• APHA urges the World Health Organization to expand its monitoring of attacks on health workers and urges the United Nations (UN) and its member governments to investigate politically motivated assaults. (apha.org)
  • World Health Organization. (scielo.br)
  • 2012. . As a direct response to (and in concert with) these events, the World Health Organization/Pan American Health Organization (WHO/PAHO) supported the establishment of Evidence-Informed Policy Networks (EVIPNet): an initiative that brings together policymakers, stakeholders and researchers to act on these commitments within countries. (scielo.br)
  • Washington, D.C. (December 2, 2021) - The National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS), the leading human rights organization for all individuals with Down syndrome, applauds the introduction of the Senate companion to the Charlotte Woodward Organ Transplant Discrimination Prevention Act (H.R. 1235/ S.3301) to prohibit discrimination on the basis of mental or physical disability in cases of organ transplants. (ndss.org)
  • The World Health Report 2006: Working together for health, Geneva, World Health Organization, 2006. (who.int)
  • WHO, Development of human resources for health in the WHO African Region: current situation and way forward , Brazzaville, Congo, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa, 2007, AFR/RC57/9. (who.int)
  • The World Health Organization/Health Action International survey methodology was used to determine price, availability and affordability of 61 lowest price generic (LPG) and originator branded medicines in public facilities, private retail pharmacies and private clinics across 6 regions of Bangladesh. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The World Health Organization estimates that 153 million people worldwide live with visual impairment due to uncorrected refractive errors. (health.mil)
  • In 2021, the World Health Organization launched the Rehabilitation Competency Framework (RCF), which describes the competencies and activities of the rehabilitation workforce [ 1 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • To address this, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended scaling-up of community health workers (CHWs) and related cadres owing to their documented success in malaria and other disease prevention and management. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The World Health Organization (WHO) has endorsed CHW-led interventions and encouraged its member states to embrace integrated community case management (iCCM) approaches and policies to address child mortality [ 7 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Statement read on January 29th during the World Health Organization (WHO) 136th Executive Board Meeting. (ifmsa.org)
  • The World Health Organization recognized AMR as a global health problem and recommended that Member States should strengthen the knowledge and evidence base through AMR surveillance and research in the global action plan on AMR [ 8 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The World Health Organization (WHO) and their partners endorse the surgery, antibiotics, facial cleanliness, and environmental improvement (SAFE) strategy for trachoma control. (medscape.com)
  • In 1977, the World Health Organization (WHO) published its first Model List of Essential Medicines. (scielosp.org)
  • According to the New York Times, the announcement came during a meeting with the China Organ Procurement Organization Alliance, an organization set to transition China from dependence on inmate organs to a more voluntary program. (shu.edu)
  • 3. World Health Organization. (prolekarniky.cz)
  • In an editorial in the September issue of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization , scientists from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and partner institutions highlight the critical role of socioeconomic factors in explaining cancer outcomes and cancer inequalities within and between countries. (who.int)
  • They also outline the actions needed for the preparation of a roadmap to bridge the gap between research and policy-making in this field, under the World Health Organization principle of Health for All. (who.int)
  • Pan American Health Organization. (bvsalud.org)
  • People with disabilities are no less deserving of life-saving organ transplants than people without disabilities," said NDSS President and CEO Kandi Pickard. (ndss.org)
  • TORONTO ( CTV Network ) - A growing number of patients who request medical assistance in dying are asking to donate their organs for transplant, says an international review that found that Canada is performing the most organ transplants from MAID patients among the four countries studied that offer this practice. (abc17news.com)
  • Doctors in Canada, where medical assistance in dying (MAID) was decriminalized in 2016, performed almost half of the world's organ transplants after MAID for that period (136), according to the publication. (abc17news.com)
  • Data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information confirms this new source of transplant organs accounted accounts for six per cent of all transplants from deceased donors in Canada in 2021. (abc17news.com)
  • With more than 4,000 Canadians waiting for organ transplants, some of whom are dying, he says Canada's numbers show a strong move to turn death into a win-win. (abc17news.com)
  • As StopOrganHarvesting.org reports, from 2003 to 2006, when there was nothing like "live organ donation" in place in China, the number of organ transplants sharply increased from 15,000 to 20,000 per year. (shu.edu)
  • Foreign patients are traveling to China to receive transplants with illegally acquired organs. (shu.edu)
  • The Act has been consulted in discussions about abortion , fetal tissue transplants, and Body Worlds , an anatomy exhibition. (asu.edu)
  • The number of health professionals increased over the years as there were 266,430 doctors in 2021 which increased to 282,383 in year 2022. (dawn.com)
  • Lancet Reg Health Am. 2022 Aug;12:100269. (bvsalud.org)
  • ABSTRACT For EMR countries to deliver the expectations of the Global Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2020 & the ongoing move towards universal health coverage, all health & social care providers need to innovate and transform their services to provide evidence-based health care that is accessible, cost-effective & with the best patient outcomes. (who.int)
  • Difference in difference model and a logistic regression model for binary outcomes were used to estimate the effect of the implementation of UHC on the health-seeking behaviour. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This tendency has encouraged a siloed approach to research on health-related stigmas, focusing on individuals, impeding both comparisons across stigmatized conditions and research on innovations to reduce health-related stigma and improve health outcomes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Research and interventions inspired by a common framework will enable the field to identify similarities and differences in stigma processes across diseases and will amplify our collective ability to respond effectively and at-scale to a major driver of poor health outcomes globally. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Further, a PHC based approach also provides opportunities for communities to better access appropriate healthcare, which ensures more significant equity, efficiency, effectiveness, safety, and timeliness, empowers service users, and helps healthcare providers to achieve better health outcomes at lower costs. (dovepress.com)
  • Huang F, Gan L. The impacts of China's urban employee basic medical insurance on healthcare expenditures and health outcomes. (ijhpm.com)
  • Scholars have argued that structural adjustment programs, promoting neoliberal, pro-market reforms, have historically had adverse effects on health outcomes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Other research finds that the effects on national policies and outcomes beyond population health, such as public health expenditures, may be variable, especially across world regions but also across international financial institutions (IFIs, e.g. the International Monetary Fund as compared with the World Bank). (biomedcentral.com)
  • However, we know little about the relationship between World Bank loans and projects and health outcomes in the region, despite information about historical deleterious effects of structural adjustment programs on health in sub-Saharan Africa. (biomedcentral.com)
  • It is recognized as a crucial element in a health information system, and well-functioning VR is associated with better health outcomes and directly benefits individuals and policy [ 1 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • It was in 2013 that the HIV Organ Policy Equity Act enabled people living with HIV to donate their organs to an HIV-positive recipient. (perfusion.com)
  • ABSTRACT This study was conducted to quantify the implementation of the MPOWER policies and to assess any possible changes across Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) countries. (who.int)
  • Since 2014, the Indonesian government has been running a national health insurance scheme, Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional-Kartu Indonesia Sehat (JKN-KIS), aimed at achieving UHC for all citizens by 2019 [ 2 , 3 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Our guidance is Canadian made and (it's) working well," said Dr. Sam Shemie, an intensive care unit doctor in Montreal and medical adviser to Canadian Blood Services, which helped created the roadmap guiding health workers in Canada in 2019. (abc17news.com)
  • Other health indicators did not show any visible improvement as the neonatal mortality rate (Per 1,000 live births) was 40.4 in 2020 but the next year it dropped to only 39.4. (dawn.com)
  • The industry aims to ensure that tobacco products remain affordable, while protecting their own profits - at the expense of public health. (who.int)
  • Philip Morris International's leaked 2014 plan (7) underscores their tactic of distracting from public health objectives by focusing on other "real" government problems, deflecting opponents' reactions, politicizing the debate and using corporate affairs tools (see Box 1). (who.int)
  • Finally, APHA urges all public health advocates and organizations to join an international condemnation of attacks on and interference with health services and health workers in conflict settings. (apha.org)
  • Monitoring - lack of a robust system to monitor violence against health workers: As in all areas of public health, data are essential to understand the problem, provide a sound basis for prevention strategies, and measure progress toward improvement. (apha.org)
  • Utilisation of public health facilities increased significantly after implementation of UHC, from 34.9% to 65.4% among the respondents with acute episodes and 33.7% to 65.8% among those with chronic episodes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Although the implementation of UHC has improved utilisation of public health facilities, the presence of people who are not covered by health insurance is a potential problem that could threaten future improvements in healthcare access and utilisation. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This tendency has encouraged a siloed approach to research on health-related stigmas, stifling innovative public health responses. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Correspondence Public Health Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine. (scielosp.org)
  • New economic policies in Cuba, stimulating self-employment and private initiative, may increase the strain on the exclusively public health care system. (scielosp.org)
  • Policy-makers play a key role in tackling the emerging public health problem of antibiotic resistance. (euractiv.com)
  • Using robust research evidence to inform public health policy ensures the most equitable population health gains. (ghspjournal.org)
  • Take, for example, the issue of public health. (amacad.org)
  • A quiet revolution in global public health: the World Health Organization's Prequalification of Medicines Programme. (scielosp.org)
  • J Public Health Policy. (scielosp.org)
  • In addition to public health relevance, essential medicines are selected with due regard to evidence on efficacy and safety, and comparative cost-effectiveness. (scielosp.org)
  • The Executive Board specifically noted that absolute treatment cost should not be a reason to reject a proposed addition to the model list if criteria for benefit and public health relevance are met. (scielosp.org)
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the National Public Health Action Plan for the Detection, Prevention and Management of Infertility . (cdc.gov)
  • Malnutrition constitutes one of the major public health challenges throughout the developing world. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Malnutrition is a major global public health challenge. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The researchers emphasize the urgent need for policy-makers and leaders to acknowledge socioeconomic factors in cancer as a major global public health concern and advocate for substantial efforts to address these factors. (who.int)
  • The 1918 pandemic illustrates the consequences of failing to transparently and effectively communicate risks to the public during a public health event. (who.int)
  • These lessons can inform preparedness for pandemic influenza and other public health threats. (who.int)
  • Effective risk communication during a public health emergency can be difficult, especially in the early stages when many of the facts may be uncertain. (who.int)
  • 6 It has long been recognized that national risk communication plans, supported by trained risk communication personnel, adequate financial allocations, clear internal procedures and mechanisms for coordination, are essential for effective risk communication and should be established before the onset of a public health emergency. (who.int)
  • Reduction of child mortality is a global public health priority. (bvsalud.org)
  • Most of be an important public health problem and the 8.1 million children who died before a serious challenge for developing coun- their fifth birthday in 2009 died in Africa tries. (bvsalud.org)
  • Too many precious lives have been lost due to discrimination in organ transplantation. (ndss.org)
  • She said about the announcement, "This is an important advancement in the fields of organ transplantation, HIV care, and advanced heart failure. (medscape.com)
  • Research from the abdominal transplant literature shows that HIV-positive donor to HIV-positive recipient transplantation is safe, and this first HIV-positive donor to HIV-positive recipient heart transplant may herald an increase in organ availability for heart failure patients living with HIV in the future," she said. (medscape.com)
  • Without effective antibiotics for care and prevention, success rates for treatments such as organ transplantation, cancer chemotherapy and major surgery (not to mention other, usually easy to treat bacterial infections) would be far lower. (euractiv.com)
  • The need for effective interventions to improve mental health and emotional well-being at a population level are gaining prominence both in the United Kingdom and globally. (jmir.org)
  • These interventions have fast become a priority issue for policy makers in the United Kingdom [ 2 , 3 ] and Europe [ 4 ] who have recognized the importance of health and well-being across the lifespan. (jmir.org)
  • CHWs and related cadre roles in malaria interventions included: malaria case management, prevention including health surveillance and health promotion specific to malaria. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Community health workers and related cadres had important preventive, case management and promotive roles in malaria interventions. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Community health workers (CHWs) have been effective in improving access to preventative, promotive and curative interventions in the communities they serve [ 6 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Other tools such as those of WHO-CHOICE (CHOosing Interventions that are Cost-Effective) may help national policy-makers decide what is a reasonable price to pay for a medicine. (scielosp.org)
  • As such, there remains work to do, in Latin America and beyond, if health interventions are to be effective at sustainably and holistically protecting vulnerable groups. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In February 2021, Congresswomen Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA) and Katie Porter (D-CA) introduced H.R. 1235, the Charlotte Woodward Organ Transplant Discrimination Prevention Act, in the 117th Congress in the House of Representatives. (ndss.org)
  • Data collected for the paper shows that in Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain, combined, 286 assisted-death recipients provide lifesaving organs for transplant to 837 patients in the years up to and including 2021. (abc17news.com)
  • He points to statistics showing more than 35 per cent of Canadians who died by MAID in 2021 felt they were "a burden on family, friends or caregivers" according to a Health Canada report. (abc17news.com)
  • ISLAMABAD: Economic Survey of Pakistan on Thursday showed that there was no visible improvement in health indicators during the last financial year, with the vaccination rate for measles registering a two per cent decline in 2021. (dawn.com)
  • The expenditure on the health sector had increased from 1pc to 1.4pc of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the financial year 2021-22. (dawn.com)
  • Cole, Jennifer & Dodds, Klaus (2021) Unhealthy geopolitics: can the response to COVID-19 reform climate change policy? (lu.se)
  • In addition to enumerating specific instances of potential discrimination, the bill also proactively promotes access to services by requiring health care providers to make reasonable modifications to policies, practices, and procedures related to organ transplant care. (ndss.org)
  • What are the rules and regulations related to organ transplant? (indiatvnews.com)
  • Dubai World Trade Centre Unveils Events Line-Up For December 2023. (menafn.com)
  • To observe World Heart Day 2023 on September 29, Dr Subhash Chandra, Chairman, Cardiology, Cardiac Sciences, Cardiac Electrophysiology-Pacemaker, Interventional Cardiology, BLK-Max Super Speciality Hospital has shared a few ways to keep your heart healthy. (indiatvnews.com)
  • NIOSH contributed to this Action Plan, specifically related to reducing exposures to occupational agents that can harm reproductive health and fertility in women and men. (cdc.gov)
  • Environmental and occupational hazards account for an unknown proportion of infertility cases, but are known to affect reproductive health and fertility in women and men, and suspected of causing declining human sperm quality in industrialized countries. (cdc.gov)
  • Less than 5% of all chemicals used in the U.S. have been tested, even in laboratory animals, to determine if they are toxic to reproductive health. (cdc.gov)
  • The report also emphasizes that actions taken to protect the reproductive health of workers and the general health of their families from harmful exposures should be based on sound, scientific measurements of (1) the hazardous exposures, (2) reproductive health parameters, and (3) the efficacy of the intervention methods being considered. (cdc.gov)
  • Adopting a science-based approach should lead to a better understanding and prevention of workplace hazards that reduce reproductive health. (cdc.gov)
  • Today, NIOSH researchers use state-of-the-art research methods - including biomonitoring techniques - to determine whether exposure to specific occupational hazards affect the reproductive health of working women and men and the health of their families. (cdc.gov)
  • More information can be found on the NIOSH topic page on Reproductive Health . (cdc.gov)
  • For the first time, a heart from a donor with HIV has been transplanted into a recipient living with HIV, according to Montefiore Health System in New York City, where the transplant was performed. (medscape.com)
  • Meanwhile, in the Bronx, NY, the transplant team of Montefiore Health System performed the world's first HIV-positive to HIV-positive heart transplant . (perfusion.com)
  • General to develop and submit a new Global Strategy for HRH (GSHRH) for consideration at the sixty-ninth World Health Assembly in May 2016. (who.int)
  • For the primary and community workforce, this includes general medical practitioners, practice & community nurses, community social workers, housing officers, lay health workers, nongovernmental organizations & civil society, including community spiritual leaders/healers. (who.int)
  • Health Assembly adopted3 the WHO Global Code of Practice on International Recruitment of Health Personnel in 2010. (who.int)
  • The report is the first-ever review of the growing use of this new practice around the world. (abc17news.com)
  • With other countries like Australia eyeing medical assistance in dying along with organ donations, Mulder says public trust in this new medical practice must be developed and maintained. (abc17news.com)
  • The practice is simple in theory: give your organs that you no longer require to someone in need and help facilitate their life. (shu.edu)
  • This statement was welcomed by human rights advocates and doctors around the world, until the Chinese government found a legal loophole to continue this practice. (shu.edu)
  • Health systems development in Thailand: a solid platform for successful implementation of universal health coverage. (nih.gov)
  • Monitoring and evaluating progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Thailand. (nih.gov)
  • Universal health coverage: time to deliver on political promises. (nih.gov)
  • The health insurance system in Indonesia was transformed in 2014 to achieve universal health coverage (UHC). (biomedcentral.com)
  • Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) is one of the targets set by countries when they adopted the sustainable development goals in 2015 [ 1 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This proposed strategy is expected to represent a critical component of the WHO strategic vision towards universal health coverage (UHC) and its monitoring framework. (who.int)
  • Follow-up of the Recife political declaration on human resources for health: renewed commitments towards universal health coverage. (who.int)
  • Objectives Financial risk protection (FRP) is an indicator of the Sustainable Development Goal 3 universal health coverage (UHC) target. (bmj.com)
  • Disparities in socioeconomic status (SES), one of the controllable variables, may be a key area to address to lower the risk and minimize CHE inequality in megacities towards the path to universal health coverage (UHC). (ijhpm.com)
  • 10 years of health-care reform in China: progress and gaps in universal health coverage. (ijhpm.com)
  • This entry was posted in Universal health coverage and tagged Essential Health Services , Health Priorities , Low- and Middle-Income Countries by Editor Equity/Equidad . (bvsalud.org)
  • Governments in low- and middle-income countries are legitimizing the implementation of universal health coverage (UHC), following a United Nation's resolution on UHC in 2012 and its reinforcement in the sustainable development goals set in 2015. (bvsalud.org)
  • The SSAH has several unique features, including standards for staff performance and expertise, coverage goals and health objectives, and payment systems [ 5 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In particular, the objectives and goals of the European Union concerning the mental health of European citizens are examined through a discourse analysis. (lu.se)
  • The keenness of the US to work for withdrawal of American troops from Syria and Afghanistan has given a lot of residual advantage to Pakistan in terms of its plans to use Islamic militants as a strategic resource for furthering its foreign policy objectives. (yespunjab.com)
  • Therefore, fundamental issues such as objectives, users and cost-effectiveness of UHC have been raised by policy-makers and stakeholders. (bvsalud.org)
  • Environmental health risk factors include: climate change, air and water pollution, some chemicals and biological agents, noise, radiation, unsafe workplaces, poor agricultural practices and built environments. (wikipedia.org)
  • A research agenda would include developing a deeper understanding of the circumstances that lead to attacks, motivations of perpetrators, actions that have been most successful in changing combatants' calculus in deciding to attack, what works to deter violence against health workers and facilities, and best practices to protect workers and facilities when deterrence is not successful. (apha.org)
  • Many scholars and experts acknowledge that it is now a suitable time to discuss and develop appropriate mental health policies and practices across Europe, including specific political measures within the framework of European integration. (lu.se)
  • Its meaning varies depending on cultures, local beliefs, and practices.2 As a result, policymakers need to plan and implement relevant policies and measures based on the mental health representations of various populations, within different countries. (lu.se)
  • Building relationships between RPs and PMs at the beginning of the research process will help build trust, promote mutual understanding, ensure that research is relevant to policy priorities, encourage evidence uptake, and facilitate the research-to-policy process. (ghspjournal.org)
  • We provide justification for explicit health priority-setting and guidance to countries on how to set priorities for UHC. (bvsalud.org)
  • And how to keep the whole project completely voluntary," he said of some of the concerns, noting that patients should never be pressured to choose MAID to increase the availability of donor organs. (abc17news.com)
  • This will surely enable us to expand the much-needed organ donor pool to people who had nowhere to go earlier. (perfusion.com)
  • There is increasing evidence that the health, education, and socioeconomic status of mothers and fathers have signi- ficant impact on the health and survival of their children.We conducted a litera- ture review to explore the impact of the death of parents on the survival and wellbeing of their childrenand the mechanisms through which this impact is mediated. (bvsalud.org)
  • Operating under these extreme conditions has implications for their mental health as well. (apha.org)
  • Factors affecting catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment from medical expenses in China: policy implications of universal health insurance. (ijhpm.com)
  • Because illegal organ harvesting has grown significantly within China, its implications have affected other countries. (shu.edu)
  • Hennis AJM, Coates A, Del Pino S, Ghidinelli M, Gomez Ponce de Leon R, Bolastig E, Castellanos L, Oliveira E Souza R, Luciani S. COVID-19 and inequities in the Americas: lessons learned and implications for essential health services. (bvsalud.org)
  • HRH) are crucial for the delivery of essential health services, including emergency preparedness and response. (who.int)
  • They note that improved data collection and policy prioritization are crucial. (who.int)
  • Thus, effective treatments and resources that support individuals to improve their mental health and well-being through psychological treatment programs or health behavior change are of increasing interest to government agencies, health services, commercial enterprises, and individuals themselves. (jmir.org)
  • Web-based mobile apps that support and encourage healthy lifestyle choices and behavior changes are widely available and affordable [ 12 ] and are increasingly utilized for health information [ 13 ] and treatment (eg, Moodgym, fear fighter, beating the blues ). (jmir.org)
  • Stigma is a well-documented barrier to health seeking behavior, engagement in care and adherence to treatment across a range of health conditions globally. (biomedcentral.com)
  • First-line health services with a primary health care approach are a strong trigger for adequate health-care-seeking behavior. (scielosp.org)
  • A mother's health, education, socioeconomic sta- tus, fertility behavior, environmental health conditions, nutritional status and infant feeding, and the use of health services all play an important role in the level of risk of death of her children. (bvsalud.org)
  • We conducted qualitative interviews with 2 major groups of stakeholders: health policy and systems research producers (research producers [RPs]) and policy makers (PMs). (ghspjournal.org)
  • These findings point to some specific areas for further collaboration and communication among Ghanaian stakeholders to ensure that appropriate health policies are developed from an evidence base. (ghspjournal.org)
  • 5 - 7 Further, limited interactions among RPs, PMs, implementers, and other stakeholders tend to constrain the use of research in policy updates. (ghspjournal.org)
  • Charlotte's bill reflects the interstate nature of the organ transplant system, recognizes the need for expedited review when access is denied, and establishes a legal framework for individuals and providers to seek truth and reach meaningful resolution. (ndss.org)
  • The UHC monitoring framework highlights some obstacles to expanding health services. (who.int)
  • Data were collected through in-depth, semi-structured interviews using a health system dynamic framework and analysed thematically. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In order to halt the stigmatization process and mitigate the harmful consequences of health-related stigma (i.e. stigma associated with health conditions), it is critical to have an explicit theoretical framework to guide intervention development, measurement, research, and policy. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We also discuss how stigma related to race, gender, sexual orientation, class, and occupation intersects with health-related stigmas, and examine how the framework can be used to enhance research, programming, and policy efforts. (biomedcentral.com)
  • As such, it is useful to have an explicit theoretical framework that can both guide research and intervention development on individual health conditions and allow for comparisons and responses across health conditions. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The Act sets a regulatory framework for the donation of organs, tissues, and other human body parts in the US. (asu.edu)
  • By mapping the selective impacts of organs aging at variable rates, the study's authors created a new way of quantifying and addressing age-related disease risk: the organ-specific biological clock. (worldhealth.net)
  • In addition to the large health and fiscal impacts of infertility, the inability to conceive can be devastating to individuals or couples. (cdc.gov)
  • The current Ebola crisis has demonstrated that in the absence of an effective health system, including well-trained HRH, an epidemic can spread rapidly, causing enormous human suffering and economic loss. (who.int)
  • A resilient and flexible health system that is capable of responding to emerging health challenges should have at its core a substantive and sustained strategic investment in HRH backed by political will and commitments. (who.int)
  • This study examined health system factors affecting implementation of TB control programme from the perspectives of service providers. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Nonetheless, low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) still struggle with health system strengthening for TB control. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Very sick liver patients with blood type O are one and a half times more likely to die waiting for a transplant than similar patients with other types, according to statistics from the United Network for Organ Sharing, which runs the nation's transplant system. (worldhealth.net)
  • Despite their documented success, CHWs and related cadres succumb to health system challenges. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Still, the Cuban health system has demonstrated its ability to adapt to new challenges, and the basic premises of Cuba's health policy are expected to be preserved. (scielosp.org)
  • Li L, Fu H. China's health care system reform: progress and prospects. (ijhpm.com)
  • I use the term "modern world" in its standard sense-signifying both the world-system and the worldview that began their joint career in Western culture after the passage of the European Dark Ages, and which, after going through a highly complex process of development, came to full maturity during what we call the Enlightenment. (amacad.org)
  • As Dr.Huang told the Beijing Times, "Once the organs from death row prisoners who have voluntarily donated are included in our national distribution system, they are counted as voluntary citizen donations. (shu.edu)
  • The Mexican VR system is managed by the National Institute of Statistics (INEGI) in conjunction with the Secretary of Health and the Civil Registry offices. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A lack of emotional well-being underpins many physical diseases, unhealthy lifestyles, and social inequalities in health. (jmir.org)
  • Health Research Institutes, according to the Helsinki Dec- laration. (cdc.gov)
  • Many factors inhibit systematic data collection on attacks targeting health workers: poor reporting by those in the field, bias, insufficient funding for such research, and a lack of developed methods. (apha.org)
  • Since the release of the 'World Report on Knowledge for Better Health' in 2004, a transformation has occurred in the field of health policy and systems research that has brought with it an increased emphasis on supporting the use of research evidence in the policy process. (scielo.br)
  • There has been an identified need for comprehensive online "one-stop shops" that facilitate the timely retrieval of research evidence in the policy process. (scielo.br)
  • The field of health policy and systems research has experienced an increased focus on efforts that aim to support the use of research evidence in policy making, and a number of high-profile international events (such as the Mexico Ministerial Summit on Health Research) have helped to confirm that there is a strong commitment to establish or strengthen existing mechanisms that can contribute to progress in this area 1 1. (scielo.br)
  • The Bamako call to action: research for health. (scielo.br)
  • As emerging research elucidates, the biological aging process of human organs varies widely across the body. (worldhealth.net)
  • Although the organs that manifest primary disease processes are the oldest in patients with the disease, the research team found that in these conditions, advanced organ age is widespread and involves multiple systems. (worldhealth.net)
  • Miniature Organs On Chips Could Revolutionize Health-Care Research. (menafn.com)
  • Research on the association between prevalence of chronic diseases and acute illnesses and use of health services emphasizes the importance of socioeconomic determinants in such patterns of utilization. (scielosp.org)
  • Jonathan is the Will Skillman Senior Research Fellow in Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. (heritage.org)
  • Research producers (RPs) and policy makers (PMs) identified similar enablers and inhibitors of evidence-based policy making including having high-quality evidence that is relevant to current policies under consideration. (ghspjournal.org)
  • RPs and PMs require platforms to enable collaboration and communication on research studies to facilitate program implementation and evidence-based policy making. (ghspjournal.org)
  • RPs need additional support to engage in policy dialogue platforms and in working in political contexts to communicate their research in ways that are readily understood. (ghspjournal.org)
  • and (5) the political context in which research and policy making occurs. (ghspjournal.org)
  • 2 As a National Research Council report states, "when science has something to offer, it should be on the policy table. (ghspjournal.org)
  • While there may seem to be a natural trajectory from research to policy, this process is rarely straightforward. (ghspjournal.org)
  • For research producers (RPs) and PMs to find some synergy and thus facilitate the transition from research to policy, researchers should understand the mechanics of the decision-making process, just as PMs need to have an understanding of the conceptual basis of the research process. (ghspjournal.org)
  • However, low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) face particular challenges with this process, including limited access to evidence, the exclusion of PMs and implementers from setting the research agenda, weak health care systems, and limited PM capacity to interpret research findings. (ghspjournal.org)
  • why environmental justice matters, Wilkinson, R.C. and Freudenburg, W.R. ( Ed.) Equity and the Environment ( Research in Social Problems and Public Policy, Vol. 15 ), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. (lu.se)
  • The 1968 UAGA set a legislative precedent for the donation of fetal organs and tissues and has been in the background of many debates regarding abortion and fetal tissue research. (asu.edu)
  • The dependence of the developing societies on the Western world inevitably raises the overwhelming question of sheer survival. (amacad.org)
  • The effective implementation of essential primary health services through UHC has resulted in efficient healthcare utilisation, which is reflected in the health-seeking behaviour of the community. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Our study aimed to examine the changes in health-seeking behaviour before and after the implementation of UHC in Indonesia and to identify what factors determine these changes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Five years after the implementation of UHC, we still found respondents who did not have health insurance (26 and 19 respondents among those with acute episode and chronic episode, respectively). (biomedcentral.com)
  • IFMSA suggests that the expertise group oversee and integrate the current on-going processes undertaken by other organs, such as by the European Union and the different WHO Regional Offices. (ifmsa.org)
  • One environmental factor that contributes to the health of the global community is climate change. (wikipedia.org)
  • Report 2006 drew specific attention to HRH challenges affecting countries.2 The launch of the Global Health Workforce Alliance and the convening of three global fora on HRH (in 2008, 2011 and 2013) represented milestones of the HRH agenda in the last decade. (who.int)
  • Well-functioning health systems are essential to achieving global and national tuberculosis (TB) control targets. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Human resource for health crisis has impaired global efforts against malaria in highly endemic countries. (biomedcentral.com)
  • India has seen diverse motivations behind terror movements and insurgencies - 'ideological' that sustained Maoism or assertion of 'ethnic identity' that was the case with North-East insurgent groups - but the new global terror that is now afflicting the world and becoming a prime security threat to India is a class apart since it is linked to the call of 'defence of Islam' or Jehad. (yespunjab.com)
  • The World Bank, historically the largest single external funder of global health [ 46 ], has deepened and broadened its engagement with health in developing countries in recent decades. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Latin America, in particular, has often served as "laboratory" of sorts for World Bank and government partnerships [ 33 ] and the World Bank remains the largest single external funder of global health in Latin America, though this is not true across all world regions [ 40 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • While the proliferation of new and large global health funding agencies, perhaps foremost the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, has changed the funding landscape of global health, international organizations remain important actors in the field [ 36 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • To force GMO products into global markets, George Bush has filed a legal dispute at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), accusing the European Union of blocking trade by restricting GMOs. (newmediaexplorer.org)
  • During the 1980s and 1990s, in the face of intense criticism of its structural adjustment policies, the World Bank purportedly turned its attention to "pro-growth and pro-poor" policies and new lending instruments. (biomedcentral.com)
  • As such, the huge estimated economic costs of these disorders on individuals and society [7] usually associated with lost productivity and burden of health and social services [ 1 , 8 , 9 ], are likely to be underestimated. (jmir.org)
  • The GSHRH should fit within the frameworks of the sustainable development goals and the ongoing WHO strategy on people-centred and integrated health services. (who.int)
  • Poor integration of TB into general health services, weak laboratory capacity, withdrawal of subsidies to community volunteers and patent medicine vendors, poorly funded patient tracking systems, and ineffectual TB/HIV collaboration resulted in weak organisation of TB service delivery. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Primary health care (PHC) services are a vital component in the prevention and control of long-term NCDs, particularly in LMICs, where the health infrastructure and hospital services may be under strain. (dovepress.com)
  • In a cross-sectional study of 408 families in Centro Habana, Cuba, home interviews were conducted between April and June 2010 to analyze socio-demographic determinants of acute and chronic health problems and use of formal health services. (scielosp.org)
  • While the family physician is defined as the system's entry-point, this was the case for only 54% of patients that had used formal services, thus compromising the physician's role in counseling patients and summarizing their health issues. (scielosp.org)
  • It claimed that Islamabad Healthcare Regulatory Authority (IHRA) focused on improving the quality, efficiency, and safety of healthcare services delivery by adopting evidence-based regulatory standards for registration and licencing of healthcare establishments (HECs), health professionals and equipment, and enforcing minimum standards of safety by the HECs in the ICT. (dawn.com)
  • This study used data from the Health Services Survey Beijing (HSSB) 2018. (ijhpm.com)
  • The challenge is to provide access to effective medicines without creating ad hoc vertical programmes and, at the same time, to avoid diverting funds from other important health-care services. (scielosp.org)
  • Health workers in conflict settings strive to provide impartial and consistent care to all parties to the conflict, as well as civilians caught in the crossfire. (apha.org)
  • APHA further calls on all nation-states to ensure that their national laws, military doctrine, and training protect health workers attempting to provide impartial care. (apha.org)
  • 1-3] Illegal under well-established international law,[4,5] these attacks compromise the care of patients, obstruct efforts to rebuild health systems after war, and lead to the flight of health workers vitally needed in these settings. (apha.org)
  • People with disabilities are too often overlooked and in being denied full inclusion can encounter hurdles that many of us cannot even begin to imagine, including when it comes to receiving the life-saving care of an organ transplant," said Senator Hassan. (ndss.org)
  • The End TB Strategy identified integrated, patient-centred care, bold policies and supportive systems as pillars to end TB by 2030 [ 2 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Access to health care is a fundamental right recognized by governments throughout the world. (biomedcentral.com)
  • However, across occupational groups, overall rates of hyperopia and astigmatism diagnoses were highest among service members working in health care occupations. (health.mil)
  • Resistant bacteria are a serious problem both in health care facilities and in the community, causing infections such as urinary tract infections, pneumonia and food-borne illness. (euractiv.com)
  • Antibiotic resistance increases health care costs. (euractiv.com)
  • Longer durations of illness and more complex treatment increase health care costs and hence the financial burden on families and societies. (euractiv.com)
  • Poor infection control programmes in health care facilities further contribute to the spread of bacteria, including resistant bacteria and resistant tuberculosis. (euractiv.com)
  • Essential medicines are those that satisfy the priority health-care needs of the population. (scielosp.org)
  • UHC will differ in each country depending on country contexts and needs, as well as demand and supply in health care. (bvsalud.org)
  • Our study results underpin the importance of interprofessional teamwork in health care organizations. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Further studies investigating the organizational culture and its impact on interprofessional teamwork and team effectiveness in health care are important. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Patients with chronic diseases have complex health needs and typically require treatment by more than one health care discipline [ 1 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This means, in detail, organizational culture as input, interprofessional teamwork as process, and job satisfaction as output, as well as the mediating effect of interprofessional teamwork in health care. (biomedcentral.com)
  • However, about one-third of the worlds' population lacks reliable access to medicines, with populations in the least developed countries of Africa and Asia most affected [ 1 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • As a first step towards creating a European strategy on mental health, the European Commission published the Green Paper, Improving the mental health of the population: Towards a strategy on mental health for the European Union in 2005. (lu.se)
  • To contextualize this finding, I examine the framing of health and maternal and infant health in select loan project documents and find variability: while the World Bank appears sensitive to population health risks the logic is still economistic: health is framed as a desirable investment because of its effect on the labor pool and economic growth. (biomedcentral.com)
  • These findings suggest that we need to revisit our information about the World Bank's work in health, and provides insight about how programs that favor economic growth and stability may be pursued without corresponding declines in population health. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The effects of such pesticides on the health of our population and other third-world countries make appalling reading. (newmediaexplorer.org)
  • I was rather proud that Canada has done so well in terms of organ donation by MAID patients," said Arthur Schafer, director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba, in an interview with CTV News. (abc17news.com)
  • The NCCUSL drafted the Act in August of 1967 in an attempt to unify the US states on the topic of organ and tissue donation. (asu.edu)
  • Time to reconceptualise health systems. (nih.gov)
  • This report highlights the EVIPNet VHL, a recently established project that was developed to meet the need for online repositories of relevant evidence to support knowledge translation efforts in the Americas, which can help contribute to strengthening health systems in the region. (scielo.br)
  • The Mexico Statement: strengthening health systems. (scielo.br)
  • The researchers identified organ age profiles for 16 common chronic diseases in which advanced biological aging extends from the organ of primary disease to multiple systems. (worldhealth.net)
  • Further, their results revealed that an organ's biological age selectively influences the aging of other organ systems, suggesting the existence of a multi-organ aging network. (worldhealth.net)
  • By establishing specific organ age clocks for the brain and body systems studied, the researchers could quantify not only the aging rate of organs but also determine the individual's risk for chronic disease and premature mortality. (worldhealth.net)
  • As a systems-focused measurement of biological age that provides a comprehensive picture of patient health and aging rate, organ-specific biological clocks are quickly becoming the latest tool for predicting and treating both chronic disease and overall aging. (worldhealth.net)
  • To enable their effective integration into the health systems, the identified challenges should be addressed. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Evans DB, Etienne C. Health systems financing and the path to universal coverage. (ijhpm.com)
  • Zhu K, Zhang L, Yuan S, Zhang X, Zhang Z. Health financing and integration of urban and rural residents' basic medical insurance systems in China. (ijhpm.com)
  • Here, operating in a strictly historical rather than moral perspective, one phenomenon ought to be thrown into sharp relief: we do see disappearing from the developing world practically all indigenous systems and institutions-a disappearance brought about in the recent past largely by direct European colonization, effected as a matter of deliberate colonial policy, and sometimes attended by fierce local resistance. (amacad.org)
  • Gender-based violence is one of the main causes of morbidity and premature mortality amongst women all over the world 1,2 . (isciii.es)
  • The deviation between chronological and biological age can be detected in specific organs years before disease diagnosis, and these differences can successfully predict mortality risk. (worldhealth.net)
  • After execution, the harvesting process of inmate organs becomes simpler, as officials no longer need to concern themselves with mortality. (shu.edu)
  • My analysis uses a mixed methods approach to examine the relationship between traditional structural adjustment and health loans and projects and infant mortality in Latin America and the Caribbean from 2000 to 2015. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The results are heartening in that quantitatively, health projects are associated with lower infant mortality rates, net of controls, whereas traditional structural adjustment loans do not appear to be negatively associated with infant mortality, though examined across a short time horizon. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Taken together, my results suggest that the World Bank appears to, at least partially, have amended its approach and its recent work in the region is associated with reductions in infant mortality. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This article begins to fill this gap by conducting a mixed methods analysis of World Bank projects and infant mortality and framing of infant and maternal health in Latin America. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Using regression models that control for selection bias, I find that World Bank structural adjustment programs are not associated with higher rates of infant mortality, as scholars have found they are in sub-Saharan Africa, and in contrast to findings that IMF structural adjustment programs are positively related to infant mortality globally. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Efforts to achieve the Millennium Develo- pment Goal No. 4 of reducing children's under-5 mortality in developing coun- tries by two thirds by 2015 should include promoting the health and education of women. (bvsalud.org)
  • The review finds that a PHC service approach, which deals with health in a comprehensive way, including the promotion, prevention, and control of diseases, can be useful in both high and low resource settings. (dovepress.com)
  • 107 persons without chronic diseases reported acute health problems. (scielosp.org)
  • Concurrently, the latest estimates show that half of the 10.6 million under five child deaths per year in the world has been ascribed to five infectious diseases (pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, measles, and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) [ 4 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • However, we would like to remind you of the important role played by academia and young organizations in providing perspectives on the major challenges linked to retention and migration of health workers. (ifmsa.org)
  • By identifying the factors contributing to the aging process, we can slow down or even reverse the aging process in different organs, potentially elongating our population's health- and lifespans one organ at a time. (worldhealth.net)
  • In addition, the WHO European Region has 15 out of the 27 countries with the highest burden in the world of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). (euractiv.com)
  • International environmental health policies involve the cooperation of several countries to implement mutual policy goals to address larger environmental issues on health like pollution and climate change (i.e. (wikipedia.org)
  • And to wrap it up with more positive news, Duke Health performed an innovative living tissue partial heart transplant . (perfusion.com)
  • Mental health and emotional well-being are a fundamental component of good health. (jmir.org)
  • They also described how the COVID-19 pandemic increased solitary drug use and led to abrupt increases in use due to life disruptions and worsened mental health among PWUD. (biomedcentral.com)
  • They address needs associated with impairments in communication, mobility, cognition and mental health to enable people to be as independent as possible in daily activities and maximise their participation in education, work and meaningful life roles [ 3 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In recent decades, the need to tackle mental health issues and promote mental well-being has been increasingly put in the socio-political spotlight. (lu.se)
  • This master's thesis aims to thematically track the development of the EU discourse on the topic of mental health from 2005 until the present time. (lu.se)
  • The results show that in the selected documents, mental health is discursively represented as a key priority. (lu.se)
  • It is also envisioned as a positive mental health and as a human right. (lu.se)
  • Additionally, the European Commission emphasises the multisectoral involvement required for a comprehensive European mental health strategy. (lu.se)
  • The findings of the paper provide an important entry point to the discussion on the relevance and scope of EU public mental health action. (lu.se)
  • The meaning and importance of mental health has long been overlooked and misunderstood in Europe and around the world. (lu.se)
  • In contemporary Europe, it is socially considered to be a taboo subject, which is fuelled by widespread stigmas, prejudices, and discriminations against those with mental health issues. (lu.se)
  • However, in light of the recent Covid-19 pandemic which resulted in a number of lockdowns, heightened anxiety and the loss of a great number of loved ones1, the necessity to address mental health issues and promote mental well-being has been increasingly put under the socio-political spotlight. (lu.se)
  • Mental health is a complex and challenging concept. (lu.se)
  • This jeopardizes the safety of our patients, and and contributes to mental health problems among our students, including depression, burnout and suicides. (ifmsa.org)
  • Vasconcelos P, Paúl C, Serruya SJ, Ponce de León RG, Nobre P. A systematic review of sexual health and subjective well-being in older age groups. (bvsalud.org)
  • While priority-setting is done on a daily basis by health authorities - implicitly or explicitly - it has not been made clear how priority-setting for UHC should be conducted. (bvsalud.org)
  • The health risks that are a result of the environment are starting to affect people around the globe. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some of the health risks that come with extreme temperatures are heat stress, cardio vascular failure, Hypothermia, etc. (wikipedia.org)
  • One of the more common health risks that people encounter is a result of air pollutants and air quality. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, the World Bank's economistic approach risks compartmentalizing healthcare and reducing people to their economic potential. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Nobody knows what risks they pose to people's health and the environment. (newmediaexplorer.org)
  • Examples of the Linkages between Health and Human Rights. (lu.se)
  • Qualitative data suggest that infants, children, and mothers are considered in World Bank loans and projects in the context of an economic logic: focusing on productivity, economic growth, and human capital, rather than human rights. (biomedcentral.com)