• They indicate positive traits and behaviors in a person, situation, or thing. (loveenglish.org)
  • Using the Healthy People 2020 objectives as a framework for identifying key health behaviors and benchmarks, this study identified factors, including military-specific experiences, that may contribute to physical health behaviors and outcomes among military spouses. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Promoting healthy behaviors and outcomes has long been a priority for the United States military, and since 1986, the Department of Defense (DoD) has emphasized its Health Promotion and Disease Prevention directive, which provides health guidance and encourages healthy living goals among military personnel and their beneficiaries [ 1 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Poor health behaviors negatively affect not only the individual, but also their families and broader society, causing an increase in missed days from work and health care costs [ 5 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The monitoring of macro behaviors is quantitative in nature, and the data represents broad trends-what people do en masse, not individually. (uxmatters.com)
  • Next, we'll look into how effective social-media monitoring can produce insights that help us to design better experiences, as well as insights that deepen our understanding of social media and people's associated behaviors. (uxmatters.com)
  • The research methodology for 2023's phase two study has been enhanced to include an assessment of people's experience of these inputs - by capturing insights from 42,000 people to understand their experiences of health inclusion or exclusion. (wtnh.com)
  • The declining scores year-on-year expose a policy-practice gap between governments' ambitions of delivering inclusive health policies and systems and people's real-life experience of them. (fox4kc.com)
  • High income countries display the largest gaps, with an average 18-point difference between their scores on inclusive health policies and people's real-life experience, with Germany showing the greatest discrepancy. (fox4kc.com)
  • Monitoring people's health is not a new concept. (uxmatters.com)
  • The UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled People establishes internationally recognised benchmarks for disabled people's rights in all areas of life. (staffs.ac.uk)
  • Then, how can monitoring social-media data help us better understand digital behavior and how we can apply that data to the design of customer experiences? (uxmatters.com)
  • Understanding human behavior automatically opens up enormous possibilities for human-computer interaction, with a potential of endowing the computers with a capacity to attribute meaning to users' attitudes, preferences, personality, social relationships, etc., as well as to understand what people are doing, the activities they have been engaged in, and their routines. (wikicfp.com)
  • This draft concept note towards WHO's 13th General Programme of Work (GPW) begins the organizing process and proposes a conceptual framework for organizing WHO's work and measuring its success.2 GPW 13 will cover the period 2019-2023 and serve as the organizing framework for two Programme Budgets 2020-2021 and 2022-2023 as well as the strategic basis for resource mobilization. (who.int)
  • Psychological health risks have increased, rising from 6.2% of all serious claims in 2014-2015 to 9.3% in 2020-2021, and are one of the costliest form of claims, posing a median cost of $55,270 per claim, compared to $13,883 for physical injuries and diseases. (ajg.com)
  • In order to understand the overall health and well-being of military spouses, we assessed health indicators among military spouses using the Healthy People 2020 framework and examined associations of these health indicators with military experiences and psychosocial factors. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Using data from the Millennium Cohort Family Study, a U.S. Department of Defense-sponsored survey of 9872 spouses of service members with 2-5 years of military service, we examined attainment of Healthy People 2020 goals for spouses and service members, including healthy weight, exercise, sleep, and alcohol and tobacco use. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In May 2013, the World Health Assembly adopted the Global Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2020 (1), which is a commitment by all 194 Member States to take action to improve mental health. (who.int)
  • Outlines summary information and key issues linked to the creation of dedicated COVID-19 extrabudgetary funds (EBFs), including examining the motivation for setting up such funds, describing a database of more than 40 funds that has been compiled by the World Health Organization (WHO), and provides guidance on how to improve the design and management of COVID-19 funds to make them efficient, transparent, and accountable. (who.int)
  • 1 Regional Director, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt. (who.int)
  • 2 Regional Adviser, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt. (who.int)
  • In the past 2 decades, the World Health Organization (WHO) has increasingly focused attention on action to improve mental health services and to reduce the burden of mental disorders. (who.int)
  • Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Framework and accompanying objectives shows how we intend to promote disability equality. (staffs.ac.uk)
  • LONDON, Nov. 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- More than three in five people worldwide experience health exclusion, with vulnerable and younger populations the worst affected, according to phase two of the global Health Inclusivity Index from Economist Impact, supported by consumer health company Haleon. (wtnh.com)
  • Giving children the best start in life, safe and affordable homes for all, education and training to get good jobs, communities that look out for each other, are safe and actively promote participation and healthy behaviours, and protection from environmental harms are all vital to improving health outcomes. (nhsconfed.org)
  • Reporting greater perceived family support from the military was associated with better behavioral health outcomes, while having no one to turn to for support was associated with poorer outcomes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • With respect to demographic characteristics, the findings are consistent with other literature that women are more likely to refrain from risky substance use and that greater education is associated with better overall health outcomes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Findings suggest that enhanced social and military support and tailored programming for military spouses may improve health outcomes and contribute to the well-being of military couples. (biomedcentral.com)
  • With different countries in the Region being at different stages of development, including the development of their mental health systems, the Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO) has devised a classification of countries into 3 groups that are similar in terms of their population health outcomes, health system performance and level of health expenditure (6). (who.int)
  • The Social Security Act says: "Impairment means a loss of functional capacity affecting a person's ability to work that result from the person's (medical) condition. (johnmenadue.com)
  • Anyone who has visited someone in a hospital will have seen the range of monitoring devices that measure different aspects of a person's health, including heart rate, oxygenation levels, and blood pressure, as shown in Figure 3. (uxmatters.com)
  • This guide is based on an all-hazards approach and is intended to guide the efforts of community leaders, institutional policy makers, health services providers, emergency planners and managers, and others who are responsible for the management of the health-related consequences of emergency events. (who.int)
  • Conflict and natural disasters have devastating health consequences. (who.int)
  • As this organization health problems, whose main focus is an imbalance in points out, these data present an understatement of the medical-surgical field, have aspects of emotional these disorders, since they do not cover the whole adjustment that need to be considered and that when population, leaving out some characteristic ages of the essential focus of the psychiatric disequilibrium vulnerable groups. (bvsalud.org)
  • Only 60% of the people in the world have access to health care without financial hardship.1 An estimated 400 million have no access even to essential health services.2 The world needs an organization to fight for these people, who are often the poorest, so they can receive access to health services without financial hardship. (who.int)
  • The world needs an organization to provide authoritative advice to governments and the public to help them to provide the most evidence based health services, prevention and promotion. (who.int)
  • They are indicators that things are going well and that you can trust the situation or person. (loveenglish.org)
  • Multivariable logistic regression models assessed associations of spouse health indicators with stressful military life experiences and social support, adjusting for demographics and military descriptors. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The Mental Health Atlas 2014 is designed to collect information to report on the agreed upon indicators and targets of the Global Mental Health Action Plan (1). (who.int)
  • The Tripartite Zoonoses Guide (TZG) has been jointly developed by the FAO, OIE, and WHO to support countries in taking a multisectoral, One Health approach to address zoonotic diseases. (who.int)
  • ESPEN is supporting countries on planning and implementing one health approach for zoonotic NTDs, starting with the Schistosomiasis/Taeniasis co-endemicity nexus. (who.int)
  • These latest findings reveal a clear gap between policy and experience, as the inclusive health ambitions of many of the world's wealthiest countries are out of step with the reality of their citizens. (wtnh.com)
  • A key purpose of integrated care systems (ICS) is to support broader social and economic development, contributing to wider ambitions for systems and places. (nhsconfed.org)
  • A study of 28,118 people in the Kaiser Permanente program who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 by PCR before the Omicron wave were evaluated and presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections 2022. (medscape.com)
  • With the Index revealing high rates of health exclusion worldwide, more action is needed to overcome the barriers, particularly for vulnerable populations. (wtnh.com)
  • With all but one country scoring below 80 out of 100, it's clear that governments and policymakers have a long way to go in tackling health exclusion. (fox4kc.com)
  • Alarmingly, the Index also revealed that one in five people worldwide (20%) lack access to mental health services in their community, while 17% lack access to sexual health services. (wtnh.com)
  • Public health and prevention are crucial here, as primary health services, adult social care and the community and voluntary sector can get to people earlier and prevent them deteriorating in order to avoid unnecessary periods in hospital. (nhsconfed.org)
  • DMF-ELISA results were compared with reference ELISA results tested at DRC's National Public Health Laboratory and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • Framework and make a meaningful contribution to the attainment of Sustainable Development Goal 3.3. (who.int)
  • Globally, most countries spend less than 2% of their health budget on mental health, which typically falls well short of the US$ 3-4 per capita needed for a selective package of cost-effective mental health interventions in low-income countries and the up to US$ 7-9 per capita needed in middle-income countries (1,2). (who.int)
  • 2. Provide technical updates and innovations from WHO and progressed countries on integration, resource mobilisation and mainstreaming of NTD interventions within national health systems. (who.int)
  • and the launch of the Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) in 2008 (4), which aimed to improve effective and humane care for people with mental disorders and to close the wide gap between the treatment that is urgently needed and that which is actually available and delivered. (who.int)
  • 2 Article 28 (g) of the Constitution of the WHO requires the Executive Board 'to submit to the Health Assembly for consideration and approval a general programme of work covering a specific period. (who.int)
  • Alongside the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services and Local Government Association, we have set out a vision for a high-quality and sustainable health and care system . (nhsconfed.org)
  • We are committed to the Social Model of Disability and recognise that the removal of the physical, emotional, social and attitudinal barriers that disable our students, staff and visitors is essential to progressing equality for disabled people. (staffs.ac.uk)
  • The Mental Health (Discrimination) Act 2013 removed barriers to public appointments including jury service. (staffs.ac.uk)
  • Furthermore, our care and support model needs to extend to people in the most difficult circumstances, particularly people who lack capacity and may need safeguarding support. (nhsconfed.org)
  • The Build Back Better framework would extend subsidies (premium tax credits) to those in this so-called coverage gap. (featured-articles.com)
  • The growing demographic, cost of living, workforce and inflationary pressures facing all parts of health and care are too big to be addressed through better coordination or finding yet more efficiency savings. (nhsconfed.org)
  • In today's challenging recruitment market, employers who recognise the importance of providing a range of benefits that cater to a varied workforce are more likely to attract - and more importantly - retain staff," said Dr. Scott Krebs, Head of HR and People Experience Consulting at Gallagher. (ajg.com)
  • When candidates consider joining a new organisation, the research found that rewards and benefits are a crucial factor (22%) in their decision-making, with meaningful work (16%) and a focus on safety, health and wellbeing (15%) also ranking highly. (ajg.com)
  • And when people think about that fragility they tend to pursue emotionally meaningful goals. (forbes.com)
  • This facilitates more meaningful comparisons between countries as well as the formulation of recommendations appropriate to each country's current level of health system and socioeconomic development. (who.int)
  • and to strengthen information systems, evidence and research for mental health. (who.int)
  • It enables them to allocate resources according to their specific needs, engage local communities, and strengthen health systems. (who.int)
  • The American Rescue Plan, a pandemic relief law passed in March, made more people eligible for premium tax credits and boosted assistance for those who already qualified. (featured-articles.com)
  • Application scenarios include analyzing emotions while the person is watching emotional movies or advertisements, playing video games, driving a car, is under health monitoring or crime investigation, or is participating in interactive tutoring. (wikicfp.com)
  • Disability has been co-opted by bureaucracies, professional bodies and institutions, often in a harmful way … Instead of seeing welfare as a social drain, 'faring well' should be an act of decency, a helping hand to a contributing life. (johnmenadue.com)
  • By disability he meant this person was not a case of disease, nor a diagnostic problem. (johnmenadue.com)
  • The world-wide reaction which ensued in the communities of disabled people led to disability being reformulated in the WHO International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). (johnmenadue.com)
  • And more importantly, in place of deficiencies and deficits, disability now focused on capabilities and potential which extended into community, social and civic life. (johnmenadue.com)
  • The Disability Support Pension (DSP) - income support for people with disabilities - is based, not on disability, but on impairments for work and disturbingly makes a determined effort to exclude other factors. (johnmenadue.com)
  • Disability History Month runs from 22 November until 22 December each year, while the International Day of Disabled People has been celebrated on 3 December since 1992. (staffs.ac.uk)
  • West Africa Reproductive Health Commodity Security Study Phase 1 Task Report: 3 Encouraging Greater Private Sector Participation West Africa Reproductive Health Commodity Security Study Phase 1 Task Report: 3 Encouraging Greater Private Sector Participation Paul Dowling DELIVER DELIVER, a six-year worldwide technical assistance support contract, is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). (rhsupplies.org)
  • All of our organisations have put forward strong and detailed cases for immediate financial support to shore up fragile health and care services to get us through the winter. (nhsconfed.org)
  • We have also called for certainty of funding over the next three to five years so that local care and health leaders can invest in new models of care and support which focus on maximising wellbeing, resilience and independence. (nhsconfed.org)
  • We understand and support the government and NHS England focus on getting people out of hospital when they are well enough to go home with the right support to enable them to fully recover. (nhsconfed.org)
  • We need much greater emphasis on, and investment in, the kind of support people want to be safe and independent at home, with rapid treatment or crisis support if needed. (nhsconfed.org)
  • Investing in home and community support is better for people, but it is also a far better use of taxpayers' money than in-patient care. (nhsconfed.org)
  • The health and well-being of military spouses directly contribute to a robust military force by enabling the spouse to better support the active duty member's career. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Which means where a person lives, their community and availability of facilities and shops is irrelevant to the need for support payments. (johnmenadue.com)
  • Including mental health knowledge in the integral care of the human being and being able to identify when the target of their care needs specialized Nursing support in Mental Health and Psychiatry, are essential competences of any nurse of general care, being important to understand how to integrate this knowledge in the study plans of general care nurses. (bvsalud.org)
  • a mandate to coordinate disaster response on health, operate and restore the health system, and support countries to ensure resilient health systems. (who.int)
  • Yet, due to diverse complexities of domestic socioeconomic, political and cultural circumstances, the peculiarities of the differing welfare regimes and the MSs' reluctance of further extending EU powers, resulted in the creation of soft law as a regulative response to support the MSs balancing economic, employment and social issues. (lu.se)
  • 4. Support operational planning of NTD work at country level in line with the Global NTD roadmap and regional framework for integrated control, elimination and eradication of tropical and vector borne diseases. (who.int)
  • This year's study - which measures the extent and experience of health inclusion across 40 countries and 42,000 people - revealed that 66% of those surveyed face at least one barrier in accessing healthcare services. (wtnh.com)
  • The current iteration of the Atlas will provide data on the status of mental health services in countries of the EMR that will serve as a benchmark to monitor progress towards achieving the targets of the global plan. (who.int)
  • Often more people die from the health effects - such as cholera or lack of access to essential health services - than from the direct effect. (who.int)
  • 2. Health services accessibility--United States--Statistics. (cdc.gov)
  • HRN-C-00-00-00010-00), and subcontractors (Manoff Group, Program for Appropriate Technology in Health [PATH], and Social Sectors Development Strategies, Inc.), DELIVER strengthens the supply chains of health and family planning programs in developing countries to ensure the availability of critical health products for customers. (rhsupplies.org)
  • Meanwhile, these challenges affect and are affected by policies and actions in different sectors beyond health. (who.int)
  • Working together (countries, partners and WHO) to mobilize more resources, including domestic funds, · Collaborating with other sectors for one-health approach to stop transmission of NTDs, and · Sharing experiences and adopting innovative approaches to achieve goals of NTD roadmap 2021-2030 and SDGs related to health. (who.int)
  • These are powerful social statements, a far cry from the reductionist benchmarks so favoured by social security and compensation systems. (johnmenadue.com)
  • In complex humanitarian situations, not only the rates of mental disorders tend to increase but there is attrition in the capacity of the health and social systems to respond to the increased needs and demands. (who.int)
  • With the addition of this lived experience data, health inclusivity scores have deteriorated under phase two of the Index across 85% of the countries surveyed. (everythinglubbock.com)
  • A great example of a social-media platform's potential for applying a macro perspective is the way Foursquare has used their data to predict the day on which everyone's New Year's resolutions would come to an abrupt end-also known as Fatty Solstice . (uxmatters.com)
  • How can businesses apply a macro perspective and look more holistically at the data their customers' social networks are generating? (uxmatters.com)
  • UX professionals can delve more deeply into social-media monitoring data-looking beyond the noise that thousands of broad observations generate into the realm of deep, precise learnings. (uxmatters.com)
  • Doctors use health-monitoring data to localize health problems, so they can investigate them further and prescribe a treatment. (uxmatters.com)
  • In an outbreak, this may mean people are labelled, stereotyped, discriminated against, treated separately, and/or experience loss of status because of a perceived link with a disease. (who.int)
  • Rubella infection was detected in more than half of persons meeting the suspected measles case definition during a presumed measles outbreak, suggesting substantial unrecognized rubella incidence, and highlighting the need for rubella vaccine introduction into the national schedule. (cdc.gov)
  • Social stigma in the context of health is the negative association between a person or group of people who share certain characteristics and a specific disease. (who.int)
  • The second shaping comment is that because the approach we're taking right now and the recommendations from us and local health departments reflect what we know right now, the evidence we have, the science that we know. (cdc.gov)
  • it is a biomedical state - an anomaly, defect, disturbed organ - measured against a population standard, it is not the whole-person functioning of disablement. (johnmenadue.com)
  • In the United States where we see these age differences shift, when people in the population become aware that time is not unlimited, that mortality places a limit on how much time we have in the future. (forbes.com)
  • Roughly 90% of the population is enrolled in social LTCI and contributes with a share of their salary. (who.int)
  • Access to Care and Health Insurance approximately 4 percent of the developed by Anderson (8) and refined surveys contained 61,287 persons in population (1). (cdc.gov)
  • population, or almost 32 million constitute ``enabling factors'' that persons. (cdc.gov)
  • This is a welcome recognition that our NHS cannot, on its own, turn the curve of growing ill health and long-term conditions and that they must work with councils, business, housing, the police and criminal justice system and the wider public sector. (nhsconfed.org)
  • It is unlawful to discriminate against disabled people, and since 2006 the legislation has required public bodies, including higher education institutions, to actively promote equality of opportunity for disabled people. (staffs.ac.uk)
  • The election of Dr Tedros was based on five priorities that included both major public health initiatives as well as a transformed WHO. (who.int)
  • It is crucial that we urgently intensify advocacy efforts to secure resources and review current national plans to realign and prioritize activities that will have a more positive impact on public health. (who.int)
  • As we saw in phase one of the research, the Index demonstrates that empowering people and communities to take care of their health is key. (wtnh.com)
  • It also means working with our communities and focusing on the social issues that affect their health and wellbeing. (nhsconfed.org)
  • The WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) faces particular challenges in implementing the Global Mental Health Action Plan. (who.int)
  • These global health challenges are not unique to individual countries and there are benefits to collective action. (who.int)
  • A wide variety of actors are playing important roles in global health. (who.int)
  • however, some studies shed light on potential health issues. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Nursing learning of students of the Undergraduate Nursing Course in Coimbra, Portugal, to characterize the Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing curricular units that are part of the studies and analyze their contribution to the training of general care nurses. (bvsalud.org)
  • Amid the most challenging winter for the social care and health system, national health and care partners explore what is needed to turn the tide. (nhsconfed.org)
  • We are facing the most challenging winter ever for all parts of the social care and health system - from community and voluntary sector organisations to residential and home care, and hospitals and ambulance trusts. (nhsconfed.org)
  • Beneficiaries are covered by LTC insurance (LTCI), which was introduced in 1995, making it the "fifth pillar" of the social insurance system. (who.int)
  • While effective pharmacological and psychosocial treatments are available and can be successfully applied in low-income countries, the vast majority of people with a mental disorder in these countries do not receive treatment (1). (who.int)
  • Almost a third of Gen Z (28%) and Millennials (32%) report that their pain or health conditions are not taken seriously by healthcare professionals. (wtnh.com)
  • Discrimination is a key barrier, with more than a quarter (27%) of those from marginalised groups and people with chronic health conditions experiencing this when interacting with healthcare providers. (wtnh.com)
  • Such findings reveal an increasing risk for organisations is being unaddressed, both in relation to increasing leave, loss of productivity and the likelihood of work-related injury claims, particularly with poor mental health conditions at work increasing as a proportion of serious claims. (ajg.com)
  • Mental impairment includes mental health conditions such as bipolar or depression, learning difficulties such as dyslexia and autism. (staffs.ac.uk)
  • CDC continues to work to identify how common post-COVID-19 conditions are, who is most likely to get them, and why some symptoms eventually improve for some people and last longer for others. (medscape.com)
  • The study suggests that younger generations face particular issues, with almost half of Gen Z (45%) stating their quality of care has been compromised as a result of their age, health status, or other personal factors, compared with 19% of Baby Boomers. (wtnh.com)
  • 44% of Gen Z also cited social media as a trusted source of health information and advice - the highest proportion amongst all generations surveyed. (wtnh.com)
  • The virus can damage the lungs, heart, and brain, which increases the risk for long-term health problems, particularly in patients with preexisting organ dysfunction. (medscape.com)
  • The White House estimates extending these reforms would reduce premiums for 9 million Americans, by an average $600 a year per person, and 3 million people who'd otherwise be uninsured would gain insurance. (featured-articles.com)
  • In 1918 Spanish Flu killed 50-100 million people. (who.int)
  • Interestingly, we can consider monitoring of the social-media ecosphere in the same way-with each person acting both independently and in various groups. (uxmatters.com)
  • Measuring human health is no mean feat. The over 100 trillion cells that make up the human body must work in a coordinated way, within incredibly tight tolerances, to achieve a healthy state. (uxmatters.com)
  • Based on fairly similar domestic political and socioeconomic developments affecting work-family reconciliation issues, the MSs advocated an extension of EU competencies in social, economic and employment matters. (lu.se)
  • Also ongoing is a nationwide clinical trial called Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery ( RECOVER ) being conducted by the National Institutes of Health . (medscape.com)
  • Care, Health Insurance, and Year 2000 changed dramatically during the 20th more in-depth evaluation of access to Surveys of the National Health century. (cdc.gov)
  • People will always need hospital care and, as health and care partners, we will strive to ensure that they have access to high-quality and effective hospital care. (nhsconfed.org)
  • But we also need to develop more effective ways of keeping people out of hospital. (nhsconfed.org)