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Set in a world of iron lungs, the Great Depression, and a World War, Courage to Heal is based on the true story of a young surgeon who, along with the twentieth century's boldest industrialist, changed the face of American medicine forever. History is brought to vivid life in this novel of an intransigent physician, his fight to provide health care to all, and his undying love for a beautiful nurse who marries the man determined to defeat him.

At the height of the Great Depression, Doctor Sidney Garfield saw the thousands of men involved in building the Los Angeles Aqueduct as an opportunity to provide quality affordable health care for workers. He built Contractors General Hospital: a 12-bed hospital in the middle of the Mojave Desert, six miles from the tiny town of Desert Center, California, and began treating sick and injured workers.

With the start of WWII, the need for health care for shipworkers was even greater. Working with industrialist Henry Kaiser, Garfield created the first true health care system in the Richmond shipyards, then opened a hospital in Oakland, still the headquarters of what is now Kaiser Permanente. When WWII was over, the doctor s private war began, when the AMA tried to shut down Kaiser (calling it socialist ) and take away his medical license. Through it all, Garfield persisted in his vision of affordable health care. Kaiser Permanente is the largest HMO in the U.S., serving over 8 million people..
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Kaiser Permanente Chairman and CEO George Halvorson's new book, Health Care Co-ops in Uganda: Effectively Launching Micro Health Groups in African Villages is now available Drawing on the same principles that make prepaid health care a success at Kaiser Permanente, Halvorson successfully implemented micro health plans in the African country of Uganda several years ago. Most of the co-ops were the only health insurance community members had access to and many still exist today. The book serves as both a memoir of this experience and a handbook for those interested in doing similar work in the developing world..
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This comprehensive introduction to adult education/postcompulsory education offers a broad overview of the field for students, adult educators, and workplace trainers The book establishes an analytical framework to emphasize the nature of learning and examines the core knowledge and skills needed by adult educators.

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In the quest for more and better lifelong learning, there is a growing awareness that qualifications systems must play a part. Some countries have started to realise that isolated developments in qualifications standards lead to uncoordinated, piecemeal systems. After reviewing the policies and practice in fifteen countries, the authors present nine broad policy responses to the lifelong learning agenda that countries have adopted and that relate directly to their national qualifications system. They also identify twenty mechanisms, or concrete linkages, between national qualifications systems and lifelong learning goals. The overall aim of this book is to provide these mechanisms as a tool for governments to use in reviewing their policy responses to lifelong learning. Evidence suggests that some mechanisms, such as those linked to credit transfer, recognition of prior learning, qualifications frameworks and stakeholder involvement, are especially powerful in promoting lifelong learning. Table of Content :Executive Summary Chapter 1. Scope and Structure of the Study -The Primacy of Lifelong Learning -Assumptions and Existing Evidence -A Consensual View of Terminology -Effects on Lifelong Learning -The Meaning and Structure of Mechanisms and Policy Respnses -The Book's Structure -Annex 1.A1. Process and Thematic Groups -Annex 1.A2. Components of a Qualifications System Chapter 2. Policy Responses to Improve National Qualifications Systems -Reasons for Developing Lifelong Learning -Qualifications Systems: Drivers for Change -Responses to Pressures for Changes in Qualifications Systems -Issues Related to Using Qualifications Systems as a Tool for Reform -In Short, Many Countries Face the Same Kind of Barriers Chapter 3. Do the Numbers Tell a Story? Quantitative Evidence about the Impact of Qualifications Systems on Learning -The Quantitative Background for Linking National Qualifications Systems and Lifelong Learning -An Attempt at Correlation -Building a Quantitative Evidence Base -Annex 3.A1. Assumption, Caveats and Technical Notes -Annex 3.A2. Additional Tables -Annex 3.A3. International Adult Literacy Survey Background Questionnaire Chapter 4. The Interaction between Stakeholders and Qualifications Systems: Identifying Mechanisms -Stakeholders and Country Context -Motivating Individual to Learn -Encouraging Employers to Use and Support Learning -The Qualifications System and he Role of Learnign and Qualifications Providers -Mechanisms Affecting Behaviour Chapter 5. Putting Mechanisms to Work Supporting Policy Responses -Linking Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence -Policy Responses and Mechanisms -Power and Versatility of the Mechanism -Change Mechanisms Chapter 6. Using Mechanisms to Review Policy Responses -A Positive Influence on Lifelong Learning -Mechanisms in Strategic Combination -Examples of Policy Review - Addressing Two Problems -The Way Forward -Annex A. Summary Reports of the Threee Thematic Groups --Thematic Group 1. The Developemtn and Use of Qualifications Frameworks as a Means of Reforming and Managing Qualifications Systems --Thematic Group 2. Standards and Quality Assurance in Qualifications with Specail Refernece to the Recognition of Non-Formal and Informal Training. --Thematic Group 3. Co-operation of Different Institutions and Stakeholders of the Qualifications Systems -Annex B. Education and Training System: How They Relate to Qualifications -Annex C. List of the Fifteen Countries that Prepared a Background Report and National Co-oerdinators -Annex D. Countries Participating in Thematic Groups and Co-ordination -Annex E. List of Acronyms -Annex F. Three-Letter Country Codes Used in the Tables and Figures.
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