• 229 million cases of clinical malaria were reported in 2019, and the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that malaria causes over 400,000 deaths each year globally, and says that progress in reducing malaria mortality has stalled in recent years. (ox.ac.uk)
  • In 2019, three hambas are being used at the Igava Clinic, one by the staff and the other two by two village health workers serving communities within the Igava catchment area," said Wilson Mok, who handles health sector engagement at MFA. (teamzimbabwe.org)
  • Social protection is defined as "a set of policies and programmes aimed at preventing or protecting all people against poverty, vulnerability and social exclusion throughout their life-course, with a particular emphasis towards vulnerable groups" (UNICEF 2019). (epw.in)
  • During September-December 2019, we recruited study patients with uncomplicated malaria seeking treatment at the Sovu Health Centre and Kabutare District Hospital, Huye district, Rwanda. (cdc.gov)
  • Islamic Republic of Iran, an effective and transfer for specialized obstetric and gy- comprehensive programme of vaccination naecology investigations and treatments has been implemented, childhood malnutri- must be referred to Dezyani hospital. (who.int)
  • The door-to-door implementation eased the financial burden on parents to transport their children to health facilities for vaccination. (who.int)
  • In addition, the visits by health care workers to market-places, bus termini amongst other strategic points such as schools and religious centres made access to vaccination services easier, even for the busy parents. (who.int)
  • The District Nursing Officer for Chivi, Mrs Constance Chitewure said community engagements during the vaccination campaigns are strengthening participation and empowering communities with the right information to be responsible for their children's health. (who.int)
  • Following these results, the Phase IIb trial, which was funded by the EDCTP2 programme supported by the European Union (grant number RIA2016V-1649-MMVC), was extended with a booster vaccination administered prior to the next malaria season one year later. (ox.ac.uk)
  • The outreach programmes have reduced queues at the clinic, and helped the region reach impressive COVID-19 vaccination rates: 96% for the first dose, and 66% for the second. (teamzimbabwe.org)
  • I travel into the villages to give health advice, to do monitoring, counselling and to mobilise people on forthcoming vaccination and immunisation programmes. (teamzimbabwe.org)
  • In March 2013, a group of 170 vaccination team supervisors gathered at the Sharada Primary Healthcare Centre (PHC) in Kano Municipal Local Government Area (LGA), Kano State to collect vaccines and toolkits for the implementation of the intensified supplementary immunisation activities (SIAs) in the LGA. (nigeriahealthwatch.com)
  • The programme aims to increase accountability in vaccination campaigns and improve access to services by providing updated and "accurate" information on settlements and population. (nigeriahealthwatch.com)
  • John Snow Inc (JSI) under its USAID-funded Integrated Health System Strengthening and Service Delivery (IHSS-SD) Activity has joined hands with provincial health departments to provide support to increase uptake of COVID-19 vaccination. (rspn.org)
  • JSI will support the provincial departments of health by establishingCOVID-19 Vaccination Centres (CVC)to increase vaccination coverage. (rspn.org)
  • The implementation phase of the project is focused on the identification and sensitisation of the un-vaccinated population from catchment areas of COVID Vaccination Centers (CVC) and referrals for COVID-19 vaccination services. (rspn.org)
  • Identification and sensitisation of un-vaccinated population from catchment areas of COVID Vaccination Centers and referrals for COVID-19 vaccination services. (rspn.org)
  • Pneumococcal vaccine has yet to be included as part of the national vaccination programme in Malaysia although it has been available in the country since 2005. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Over a 10 year time horizon, vaccination would reduce episodes of pneumococcal hospitalisation by 9,585 cases to 73,845 hospitalisations with cost savings of RM 37.5 million (US$10.9 million) to the health system with 11,422.5 life years saved at a cost effectiveness ratio of RM 35,196 (US$10,261) per life year gained. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The qualitative data revealed that many factors influenced ANC attendance for both Batwa and Bakiga: long distances from the home to a health centre, high direct and indirect costs of ANC, lack of power in household decision-making, and poor interactions with healthcare providers. (rrh.org.au)
  • Those who consent will be allocated in a 1:1 ratio to receive either the respective psychological treatment plus enhanced usual care or enhanced usual care only using a computer generated allocation sequence, stratified by primary health centre and, for depression, by sex. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The enhanced usual care comprises providing primary health centre doctors with contextualized World Health Organization guidelines and screening results. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Patient diagnostics of mental health were zero," says Dr Isabel Zapata, the centre manager. (bonesbrigaderecords.com)
  • Working with the Pontifical Javierian University, the non-profit medical centre provides outpatient primary care to 10,000 patients monthly, out of a catchment area of 58,000 people. (bonesbrigaderecords.com)
  • Diada works by directing people - typically visiting the medical centre for a different health matter - toward an interactive screen with a series of questions. (bonesbrigaderecords.com)
  • In this environment, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres and the head of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), Helen Clark, arrived in Deir El Ahmar on Tuesday to show their support for the refugees and to pledge their backing for Lebanon, which has taken the largest share of refugees from the three-year civil war. (unhcr.org)
  • The achievement by the Government of Zimbabwe was attained with the help of the partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) - the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Rotary International, and the World Health Organization (WHO). (who.int)
  • The Baby Friendly Health Initiative (BFHI) is an initiative/project launched by The World Health Organisation (WHO) and United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) which guides maternity health services to protect, promote and support breastfeeding internationally. (nsw.gov.au)
  • WHO and UNICEF, through their Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation, monitor progress towards Target 7.C on a biennial basis against a 1990 baseline. (who.int)
  • The programme is aimed at sequestering soil carbon, reducing the loss of soil carbon, and reducing cattle methane production in rural grazing lands by retraining and monitoring rural farmers in how they herd their cattle. (vitol.com)
  • As an added social benefit, the rural farmers involved in the programme benefit from income from improved livestock sales and carbon profit distribution. (vitol.com)
  • A total of 1568 patients were mapped with most being from the Balimo Urban ( n = 252), Gogodala Rural ( n = 1010) and Bamu Rural ( n = 295) local level government (LLG) areas. (who.int)
  • The large BDH catchment area emphasizes the importance of the hospital in managing TB in this rural region. (who.int)
  • Data from the National Sample Survey (NSS) 2007-08, which was the last round that investigated migration, estimated that about 54% of migrant children move with adult members of their household, 36% are left behind in rural areas while their parents move away for work, and about 10% are unaccompanied migrants. (epw.in)
  • The number of people in rural areas living without access to an improved drinking-water source is more than five times greater than that of urban populations. (who.int)
  • RSPN is implementing this project in partnership with three Rural Support Programmes, i.e. (rspn.org)
  • National Rural Support (NRSP), Sarhad Rural Support Programmes (SRSP) and Sindh Rural Support Organization (SRSO). (rspn.org)
  • The Private Well Grant Scheme is administered by Cork City Council on behalf of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage under the Rural Water Programme. (corkcity.ie)
  • The objective of the grant scheme is to assist households in rural areas that are dependent on a private water supply (individual well) for their household use, by financially assisting them where they incur capital expenditure, to carry out improvements to the supply to ensure that the water supply is wholesome and clean, or that the quantity supplied is sufficient to meet the domestic needs of the household. (corkcity.ie)
  • Pseudonymised data would be insufficient as lower super output areas or partial postcode) cover too large an area to identify exact locations and features or calculate distance from home, especially in more dispersed rural areas, where locations may be many miles apart. (theysolditanyway.com)
  • In 2016, the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare programme in western Kenya implemented a mobile diagnostic unit (MDU) outfitted with a generator-powered X-ray machine and basic laboratory tests to address the lack of these services at rural, low-resource, public health facilities. (nih.gov)
  • Since implementing the MDU at seven rural health facilities serving a catchment of over half a million people, over 4500 chest radiographs have been performed, with one or more abnormalities detected in approximately 30% of radiographs. (nih.gov)
  • The adoption of sustainable farming methods across three catchment areas in the Drakensberg escarpment in South Africa will offset 1.5m tonnes CO2e per annum. (vitol.com)
  • An Integrated Quality Improvement Approach to Improve Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal and Neonatal Health Outcomes in South Africa, Mphatlalatsane . (up.ac.za)
  • A specialist qualification in the appropriate Health Science, PLUS Registration with the Health Professions Council of South Africa for independent practice as a Specialist in General Surgery. (govpage.co.za)
  • To date, pesticides in surface waters are still being monitored through a national monitoring programme that is also used to evaluate the effects of other campaigns, such as a recent one focusing on the herbicide diflufenican (Boström and Gönczi, 2021). (europa.eu)
  • In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) launched the Global Hearts initiative to support governments in their quest to prevent and control CVD. (cdc.gov)
  • the average reported incidence of TB at Balimo District Hospital (BDH) was 727 cases per 100 000 people per year from 2014 to 2016 for people in the combined Balimo and Gogodala local level government (LLG) areas. (who.int)
  • In 2016, the NHS Test Beds scheme was launched to implement and test interventions combining digital technologies and pathway redesign in routine health care settings, with each intervention comprising multiple innovations to better realise benefit from their 'combinatorial' effect. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Dezyani hospital is one of 17 hospi- tion and infections [ 1 ], whereas in devel- tals, which covers more than 500 primary oped countries they are cancer, accidents health centres in this region. (who.int)
  • The centres research focus is developing and implementing effective interventions in maternal, newborn and child health care at primary and secondary levels of care. (up.ac.za)
  • He also appealed to the participating Community Health Officers to plant trees including fruit bearing trees in the surrounding areas of their Health Wellness Centres. (manenvis.nic.in)
  • On the supply-side, SURE-P aims to recruit, train and deploy 5,400 midwives and 14,100 community health extension workers, as well as to upgrade essential infrastructures and guarantee the adequate provision of supplies and equipment to primary health centres between the end of 2012 and 2015. (worldbank.org)
  • In addition SURE-P will hire and train a total of 38,700 village health workers, who are expected to establish the connection between the primary healthcare centres (PHC) and pregnant women in each village. (worldbank.org)
  • Although, some centres need to be rebuild with fixed materials and integrated in the nearby health centres. (csf-sudan.org)
  • This study protocol is for parallel group, randomized controlled trials (Healthy Activity Program for moderate to severe depression, Counselling for Alcohol Problems for harmful and dependent drinking) in eight primary health centres in Goa, India. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Na Homolce Hospital is an organization directly subordinate to the Ministry of Health. (homolka.cz)
  • 2 Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh. (nih.gov)
  • In 2009, pneumonia was the 4th leading cause of death in Ministry of Health (MOH) Hospitals in Malaysia with 10.4% of hospital mortality while respiratory diseases were the 3rd leading cause of hospitalisation with 9.4% of discharges [ 12 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This study examines the behaviour change-related activities of community health volunteers (CHVs)-community health workers affiliated with the Kenyan Ministry of Health-in a peri-urban settlement in Kenya, in order to assess their capabilities, opportunities to work effectively, and sources of motivation.This mixed-methods study included a census of 16 CHVs who work in the study area. (nih.gov)
  • Results were synthesized and interpreted using the capability, opportunity, motivation for behaviour change framework, COM-B.In addition to their responsibilities with the Ministry of Health, CHVs partnered with a range of non-governmental organizations engaged in health and development programming, often receiving small stipends from these organizations. (nih.gov)
  • MCH initiative is a follow-up program to Midwives Service Scheme, implemented by the Nigeria National Primary Health Care Development Agency, that provides demand and supply side incentives, community monitoring, and increased human resources to improve the rates and quality of antenatal care and skilled birth attendance in Nigeria. (worldbank.org)
  • The SURE-P MCH endline (third round) data collection was administered in 500 primary healthcare facilities participating in the first phase of the program and in their surrounding catchment areas. (worldbank.org)
  • To reduce health inequities that Indigenous Peoples experience, policy-makers and healthcare workers need to adequately understand, effectively address, and appropriately prioritise factors influencing ANC attendance. (rrh.org.au)
  • Yet, promoting access to safe drinking-water and basic sanitation for large population groups also has a potentially substantial impact on progress towards meeting the targets of the health-related Goals 4 (Reduce child mortality), 5 (Improve maternal health) and 6 (Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases). (who.int)
  • The database created will be used to guide implementation of other programmes beyond this campaign, strengthen routine immunization provision and enhance access through improved planning. (who.int)
  • The World Health Organization recommends pneumococcal conjugate vaccine as a priority for inclusion into national childhood immunization programmes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Following recommendation by the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on immunization, the World Health Organization considers that the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine should be a priority for inclusion in national childhood immunization programmes [ 6 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Designing and testing ways to train health care professionals in emergency obstetric care by adapting the ESMOE programme. (up.ac.za)
  • To improve the quality of obstetric care in midwife-led obstetric units as well as in their referral district hospitals, using a geographical catchment area approach within the health districts through CLEVER maternity care . (up.ac.za)
  • The World Health Organization (WHO) declared MDR-TB as a public health crisis with need to scale up diagnosis of MDR-TB, increase the number of patients initiated on MDR-TB treatment and control the ongoing transmission [ 4 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This paper presents experiences from Organization (WHO) since 1988 through countries in the WHO/EMR, with a focus on Community-Based Initiatives (CBI), which community ownership, intersectoral actions have provided opportunities to integrate and building partnerships for health devel- health interventions in local development opment. (who.int)
  • Assai Ardakani: [email protected]). 2World Health Organization Representative's Office, Somalia. (who.int)
  • 2 TB patients may be bacteriologically confirmed using smear microscopy or diagnosed clinically as occurs for the majority of cases in the Balimo region, in accordance with the World Health Organization (WHO) case definitions and PNG National Tuberculosis Management Protocol. (who.int)
  • In 2012, the Public Health Services and Solutions ( PHSS ) in partnership with the National Primary Health Care Development Agency ( NPHCDA ) and the World Health Organization ( WHO ), with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, introduced the GIS to collect geospatial data in Kano State and in 10 other polio high-risk states in Nigeria. (nigeriahealthwatch.com)
  • Data from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that pneumococcal disease is the leading cause of vaccine-preventable death in children younger than 5 years of age worldwide [ 11 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Deanna G. Donovan is Forestry Consultant, former Programme Officer, World Water Assessment Programme, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Division of Sciences, and contributor to the second World Water Development Report. (fao.org)
  • The Company is engaged in the business of health club by providing all kind of services in ?tness including gyms spas aerobics health counseling yoga steam and sauna bath Jacuzzi physiotherapy service and buy sell manufacture trade brand patent import export or otherwise deal in juices and concoctions health food health drink organic food clothing items ?tness equipments and product and consultancy and franchise services. (business-standard.com)
  • This local health facility provides a range of primary care, community care and acute diagnostic services. (ribaj.com)
  • It comprises a variety of defined spaces providing a wide spectrum of care services to Banbridge and its catchment area. (ribaj.com)
  • Other smaller health facilities, including health clinics and aid posts, can provide limited TB services such as clinical extrapulmonary TB diagnosis and treatment and pulmonary TB services when a sputum sample is not able to be transferred to the town of Balimo. (who.int)
  • Such analysis will provide insight into areas with high and low rates of TB as well as evidence to support the focused delivery of TB services. (who.int)
  • These services are not only available for the 55,000 people within their catchment area, but also accessed by many who come from other districts to seek health care. (uk.com)
  • Disruptions in key social services, including education, public health, nutrition and child protection have exacerbated deprivations brought on by loss of household income and mounting debt. (epw.in)
  • Articulation of programme objectives & purposes with and outcome was found to be relevant and connected with the need of the population and meeting the national standards in provision of nutrition services through CMAM protocol & SFP guidelines. (csf-sudan.org)
  • The chapter on valuing water raises the question of payment for environmental services, such as catchment management. (fao.org)
  • National bodies, organisations such as the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) and the National Association of Voluntary Services Managers (NAVSM) and, more recently, Helpforce (a charity working with health and care organisations to accelerate the growth and impact of volunteering) have provided practical support, resources and networking to support volunteer services managers and organisations to develop their volunteering capacity. (nih.gov)
  • The region has a population of about 1.5 million and The leading causes of infant morbidity and covers an area of about 20 460 square kilo- mortality in poorer countries are malnutri- metres. (who.int)
  • The Maternal and Child Health (MCH) project of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) was set up by the Federal Government of Nigeria to reduce maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality inthe country. (worldbank.org)
  • Such programmes are typically publicly mandated and geared to address risk and vulnerability among poor and near-poor households. (epw.in)
  • Qualitative interviews are conducted in each study site to evaluate the impacts of the WELLBASED intervention programme and to help explain findings. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In their findings ( posted on SSRN/Preprints with The Lancet ) they note that they are the first to meet the World Health Organization's Malaria Vaccine Technology Roadmap goal of a vaccine with at least 75% efficacy. (ox.ac.uk)
  • The authors report (in findings in press with The Lancet) from a Phase IIb randomised, controlled, double-blind trial conducted at the Clinical Research Unit of Nanoro (CRUN) / Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé (IRSS), Burkina Faso. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Key findings of nutrition & mortality surveys are prevalence of global malnutrition (GAM) 14.8%, prevalence of severe malnutrition (SAM) 2.2%, U5MR 0.61 deaths of U5 children /10,000 U5 children/day, and CMR 0.2 total deaths/10,000 people/day;all of which are within the target of the programme except SAM rate. (csf-sudan.org)
  • Methods and analysis Using a single-consent Zelen's design, ever-smokers aged 55-80 years registered with a general practice in Leeds will be randomised (1:1) to invitation to a telephone-based risk-assessment for a Lung Health Check or to usual care. (bmj.com)
  • Overall, we believe that the current version of the Public Health Assessment (PHA) represents a substantial improvement over the initial draft released on December 31, 2002. (cdc.gov)
  • The Public Health Assessment Working Group (PHAWG) and Oak Ridge Health Effects Subcommittee (ORRHES) comments that ATSDR has received throughout the public health assessment process have been very helpful in improving the technical aspects and overall readability of the document. (cdc.gov)
  • Even though ATSDR and EPA Region IV have distinct purposes that require different goals and processes for their assessments, the two agencies have both concluded that the releases of uranium from the Y-12 plant are not a public health hazard for the Scarboro Community (see the response to comment 127 for more details about the deliberate differences between ATSDR's public health assessment sand EPA's risk assessment). (cdc.gov)
  • After reviewing and evaluating the public comments on the PHA, ATSDR made minor changes to the public health assessment report. (cdc.gov)
  • Produced by UN-Water's World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP), the report pools expertise from 24 UN agencies working closely with governments, non-governmental organizations and civil society. (fao.org)
  • Overall, more than 250 studies of how shift work affects the cardiovascular system, diabetes, endocrine system, metabolic syndrome and obesity, reproductive system, and mental health. (nih.gov)
  • Most studies focused on mental health (78), metabolic syndrome and obesity (67), reproductive (51), and cardiovascular (50) endpoints. (nih.gov)
  • It seems that in today's world, young people are increasingly struggling with their mental health due to various internal and external factors. (youth.ie)
  • In Michael's time as CEO he has been responsible for the development of Involves latest strategic plan which aims to improve the work of the organisation in the areas of Youth Mental Health and Employment, as well as putting in place structures to improve the collaborative work of the organisation to highlight and challenge educational disadvantages for the Traveller community. (youth.ie)
  • In both study arms, effects of the WELLBASED intervention programme are measured: health-related quality of life (HR-QoL), mental health, frailty in older adults, self-perceived health, chronic conditions, and care utilization. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The new post - which has been funded by the Hospice UK St James's Place Foundation grant programme - is part of the hospice's wider dementia strategy to better understand dementia and help its colleagues in care homes and mental health caring for people diagnosed with the condition. (ehospice.com)
  • The leading mental health causes of the global burden of disease are depression in women and alcohol use disorders in men. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Over the course of a year, the Diada project (detection and integrated care for depression and alcohol use), an innovative project aimed at identifying people with or at risk of developing a mental health or alcohol use disorder, helped her recover. (bonesbrigaderecords.com)
  • Together with my church, the programme helped me begin processing the trauma I'd been living with and made me understand how my mental health was affecting my physical health. (bonesbrigaderecords.com)
  • 2. Linking TSH and PCP with mental health professionals for early identification and referral of FEP and establishing community pathways for effective management of FEP. (who.int)
  • Operational research on and evaluation of the implementation and scale-up of kangaroo mother care and other maternal and newborn health interventions at different health-system levels. (up.ac.za)
  • The final interventions/development ies, Basic Development Needs (BDN) and projects are decided on, implemented and Gender in Health and Development. (who.int)
  • This is well below the WHO's threshold for cost effectiveness of public health interventions in Malaysia of RM 71,761 (US$20,922). (biomedcentral.com)
  • Community health workers play an important role in health service delivery and are increasingly involved in behaviour change interventions, including for hygiene-related behaviour change. (nih.gov)
  • The school was quoted as a case study in the White paper on public health. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Government's Public Health White Paper (Cm 6374): Written Evidence" (PDF). (wikipedia.org)
  • Notwithstanding the complexity of the programme and the challenges of public procurement, the outcome here is a calm uplifting civic building deftly interwoven into its site, a tangible affirmation of the value of the public domain. (ribaj.com)
  • HEARTS is the core technical package of the initiative and takes a public health approach to treating hypertension and other CVD risk factors at the primary health care level. (cdc.gov)
  • HEARTS has demonstrated the feasibility and acceptability of a public health approach, with more than seven million people already on treatment for hypertension using a simple, algorithmic HEARTS approach. (cdc.gov)
  • Adam Ingram: The reality is that this new Labour Government has the wherewithal to launch a massive public works programme without recourse to public-private partnerships, but it clearly lacks the political will to do so. (theyworkforyou.com)
  • With the commitment by our commercial partner, the Serum Institute of India, to manufacture at least 200 million doses annually in the coming years, the vaccine has the potential to have major public health impact if licensure is achieved. (ox.ac.uk)
  • c) Undertaking short and long term training programmes for staff of ministries, public corporations, banks, small scale industries and other organizations. (edu.ng)
  • 3 months after) at public clinics with (40 clinics) and without (124 clinics) HIVST distribution in catchment area. (bvsalud.org)
  • Millennium Development Goal Target 7.C captures the need for access to safe drinking-water in a broad development framework that also includes public health. (who.int)
  • This Web site is provided by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) ONLY as an historical reference for the public health community. (cdc.gov)
  • However, ATSDR has not changed its conclusion that past and current off-site exposures to uranium released from the Y-12 pose no apparent public health hazard because the estimated doses are not at levels expected to cause adverse health effects. (cdc.gov)
  • The ONS births and deaths data is of significant value to the Local Authority in enabling analysts to respond to local public health needs. (theysolditanyway.com)
  • and, c) Protecting or improving the public health, including such subjects as the incidence of disease, the characteristics (e.g. age, gender, occupation) of persons with disease, the risk factors pertaining to sections of the population, investigating specific areas of local concern relating to the health of the local population, or the effectiveness of medical treatments. (theysolditanyway.com)
  • NIEHS is committed to conducting the most rigorous research in environmental health sciences, and to communicating the results of this research to the public. (nih.gov)
  • The National Service Framework (NSF) for Coronary Heart disease (CHD) is a 10-year programme published by the Department of Health in 2000 and has set key standards for the prevention and treatment of CHD. (ukessays.com)
  • This programme provides research, monitoring and technology transfer in support of evidence-based sustainable management of freshwater fisheries and marine resources in Northern Ireland. (afbini.gov.uk)
  • The report is the flagship publication of UN-Water, the interagency mechanism established to promote coherence and coordination of all United Nations activities in the area of freshwater. (fao.org)
  • OBJECTIVE: To estimate the costs of implementing the HEARTS program for hypertension control and cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention in the primary care setting in Ethiopia for adult primary care users in the catchment area of five examined facilities. (cdc.gov)
  • The adult:child ratio (ACR) of malaria admissions is a simple tool we have used to assess the degree of functional immunity in the catch- ment population of a health facility. (cdc.gov)
  • Two decades of inpatient malaria admission data from three health facilities in a high-altitude area of western Kenya do not support the canonical view of unsta- ble transmission. (cdc.gov)
  • he temperate highlands of western Kenya were regarded time series of age-structured clinical malaria data derived from T by colonial settlers as safe havens from the surrounding three hospitals with inpatient admission facilities in the high- malarious areas of Uganda and Kenya (1,2). (cdc.gov)
  • I, malaria encroached into these highland communities as a for understanding the epidemiology of malaria and consequent result of wide-scale population settlement linked to transport strategic approaches to disease management and prevention in and agricultural development (2-6), and malaria epidemics this area. (cdc.gov)
  • Providing a precise catchment area of the population for ant, "highland malaria," demanding special attention in the admission's data was not possible as such information is not new global commitment to Roll Back Malaria (27-29). (cdc.gov)
  • This study aims to describe the spatial distribution of TB in the Balimo District Hospital (BDH) catchment area to identify TB patient clusters and factors associated with high rates of TB. (who.int)
  • Cases of congenital anomalies are usually identified as they occur in the participating delivery settings in a catchment area. (cdc.gov)
  • If an experienced health-care provider is not available at the site, photographs of the fetus or neonate with a congenital anomaly can be taken and kept in the medical record, for a later verification of the diagnosis by an experienced health-care provider or specialist, or a panel of experts, working as part of the congenital anomalies surveillance programme ( 26 ) . (cdc.gov)
  • Cases submitted to the surveillance programme are then to be reviewed by a clinician, to verify the congenital anomaly and its coding prior to the case being entered into the database. (cdc.gov)
  • Sex and ethnic background are factors in the rate of congenital malforma- tions in this area. (who.int)
  • Proposed future HEARTS Partner Forum activities are related to more concrete information sharing between partners and among countries, expanded areas of partner synergy, support for implementation, capacity building, and advocacy with country ministries of health, professional societies, academy and civil societies organizations. (cdc.gov)
  • The CBI approach addresses the major niversary of the Alma Ata Declaration and determinants of health within a broad per- the 20th anniversary of CBI implementation spective of development, and creates access in the Region. (who.int)
  • Five innovative solutions were put in place to achieve the programme objectives: GIS ward maps, a geospatial tracking system (GTS), a microplanning tool, tally sheet, and daily implementation plan (DIP) template. (nigeriahealthwatch.com)
  • Few studies of shiftwork and non-cancer health effects incorporated biomarker measurements of circadian disruption. (nih.gov)
  • Secondary evaluations include health economics, quality of life, smoking rates according to intervention arm, screening programme performance with ancillary biomarker and smoking cessation studies. (bmj.com)
  • The following year, a separate programme enshrined economic incentives - giving farmers financial compensation during a 5-year period if they agreed to comply with risk reduction measurements within agriculture (Kreuger and Nilsson, 2001). (europa.eu)
  • Foster collaboration with other hospitals within the tertiary drainage areas to improve level of care locally and to facilitate proper referral patterns. (govpage.co.za)
  • The highlands of Kenya constitute a densely populated, mates from Kenyan national censuses in 1979 (34), 1989 (35), politically significant area, which serves as a major source of and 1999 (36). (cdc.gov)
  • Realities and experiences of community health volunteers as agents for behaviour change: evidence from an informal urban settlement in Kisumu, Kenya. (nih.gov)
  • We do not serve a particular catchment area: our patients are admitted on referral from their respective general practitioners or specialists and come from various places in the Czech Republic or, in some cases, from abroad. (homolka.cz)
  • The locations of TB patients were mapped, and the spatial scan statistic was used to identify high- and low-rate TB clusters in the BDH catchment area. (who.int)
  • Long-term conditions represent a major burden on patients and the health care system. (biomedcentral.com)
  • COVID-19 self-testing has the potential to increase diagnostic testing capacity and to expand access to hard-to-reach areas in low-and-middle-income countries. (bvsalud.org)
  • The JV's initial investment is in a household energy efficiency programme including improved efficiency clean cooking and water filtration devices. (vitol.com)
  • The Manuherekia is a rohe, or geographic area, in our developing Land and Water Regional Plan, and we have been working closely with the community on a tailored, sustainable water management approach for the catchment. (orc.govt.nz)
  • The impact on the daily life of the Lebanese, on their salaries, on their rents, their school system, the health system, the infrastructure, water, electricity: all this requires massive solidarity from the international community and Lebanon has the right to ask the international community to share this burden. (unhcr.org)
  • They included a fruit and vegetable packaging plant, a water catchment pond and the "Morning Star" women's food cooperative. (unhcr.org)
  • The quality of drinking-water is a powerful environmental determinant of health. (who.int)
  • They include contamination of drinking-water catchment areas (by human and animal faeces) and sources (through inadequate disposal of human or animal waste). (who.int)
  • This pollution may be linked to a lack of proper management of urban and industrial wastewater or agricultural run-off water, with potentially long-term exposure to pollutants, resulting in a range of serious health implications. (who.int)
  • These disparities are also important in terms of health risks associated with poor water safety and may be further aggravated by the impact of climate change. (who.int)
  • Lead in drinking water is a danger to people's health, especially for young children, pregnant women and babies fed on formula. (corkcity.ie)
  • Construction site storm water and run-off can affect water quality in catchment areas. (adroit.nz)
  • Stormwater that contains run-off from construction sites can be a factor in the water quality of surrounding areas. (adroit.nz)
  • The third section voices the concerns of the main sectors accountable for water demand, namely health, agriculture, industry and energy, including issues of desalination and the harnessing of water's kinetic energy for electricity production. (fao.org)
  • The success of initiatives for improving health and quality the programme has resulted in improve- of life of the community. (who.int)
  • R311 million will be spent on improving roads in the Stellenbosch catchment areas, including Baden Powell, Annandale and Winery Roads. (westerncape.gov.za)
  • In the intervention arm, health-monitoring data (i.e. peak flow, oxygen saturation, blood pressure, and heart rate) are obtained monthly and sleep quality with a three-month interval. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A group of TSH in the intervention arm will be linked with one PCP working in the nearest primary health care (PHC) facility who are trained in early identification and referral of FEP in young persons (see below). (who.int)
  • Identification of cases is based on specific criteria, and diagnosis at birth is made by an experienced health-care provider. (cdc.gov)
  • The major community's right and duty to participate in strength of CBI remains the empowered health, access to primary health care (PHC) and organized communities who gained and intersectoral collaboration for health the knowledge and capacity to change in development [ 1 ]. (who.int)
  • We encourage all women to talk to their health care provider about breastfeeding during their pregnancy. (nsw.gov.au)
  • If you have any concerns, your health care provider will be able to refer you to the Lactation Service or you can self-refer. (nsw.gov.au)
  • In her new role, Janet will work with care homes across the hospice's catchment area to enable them to deliver excellent end of life care to residents with dementia. (ehospice.com)
  • There is also a large outpatient department, and various programmes involved in primary health care. (uk.com)
  • Health care workers and adults (18y+) in the general population were non-randomly sampled. (bvsalud.org)
  • CONCLUSIONS: One of the first studies to demonstrate high feasibility and acceptability of self-testing using SARS-CoV-2 Ag-RDTs among general and health-care worker populations in low- and middle-income countries potentially supporting large scale-up. (bvsalud.org)
  • Adult primary care attendees will be screened with the Patient Health Questionnaire for depression and, in men only, the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test for drinking problems. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A core element of this methodology is a long-term vision of ultimate scalability of treatments by emphasizing their delivery by the same pool of lay counsellors working in routine primary health care settings. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Routine administrative data on hospital use (the primary outcome) and a selection of secondary outcomes (data from both hospital and primary care) were collected in the intervention site, and from a comparator area in the same region. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A combinatorial digital and organisational intervention to improve the management of long-term conditions was implemented across a whole health economy, but we found no evidence of a positive impact on health care utilisation outcomes in hospital and primary care. (biomedcentral.com)
  • That work explored the role of volunteers in health and care, and the scale and impact of volunteering - providing the first estimate of the number of volunteers in NHS acute trusts in England. (nih.gov)
  • At the time, 23 farms were located within the catchment area, with another 12 farms located near the catchment boundaries (Kreuger, 1998). (europa.eu)
  • Our catchment area has four commercial farms, and people migrate a lot in search of work, so sometimes we used to miss our targets. (teamzimbabwe.org)
  • Alma Ata Declaration, and provides an and communities to protect and promote excellent, replicable model of community the health of all people. (who.int)
  • 450 participants, aged 5-17 months, were recruited from the catchment area of Nanoro, covering 24 villages and an approximate population of 65,000 people. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Josephine Nyevhe (43), a village health worker, says: "I use the hamba to help many sick people, including pregnant women, with transport to the clinic. (teamzimbabwe.org)
  • Even though the right to movement and residence throughout the territory of India is guaranteed by the Constitution, which explicitly protects against discrimination on basis of place of birth, social protection programmes in India have not been designed to take into account the movement of people within India's boundaries. (epw.in)
  • Similarly, the NHS Volunteer Responders programme saw a record number of people register to volunteer (NHS England and NHS Improvement 2020a). (nih.gov)
  • The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) is expanding and accelerating its contributions to scientific knowledge of human health and the environment, and to the health and well-being of people everywhere. (nih.gov)
  • 3Department of Health, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Islamic Republic of Iran (Correspondence to M.J. Golalipour: [email protected]). (who.int)
  • The Vemmenhög project was launched in 1990 by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) with the aim to reduce pesticide concentrations in surface waters in a small agricultural catchment in Scania with over 90% arable land (Kreuger and Nilsson, 2001). (europa.eu)
  • NIEHS offers a broad range of job opportunities, career enhancement programs, and research training grants and programs in environmental health sciences and administration. (nih.gov)
  • Fig. 3.15 is an example of how data collected at the hospital or clinic level progress through a surveillance programme. (cdc.gov)
  • Adam Ingram: To ask the Scottish Executive what is the catchment area of, and population served by Ayr Hospital and Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock. (theyworkforyou.com)
  • Kenyan government has recently defined 15 districts in the were defined for three contiguous administrative areas, as highlands (31,32) as being prone to epidemics, meriting close close to the hospital as possible, which had not been subjected inspection, preparation, and intervention (33). (cdc.gov)
  • This was where our group of young health champions really got stuck in, helping out with everything from separating goods out for different teams and wards to delivering items around the hospital sites. (nih.gov)
  • METHODS: Micro-costing facility surveys were used to assess activity costs related to training, counselling, screening, lab diagnosis, medications, monitoring, and start-up costs at five selected health facilities. (cdc.gov)
  • Census 2011 enumerates 93 million migrants in the 0-19 years age group: 40% of whom migrate to urban areas and 14% move across state borders. (epw.in)
  • Engagement of Community Health Workers (CHWs), religious, political and community leaders at every level has always been critical to the success of the campaigns for mobilizing communities. (who.int)
  • Since then, the partnership has improved Igava Clinic's outreach programmes, according to Tebbie Chidemo (42), the acting sister-in-charge at the health facility. (teamzimbabwe.org)
  • Most studies also evaluated potentially relevant confounders for non-cancer health outcomes (e.g., age, BMI, education, gender, smoking and alcohol consumption). (nih.gov)
  • We used difference-in-differences analysis to compare outcomes in the NHS Test Bed area and the comparator after initiation of the combinatorial intervention. (biomedcentral.com)
  • All health facilities conducted community based micro-plans, which included creating a database of villages and for under five children within their catchment area. (who.int)
  • The EMR countries are implementing them to conduct a baseline survey assessing different programmes under the umbrella the socioeconomic needs of the commu- of CBI: Healthy Villages, Healthy Cit- nity. (who.int)
  • This study used spatial epidemiology techniques to (1) define the catchment area of BDH, (2) identify clustering of TB in the BDH catchment area and (3) investigate factors associated with high rates of TB. (who.int)
  • Through the power of partnerships, extra vehicles to take teams to hard-to-reach areas were provided by partners such as JF Kapnek Trust, Population Service International and Zvandiri in some Provinces such as Masvingo. (who.int)
  • Current- emphasized: equity in access to health serv- ly, CBI covers a population of 18 054 316 ices, economic and social development, the in 17 countries of the Region. (who.int)
  • The population of East Lancashire falls into one of the higher risk areas in the UK with local authority statistics for reflecting this fact. (ukessays.com)
  • Its USP lies in circuit training programme which enable rapid weight loss in an economical and sustainable manner. (business-standard.com)
  • Dr M Rakhesh Meetei highlighted the effects of global warming and climate change on human health. (manenvis.nic.in)
  • Together with natural climate change, the rivers and lakes fed by Mau catchment area have begun to dry up. (blogspot.com)
  • This excludes the R5.3 billion we will spend on infrastructure, on behalf of the provincial departments of health and education in the same period. (westerncape.gov.za)
  • Igava clinic staff led by sister in charge Tebbie Chidemo going for an outreach programme. (teamzimbabwe.org)
  • Outreach: Accept responsibility for continuous professional development in gastrointestinal surgery (in reach and outreach program) in area 2. (govpage.co.za)
  • Develop and participate in outreach program for gastrointestinal surgery for area 2. (govpage.co.za)
  • Shiftworking, nutrition and obesity: implications for workforce health- a systematic review. (nih.gov)
  • The target audience comprises Tier II III IV cities and catchment areas of metro cities. (business-standard.com)