) And,...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 7, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: The first Groundhog Day
The structure of most of Judges is cyclical. The people start marrying outside of the tribe, and worshiping other Gods, so Yahweh sells them into slavery. Then a Yahweh-fearing champion arises, slaughters the slavers, and they are restored in Yahweh ' s favor until the champion dies and the whole things is repeated. There are some variations, a couple of the quite notable, but that ' s true of the Groundhog Day movie as well. What seems quite odd is that even while they are enslaved for years and decades, the Israelites still seem to have a well-equipped army for the Judge to command. You ' d think the slavers would be sma...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 16, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Get ready for some tedium
The next few chapters of Joshua are far more boring than watching grass grow. It ' s an endless recitation of the tracts given to the various tribes. Scholars can ' t associate most of the place names with known locations, so we don ' t even know who gets what. There really isn ' t much to say about this, except that the repeated assertion that the Levites get " no inheritance, " the idea being that they will live off of the temple offerings, is contradicted later on when they get cities, suburbs and farm land. Whatev. There is also the promise at the beginning of future genocide and theft of land, but we ' ll get to that ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 28, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Notching the belt
Joshua 12 is just a list of all the genocide victims up till now. There really isn ' t much to say about it except that it seems pointless. So I ' ' ll take this opportunity to say that the Book of Joshua is notable because the the title character is a complete cipher. God tells him to lead the Israelites in multiple acts of genocide, and he does so. Then God tells him to divide up the stolen land among the tribes, and he does so. Then he dies. We never learn if he marries or has any children, he never says anything interesting, we have no description of him. He ' s just a placeholder. Many people name sons after him, but ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 25, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Moar Genocide
I ' m in a meeting all day (and yesterday), so drive by blogging only. Joshua 11 is just more of the same, massacring whole peoples. I will just say that it ' s evidently a coincidence that there ' s a land of Goshen in Canaan. This couldn ' t be the region where the Israelites once resided in Egypt. The " Anakim " who get wiped out in the end are a race of giants. Anyway, once again you can take comfort in knowing that this is all entirely fictitious.11 When Jabin king of Hazor heard of this, he sent word to Jobab king of Madon, to the kings of Shimron and Akshaph,2 and to the northern kings who were in the moun...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 21, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: One weird trick
Joshua 9 is a very strange story. Of course Biblical apologists find deep meaning in it, although I would say that whatever moral lesson you might try to draw is easily demolished, especially in the context. The Gibeonites trick the Israelites into a treaty which precludes the Israelites from massacring them as they are everyone else in the area. When the Israelites discover the deception, they nevertheless still consider themselves bound by the treaty, but only part way. They won ' t murder the Gibeonites, they ' ll just enslave them. So why is this here? I haven ' t been able to find that there ' s any historical re...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 14, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
As I briefly mentioned previously, scholars believe that the core of the Book of Joshua was written at about the same time as Deuteronomy, perhaps based on some older sources, but probably didn ' t take its final form until much later. In any case, D was obviously aware of its basic contents. The purported events of the book happened hundreds of years before it was written. Like everything that has gone before, Joshua is almost certainly entirely fictitious. The Israelites did not conquer Canaan from the east. They were indigenous to the area. There is no archaeological evidence of the conquest and sacking of th...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 17, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Few Immigrants among Capitol Insurrectionists
Alex NowrastehAs of February 1, 2021, a total of 217 people have been arrested or charged with participating in the January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection. Many more people will be arrested and charged in the coming months, but it’s worth looking at the demographics of this group to better understand what happened.Newresearch by professors Robert A. Pape and Keven Ruby present the age, employment status, and other demographic characteristics of the mob that attacked the Capitol. However, Pape and Ruby left out one key demographic variable: nativity. How many of the rioters were foreign ‐born?To fill this gap, my int...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 3, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Getting a second opinion can save lives. It is time we make Miranda rights for patients.
The Lebanese-born former American oncologist Farid Fata committed one of the most malicious acts of greed by a medical professional in recorded history. Fata spent six years telling otherwise healthy people that they had cancer and needed immediate chemotherapy. He then fraudulently billed over $34 million in charges to Medicare and private insurance companies. Fata […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 27, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/robert-trent" rel="tag" > Robert Trent < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: More redundancy and repetitiveness
Deuteronomy 11 is just more of the same: recapitulation of events of Exodus and Numbers and exhortation to obey Yahweh, or else. So I ' ll just repeat myself as well. I think the function of these sermons by Moses was exactly that: they were read aloud to congregations in some form of regular observance. Other than the various prescribed sacrifices, the regular observances such as Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, we don ' t really get any information about how the law and lore were transmitted to the illiterate masses. So I suspect there was some sort of regular gathering at which these sermons of Moses were read, and that ' ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 23, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
