Commonwealth Foundation Research Articles

Treatment of schizophrenic patients in their homes through a visiting nurse—some issues in the nurse's training

Treatment of schizophrenic patients within their communities and away from mental hospitals has been accepted all over the world. The more developed countries of the world have experimented with various models of community care for the mentally ill for over two decades (Langsley et al., 1969; Pasamanic et al., 1967; Goodacre et al., 1975; Test and Stein, 1976; Hogarty et al., 1974). However, in the developing countries, where mental illness still suffers from severe social stigma, and where public opinion is not very enlightened regarding causation and treatment of mental illness, the acceptance of a policy of community care has been a slow process. At present, most of the developing countries have realized that the enormous task of treating all their mentally ill patients by way of hospitalization through a psychiatrist seems an unattainable objective and that community care may offer the only feasible alternative (Kapur, 1975; Swift, 1972; Wintrob, 1972). World bodies such as the World Health Organization and the Commonwealth Foundation have been advocating community-based care, offered through mental health professionals and paramedical personnel, as a possible model of delivery of care. Various experiments have been carried out by workers in many of the developing countries, which may be suitable for their particular cultural milieu (Lambo, 1973; Vidyasagar, 1973; Schmidt, 1973). These efforts have been made out of necessity. As such, their emphasis has not been on evaluation-oriented design. In India, the paucity of psychiatrists and institutional treatment facilities necessitates the management of the patients within their own homes. The poor economic condition of the majority of the people precludes utilization of nursing homes. One therefore has to look for alternative modes of treatment delivery which may be more practical, culturally acceptable, economical to operate, and yet would be aimed at reaching a greater number of people. Training more nurses is more economical and feasible than training more

Medical illustration in the Far East.

A study tour was undertaken in August 1980 of medical schools in four Far East countries to study the organization of medical illustration and related services. The tour, and subsequent attendance to report on it at the IMBI International Conference in Stirling in September 1980, was made possible by a grant from the Commonwealth Foundation. Additional information was obtained from replies to a questionnaire sent to fifteen medical schools in other Far East countries and from first hand experience of the facilities in Hong Kong.

Editorial

PERSPECTIVES IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE Volume 23 ¦ Number 2, Part 2 ¦ Winter 1980 EDITORIAL OnJune 5, 6, and 7, 1979, the University ofChicago's Center for Policy Study sponsored a national conference on the plight ofclinical investigation in the United States. The conference and this publication of the papers and edited discussion were very kindly financed by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, the Commonwealth Foundation, the Burroughs Wellcome Foundation, and the Gould Foundation. The conference was generated by University of Chicago faculty members . They invited essayists, formal discussants, and other conference members with the view of including articulate and thoughtful spokesmen from academia, the pharmaceutical industry, the National Institutes of Health, the Veterans Administration, organized medicine, the legislative branch of the federal government, the legal profession, and the scientific press (see Appendix for list of participants). The importance and timeliness of the subject and the effectiveness of presentations led a number of participants to suggest publication of the proceedings in a Perspectives in Biology and Medicine supplement rather than a book. Since the subject was ofobvious interest to manyPerspectives readers and funding was provided, it was a pleasure to comply.—R.L.L. Perspectives in Biology and Mediane · Winter 1980 ¦ Part 2 Sl ...

The professional centre of the northern territory

Abstract Whenever professionals work permanently in isolated localities, there are associated problems. The feeling of being “at the end of the line” and out of touch with the rest of the profession is often very real. The difficulty of having a workable group of a professional association when there may only he a handful of eligible members adds to the difficulties. One solution is found in the forming of a Professional Centre where a number of small groups can offer mutual support. The Commonwealth Foundation has assisted in the formation of 18 such centres throughout the Commonwealth. This article tells of the establishment of the Professional Centre of the Northern Territory, an exercise in which the Northern Territory Division of the Institution of Surveyors has been actively involved.

BOOK NOTES

MALCOLM C. BROWN, The Financing of Personal Health Services in New Zealand, Canada and AustraliaRICHARD H. LEACH, Perceptions of Federalism by Canadian and Australian Public Servants: A Comparative AnalysisG. G. MEREDITH, Small Business Management in AustraliaRONALD WRAITH, Open GovernmentBRIAN SHOWLER, The Public Employment ServiceThe Commonwealth Foundation: The First Ten Years, 1966‐76ROBERT H. SIMMONS AND EUGENE P. DVORIN, Public Administration: Values, Policy and ChangeInformatics and AdministrationT.P. GOLDEN, Local Authority Accounting in IrelandPATRICIA TULLOCH and KERRY McDOUGALL, Retrospect: Social Welfare Issues in the ′75 ElectionMAX KELLY, A Certain Sydney 1900: A Photographic Introduction to a Hidden Sydney 1900Victorian Council of Social Service: Welfare Rights Task Force, We've Got No Choice: A Welfare Rights PerspectiveA Selected Annotated Bibliography on Welfare RightsELEANOR HARMAN and IAN MONTAGNES (eds), The Thesis and the BookN. ROBERTS (ed.), Use of Social Sciences LiteratureJOAN MARSHALL and DEAN JAENSCH (comps), APSA Directory of Political Scientists in Australasia, 1977–1978

On safari for Comla

ZMTKU! This, so far as I am aware, is not an African word, but merely the initial letters of the five countries I recently visited as a Commonwealth Foundation scholar. The names of the countries had to be typed so often during the planning stages that it was easier to think of them as ZMTKU rather than as Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. But even if ZMTKU isn't a word, you can't be in East and Central Africa very long without learning at least a few words of Swahili, if only ‘Jambo’, and ‘Mzuri’.

K. C. Harrison The importance and relevance of librarianship for developing countries. Commonwealth Foundation, 1975. 29.

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Editorial: Commonwealth foundation.

Editorial: Commonwealth foundation.

The Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration: A New Centre for Educational Leadership

The second International Intervisitation Program held in Australia in August, 1970, must now be considered a milestone in the development of the study and practice of educational administration. From the second Program emerged the establishment of the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration. Membership of the Council, which is determined on an individual rather than an institutional basis, is open to all interested in the administration of education. The Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration has a seven point programme of objectives: 1. To foster close links between those concerned with the improvement of educational administration in Commonwealth countries. 2. To foster a high standard in the practice and study of educational administration at all levels. 3. To hold Commonwealth‐wide and regional conferences on various aspects of educational administration. 4. To facilitate the dissemination of knowledge about research and practice in educational administration. 5. To foster high standards in the preparation of administrators. 6. To facilitate the exchange between member countries of teachers, students and practitioners of educational administration. 7. To encourage the establishment in Commonwealth countries of national associations of those concerned with the improvement of educational administration. Financial support for the Council was provided initially by the second International Intervisitation Program and “The Journal of Educational Administration”. Further generous and significant assistance has been given by the University of New England and the Commonwealth Foundation.

The Commonwealth Foundation: An Overview

The Commonwealth Foundation, now five years old, administers a fund designed to increase interchanges between Commonwealth organizations in professional fields. Twenty‐six Commonwealth Governments subscribe to the Foundation's annual income and nominate trustees to serve on its board. A non‐political organization, its activities have included: encouraging the growth of Commonwealth‐wide professional associations, creating national professional centres, helping to create national professional societies, promoting regional professional activity, increasing the personal interchange of skills and experience and broadening professional knowledge through the printed word. It adheres to the view that the Commonwealth remains an association of peoples who, at professional and other levels, still have much in common; much to build on, much to conserve.

The Commonwealth Foundation.

Medical Journal of AustraliaVolume 2, Issue 10 p. 441-442 Leading Article THE COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION First published: 01 September 1968 https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1968.tb82911.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume2, Issue10September 1968Pages 441-442 RelatedInformation

Commonwealth Regional Seminar on Training for Public Administration

This seminar, held at the Kenya Institute of Administration under the auspices of the Commonwealth Foundation, was attended by the principals and some of the staff of schools and institutes of public administration in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Mauritius, Malawi, Zambia, Lesotho, Swaziland, and Botswana; in addition, C.A.F.R.A.D. and E.C.A. were represented by observers. The proceedings were under the general chairmanship of J. E. Kariuki, principal of the Kenya Institute of Administration. Papers on five main subjects formed the basis for discussion.

APPOINTMENT OF SIR MACFARLANE BURNET AS CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION

Medical Journal of AustraliaVolume 1, Issue 3 p. 105-106 Comment and Abstract APPOINTMENT OF SIR MACFARLANE BURNET AS CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION First published: 01 January 1966 https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1966.tb19528.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume1, Issue3January 1966Pages 105-106 RelatedInformation

Zoology at King's College, London : Dr. J. F. Danielli

DR. DANIELLL who is succeeding Prof. Mackinnon as processor of zoology in King's College, London, commenced research work in 1931 at University College under the direction of Prof. N. K. Alam. He was then working on monolayers of steroids and on cell permeability. In 1933 he went to Princeton University with a Commonwealth Foundation Fellowship and continued his work under the influence of Prof. E. N. Harvey and Prof. C. G. Conklin. He returned to University College, London, under the auspices of Sir Jack Drummond and Prof. A. V. Hill. From University College he went to Cambridge in 1938, with a Beit Memorial Medical Research Fellowship tenable in the Department of Biochemistry. Here his work was extended to the blood capillaries. He became a member of a Ministry of Supply extra-mural chemical defence research team and a fellow of St. John's College in 1942. During his later years in Cambridge he was attached to both the Departments of Zoology and Biochemistry, and his main attention was turned to cytochemistry. In 1946 he went to the laboratory of the Marine Biological Association as physiologist, and then became reader in cell physiology of the University of London at the Chester Beatty Research Institute of the Royal Cancer Hospital, and also honorary lecturer in pharmacology at University College. He plans to continue the programme developed at the Royal Cancer Hospital, and to develop research work in cytology particularly in collaboration with Prof. T. A. Bennet Clark and Prof. J. T. Randall.

Antislavery Origins of the Civil War in the United States. By DWIGHT LOWELL DUMOND, University of Michigan. [Commonwealth Foundation Lectures, University College, London, Second Term, 1938-39]. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 1939. Pp. vii, 143. $2.00.)

Antislavery Origins of the Civil War in the United States. By DWIGHT LOWELL DUMOND, University of Michigan. [Commonwealth Foundation Lectures, University College, London, Second Term, 1938-39]. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 1939. Pp. vii, 143. $2.00.)

Antislavery Origins of the Civil War in the United States. By DWIGHT LOWELL DUMOND, University of Michigan. [Commonwealth Foundation Lectures, University College, London, Second Term, 1938-39.] (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 1939. Pp. vii, 143. $2.00.) and The Slavery Controversy, 1831-1860. By ARTHUR YOUNG LLOYD. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1939. Pp. xi, 337. $3.00.)

Antislavery Origins of the Civil War in the United States. By DWIGHT LOWELL DUMOND, University of Michigan. [Commonwealth Foundation Lectures, University College, London, Second Term, 1938-39.] (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 1939. Pp. vii, 143. $2.00.) and The Slavery Controversy, 1831-1860. By ARTHUR YOUNG LLOYD. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1939. Pp. xi, 337. $3.00.)