Public health challenges in Kyrgyzstan: developing a new curriculum.

Introduction: The public health challenges facing the Central Asian Republic of Kyrgyzstan are rooted in the social, economic and political conditions that emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Geographically remote and with a substantial part of it's population living in mountainous rural villages, economic recovery and the maintenance of basic standards of public health is now a major problem for the Kyrgyz people. This project report sets out the case for restructuring public health education in Kyrgyzstan.

Soul survivor.

Burnout is a common phenomenon in nursing because of nursing's giving nature. But Dina Glouberman believes it can be a positive life event.

On judgment and judgmentalism: how counselling can make people better.

Counsellors, like other members of the caring professions, are required to practise within an ethical framework, at least in so far as they seek professional accreditation. As such, the counsellor is called upon to exercise her moral agency. In most professional contexts this requirement is, in itself, unproblematic.