Kansas Soil Health Partnership

Effects of Range Burning on Kansas Flint Hills Soil

Highlight: Two tallgrass prairie areas burned annually for 20 (grazed) nnd 48 (un. grazed) years ar different fimeS showed differences in soil chemical and physical properties. Winter, early-spring, and mid-spring burned ungrared plots were generally higher in soil pH, organic ma~fer, and K than late-spring burned or unburned plots. Late-Jpring and winter burning lowered soil N on ungrazed and ...

Envisioning a Global Health Partnership Movement

“A universal truth: No health without a workforce” was the rallying cry of the flagship report commissioned by the Global Health Workforce Alliance Secretariat and the World Health Organization [1] and one which must be embraced if the aspiration for universal health coverage is ever to be realised [2]. One in seven people will never see a qualified health worker in their lives. The world will ...

Transforming Singapore health care: public-private partnership.

Prudent health care policies that encourage public-private participation in health care financing and provisioning have conferred on Singapore the advantage of flexible response as it faces the potentially conflicting challenges of becoming a regional medical hub attracting foreign patients and ensuring domestic access to affordable health care. Both the external and internal health care market...

The Partnership of Public Health and Anthropology.

Public health focuses on health of the population and it is concerned with threats to health based on population health analysis. Anthropology covers most aspects that concern human beings. Both sciences converge on community and this fact represents a foundation for the partnership between public health and anthropology. Biological/medical anthropology is one of the highly developed fi elds of...

Partnership in health: beyond the rhetoric.