Girls in Azerbaijan battle disability stigma with sports
ABSHERON, Azerbaijan –Fourteen-year-old Maryam stood, awe-struck, at the edge of an indoor football pitch in Absheron, Azerbaijan. “For me, seeing a real soccer pitch, a real goal net, and putting on a real soccer jersey has been utterly shocking,” she said.Life is often isolating for young people like Maryam, who is living with Autism. In Azerbaijan, nearly half of youth with disabilities are educated at home, away from their peers, according to a2010 survey. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - July 24, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: zerzan Source Type: news
About 200 suspected poisoned by pesticides in Azerbaijan
Health officials in Azerbaijan say that about 200 farm workers have been poisoned with chemicals while working in cotton fields (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - June 21, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Ukraine Puts Water Strategy High on Development Agenda
A lake in Ukraine, which has a relative scarcity of naturally-occurring water supplies in populated areas. Credit: Vitaliy Motrinets/cc by 4.0By Ed HoltKIEV, Jun 21 2018 (IPS)A campaign to raise awareness of water security in Ukraine could be an inspiration around the world, activists behind it say, after it forced a change in the country’s approach to its water resources.After almost five years of promoting a vision of water security and proactive water management among various stakeholders and the government in Kiev, the issue of water security is now a top development priority for the government.“Ageing infrastructu...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - June 21, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ed Holt Tags: Climate Change Combating Desertification and Drought Development & Aid Environment Europe Featured Food & Agriculture Headlines Health Natural Resources Poverty & SDGs Projects Water & Sanitation Global Water Partnership Sustai Source Type: news
Epidemiology of road traffic injury fatalities among car users; a study based on forensic medicine data in East Azerbaijan of Iran - Sadeghi-Bazargani H, Samadirad B, Shahedifar N, Golestani M.
OBJECTIVE: To study the epidemiology of car user road traffic fatalities (CURTFs) during eight years, in East Azerbaijan, Iran. METHODS: A total of 3051 CURTFs registered in East Azerbaijan forensic medicine organization database, Iran, during 2006... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 5, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Parts unknown: risk factors of intimate partner violence in Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Moldova - Hayes BE, Randa R.
Extant research has argued that there are variations in predictors of intimate partner violence (IPV) across nations and it is necessary to examine country-specific correlates of IPV. Much remains unknown about factors that affect risk of IPV in transition... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 30, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news
Why Armenia's transition to democracy failed
(Lehigh University) In a paper published online in Nationalities Papers earlier this month in, Arman Grigoryan, assistant professor of international relations at Lehigh University, argues that the main driver of Armenia's failed transition after independence was its war with Azerbaijan and the continued state of belligerence after the ceasefire was signed in 1994. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - April 30, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Skull surgery was performed on this Stone Age cow, study says
Humans have been performing cranial surgery and drilling holes in other people's skulls for a long time. The oldest example of this procedure, called trepanation, dates to 7,300 B.C., according to findings from a site at the village of Vasilyevka in Azerbaijan. That means cranial surgery was happening as long ago as the Mesolithic period. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - April 19, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
List of countries eligible for free one-click access to the Cochrane Library in 2019
We are delighted to confirm thatWiley will offer free one-click access to the Cochrane Library including more than 10,000 full text Cochrane Systematic Reviews and Protocols in over 100 countries with approximately 2.1 billion people. One-click free access is provided by country IP recognition for all the included countries, so no individual login is needed. Users from the eligible countries can simply go towww.cochranelibrary.com to gain full text access to Cochrane Reviews.Effective 7 February 2018, Azerbaijan, Belarus and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) are now on the list of eligible countries. The country list is r...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - April 12, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Muriah Umoquit Source Type: news
Baby boy born with an extra penis has it removed
The operation was carried out at the Scientific Research Institute of Pediatrics in Baku, Azerbaijani. The penis was all that was left of a parasitic twin who failed to develop. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 18, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Poisoning by psychopharmacological drugs in Azerbaijan: the results of 8-year prospective observation - Afandiyev I, Azizov V.
Acute poisoning of chemical etiology is a significant global public health problem. The aim of this study was the analysis of the toxicoepidemiological structure of psychopharmacological drugs poisoning in Azerbaijan. We collected and analyzed the data on ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 14, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
Implementation of deinstitutionalization of child care institutions in post-soviet countries: the case of Azerbaijan - Huseynli A.
This study examined the status of the State Program on Deinstitutionalization and Alternative Care (SPDAC), a public policy aimed at transforming 55 institutions covering 14,500 childre... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 13, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Men take a stand against gender-based violence in Azerbaijan
IMISHLI, Azerbaijan – Recent weeks have seen several high-profile cases of gender-based violence splashed across headlines. Millions of women around the world have demanded an end to these abuses – and, increasingly, people are calling for men to take action as well.In the remote villages of Imishli District, in Azerbaijan, men are doing just that. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - October 27, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: zerzan Source Type: news
Promised Land
In the summer of 2015, a curious piece of world news brought a flicker of hope to the wretched Syrian city of Palmyra. Islamic State fighters had taken over the ancient town, toppling its monuments and executing anyone who resisted their draconian rules. And yet at one of the city’s darkest moments, rumors of a sanctuary far away began to filter in, generating dreams among a populace that had already lost everything. On Aug. 31 of that year, German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that her country was prepared to take in hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing war in the Middle East. “We can do this,” ...
Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories - September 28, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Aryn Baker / Berlin Tags: Uncategorized finding home Germany Refugees Source Type: news
To honor his uncle ’s memory, young doctor wants to offer hope to those with cancer
When Razmik Ghukasyan received his acceptance letter to the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, he and his family were ecstatic. But their celebration was cut short days later when his uncle was diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer.During his first year of medical school, Ghukasyan frequently accompanied his uncle, Partev Kolanjian, to oncology appointments at another hospital. He was disturbed by the impersonal way his uncle ’s doctors treated him, which differed sharply from what Ghukasyan was learning at UCLA about the importance of a compassionate doctor-patient relationship.“In school, I was taught to de...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - July 28, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Epidemiology of fatal traffic injuries registered in East Azerbaijan andFfars forensic medicine organizations: the research protocol - Samadirad B, Khodadoost M, Sadeghi-Bazargani H, Shahedifar N, Heydari ST, Gholamzadeh S.
PURPOSE: Iran's statistics confirmed the number of road traffic injuries (RTIs) fatalities per 10,000 motor vehicles more than four times the global average. Accounting for the leading cause of death in people under the age of fifty, fatal road traffic in... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 19, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Pedestrians and Bicycles Source Type: news
