TY - JOUR
T1 - The Thalassemia International Federation
T2 - A global public health paradigm
AU - Soteriades, Elpidoforos S.
AU - Weatherall, David
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© E.S. Soteriades and D. Weatherall, 2014 Licensee PAGEPress, Italy.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Many international organizations are struggling today to coordinate limited economic and human resources in support of governments’ efforts to advance public health around the world. The United Nations and the World Health Organization, along with others play a pivotal role in this global effort. Furthermore, during the past few decades an increasingly higher percentage of global efforts on public health are carried out by specific health initiatives, international projects and non-governmental patient-oriented organizations. The Thalassemia International Federation (TIF) is one such organization focusing on the control of thalassemia around the world. The current paper aims at presenting a comprehensive overview of the mission, goals, objectives and activities of this organization. Our ultimate goal is to highlight TIF’s public health paradigm and diffuse its success at an international levels for others to follow. TIF is devoted to disseminating information, knowledge, experience and best practices around the world to empower patients with thalassemia and their relatives, support health professionals providing care to such patients and promote national and international policies, which secure equal access to quality care for all patients with thalassemia.
AB - Many international organizations are struggling today to coordinate limited economic and human resources in support of governments’ efforts to advance public health around the world. The United Nations and the World Health Organization, along with others play a pivotal role in this global effort. Furthermore, during the past few decades an increasingly higher percentage of global efforts on public health are carried out by specific health initiatives, international projects and non-governmental patient-oriented organizations. The Thalassemia International Federation (TIF) is one such organization focusing on the control of thalassemia around the world. The current paper aims at presenting a comprehensive overview of the mission, goals, objectives and activities of this organization. Our ultimate goal is to highlight TIF’s public health paradigm and diffuse its success at an international levels for others to follow. TIF is devoted to disseminating information, knowledge, experience and best practices around the world to empower patients with thalassemia and their relatives, support health professionals providing care to such patients and promote national and international policies, which secure equal access to quality care for all patients with thalassemia.
KW - Epidemiology
KW - Global health
KW - Public health
KW - TIF
KW - Thalassemia
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U2 - 10.4081/thal.2014.1840
DO - 10.4081/thal.2014.1840
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85042900947
SN - 2039-4365
VL - 4
SP - 7
EP - 12
JO - Thalassemia Reports
JF - Thalassemia Reports
IS - 2
M1 - 1840
ER -