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"Finally, in December 2002, President Bush decreed that 500,000 key health workers nationwide would be vaccinated in the coming weeks. Later, 10 million more health workers, firefighters, police, and emergency medical personnel would be vaccinated—condemning some people to serious illness or death. In January 2003 a panel of experts convened under the CDC criticized the move as hasty and dangerous, and politically motivated. By March, only 12,404 health workers had been vaccinated. Many declined the vaccine because of safety and liability issues." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.)

"Although some health workers may be familiar with the management of acute pesticide poisoning, chronic effects of pesticide exposure are often overlooked. Acute dermatitis is the second most common occupational disease for all industrial sectors. The rates of dermatitis in the agricultural industry are the highest in any industrial sector. The Cancer Connection Cancer still holds the number two spot on the list of top killers of adults; it is the number one cause of death in children. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the incidence of cancer was about 1 in 50 in the United States." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Second, neither doctors nor public health workers could agree on a single explanation for cholera—nor, therefore, on a plan to halt spread of the disease, or a cure for it. And finally, Britain had no wish to give additional force to contagionist calls for quarantines or other Hmits to the free movement of people or goods. The Government therefore acted slowly, hesitantly—and still faced outraged opposition from a wary Indian public, which had also not forgotten the 'Mutiny', or the problems with smallpox vaccinations." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"The issue of daycare is discussed in Chapter 6, but even when a mother is at home, there are now many demands on her time which keep her from the 'dance'. health workers on home visits frequendy report seeing mothers with a baby in one hand and a mobile phone in the other, or failing to make eye contact with their suckling infant because they're simultaneously checking the email or watching Oprah on TV. These mothers are not uncaring or unfeeling - just products of our busy, multi-tasking contemporary culture and utterly unaware of the communicatory needs of their tiny children." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.)

"It was important that the twenty-four provincial health teams, each comprised of twelve to fifteen health workers, be trained to carry out the blood, food and urine collections and complete the questionnaires in a systematic and standardized manner. To standardize the collection of information, Dr. Chen divided the country into regions. Each region sent trainers to Beijing for the senior training session. They, in turn, returned to their home provinces to train the provincial health teams. Although the U.S." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"As one scholar of this epoch describes it, In Britain, much of the cancer elite—the clinicians, researchers, public health workers, and government officials who made the disease their business—rejected the idea that they should teach the public about cancer symptoms and treatment. . . .The men and women of the British cancer establishment conceived of themselves as managing the frequently irrational demands of a public they characterized as gullible and emotional, a conceptualization of "the public" that they shared with cancer experts abroad and with other medics at home." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"But massive vaccination was an unrealistic goal for complete eradication—tens of millions of infants would have to be vaccinated each year. health workers couldn't keep up. When an outbreak erupted in Nigeria in 1966, aid workers faced a shortage of vaccines. In order to use their limited supplies efficiently, they mobilized to pay house calls to every home in the area, checking on incidences of smallpox and vaccinating only those in close proximity to ailing victims. This method of creating "circles of immunity" around existing cases proved tremendously effective." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Under the appointment of the WHO, Brilliant led a team of thousands of health workers, who made over a billion house calls throughout India and brought about a victory over smallpox in 1980. Now polio is disappearing in a similar pattern—it's endemic in only four countries, and might be eliminated soon. Unfortunately, other diseases haven't been as responsive to the method Brilliant instituted. Smallpox was eliminated, but yaws, malaria, and yellow fever were not." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provided the initial funding for this project, the Chinese Ministry of Health paid the salaries of the approximately 350 health workers. It is my estimate that the Chinese contribution to the project was approximately $5-6 million. This compares with the U.S. contribution of about $2.9 million over a ten-year period. Were the U.S. government to have paid for this service in a similar project in the U.S., it would have cost at least ten times this amount, or $50-60 million." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"Among the health workers who developed AIDS, 90 percent belonged to the major risk group of AIDS cases— highly active homosexuals and intravenous drug users. Among hemophiliacs, who are "naturally" immune-deficient, there are just as many HIV-negatives dying as there are HIV-positives dying. In other words, whether a hemophiliac is infected or not, his chances of developing an AIDS-type disease are exactly the same. Until now, there has not been even one human or animal that has developed AIDS after being infected only with HIV." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Sociologist Steven Epstein claims that because gay men were some of the first individuals to contract AIDS, the illness was framed as a "gay disease" among both public health workers and most Americans generally (Epstein, 1988). According to Epstein, being gay was perceived within popular culture as a "symptom" of AIDS. He argues that the medical communities' treatment of AIDS was a legacy of the medicalization of homosexuality within the psychiatric community." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.)

"Later, 10 million more health workers, firefighters, police, and emergency medical personnel would be vaccinated—condemning some people to serious illness or death. In January 2003 a panel of experts convened under the CDC criticized the move as hasty and dangerous, and politically motivated. By March, only 12,404 health workers had been vaccinated. Many declined the vaccine because of safety and liability issues. A far better solution would be an effective vaccine that did not depend on a live virus." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.)

"People who would otherwise never visit an AIDS clinic on their own end up there at the urging of their sangoma, making it possible for them to receive important treatments —and for health workers to track the disease better. cb HealthStore Mm HealthStore is a Kenyan franchise model for delivering pharmaceuticals to rural areas; it is owned and operated by nurses, whose salaries are doubled, and gives poor, rural communities access to much-needed medicines." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"By March, only 12,404 health workers had been vaccinated. Many declined the vaccine because of safety and liability issues. A far better solution would be an effective vaccine that did not depend on a live virus. Microbiologists are experimenting with that approach, but the work will take considerable time. They have long thought they could succeed by inserting smallpox genes into a far safer "carrier" virus. Injecting that carrier virus into a person's body would stimulate an immune response to smallpox, creating immunity to the disease." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.)

"I did not mean to imply that these health workers and doctors are fiery foes of orthodoxy who rail against the West's stereotyping, nor that they represent a majority. In fact, many, perhaps the majority of African health workers are establishment oriented and accept orthodoxy's views on causation, transmission, and, with less fervency, African origins of AIDS and Africa's approaching devastation. However, these conservatives can be separated from their Western counterparts insofar as they have different reasons for agreeing with the dogma." - Gary Null, James Feast, AIDS: A Second Opinion (Get the book.) "In the last extended quote, Harrison-Chirimuuta has raised a point already familiar from our discussion of Miller's work, namely, the myth that Africans are sexually unrestrained, as well as adding a point we will consider later in this chapter, which is that African health workers are seldom consulted on what's going on in their continent. It turns out that Mrican doctors and other health workers, who one might think should be given special credence, since they are literally at "the scene of the crime," are the ones whose opinions seem to be given least weight by Western researchers." - Gary Null, James Feast, AIDS: A Second Opinion (Get the book.)

"At the beginning of this century two out of every three health workers were physicians. Of the more than 4.7 million health workers today, only one in twelve is a physician. Thus, doctors have increasingly become the managers of patient care rather than the direct providers of it.9 As medical managers, physicians have found themselves drawn out of private practice into employment in hospitals, research, teaching, government, and other institutions. Today four in ten doctors are employed in such institutions, compared with one in ten in 1931." - E. Richard Brown, Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism in America (Get the book.) "The Health Service Act, a bill sponsored by Representative Ronald Dellums, would create a national health service that would employ physicians and all other personnel on a salaried basis, take over the nation's hospitals, control the production of health workers in medical schools and other training programs, eliminate insurance companies from health care, and reduce the hierarchy of power among health workers by subordinating all policy to community-based boards. The Dellums bill would effectively transform the commodity production of medical care into noncommodity "social production." - E. Richard Brown, Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism in America (Get the book.)

"Supported by laboratory science and sophisticated strategic planning, 100,000 grassroots health workers in India alone visited 150,000 villages every month. All in all, they made more than 2 billion housecalls.41 In order to convince people to be inoculated, health workers would inject themselves in order to show that it was safe. Some injected themselves many hundreds of times with smallpox vaccine over the course of the campaign." - John Robbins, Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the True Source of Healing (Get the book.)

"Malone knew not to say, "Hi, I'm from the health department." health workers have learned from bad experiences that spouses or boyfriends may not know that their partners have TB, and can become violent if they suddenly find out. But Malone had negotiated tricky situations for seven years, and he talked his way to Julia. She gave him her address. The next day Malone arrived at Julia's apartment at a brown multifamily house squeezed between similar structures in an alley behind stores lining a main avenue in Jamaica Plain." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.)

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