Mental health first aid training for the Bhutanese refugee community in the United States - Subedi P, Li C, Gurung A, Bizune D, Dogbey MC, Johnson CC, Yun K.
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training for Bhutanese refugee community leaders in the U.S. We hypothesized that training refugee leaders would improve knowledge of mental health problems a... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - May 23, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Suicide and Self-Harm Source Type: news
Holding Grudges Is Bad for Our Health
It might be hard to imagine, but somewhere between 50 and 80 percent of people will experience a trauma at some point in their lives. To make matters worse, most traumas are perpetrated directly by other people -- sometimes even acquaintances, friends, and family members. Given these depressing statistics, it may be tempting to become angry or resentful, to view people as threats and little more. That's what some victims of trauma do, of course. They may hold grudges, harbor life-long resentment, and even seek retribution. Who could blame them?
Perhaps this is why some mental health professionals teach that forgivenes...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 1, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Group Prenatal and Group Baby Care With Refugees (Roberta Matern MD)
Phoenix is a major recipient of refugees for resettlement in the US. The Family Medicine Residency at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center works closely with the Arizona Health Department's Refugee Clinic and the International Rescue Committee (IRC). As such, we have many refugee patients from Burma, Bhutan, African nations and the Middle East. Recognizing the unique needs of these populations, especially for disease prevention and prenatal care, the residency and the IRC adapted Centering PregnancyTM and Centering ParentingTM to our refugees. For over 5 years, we have provided group prenatal and group baby care in a c...
Source: Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL) Recently Uploaded - April 10, 2015 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Time Is Money
Photo: I. Rimanoczy
We have all heard it -- and said it ourselves, or thought of it at different moments in our life. Time is money. While it sounds like a post-modern capitalistic axiom, the quote actually originates with Benjamin Franklin who articulated this idea in Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One, a handbook printed in 1748. "Remember that Money is of a prolific generating Nature. Money can beget Money, and its Offspring can beget more, and so on", Franklin observed, in his early musings about the power and potential of money. He advocated for saving, hard work, paying debts on time. "The Way to We...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - April 6, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Pursuit of Happiness: Why It Can Be a Gift That Keeps on Giving
The pursuit of happiness was a concept that the United States' founding fathers valued so much they made it a part of the Declaration of Independence from the British Empire. While the idea of the inalienable right of all human beings to pursue happiness is not an exclusively North American one (arguably the idea originated in Greece with the philosopher Epicurus), we must acknowledge that it is rare for any country to really look at the happiness of their citizens as a right.
In fact, the real mover and shaker lately with regard to prioritizing the "pursuit of happiness" is the small Himalayan country of Bhutan. This m...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - March 24, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
24 Hours of Happiness
Occasionally a new great song comes around that captivates me. Pharrell William's 2013 song "Happy" is one of those. It is infectious and immediately makes you feel happy; as a result it has taken the world by storm. The song currently has over 595 million views on YouTube and a dedicated website 24hoursofhappiness.com, co-branded with the United Nations Foundation. Many countries and cities have already made their own music video versions to Pharrel William's song. This wonderful song is truly spreading happiness around the world and is an example of the power of music to uplift and unify different cultures.
Three Kinds ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - March 20, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Understanding Bhutanese refugee suicide through the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behavior - Ellis BH, Lankau EW, Ao T, Benson MA, Miller AB, Shetty S, Lopes Cardozo B, Geltman PL, Cochran J.
This study sought to understand the apparent high rates of suicide among resettled Bhutanese refugees in the context of the ... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - February 7, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Social Etiologies and Disparities Source Type: news
Notes from the Field: Update: Vitamin B12 Deficiency Among Bhutanese Refugees Resettling in the United States, 2012
(Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - July 17, 2014 Category: American Health Source Type: news
One World [Cup], One Red Cross
The FIFA World Cup took the world by storm, and the American Red Cross scored great stories, videos and resources to fuel your soccer appetite.
The Red Cross Grand Canyon Chapter has a distinction within the American Red Cross – they have had the most Restoring Family Links (RFL) cases of any chapter across the country for the past two years. To help serve their community in a unique way, the chapter’s international services department reached out to the Iraqi American Society for Peace and Friendship (IASPF).
The collaboration resulted in the Red Cross supporting a local soccer tournament hosted by IASPF, now in ...
Source: Red Cross Chat - July 3, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Sarah Layton Tags: Uncategorized refugees Restoring Family Links soccer world cup Source Type: news
DNA Study Proves Bigfoot Never Existed
In a stunning finding that set off shock waves of grieving through much of the world, University of Oxford researchers announced that the beloved bipedal cryptid known globally as Bigfoot is dead—or, more specifically, that he never existed.
Mr. Foot, who also went by the name Sasquatch, or Sásq’ets in the original Halkomelem, was 4,000 years old. Or maybe not.
The Oxford finding was the result of a three-year study that began in 2012 when researchers issued an open call for hair samples held in museums and private collections that were said to come from “an anomalous primate,” which is the kind of ter...
Source: TIME: Top Science and Health Stories - July 2, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized animals Bigfoot DNA hoax myth Opinion Oxford University Sasquatch! Yeti Source Type: news
DNA Analysis Debunks Bigfoot Myth, Points to Unknown Bear Species
The legend of the enormous creature variously known as a yeti, Bigfoot or Sasquatch has long been a source of mystery. But now a study of supposed Bigfoot hair samples has revealed that they actually derive from known mammals including bears, cows, dogs or horses.
A team of scientists led by Bryan Sykes, a human genetics professor at the University of Oxford, analyzed DNA from 30 samples of Bigfoot hair donated by museums and enthusiasts. Although this may come as a blow to cryptozoologists — those who search for creatures whose existence is unproven — the analysis may herald the discovery of a new species of bear.
Two...
Source: TIME: Top Science and Health Stories - July 2, 2014 Category: Science Authors: melissahellmann Tags: Uncategorized animals big foot brown bear cyptozoology Polar Bear Sasquatch! Yeti Source Type: news
Geology spans the minute and gigantic, from skeletonized leaves in China to water on mars
(Geological Society of America) New Geology studies include a mid-Cretaceous greenhouse world; the Vredefort meteoric impact event and the Vredefort dome, South Africa; shallow creeping faults in Italy; a global sink for immense amounts of water on Mars; the Funeral Mountains, USA; insect-mediated skeletonization of fern leaves in China; first-ever tectonic geomorphology study in Bhutan; the Ethiopian Large Igneous Province; the Central Andean Plateau; the Scandinavian Ice Sheet; the India-Asia collision zone; the Snake River Plain; and northeast Brazil. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - April 3, 2014 Category: Biology Source Type: news
iSchool Project Launches with Ericsson, Bhutan Telecom and Bhutan's Education Ministry
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Source: Medical News (via PRIMEZONE) - March 29, 2014 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Traditional medicine: a rare cause of lead poisoning in Western countries - Muller H, Regard S, Petriccioli N, Kherad O.
A 42-year-old man from Bhutan was admitted to the emergency department with a 5-day history of abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting. Enhanced abdominal CT scan was found negative, however laboratory tests showed hemolytic anemia and basophilic stippling whi... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - February 23, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Home and Consumer Product Safety Source Type: news
Doctors Resist Deadly Vaccine
An infant in intensive care at the Holy Family Hospital in New Delhi. Indian hospitals prefer traditional DPT vaccines. Credit: Holy Family Hospital.By Ranjit DevrajNEW DELHI, Feb 8 2014 (IPS) A spate of sudden infant deaths following vaccination in India has prompted leading paediatricians to call for stronger regulatory mechanisms to evaluate new vaccines for safety and efficacy before their acceptance into the national immunisation programme.
According to data obtained from the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, over the last one year 54 babies are recorded to have died soon after receiving the newly introduce...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 8, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Ranjit Devraj Tags: Active Citizens Aid Asia-Pacific Civil Society Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Headlines Health Human Rights Population Regional Categories TerraViva Europe TerraViva United Nations Children India Vaccines Source Type: news
