James Fitzgerald
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3768313 |
|---|---|
| NOME | James Fitzgerald |
| PRENOMES | James |
| SOBRENOME | Fitzgerald |
| ASSINATURA | FITZGERALD J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | World Health Organization Regional Office for the Americas |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3400-5515 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1907 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Brazil’s supreme court on content moderation
Tech oligarchy arises when platform companies are dominated to a singular extent by a small group of very powerful and extremely wealthy men who have played uniquely influential roles in structurin...
Heaven Holds a Place for Those Who Pray
This comparative study examines the interplay of religious messaging and disinformation in the election campaign material of Jair Bolsonaro and Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the 2022 Brazilian and 2023 Turkish presidential elections. We employ a mixed-methods approach, combining computational keyword filtering and content analysis with qualitative discourse analysis and applied to a corpus of 10,519 posts across seven social media platforms. The analy…
Digital transformation to overcoming access barriers
The digital transformation of the health sector offers innovative solutions to overcome significant barriers to health care access, which vary across regions and disproportionately affect vulnerable populations.This transformation goes beyond simply adopting new technologies; it involves a fundamental rethinking of health care delivery to make it more accessible, efficient, and patient-centered through digital tools and platforms.Digital health s…
The voice of healthy aging for changing paradigms and changing lives
practice and training in geriatrics and healthy aging across the Americas.As Chief of the Healthy Life Course Unit at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Vega Garca played a central role in shaping discussions and advancing policies on healthy aging and health systems through a life-course approach.His passing leaves a significant absence in the global health community.Yet his groundbreaking work continues to guide reforms in public …
From hope to reality
A mixed-methods SWOT analysis of a medical student Balint group programme
BACKGROUND: Balint groups use case-based discussions to explore, reflect on, and enhance the clinician-patient relationship. They facilitate the development of empathy and reflective practice and reduce burnout. This study aimed to explore how the benefits of a traditional Balint group format can be accessed and optimised for medical students during a one-year pilot programme. METHODS: Eight medical student Balint groups ran for six weeks during …
Together towards tomorrow
From national and regional commitments to global impact
Le defi a relever par les soignants dans la prise en soins de personnes âgees dementes doit s'inscrire dans une organisation du travail qui les aide a adopter une posture d'apprenant et a valoriser leur reflexion ethique dans la reponse quotidienne aux besoins de cette population
G20’s commitment to telehealth for reducing global health disparities
Towards 2030
Towards applying the essential public health functions for building health systems resilience
The COVID-19 pandemic, climate change-related events, protracted conflicts, economic stressors and other health challenges, call for strong public health orientation and leadership in health system strengthening and policies. Applying the essential public health functions (EPHFs) represents a holistic operational approach to public health, which is considered to be an integrated, sustainable, and cost-effective means for supporting universal heal…
Special issue
Content takedowns have emerged as a key regulatory pillar in the global fight against misinformation and extremism. Despite their increasing ubiquity as disruptive tools in political processes, however, their true efficacy remains up for debate. We “know,” for example, that takedowns had a strong disruptive effect on Islamic State-supporting networks from 2014 onwards (Conway et al., 2019), but we do not know whether constraining avenues for expr…
Using mixed methods to understand and tackle barriers to accessing health services
This report describes the experience and lessons learnt from designing and implementing a combined quantitative and qualitative method to assess barriers to accessing health services. This approach was developed to study barriers to access in five dimensions: availability; geographical, financial, and organizational accessibility; acceptability; contact; and effective coverage. The study design was used in six countries in the World Health Organi…
Recomendaciones para el desarrollo de sistemas de salud resilientes en las Américas
En este artículo de opinión y análisis se describen las líneas de acción estratégicas para desarrollar sistemas de salud resilientes y al mismo tiempo promover la recuperación en la etapa posterior a la pandemia de COVID-19, a fin de mantener y proteger los logros de la salud pública. Asimismo, se presenta una contextualización de los desafíos y oportunidades en la Región de las Américas, y se ofrecen recomendaciones para su implementación. Urge …
La importancia del enfoque de género en la construcción de sistemas de salud resilientes, equitativos y universales
La pandemia de la enfermedad por el coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19, por su sigla en inglés) demostró la necesidad de reforzar el enfoque de género desde una perspectiva integradora y multisectorial para el abordaje de las problemáticas en salud. Este artículo busca destacar la importancia de incorporar y fortalecer el enfoque de género en las políticas de construcción de sistemas de salud resilientes, equitativos y universales. Con este objetivo, se …
Conspiracy, anxiety, ontology
The rise of QAnon presents researchers with a number of important questions. While emerging literature provides insights into how QAnon exists online, there is a dearth of theoretical engagement with the questions of why it exists, and what conditions brought it into being. This paper seeks to address this gap by contextualizing QAnon as an ontological phenomenon underpinned by anxiety, and inquiring into the identity formation strategies employe…
Aportes del nuevo marco para las funciones esenciales de salud pública a la lucha contra la pandemia de Covid-19
En el presente artículo se utiliza una perspectiva de rectoría de la salud, con el fin de interpretar las fortalezas y los obstáculos relativos a las capacidades de las autoridades nacionales de salud para responder ante la pandemia de COVID-19, a través del marco renovado de las funciones esenciales de salud pública (FESP). Sobre la base de una revisión bibliográfica, se sostiene que las capacidades institucionales que necesitan los países de la…
El Campus Virtual de Salud Pública de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud como estrategia de cooperación técnica
El Campus Virtual de Salud Pública es la plataforma educativa de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud, concebida como herramienta para la cooperación técnica. Los objetivos de este artículo son caracterizar la oferta de formación del Campus Virtual de Salud Pública identificando las propuestas de cursos virtuales; caracterizar a los participantes de los cursos; describir los procesos de actualización tecnológica y sus avances en términos de a…
Contributions of the New Framework for Essential Public Health Functions to Addressing the Covid-19 Pandemic
This article uses a health stewardship perspective to interpret the strengths of and challenges to national health authorities’ capacities to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic through the renewed essential public health functions (EPHF) framework. Based on a literature review, this article argues that the institutional capacities required by countries to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Americas included all 4 stages of the new EPHF policy …
Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible
Objetivo. Determinar el impacto del gasto de bolsillo en salud en los hogares, los niveles de protección financiera y su desigualdad según variables relevantes en países de la Región. Se indaga su evolución y relación con el uso de servicios del sistema de salud. Métodos. Se recopila información descriptiva comparada acerca del gasto de bolsillo, su incidencia en la población, y su peso y composición en el consumo de los hogares. Se presentan ind…
Forget 9/11
To talk, or write, of 9/11 is to speak of temporal rupture. It is surely an event in the truest sense – an era-defining incision that marked the “real” end of the 20th century and projected forward
Covid-19
box The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in terrible loss of life, disproportionately impacting the poor and those with underlying health conditions, devastating lives and livelihoods as a consequence of its effect on economic activity. Weak health system responses, chronic and longstanding underinvestment, and inadequate policies to tackle the root causes of inequity that most affect those living in conditions of vulnerability to access needed hea…
A renewed framework for the essential public health functions in the Americas
This report presents the results of a consensus decision making process conducted to elaborate a renewed conceptual framework of the essential public health functions for the Americas. The emerging framework consists of four pillars encompassing action-oriented components relating to the new scope and concerns of public health. The four pillars call for adopting a human rights approach to public health, addressing the social determinants of healt…
Regulation of nursing practice in the Region of the Americas
Objective. To describe and analyze the current nursing regulations across countries in the Region of the Americas. Methods. A country comparative analysis was carried out by gathering information from the ministries of health, nursing schools, councils, associations, and boards in 2018. The main categories evaluated were type of regulatory bodies, requirements for initial professional registration, and registration renewal. Results. All countries…
Experiencias y lecciones desde Cuba en el camino a la Salud Universal en las Américas
Cuba is indisputably a source of inspiration for progress with the Universal Health strategy, as defined in the resolution adopted by the Member States of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) (1).The country's importance is underlined both by its achievements in health and by the strength and resiliency of its national health system (known as the SNS), which responds to people's needs with comprehensive and quality services that are provid…
Frontline perspectives on preventing violent extremism
Alyas Karmani is Co-Director of STREET UK (Strategy to Reach, Educate and Empower Teenagers), a specialist violence prevention intervention provider working with young people from mainly Muslim bac
Why me? An autoethnographic account of the bizarre logic of counterterrorism
The core concern of this article is derived from my personal experience of being stopped and questioned at Heathrow Airport on 28 March 2012 for possession of “suspect materials”: academic books on terrorism. I seek to utilise this experience to reflect on how logics of counterterrorism can become manifested in bizarre and prejudicial ways, and how autoethnography provides a unique means to articulate human experiences of such logics. I further u…
Heaven Holds a Place for Those Who Pray
This comparative study examines the interplay of religious messaging and disinformation in the election campaign material of Jair Bolsonaro and Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the 2022 Brazilian and 2023 Turkish presidential elections. We employ a mixed-methods approach, combining computational keyword filtering and content analysis with qualitative discourse analysis and applied to a corpus of 10,519 posts across seven social media platforms. The analy…
Counter-radicalisation policy across Europe
Maarten van de Donk is senior consultant at the Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) Secretariat, and advises on the Deradicalisation, Victims of terrorism, Prison and Probation and Internal and
Embracing subjectivities in the collaborative teaching of terrorism
This article seeks to reflect on the experiences of the authors as creators and instructors of a unique course on terrorism. It will reflect on how dynamics of cross-cultural and interdisciplinary interaction have been facilitated in a blended learning environment which prioritises students' subjective engagement with ‘terrorism’ to form the very core of their learning experience. It will also reflect on how ‘orthodox’ and ‘critical’ components c…
Holy, Lord God Almighty
The Nature of the Liberal Arts
History in the Curriculum
Muller nevertheless produced over thirty pages on the nature, value, and aim of historical study. This was because much of the historical instruction of his time was carried out without plans or principles. It is just as essential now for those who are involved in history instruction to have a clear grasp of the nature and purpose of history in the school curriculum. The fundamental question -on what grounds can the study of history in schools be…
Younger and Older Jurors
This study compared memory and decision making by younger (aged 19-35) and older (aged 55-75) adults who had viewed a 2-hr video of a complex civil trial. Participants were tested for free recall, recognition memory, source identification, and the accuracy of their verdicts. The experiment manipulated (a) note taking during the trial and (b) timing of judicial instructions: either before (preinstructed) or after (standard) the presentation of rel…
A multidisciplinary approach to scaling up HIV/Aids treatment and care
Las Bahamas han estado poniendo en practica un proceso de ampliacion intensivo, practico e integrado que ha provocado un rapido aumento del numero de personas con infeccion por VIH o sida que tienen acceso al tratamiento con antirretroviricos y a la atencion de salud. Este proceso de rapida ampliacion se ha visto facilitado por el establecimiento de un equipo multidisciplinario con gran experiencia en ciertas areas clave, por la creacion de una m…
Definición de medicamento genérico
Efforts to harmonize policies should consider the possible relationship among definitions adopted in different countries, the development of national pharmaceutical markets, and national policies to stimulate competition
Embracing subjectivities in the collaborative teaching of terrorism
This article seeks to reflect on the experiences of the authors as creators and instructors of a unique course on terrorism. It will reflect on how dynamics of cross-cultural and interdisciplinary interaction have been facilitated in a blended learning environment which prioritises students' subjective engagement with ‘terrorism’ to form the very core of their learning experience. It will also reflect on how ‘orthodox’ and ‘critical’ components c…
Litigios por derecho a la salud en tres países de América Latina
OBJECTIVE: Identify and evaluate studies that analyzed characteristics of right-to-health litigation in Brazil, Colombia, and Costa Rica. METHODS: Studies were evaluated that analyzed characteristics of right-to-health litigation identified through a search of PubMed, LILACS, Cochrane Library, and Scirus (April 2012). Two reviewers evaluated the studies. Variables collected were, among others, grounds for litigation, proportion of lawsuits for be…
Why me? An autoethnographic account of the bizarre logic of counterterrorism
The core concern of this article is derived from my personal experience of being stopped and questioned at Heathrow Airport on 28 March 2012 for possession of “suspect materials”: academic books on terrorism. I seek to utilise this experience to reflect on how logics of counterterrorism can become manifested in bizarre and prejudicial ways, and how autoethnography provides a unique means to articulate human experiences of such logics. I further u…
Counter-radicalisation policy across Europe
Maarten van de Donk is senior consultant at the Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) Secretariat, and advises on the Deradicalisation, Victims of terrorism, Prison and Probation and Internal and
Frontline perspectives on preventing violent extremism
Alyas Karmani is Co-Director of STREET UK (Strategy to Reach, Educate and Empower Teenagers), a specialist violence prevention intervention provider working with young people from mainly Muslim bac
Experiencias y lecciones desde Cuba en el camino a la Salud Universal en las Américas
Cuba is indisputably a source of inspiration for progress with the Universal Health strategy, as defined in the resolution adopted by the Member States of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) (1).The country's importance is underlined both by its achievements in health and by the strength and resiliency of its national health system (known as the SNS), which responds to people's needs with comprehensive and quality services that are provid…
The Virgin Islands National Information Systems for Health
The British Virgin Islands (BVI) Ministry of Health and Social Development (MOHSD) recently identified the need for an updated strategy to advance the country's vision for Information Systems for Health (IS4H) ("Informed decision-making for better health outcomes"). Since the early 1990s, the MOHSD has recognized the importance of having strong conceptual foundations and mechanisms for its information systems, and the need to strengthen the produ…
Covid-19
box The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in terrible loss of life, disproportionately impacting the poor and those with underlying health conditions, devastating lives and livelihoods as a consequence of its effect on economic activity. Weak health system responses, chronic and longstanding underinvestment, and inadequate policies to tackle the root causes of inequity that most affect those living in conditions of vulnerability to access needed hea…
A renewed framework for the essential public health functions in the Americas
This report presents the results of a consensus decision making process conducted to elaborate a renewed conceptual framework of the essential public health functions for the Americas. The emerging framework consists of four pillars encompassing action-oriented components relating to the new scope and concerns of public health. The four pillars call for adopting a human rights approach to public health, addressing the social determinants of healt…
Regulation of nursing practice in the Region of the Americas
Objective. To describe and analyze the current nursing regulations across countries in the Region of the Americas. Methods. A country comparative analysis was carried out by gathering information from the ministries of health, nursing schools, councils, associations, and boards in 2018. The main categories evaluated were type of regulatory bodies, requirements for initial professional registration, and registration renewal. Results. All countries…
Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible
Objetivo. Determinar el impacto del gasto de bolsillo en salud en los hogares, los niveles de protección financiera y su desigualdad según variables relevantes en países de la Región. Se indaga su evolución y relación con el uso de servicios del sistema de salud. Métodos. Se recopila información descriptiva comparada acerca del gasto de bolsillo, su incidencia en la población, y su peso y composición en el consumo de los hogares. Se presentan ind…
Forget 9/11
To talk, or write, of 9/11 is to speak of temporal rupture. It is surely an event in the truest sense – an era-defining incision that marked the “real” end of the 20th century and projected forward
Conspiracy, anxiety, ontology
The rise of QAnon presents researchers with a number of important questions. While emerging literature provides insights into how QAnon exists online, there is a dearth of theoretical engagement with the questions of why it exists, and what conditions brought it into being. This paper seeks to address this gap by contextualizing QAnon as an ontological phenomenon underpinned by anxiety, and inquiring into the identity formation strategies employe…
Aportes del nuevo marco para las funciones esenciales de salud pública a la lucha contra la pandemia de Covid-19
En el presente artículo se utiliza una perspectiva de rectoría de la salud, con el fin de interpretar las fortalezas y los obstáculos relativos a las capacidades de las autoridades nacionales de salud para responder ante la pandemia de COVID-19, a través del marco renovado de las funciones esenciales de salud pública (FESP). Sobre la base de una revisión bibliográfica, se sostiene que las capacidades institucionales que necesitan los países de la…
El Campus Virtual de Salud Pública de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud como estrategia de cooperación técnica
El Campus Virtual de Salud Pública es la plataforma educativa de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud, concebida como herramienta para la cooperación técnica. Los objetivos de este artículo son caracterizar la oferta de formación del Campus Virtual de Salud Pública identificando las propuestas de cursos virtuales; caracterizar a los participantes de los cursos; describir los procesos de actualización tecnológica y sus avances en términos de a…
Contributions of the New Framework for Essential Public Health Functions to Addressing the Covid-19 Pandemic
This article uses a health stewardship perspective to interpret the strengths of and challenges to national health authorities’ capacities to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic through the renewed essential public health functions (EPHF) framework. Based on a literature review, this article argues that the institutional capacities required by countries to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Americas included all 4 stages of the new EPHF policy …
Towards applying the essential public health functions for building health systems resilience
The COVID-19 pandemic, climate change-related events, protracted conflicts, economic stressors and other health challenges, call for strong public health orientation and leadership in health system strengthening and policies. Applying the essential public health functions (EPHFs) represents a holistic operational approach to public health, which is considered to be an integrated, sustainable, and cost-effective means for supporting universal heal…
Special issue
Content takedowns have emerged as a key regulatory pillar in the global fight against misinformation and extremism. Despite their increasing ubiquity as disruptive tools in political processes, however, their true efficacy remains up for debate. We “know,” for example, that takedowns had a strong disruptive effect on Islamic State-supporting networks from 2014 onwards (Conway et al., 2019), but we do not know whether constraining avenues for expr…
Using mixed methods to understand and tackle barriers to accessing health services
This report describes the experience and lessons learnt from designing and implementing a combined quantitative and qualitative method to assess barriers to accessing health services. This approach was developed to study barriers to access in five dimensions: availability; geographical, financial, and organizational accessibility; acceptability; contact; and effective coverage. The study design was used in six countries in the World Health Organi…
Political science (25 obras) · Medicine (12 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Psychology (10 obras) · Business (9 obras) · Computer Science (9 obras) · Philosophy (9 obras) · Healthcare Systems and Reforms (8 obras) · Humanities (8 obras) · Global Maternal and Child Health (7 obras)