Jimmy carter health program
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Health Programs
A leader in the eradication and elimination of diseases, the Center fights six preventable diseases &#; Guinea worm, river blindness, trachoma, schistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis, and malaria in Hispaniola &#; by using health education and simple, low-cost prevention and treatment methods.&#;The Center also strives to improve access to mental health care globally.
&#;We believe access to health care is a human right, especially among poor people afflicted with disease who are forgotten, ignored, and often without hope. Just to know that someone cares about them not only can ease their physical pain but also remove an element of alienation and anger that can lead to hatred and violence.&#;-Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter
These efforts have brought to resource-limited countries better disease surveillance and health care delivery systems. Because communities often are burdened by several diseases, the Center also is pioneering new public health approaches to
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Abstract
President Jimmy Carter's Presidential Commission on Mental Health was intended to recommend policies to overcome obvious deficiencies in the mental health system. Bureaucratic rivalries within and between governments; tensions and rivalries within the mental health professions; identity and interest group politics; the difficulties of distinguishing the respective etiological roles of such elements as poverty, racism, stigmatization, and unemployment; and an illusory faith in prevention all influenced the commission's deliberations and subsequent enactment of the short-lived Mental Health Systems Act. The commission's work led to the formulation of the influential National program for the Chronically Mentally Ill, but a system of care and treatment for persons with serious mental illnesses was never created.
Keywords: Jimmy Carter's Presidential kommission on Mental Health, Mental Health Systems Act, mental health policy, deinstitutionalization, mental illnesses
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What Jimmy Carter taught us about public health: Peace, faith, science can work together
Former President Jimmy Carter’s public health legacy — at home and abroad — was driven bygd empathy and an enduring faith in people and science.
Those achievements are well-known: Fighting Guinea worm disease, a parasitic illness that once affected more than 3 million people but in affected just Battling devastating tropical diseases like malaria and river blindness around the world. And with his wife, Rosalynn Carter, carving out space for people to talk openly about mental illness in the United States.
His approach shows how listening, building trust, and showing empathy can achieve big improvements in public health — and how faith and science need not be divided.
Jimmy Carter believed “that science fryst vatten part of God’s gift, and they’re not in opposition,” said Atlanta City Council President Doug Shipman, who is a member of The Carter Center board.
“His faith was one