There are many organizations out there directed at the support and health of struggling developing countries around the globe. PATH is one of the leaders at the forefront as an International Non-governmental Organization focused as their slogan says “Driving transformative innovation to save lives” (PATH). This 40 year old organization that was started in the mid-1970s by Gordon Duncan, Rich Mahoney, and Gordon Perkin Focusing on the distribution of contraceptive technologies and supplies has grown to a multi-divisional non-profit organization. PICAT or Program for the Introduction and Adaptation of Contraceptive Technology, emerged from a small apartment in Seattle with a donation from the Ford foundation, has become the international organization known as PATH. This Organization with it’s Growth continues to outgrow it’s name, starting with the expansion away from only providing access to contraceptives around the world to developing new fields in healthcare for primarily woman and children in developing countries. As PATH was known as an acronym meaning “Program for Appropriate Technology in Health”(PATH FAQs) they are now as of 2014 simply PATH. Their definition of PATH today is “transformative innovation that save lives and improves health, especially among women and children. We stand for accelerating innovation and making the world a more equitable place”. Within PATH there are four main subdivisions of focus; education, health technology, Maternal and child
In this section of the assignment I will be evaluating the impact of organisations in improving Human Health
Two traditional approaches to fund programs are grants and donations. Grant funding is typically the largest revenue source for a human service organization. Vast arrays of different grants are available for funding purposes. The XYZ Corporation can utilize these funds from government private foundations. The second traditional fundraising method to fund programs is donations. Building a relationship with the community and having a confident CEO that will reach out for donations can impact the amount of donations your organization receives annually. The XYZ Corporation has a large clientele and therefore should be able to gain recognition within the community and gain donations.
Mission: To create a healthier future for children and woman throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research
Founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, in her speech at the 1925 birth control conference, The Children’s Era, explains the downfalls in American society when it comes to raising children. Through this speech, Sanger is trying to further promote her nonprofit organization and display the benefits of birth control. She appears to show compassionate characteristics towards children, more specifically the future American children, as she adopts an urgent tone to encompass her listeners into her ultimate goal, widespread, effective birth control methods.
Founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, in her speech at the 1925 Birth Control Conference, “The Children’s Era,” explains the downfalls in American society when it comes to raising children. Through her speech, Sanger attempts to further promote her nonprofit organization and display the benefits of birth control. She appears to show compassionate characteristics towards children, more specifically future American children as she adopts an urgent tone to encompass her listeners into her ultimate goal: widespread, effective birth control methods.
Mission: Advance the health and safety of women and girls with a focus on disease prevention and wellness. (cdc.gov/women)
“Without a lifespan view of women’s health… we are unlikely to be successful in advancing women’s health” (Woods 2009, pg. 400). A Global Health Imperative (2009) by author Nancy Fugate Woods explains the issues about health status and opportunities for the health of girl-children world-wide, which includes sex and gender disparities. Girl and women’s health is important, but just not as important as men’s health. Woods gives example of women’s health issues that are extremely serious. “Health issues or problems that occur predominantly in women are breast cancer and menopause” (Woods 2009, pg. 400). Women all over the world have the risk of getting breast cancer, HIV and Aids. Women that are affected by these diseases in some countries may
To improve the well-being of individuals through health education, counseling and detection screening programs. Over the next few weeks, our mission will consist of finding new solutions to better educate individuals in our society on the importance of health education, by improving care through technology, which ultimately better our society. Our organization will focus on fundraising, however, we focus on fundraising will be from a health perspective, to make sure we focus on individual health at all times. I will be responsible for the implantation of Better Health Care
Each product must go through a progression of approval, clinical trials, and post market observation protocols in order to ensure its safety and effectiveness. Stages in the development of medical technologies are scientific background and development of idea for a product, product development, approval, and distribution, diffusion, adoption and utilization of the product. Health care professional, patients, families, and policy makers all struggle to understand how health is affected by behavior, economic and social
Planned Parenthood is an organization that provides healthcare and education to both men and women, having over 650 health centers that provide healthcare to countless communities around the world. Shockingly, 78% of those who use Planned Parenthoods services live at or below 150% of the federal poverty line, showing how important this organization is to low-income families (Topulos, Greene, Drazen). Their mission statement is “A Reason for Being”, which is shown through their efforts to provide health care, advocate public policies, create educational programs, and endorse research. There are those who do not believe Planned Parenthood should be funded by the government, though, due to the fact that they provide abortions to women in need. Studies show that the effects of not having Planned Parenthood available are disastrous, causing low-income families to lack a healthcare provider and the number of those who are infected with STD’s and STI’s to rise. The biggest concern communities have about the government defunding Planned Parenthood is the effects that it would have on low-income families who would no longer have access to something that many people take for granted: health care. Although many believe that Planned Parenthood mostly provides abortions, in reality, only 3% of the people that seek help from them receive an abortion, while 97% receive affordable and, in many cases,
How can the principles of ethics (autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice) assist in finding a middle ground on new reproductive technologies?
In 1916 Margaret Sanger opened the first clinic in Brooklyn, New York to provide contraceptives to women. The clinic was highly controversial and faced many issues due to birth control’s illegal nature at this time. Sanger continued in her efforts and in 1923 she started the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau in Manhattan and the American Birth Control League, which joined to become Planned Parenthood Federation of America (Planned Parenthood). Since it’s creation, Planned Parenthood
Life is a complex process of social interactions. Each individual is molded and shaped by their surroundings into an ideal member of society through these interactions. This process of societal evolution on an individual basis is called socialization. Socialization is part of the process of continued culture but over time the culture must change as milestones within a person’s life mean different things as the society’s underpinning belief and attitudes change over time. A revolutionary study that exhibits the evolution of a culture is the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study founded by Dr Phil A. Silva and conducted through the University of Otago. The study identifies key events and milestones within an individual’s lifetime that have helped the study participants become fully-fledged members of New Zealand society. These milestones are fuelled by agents of primary and secondary socialization, which influence how an individual behaves and acts within their lifetime. Over time however it is evident as exhibited by the Dunedin study that these milestones are approached with different attitudes when compared to the previous generation and the generations following.
The Center for Reproductive Rights is an organization that dedicates itself to the advancement of law to protect and ensure that women globally have “access to the best reproductive healthcare available; where every woman can exercise her choices without coercion or discrimination.” (“About Us.”, n.d.) Furthermore, the Center for Reproductive Rights works in more than fifty countries to bring awareness to and advocate for a verity of topics ranging from safe and affordable contraception and abortion, healthy pregnancy, and the protection of those in vulnerable positions such as young people and those with communicable diseases. (“Our Issues.”, n.d.) The organization has achieved a myriad of policy and legal accomplishments in the twenty years
Women’s reproductive rights are a global issue in today’s world. Women have to fight to have the right to regulate their own bodies and reproductive choices, although in some countries their voices are ignored. Abortion, sterilization, contraceptives, and family planning services all encompass this global issue of women’s reproductive rights.