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Effects of Armed Conflict on Access to Emergency Health Care in Palestinian West Bank: Systematic Collection of Data in Emergency Departments
Armed conflict affects public health in various ways. In the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel, tight restrictions have been imposed on the population. Towns and villages are encircled by military checkpoints, making passage difficult, unpredictable, and occasionally impossible. The World Health Organization recommends collection of data in emergency departments as...
Children's Health and Environment Developing Action Plans
The European Commission has strengthened its focus on environment and health issues, not only by providing large amounts of funds to its Member States but also by developing policies and action plans, such as REACH (registration, evaluation, authorization of chemicals), SCALE (Science, Children, Awareness raising, Legislation, Evaluation), the European Union...
Human Resource Indicators and Health Service Performance
Public expectations and increasing financial pressures are requiring health services to adopt new approaches to the management of their resources, particularly human resources. This paper examines the use of human resource indicators HRI to support management-led initiatives to improve health service efficiency and effectiveness. The paper continues with an identification...
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AIDS has undoubtedly been the most politicized disease in history
AIDS has undoubtedly been the most politicized disease in history. A key feature of its politicization was the claim that without massive funding for prevention programs, the disease would escape into the general population from its bases among homosexual men and needle-using drug addicts. Heterosexuals were all under threat, we...
WHO launches safety checklist for surgeons
WASHINGTON AFP — The World Health Organization unveiled a proposal Tuesday to reduce the risks of complications and possible death linked to major surgery by urging surgeons to use a safety checklist, according to a study in the British journal The Lancet. According to the WHO, half of...
WHO launches safety checklist for surgical teams
WASHINGTON AFP — The World Health Organization unveiled Tuesday a safety checklist to be used in operating rooms around the world aimed at reducing the risks of complications resulting from major surgery. According to the WHO, half of the complications resulting from major surgery may be preventable. ...
WHO Creates New Surgical Tool to Make Operations Safer Everywhere
GENEVA and WASHINGTON DC, June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- With major surgery now occurring at a rate of 234 million procedures per year - one for every 25 people - and studies indicating that a significant percentage result in preventable complications and deaths, the World Health Organization WHO launched a...
GE Water Solutions Selected for Pakistan's National Clean Water Initiative
GE Advanced Membrane Technologies to Provide Safe, Clean Drinking Water at over a Thousand Sites ISLAMABAD, Pakistan & TREVOSE, Pa. -- A visionary government program to provide clean drinking water throughout Pakistan will use GE ultrafiltration systems at over a thousand distribution sites. This initiative is expected to...
Type-2 Diabetes Competitive Intelligence Report Offered by Austin Research Group
PLEASANTON, Calif. -- It is estimated that diabetes affects more than 18 million people in the United States and approximately 194 million adults worldwide. The World Health Organization projects that the number of people with diabetes will double to 366 million by 2030, presenting a lucrative commercial opportunity to drug...
A Simple Weight Loss Diet: Scientific, Safe and Basically Free
The Pen and Paper Diet, a new book by Michael Dow, provides a simple solution for weight loss and a way for a person to maintain their ideal weight. As the title implies, all one needs is pen and paper to control their weight. TUCSON, Ariz., June 18...
Inexpensive Compound Could Treat Severe Diarrhea
A new compound that may lead to an inexpensive, easy-to-take treatment for diarrhea has been discovered by researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. This finding may prove especially important for developing countries, where diarrhea is a major cause of child deaths. Diarrhea kills an...
Sanofi Pasteur to Donate 60 Million Doses of H5N1 Vaccine to WHO Over 3 Years for its Influenza Vaccine Global Stockpile
LYON, France and SWIFTWATER, Pa., June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of sanofi-aventis Group, announced today its commitment to donate 60 million doses of H5N1 vaccine to the World Health Organization WHO over 3 years for the establishment of an H5N1 vaccine global stockpile. ...
Freescale and Monebo Partner to Deliver Innovative Heart Monitoring Platform
Advanced Technology Designed to Enable More Efficient and Higher Quality Cardiac Care ORLANDO, Fla. -- Freescale Semiconductor and Monebo Technologies have forged a partnership to deliver a comprehensive platform for medical equipment using electrocardiogram ECG technology. The "ECG-on-a-chip" solution combines Monebo's Kinetic[TM] ECG software with Freescale's embedded processing...
Therapeutic Clinical Intelligence — Type-2 Diabetes Pipeline Report Now Available
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/c83cd1/therapeutic_clinic) has announced the addition of the "Therapeutic Clinical Intelligence - Type-2 Diabetes Pipeline" report to their offering. Diabetes affects more than an estimated 18 million people in the United States and approximately 194 million adults worldwide. The World Health Organization projects...
Hyponatremia Predicts Right Heart Failure and Poor Survival in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Rationale: Hyponatremia is associated with decompensated heart failure and poor prognosis in patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction. Objectives: We sought to determine if hyponatremia is associated with right heart failure and worse prognosis in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension PAH. Methods: We prospectively followed 40 patients with...
Challenges in Estimating the Total Burden of Drug-resistant Tuberculosis
The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease/World Health Organization Global Project on Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Surveillance recently released the fourth global survey, which documents the highest burden of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis TB yet reported. The best estimate of the number of new cases of multidrug-resistant disease occurring in 2006 is...
Editorial: Student Health
The Philadelphia School District has an uneven policy for distributing free condoms to kids in high school. The condom program is available in 11 high schools, but not at 49 other high schools. If the program works for some schools, it should be universal. Indeed, studies show that condoms are...
Life expectancy in U.S. tops 78
ATLANTA -- For the first time, U.S. life expectancy has surpassed 78 years, the government reported Wednesday, although the United States continues to lag behind about 30 other countries in estimated life span. The increase is due mainly to falling mortality rates in almost all the leading...
WHO practises disease outbreak response in Canada
GENEVA AFP — World Health Organization experts initiated a two-day exercise on Wednesday testing responses to a simulated neurological disease outbreak in Thailand, Vietnam and Canada. "We clarified issues that will serve us extremely well in the future, we now understand the issues extremely well," said David Heymann,...
WHO Praises China's Health Response to Earthquake
BEIJING and MANILA, June 10 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Representatives from the World Health Organization WHO have returned from visiting areas affected by the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan, China. Based on the visit and continued monitoring of the situation through contacts with counterparts and other UN agencies, the WHO has concluded...
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