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The Boys of Baraka
Guide to Culturally Competent Health Care
Cultural competency is a hot topic not only in nursing programs - as evidenced by the NCLEX test plan - but it is also important in many other health professional programs. This guide will boost the confidence of students who feel uncomfortable dealing with people from a cultural background different than their own. It provides a summary of issues to be aware of, including cultural variations regarding personal space, dietary preferences, activities of daily living, communication, symptom management, and religious and health practices.
Book (2008). Author: Larry D. Purnell, Becky Paulanka
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plaque
Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against these modern plagues, and shows why, even more than those of history, target the poor.
Book (2001). Author: Paul Farmer
This page lists movies, books and other media of interest as they relate to public health topics. You are encouraged to submit comments or add any resource(s) you think would be relevant or important. To contribute, just add an individual post. Be sure to include the tag, MMMedia. The blog moderator will add your resource to the list.
The film debuted in September of 2006 on the excellent PBS documentary series, POV: The Boys of Baraka reveals the human face of a tragic statistic -- 61% of Baltimore's African-American boys fail to graduate from high school; 50% of them go on to jail. Behind those grim figures lie the grimmer realities of streets ruled by drug dealers, families fractured by addiction and a prison and public school system seemingly surrendered to chaos. A generation of inner-city children faces dilemmas that would undo most adults. In this case, they are told early on that they face three stark "dress" options by their 18th birthdays -- prison orange, a suit in a box, or a high school cap and gown.
The four young boys featured in, The Boys of Baraka, despite individual talents and considerable personal charms, cannot escape the common fate expressed by those dress options. But fate, as documented in this film, comes to them with a remarkable and fickle twist -- an experimental boarding school in rural Kenya. Click to watch the film's trailer.
Film (2006). Filmmakers: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
The Intouchables
After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caretaker.
Movie (2011). Director: Oliver Nakache, Eric Toledano
Contagion
A thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to begin to understand and address the outbreak.
Movie (2011). Director: Steven Soderbergh
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
A true story of Elle Editor, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who suffers a stroke and has to live with almost a completely paralyzed body; only his left eye is not paralyzed.
A true story of Elle Editor, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who suffers a stroke and has to live with almost a completely paralyzed body; only his left eye is not paralyzed.
Book (1997). Author: Jean-Dominique Bauby
Movie (2007). Director: Julian Schnabel
The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS
Written by a foreign political correspondent turned self-described "epi-nerd," this lively book discusses the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Recommended by a former N456 student for its easy-to-understand application of descriptive and analytical epidemiology, this book is full of facts and philosophy about preventing sexually transmitted infections around the globe. For a shorter version of the main points, see TED Talks: “Sex, drugs and HIV — let’s get rational” by Elizabeth Pisani
Book (2009). Author: Elizabeth Pisani
Rx For Survival
This groundbreaking project examines what makes us sick, what keeps us healthy, and what it would take to give health the upper hand from a global perspective. Narrated by Brad Pitt.
Film (2006). PBS
The Cyanide Canary
A riveting true story of a horrific crime -- of a brave young man left for dead, an unscrupulous business mogul, and a relentless EPA investigator who fought to overcome injustice. A chronicle of University of Michigan Law professor, David Uhlmann's and his work as lead prosecutor in The United States of America v. Elias.
A riveting true story of a horrific crime -- of a brave young man left for dead, an unscrupulous business mogul, and a relentless EPA investigator who fought to overcome injustice. A chronicle of University of Michigan Law professor, David Uhlmann's and his work as lead prosecutor in The United States of America v. Elias.
Book (2004). Author: Joseph Hilldorfer, Robert Dugoni
Ship Fever
The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, they encompass both past and present as they negotiate the complex territory of ambition, failure, achievement and shattered dreams (Boston Globe). RZ: Ship Fever is about the typhoid epidemic among immigrants from Ireland during the great potato famine of the 19th century. It portrays the risks for epidemics and pandemics in light of global travel, poverty and the science of the day. Talk about under-staffing! Wait until you read about the experience of the doctors and nurses at the sites where infected people were quarantined. All of the short stories illustrate the development of science and the misogyny of the day (women were not allowed to be "smart").
Book (1997). Author: Andrea Barrett
The Great Influenza
At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS in twenty-four years, and more in one year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research, and now revised to reflect the growing danger of avian flu, The Great Influenza is a tale of triumph amid tragedy, and provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon.
Book (2005). Author: John Barr
The Miracle Boy Grows Up
Ben Mattlin lives a normal, independent life. Why is that interesting? Because Mattlin was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a congenital weakness from which he was expected to die in childhood. Not only did Mattlin live through childhood, he became one of the first students in a wheelchair to attend Harvard, from which he graduated and became a professional writer. His advantage? Mattlin’s life happened to parallel the growth of the disability rights movement, so in many ways, he did not feel that he was disadvantaged at all, just merely different. Reviewer: "This is a very easy read! You might be surprised to learn how nurses and the health care profession is viewed by many individuals with disabilities. Thought-provoking!"
Book (2012). Author: Ben Mattlin
Disability and Public Health
Public health professionals have had few opportunities to learn about disability in a public health context. Now, Disability and Public Health, provides a thorough roadmap for professionals and describes how disability complements a public health context. By promoting an understanding of disability, the book provides a basis for enhancing the success of all of public health initiatives. Reviewer: "The best history of the conflict between the medical model and the emergent empowerment model for people with disabilities."
Book (2009). Editors: Charles Drum, M.P.A., J.D.,Ph.D. Gloria Krahn, Ph.D., M.P.H, Hank Bersani, PhD.
Cultural competency is a hot topic not only in nursing programs - as evidenced by the NCLEX test plan - but it is also important in many other health professional programs. This guide will boost the confidence of students who feel uncomfortable dealing with people from a cultural background different than their own. It provides a summary of issues to be aware of, including cultural variations regarding personal space, dietary preferences, activities of daily living, communication, symptom management, and religious and health practices.
Book (2008). Author: Larry D. Purnell, Becky Paulanka
Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against these modern plagues, and shows why, even more than those of history, target the poor.
Book (2001). Author: Paul Farmer
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