Healthcare is a successful means of winning H&M?
Ganulv posted:
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Returning to the issue of counterinsurgency, is there real evidence that providing healthcare is a successful means of winning hearts and minds?* I’m not trying to be a troll here but rather am seriously asking whether the concept can truly be said to rise above the level of assertion.
Certainly in my reading on the campaign in Malaya and especially Oman there are references to the impact of providing basic medical aid in locations that had none.
My impression is that basic medical aid - in Oman - helped secure the loyalty of local people as proof the new Sultan cared before more extensive and expensive options arrived, such as building roads.
It’s like they say about Brazil…
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Madhu
Modernization theory and development stuff. I keep being told no one believes in such a linear process anymore, except it still seems to form a sort of basis for some of our interaction with other nations. Help, other council members! Am I off-base with this line of thinking?
O país do futuro! E sempre será. The fact that the term “Developing World” continues to be used despite decades of evidence to the contrary says more about the nature of belief than it does about the validity of modernization theory, if you ask me. :rolleyes:
The Brazilian saying is right on the money....
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ganulv
O pas do futuro! E sempre ser. The fact that the term Developing World continues to be used despite decades of evidence to the contrary says more about the nature of belief than it does about the validity of modernization theory, if you ask me. :rolleyes:
Anyway,
A medical stability operations curriculum development program exists, apparently, but I know nothing about it. Anyone else know something useful? Bueller? Bueller? (Does anyone under a certain age even recognize the reference?)
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The Medical Stability Operations Curriculum Development Program (MSOC) was created to develop an educational program for the U.S. Military, United States Governmental (USG) inter-agency partners, and partner and host nations as identified by the geographical Combatant Commands (COCOMs). This program will be a collaboration and partnership between the Uniformed Services University through the Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance Medicine (USU/CDHAM) and Defense Medical Readiness Training Institute (DMRTI)
I don't mean to pick on anyone, but there sure are a lot of different acronym-groupings on that site....
http://www.cdham.org/medical-stabili...t-program-msoc
From Zenpundit's Charles Cameron
More on cell phone medicine:
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Yesterday was my first day at work on my new job with Urb.Im:
http://zenpundit.com/?p=12047
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M-chanjo: Saving lives by mixing health care with mobile technology
The project's name is M-chanjo, and its aim is to harness the power of mobile phones — ownership of which has increased tenfold over the last ten years in Kenya — to keep patients up to date on their upcoming inoculations and on any outreach programs that are due to take place in the area.
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Ushirika medical clinic, which serves several thousands of people monthly, aims to provide quality and affordable health care to the community members. In addition to the clinic's emphasis on curing illness, its staff also is deeply involved in disease prevention.
http://urb.im/nr/120729mc
I am sure the VA has similar pilot programs? Teaching hospitals in the states are very, very good at some things, but they move at the pace of a snail in terms of envisioning something really radical in terms of the delivery of health care. At least, that's been my experience. Much of it has to do with established stakeholders and the rest with a health care policy literature and attitudes stuck in the mid twentieth century. Like so many others. Just why is there such intellectual stagnation here, there, and everywhere, institutionally speaking? Or am I being unfair?
Military Medical Assets as Counterinsurgency Force Multipliers: A Call to Action
Military Medical Assets as Counterinsurgency Force Multipliers: A Call to Action
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"The Medical Role In Army Stability Operations": COL Neel, Military Medicine (1967)
Military Medical Assets as Counterinsurgency Force Multipliers: A Call to Action
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Iraq and Afghanistan through the Lens of American Military Casualties
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