Spain pushes back deadline to shut off standard definition TV signals
The COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine were cited among several reasons why Spanish households and broadcasters aren't ready for an HD-only world just yet. The COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine were cited among several reasons why Spanish households and broadcasters aren't ready for…#spanish #ukraine #hd #spain (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 28, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Africa: 1918 Flu Pandemic Upended Long-Standing Social Inequalities - At Least for a Time, New Study Finds
[The Conversation Africa] The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 19, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Essential workers: “Sacrificial lambs” of U.S. pandemics in 1918 and 2020
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 and the COVID-19 pandemic have a unfortunate thing in common: society ’s decision the lives of certain workers are expendable. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Source: Yale Science and Health News - November 10, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Essential workers: ‘Sacrificial lambs’ of U.S. pandemics in 1918 and 2020
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 and the COVID-19 pandemic have an unfortunate thing in common: society ’s decision the lives of certain workers are expendable. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Source: Yale Science and Health News - November 10, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Robert Malone ’s New Claims About Seasonal Flu Vaccines, Manufacturing, And Markets
Robert Malone, MD, MSc, who ’s made a lot of questionable Covid-19 vaccine claims during the pandemic, asserted that people are being coerced to get the annual flu vaccine in order to “maintain warm base manufacturing in case something like 1918 ever happens again.” (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - October 29, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Bruce Y. Lee, Senior Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation Science /science business pharma Source Type: news
To thwart the next pandemic, ‘swientists’ hunt for flu viruses at U.S. hog shows
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Source: ScienceNOW - October 27, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
How COVID-19 Changed Life Expectancy Rates in the U.S. and Around the World
COVID-19 has caused an inordinate number of deaths around the world so far, causing life-expectancies to plunge. Historically, countries have recovered from other so-called “mortality shocks,” such as the 1918 flu and two world wars, within one to two years. But the shock of the pandemic is enduring in many places.
A study published Oct. 17 in Nature Human Behavior reviewed life-expectancy trends in 29 countries during 2021, building on previous data the scientists had analyzed from 2020, and found that COVID-19 continued to account for most life-expectancy losses in 2021. But those life-expectancy losses from ...
Source: TIME: Health - October 17, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Pandemics and suicide risk: lessons from COVID and its predecessors - Mukhtar F, Candilis P.
In its mortality and global reach, COVID-19 is among the worst pandemics to hit the globe since the 1918 influenza. During a pandemic, it is not uncommon for deaths from suicide to be downplayed as communities respond to the immediate mortality of the dise... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 3, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Risk Factor Prevalence, Injury Occurrence Source Type: news
AQA strike: A tough decision but the right one
For James Rose and Kate Smith, taking industrial action at examination board AQA was not an easy decision. But it was, they both say, the right one. At the end of August, on strike again, they headed south from Manchester with four colleagues and three organisers.
In London, with general secretary Christina McAnea, they took their message from UNISON Centre (pictured above) to the AQA headquarters in nearby Tavistock Square. It’s a simple one, summarised as a call to treat the workforce staff decently.
James is a preparation coordinator, working on quality control and standardisation. The latter is a process where, after...
Source: UNISON Health care news - September 2, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: Amanda Kendal Tags: Article News AQA Industrial action Source Type: news
Africa: When Covid-19 or Flu Viruses Kill, They Often Have an Accomplice - Bacterial Infections
[The Conversation Africa] The 1918 influenza pandemic resulted in the loss of over 3% of the world's population - at least 50 million people. But it wasn't the flu virus that caused the majority of these deaths. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 18, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
News Fatigue, Anti-Vax and Wars
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
Michel de MontaigneBy Jan LundiusSTOCKHOLM, Jul 13 2022 (IPS) During the beginning of the pandemic, people wanted to learn more about COVID-19. Enclosed in their homes they watched with fear and fascination how the pandemic swept over the world, while comparing ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 13, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jan Lundius Tags: Armed Conflicts COVID-19 Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
Lessons from the criticality of the Spanish high capacity road network on direct, representative democracies and technocracies - Mart ín JC, Roman C.
This paper aims to shed some light on an issue that has not been analyzed enough in previous studies on complex transportation networks. The financial crisis and disrupting events like the COVID-19 pandemic episode are affecting how governments make crucia... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 4, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Elder Abuse: Human Rights Have an Expiration Date
The United Nations expects an increase in elder abuse because of the ageing populations: the global population of people aged 60 years and older will more than double, from 900 million in 2015 to 2 billion in 2050. Credit: Maricel Sequeira/IPSBy María Isabel CartónMADRID, Jun 14 2022 (IPS) 1 in 6 people over 60 years of age –nearly 141 million people globally– suffers from abuse, according to World Health Organization (WHO) estimates.
The World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) (June 15th), aims to raise awareness and eradicate this problem that affects both developing and developed countries.
WHO defines elder abuse...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - June 14, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: MarIa Isabel Carton Tags: Global Headlines Health Human Rights Population Poverty & SDGs Source Type: news
Inside the Effort to Promote Abortion Pills For a Post-Roe America
If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade this summer, as a leaked draft opinion suggests it may, abortion will likely be banned or severely restricted in about half of the United States. But that doesn’t necessarily mean the country will return to a world before 1973, when the landmark Supreme Court case enshrined a constitutional right to abortion.
Abortion pills, which can be ordered online and delivered by mail, have already fundamentally changed reproductive rights in America. The regimen of two drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol, can in theory be safely taken anywhere, including in the privacy of people&rsquo...
Source: TIME: Health - May 31, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abigail Abrams and Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized abortion feature healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Mental Health Resources, Updated to Include Resources on Coping with Mass Shootings
I received an email today asking for permission* to share last year’s blog post on mental health resources and if there were any updates related to mass shootings. With the help of colleagues in the Region 6 office and across the Network I have done my best to compile resources to help individuals and communities cope in the aftermath of mass shootings. This includes some resources related to specific recent shootings.
SAMHSA Mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America’s communities.
Coping Tips for Traumatic Events and Disasters – SAMHSA Emotional distress can happen before ...
Source: The Cornflower - May 26, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Bobbi Newman Tags: Resource Sharing coping with mass shootings mental health resources Source Type: news
