Air Pollution Kills Millions Every Year: Action Needed
The World Health Organization calls air pollution the “single biggest environmental threat to human health" and estimates that 99 percent of the world’s population live in locations that are above WHO thresholds designed to protect human health. . Credit: Malav Goswami/IPSBy Felix HorneSep 2 2022 (IPS) Tarik, age 42, lives in a village adjacent to a decades-old coal power plant in Bosnia and Herzegovina. On the day we visited, Bosnian cities were some of the most polluted places on Earth. Describing the devastating health toll the air pollution took each year on the village’s older residents he voiced his fear for hi...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - September 2, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Felix Horne Tags: Environment Global Headlines Health Source Type: news
Mental health and substance abuse among the Bosnia and Herzegovina student population during the COVID-19 outbreak - Sljivo A, Smailbegovic FG, Mula ć A, Dadic I, Kubat A, Sirucic I.
BACKGROUND: Mental health, substance abuse and suicidal ideation present an emerging healthcare problem during COVID-19 pandemic as a result of socio-epidemiological measures, isolations, work modifications, constant media overload with COVID-19 related ne... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 11, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Migrants and Health Workers Play Complex ‘Game’ on Europe’s Fringes
Viraj from India, in a squat where he has been living for three months near Velika Kladusa, Bosnia. He hopes to join family in Italy. February 2022. Credit: Chiara LuxardoBy Sara PerriaBihać, Bosnia, Apr 19 2022 (IPS) Responding to several shouts Viraj emerges from the ruins of his shelter in northwest Bosnia. He is originally from India but is now squatting near Bihać in what remains of a house abandoned since the 1990s Balkans war.
“I was in the bathroom,” says Viraj – although there is no such facility. The building doesn’t even have windows, just gaps exposed to a freezing wind. Collapsing walls are patc...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 19, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sara Perria Tags: COVID-19 Crime & Justice Europe Featured Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Migration & Refugees TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Source Type: news
Justice and reparations still critical, 30 years on from Sarajevo siege
Thirty years after the siege of Sarajevo, the UN team in Bosnia and Herzegovina reiterated the importance on Wednesday of pursuing justice and reparation for victims, survivors and their family members. (Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security)
Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security - April 6, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Dream. Dare. Do.
By Yasmine SherifNEW YORK, Feb 14 2022 (IPS) Conflict, forced displacement, climate change and COVID-19 are disrupting the education of millions of crisis-affected children and adolescents around the world.
Yasmine Sherif is the Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the United Nation’s global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises. When she and ECW partners from around the world operationalized the Fund in 2017, an estimated 75 million conflict-affected children were out of school. Today, that number has risen to 128 million – more than the total population of Japan.
Just a few short years lat...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 14, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Yasmine Sherif Tags: Armed Conflicts Climate Change COVID-19 Education Education Cannot Wait. Future of Education is here Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Migration & Refugees Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Educa Source Type: news
Athletes and Coaches Are Testing Positive at Higher Rates Than Others Arriving for Beijing Olympics
(BEIJING) — Athletes and team officials are testing positive for COVID-19 at much higher rates than other people arriving in China for the Beijing Olympics, organizers said Tuesday.
Figures released by local organizers showed 11 positive tests for COVID-19 among 379 athletes and officials arriving Monday. They have been taken into isolation hotels to limit the spread of the infection and could miss their events.
The positive test rate of 2.9% for athletes and officials compared to 0.66% for Olympic “stakeholders,” a group which includes workers and media, in the same period. There were 1,059 people in tha...
Source: TIME: Health - February 1, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Graham Dunbar/AP Tags: Uncategorized olympics wire Source Type: news
Mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2022 with a focus on ‘one day’
Holocaust Memorial Day takes place every year on 27 January. This year, the theme is ‘one day’.
The theme, which is open to interpretation, encourages participants and events to focus on one day in history to learn more about, or one day when life changed for a Holocaust survivor. It also offers one day to set aside to remember the past and to create a world that will one day be free from fascism, genocide and the politics of hate. In the words of the organisers:
“One day is just a snapshot in time and therefore cannot give the full picture, the context, the background that is needed, but it can help bring a piece o...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - January 17, 2022 Category: Food Science Authors: Simon Jackson Tags: Article News holocaust memorial day Source Type: news
Mark this year ’ s Holocaust Memorial Day with a focus on ‘ one day ’
Holocaust Memorial Day takes place every year on 27 January. This year, the theme is ‘one day’.
The theme, which is open to interpretation, encourages participants and events to focus on one day in history to learn more about, or one day when life changed for a Holocaust survivor. It also offers one day to set aside to remember the past and to create a world that will one day be free from fascism, genocide and the politics of hate. In the words of the organisers:
“One day is just a snapshot in time and therefore cannot give the full picture, the context, the background that is needed, but it can help bring a piece o...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - January 17, 2022 Category: Food Science Authors: Simon Jackson Tags: Article holocaust memorial day Source Type: news
Mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2020 with a focus on ‘one day’
Holocaust Memorial Day takes place every year on 27 January. This year, the theme is ‘one day’.
The theme, which is open to interpretation, encourages participants and events to focus on one day in history to learn more about, or one day when life changed for a Holocaust survivor. It also offers one day to set aside to remember the past and to create a world that will one day be free from fascism, genocide and the politics of hate. In the words of the organisers:
“One day is just a snapshot in time and therefore cannot give the full picture, the context, the background that is needed, but it can help bring a piece o...
Source: UNISON Health care news - January 17, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: Simon Jackson Tags: Article News holocaust memorial day Source Type: news
Systematic review on diabetes mellitus and dental implants: an update
ConclusionDental implant procedures represent a safe way of oral rehabilitation in patients with prediabetes or diabetes mellitus, as long as appropriate precautions can be adhered to. Accordingly, under controlled conditions there is still no contraindication for dental implant surgery in patients with diabetes mellitus or prediabetic conditions. (Source: Dental Technology Blog)
Source: Dental Technology Blog - January 11, 2022 Category: Dentistry Source Type: news
In the Tinderbox of Bosnia, a Serb Nationalist Lights a Match
Bosnia’s fragile multiethnic government is facing its greatest crisis since the Balkan wars. The Serb nationalist leader, Milorad Dodik, is threatening to tear the country apart. #miloraddodik #balkan #serb (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 2, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
In under-vaccinated Bosnia, inmate population stands out
Bosnia’s rate of vaccination against the coronavirus is one of the lowest in Europe, but one population in the Balkan country has bucked the national trend: its prison inmates (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - December 29, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Trends in suicide mortality in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina - 2010-2020 - Cilovic-Lagarija S, Hasanica N, Musa S, Peek-Asa C.
BACKGROUND: Suicide is a major public health problem, with far-reaching social, emotional and economic consequences. Suicide rates are high in all age groups are particularly high in all age groups but are one of the major causes of death among younger age... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 15, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Suicide and Self-Harm Source Type: news
Flash floods in Bosnia prompt evacuations, power outages
Heavy rain has caused flash flooding in Bosnia, prompting evacuations, causing power outages in most of the capital, closing a key facility for oxygen used for COVID-19 patients and submerging roads in some parts of the country (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - November 5, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Bosnian doctors brace for new wave as virus rages in region
Doctors in Bosnia are bracing for a new wave of the coronavirus in the Balkan nation, which has a low vaccination rate and has been among the hardest hit countries in Europe earlier in the pandemic (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - November 5, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
