The first priority of aid workers is to reduce and prevent the number of people who will die and then to respond to their public health and medical needs. This can only be done by professionals who are properly trained and who understand the relationship between health and other human rights. Our merger with International Health Exchange in 2003 provided us with extensive expertise in this area.
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A useful selection of general and environmental health publications and guidelines.
This chapter is divided into three main sections: Health Systems and Infrastructure; Control of Communicable Diseases; and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases.
Smoke: the killer in the kitchen.
Indoor smoke kills around 4000 people a day - and its main victims are mothers and small children. This edition of the Health Exchange gives household energy use, indoor smoke and health the attention it deserves but rarely recieves. Please note that May 2006 was the last edition of the magazine to be published.
Sexual and reproductive health: on the road to a better world.
In this edition: a look at Millennium Development Goals and a Sexual and reproductive health resources guide.
Disability: going mobile with an integrated approach.
Among the articles in this month's edition of Health Exchange, Sophie Bonichon-Yilma highlights a community-based mine risk education scheme in Senegal, and a resources guide for disability development work.
One world: But who loses in a free market?
August's edition of the magazine goes in search of practical solutions to worldwide problems. Sally Hargreaves and Laura Hakokongas explain why it is time to refresh the worldwide strategy for control of TB, and there's a guide to nutritional requirements for people with HIV/AIDS, presented by Andrew Thorne-Lyman.
Switch on to appropriate healthcare technology.
Christian Gericke, Kent Ranson, Christoph Kurowski and Anne Mills provide a practical approach to scaling up low-technology health interventions and, this month, a resources guide on appropriate healthcare technology.
Humanitarianism post-Iraq - political co-option or principled irrelevance?
In this edition of the Health Exchange, practitioners report first-hand on the political and economic contexts in which humanitarians must operate.
Water, sanitation and hygiene for life.
In this month's edition, Andy Bastable, Marion O'Reilly and Vivien Walden call on humanitarians to make integrated water, sanitation and hygiene interventions - but only with popular participation.
Being there - snapshots of humanitarianism in the 21st century
Twenty five years after RedR and IHE were created, The Health Exchange asks humanitarians to address the big questions - and describe the individual challenges - involved in 'doing something to help' in the 21st century. Plus, a guide to getting your first humanitarian job.
Everyone has a right to health
In this edition, The Health Exchange examines how humanitarian practitioners and campaigners can work together to achieve common goals, and World Development Movement campaigner Vicky Cann takes a look at which humanitarian causes - and tactics - count in the 21st century.
Double vision: NHS links across the world.
This issue of The Health Exchange reports on NHS Links - partnerships between UK NHS trusts and universities and their counterparts in less developed countries.
