Before saying "I do": legal and policy considerations for facilitating clarity on human trafficking and the protection of children in Albania - Heywood LM.
Data available on victims of human trafficking in Albania does not appear to point to a significant problem of human trafficking in the country. For example, from the years 2016 to 2018, 61 persons were officially determined to be victims of human traffick... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 4, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
National legislation against child abuse in Albania - Luljeta M.
Child abuse is manifested in various forms, such as: physical and emotional abuse, neglecting and sexual abuse. The child abuse does not know any limit, but the children asking help come mainly from poor and risked strata of the society.The roots of this p... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 1, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Greek police arrest wild herb raiders on Albanian border
Greek police on the rugged mountainous border with Albania have arrested three Albanian men accused of illegally picking large quantities of medicinal wild herbs (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - May 4, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Coronavirus Information
Doctors of the World are really pleased to be able to share with you Coronavirus (Covid 19) advice for patients in 20 languages, which were produced in partnership with the Red Cross, Migrant Help and Clear Voice:
Available now: English, Albanian, Dari, French, Pashto, Portuguese
Coming VERY soon: Mandarin, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Arabic, Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Farsi
You can find them on our google drive here.
The guidance is based on the government’s updated advice and health information. We really hope it will help to ensure this important guidance reaches migrant and asylum-seeking communities in the UK.
We wo...
Source: Doctors of the World News - March 13, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Viran Rajaratnam Tags: Uncategorised Source Type: news
The Latest: 1st virus deaths in Belgium, Bulgaria, Albania
Belgium's health ministry has announced the country's first three deaths related to the novel coronavirus and Albania and Bulgaria each had their first deaths (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 11, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Albania confirms first coronavirus cases, in father and son back from Italy
Albania reported its first coronavirus infections on Monday, in a father and son who had returned from Italy. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 9, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Here Are 50 of the Best Workout Songs to Get You Motivated
With the thrill of New Year’s resolutions behind us and a long winter ahead, it can be hard to keep going with workout goals. But sometimes, all you need is the right song to give you the push you need to keep at it — whether running, biking or weight lifting. TIME is here to help with an essential workout playlist: a mix of songs that are tried-and-tested crowd favorites and some deeper cuts worth your attention from recent years and beyond. Normani’s “Motivation,” Lizzo’s “Good As Hell” and Travis Scott’s “Sicko Mode” are just the beginning; from hip-hop t...
Source: TIME: Health - January 8, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Raisa Bruner Tags: Uncategorized clickmonsters Music Source Type: news
Alcohol consumption and self-rated health among older people: population-based study in Sweden - Lindstr öm J, Hellström C, Simonsson B, Molarius A.
OBJECTIVE: To assess the association between body mass index (BMI) and HL among Albanian adults. BACKGROUND: Over the past decades, alcohol consumption has increased in the older population in Sweden, but few studies have investigated the associati... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 12, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
WHO working to save lives following powerful earthquake in Albania
Staff from the World Health Organization (WHO) are assisting authorities in Albania following an earthquake which killed at least 25 people and left more than 650 injured. (Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security)
Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security - November 27, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Human trafficking, vulnerability and the state - Fouladvand S, Ward T.
This article looks at human trafficking from a perspective influenced by the 'vulnerability theory' developed by Martha Fineman and her associates. It draws particularly on empirical studies of human trafficking from Albania to the UK and elsewhere. It sug... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 9, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
Researchers Discover What Became of a Lost Continent, Now Hidden Under the Adriatic Sea
Researchers with Utrecht University in the Netherlands have uncovered what became of a lost continent that broke off from Africa and wedged itself under Europe, creating mountain ranges that span across 30 different countries from Spain to Iran.
“What we have studied is the very complex history of the geology of the Mediterranean region,” Utrecht professor Douwe van Hinsbergen, the lead researcher on the project, tells TIME. Researchers had already known for decades that a continent created the mountain ranges of Europe and the Middle East. “What that continent might have looked like, however, was until n...
Source: TIME: Science - September 25, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Madeleine Carlisle Tags: Uncategorized adriatic sea europe geology onetime Science Source Type: news
W.H.O. Warns of ‘Dramatic’ Rise in Measles in Europe
The disease had a resurgence in Britain, Greece, the Czech Republic and Albania, the World Health Organization said. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - August 29, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Palko Karasz Tags: Measles World Health Organization Vaccination and Immunization Albania Czech Republic Great Britain Greece Source Type: news
UK gives birth to more babies with dangerously low birthweights than Turkmenistan, Albania and Cuba
Around 56,000 British newborns weighed less than 5.5lbs in 2015, approximately seven per cent of all live births that year. The average newborn weighs about 8lbs. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 16, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Measles – European Region
In the first two months of 2019, 34 300 measles cases have been reported in 42 countries of the WHO European Region, including 13 measles-related deaths in three countries (Albania, Romania and Ukraine). The majority of cases are reported in Ukraine, with more than 25 000 cases (>70%)1. As of 28 March 2019, the WHO European Region reported a total of 83 540 measles cases and 74 related deaths for 2018. This is compared to 25 869 cases and 42 deaths in 2017, and 5 273 cases and 13 deaths in 2016. In 2018, eight countries reported over 2 000 cases each including Ukraine (n= 53 218), Serbia (n=5 076), Israel (3 140), France ...
Source: WHO Disease Outbreaks - May 6, 2019 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: news Source Type: news
Americans Are Some of the Most Stressed-Out People in the World, a New Global Survey Says
Americans are some of the most stressed-out people in the world, according to Gallup’s annual Global Emotions report.
For the report, Gallup polled about 1,000 adults in countries around the world last year about the emotions they’d experienced the day before the survey. Negative emotions and experiences — stress, anger, worry, sadness and physical pain — were common around the world, tying 2017’s record-setting levels, the report found.
In the U.S., 55% of respondents told Gallup they’d felt a lot of stress the day before, well above the global average of 35%. Gallup’s research fo...
Source: TIME: Health - April 25, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized Mental Health/Psychology onetime Source Type: news
