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PubMed1981

Trusteeship: shared mission for religious and laity.

Serving as a trustee requires commitment to a particular congregation's spirit or charism and to the health care apostolate. Vatican Council II urges that laypersons take the responsibility to share with religious as partners in furthering the Church's mission.

Christianity↗
PubMed1989

Availability of pharmaceuticals in sub-Saharan Africa: roles of the public, private and church mission sectors.

Although the availability of pharmaceuticals is critical for both curative and preventive health care, drugs are, at best, sporadically available in governmental facilities in sub-Saharan Africa. The religious missions and private sectors are more successful than the public sector in obtaining and distributing drugs. The public sector operates under a myriad of constraints inherent in a bureaucracy; the religious missions have the advantages of better management and access to foreign currency; the private sector is innately efficient. Donor assistance to increase the availability of drugs in the public sector has included support for revolving drug funds, national drug services, the improvement of management techniques, and the local production of pharmaceuticals. None of these interventions has been notably successful. In 1987, UNICEF presented The Bamako Initiative--a proposal to launch an internationally-financed fund for essential drugs for sub-Saharan Africa. However, the proposal is unrealistic in anticipating that the requisite resources and/or hard currency can be raised to support the proposal. As the private sector is a more efficient distributor, it is recommended that the private sector be given responsibility for the distribution of drugs. Nonetheless, some governmental controls will be necessary to ensure that essential drugs are available at the least cost to the consumer.

Africa↗
PubMed1989

Non-governmental organizations in the health field: collaboration, integration and contrasting aims.

Non-governmental organizations, from being voluntary agencies often with relief or religious mission orientations, have become very important players in the field of social development. In this paper something is given of their evolution, diversity, aims and activities; and of the important role they now play in many instances, as well as some of the obstacles to collaboration, co-ordination and integration at different levels of operation--internationally, nationally and locally.

Financing, Government↗
PubMed2003

["Thus it was rendered to us great honour and complaisance." On the history of Ottheinrich of Pfalz-Neuburg].

One of the most scintillant German princes of the 16th century was Count Palatine Ottheinrich (1502-1559). Even while he was still alive, he became a legend. Ottheinrich was the first reigning prince of the principality of Neuburg on the Danube, which, as a result of the so-called Landshut succession war, was founded in 1505. From 1556 until his death in 1559, he was Elector Palatine. As a memorial to himself he has left the famous Ottheinrich building of the Heidelberg Palace. The present text gives an account of his life. First, Ottheinrich's career is explained in view of the discrepancy between his immense self-assurance and his small material resources. It was his magnificent ancestry that affirmed his exuberant self-confidence. He descended from the Palatine lineage of the house of Wittelsbach that held in higher esteem than the Bavarian branch of this family. Moreover, he was even of royal descent. He therefore regarded himself of equally high birth as the Hapsburgs who had held office of the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire since 1438. With his sumptuous manner of living, without regard for economic considerations, he tried to build a reputation that he considered adequate. His adventurous travels, his expensive buildings and his costly collections aimed at this purpose. But the principality of Neuburg was not able to cope with this financial burdens. in 1544, it went bankrupt, and Ottheinrich had to live in exile for nearly eight years.A self-determined participation of Ottheinrich in the politics of the Empire is scarcely detectable till the late fifteen thirties. However, Ottheinrich was studying the ideas of the Reformation intensely and finally, felt a religious mission that becomes clearly discernible in the beginning of the forties. His desire to spread the Reformation is decisive for the interpretation of his further life. His conversion gained considerable importance, because, by mere biological chance, he at last became Elector Palatine. yet even then, it turned out that Ottheinrich lacked a suitable understanding of the political, confessional and constitutional stages of development that emerged in the Holy Roman Empire. He was associated more with the stormy early years of the Reformation than with the phases of juridificiation and the enclosing of the confessional conflicts that he had to face. Thus, politically, he remained a figure of transition, while his passion for art and architecture has bestowed a rich cultural inheritance upon us.

Germany↗
PubMed1990

[Jirí Josef Camel, pharmacist and botanist].

Jirí Josef Camel (1661-1706), a pharmacist and botanist, was born in Brno, educated at a grammar school and then joined the Jesuit Order as a laic brother. He worked in the college pharmacies in Brno, Jindrichův Hradec and Ceský Krumlov. In 1687 he left for a religious mission to the Philippine Islands, where he worked for 17 years in a hospital as a pharmacist. He died in Manila in 1706. He wrote 19 treatises, in which he acquainted European medicine and pharmacy with the flora and fauna of the Philippines. Camel sent his papers to London to J. Ray, the then most distinguished authority in botany. Ray published them in the 3rd volume of Historia Plantarum in 1704. The most valuable part of his work are drawings of plants, published by Petiver in the journal Gazophylacei naturae et artis (1702-1709). More than 400 of them have survived till nowadays in the collection of the British Museum. Further 260 drawings were acquired in the course of years by the University Library in Louvain.

Botany↗