Public Health in Azerbaijan: On the Road with AJN Contributing Editor Jane Salvage
We recently received the following account of a visit to Azerbaijan from AJN contributing editor Jane Salvage, MSc, BA, RGN. At the time of writing, Salvage was a consultant for the noncommunicable diseases programme, World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe. She now works as the policy lead in the support team for the Prime Minister’s Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery in England, and fears that seeing Baku in the springtime will have to wait a year or two. This post is fairly long, but we feel the range of local detail included by Salvage gives a fascinating glimpse into what it’s really like to work in the field of international public health policy. (Note: we’ve retained some UK-style spellings.)
Did I pack the toilet rolls, diarrhoea pills, and dollar bills? These are essential survival items for my trips to Russia and other former Eastern Bloc countries. I’ve added many things to my travel checklist since my first visits in the 1980s—gadgets like the computer and phone charger—but the core kit stays the same. I never know quite […]