Global School-based Student Health Survey reveals predictive suicidal behaviors in Brunei Darussalam: a nationwide cross-sectional study - Shahedifar N, Shaikh MA, Oporia F, Wilson ML.
This study aimed to determine the prevalence of and correlates for suicidal behaviors among school attending adolescents in Brunei.
Methods: Nationally representative cross-sectional data on (n=2599) adolescents derived from the Global Scho... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 3, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Tobacco Industry Capitalizes on Pandemic to Increase Influence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
By Jennie Lyn ReyesBANGKOK, Thailand, Nov 20 2020 (IPS) While the COVID-19 pandemic has elevated public health to a top priority in every country in the world, it has left many poorly resourced governments receptive to any and all aid that can provide immediate assistance to help their people.
The pandemic pandemonium has provided unprecedented opportunities for the tobacco industry to boost its corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities to get closer to health and senior government officials.
Using charity to gain access to senior officials, foster good ties, and gain political capital to influence and interfere w...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jennie Lyn Reyes Tags: Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Global Headlines Health Inequity IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
Tobacco Use Places Smokers at an Even Higher Risk of Severe COVID-19 Disease
By Jennie Lyn ReyesBANGKOK, Thailand, Nov 20 2020 (IPS) While the COVID-19 pandemic has elevated public health to a top priority in every country in the world, it has left many poorly resourced governments receptive to any and all aid that can provide immediate assistance to help their people.
The pandemic pandemonium has provided unprecedented opportunities for the tobacco industry to boost its corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities to get closer to health and senior government officials.
Using charity to gain access to senior officials, foster good ties, and gain political capital to influence and interfere w...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jennie Lyn Reyes Tags: Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Global Headlines Health Inequity IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
Secretive Mega-Trade Deal Rules Could Harm Asia ’s Covid-19 Recovery
Community Health warriors (Anganwadi center in Chennai, Tamil Nadu). Credit: Public Services International (PSI)By Lyndal RowlandsBANGKOK, Thailand, Nov 13 2020 (IPS) Fifteen countries will sign a mega-trade deal at the ASEAN conference this weekend imposing secretive restrictions on how governments help workers through the pandemic, trade union leaders and parliamentarians have warned.
The text of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement is so secretive that even elected representatives have not been allowed to see it, even though it will potentially lock future governments into rules that will li...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 13, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Lyndal Rowlands Tags: Asia-Pacific Climate Change Development & Aid Economy & Trade Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Labour TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
Bruneian suicidal behaviors among school attending adolescents: a nationwide cross sectional study - Shahedifar N, A. Shaikh M, Oporia F, Lowery Wilson M.
BACKGROUND:
It is aimed to determine the prevalence of suicidal behaviors regarding to epidemiological and psychosocial characteristics among Bruneian school-student adolescents.
Methods:
The cross-sectional study of 2599 (female: 49.9%; mean: 14.7 y... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 4, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Suicide prevention in Brunei - Ho H.
Brunei Darussalam is a small country in Southeast Asia with a conservative Islamic government and culture. Suicide is a criminal offence under the civil Penal Code and the newly implemented sharia Penal Code. Suicide and mental illness are associated with ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - June 22, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Suicide and Self-Harm Source Type: news
In defence of spanking - Hsiao T.
Is it ever morally okay to spank children as a form of punishment? Polls consistently show that a large majority of Americans think so. Outside of the United States, corporal punishment is widely administered. In fact, Brunei and Singapore, which are both ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 26, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news
‘None of Us Have a Fear of Corona’: The Faithful at an Outbreak’s Center
A gathering of 16,000 at a Malaysian mosque became the pandemic ’s largest known vector in Southeast Asia, spreading the coronavirus to half a dozen countries. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 20, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Hannah Beech Tags: Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Religion and Belief Quarantines Muslims and Islam Mosques Rohingya (Ethnic Group) Pew Research Center Tablighi Jamaat Shincheonji Church of Jesus the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony Brunei Cambodia F Source Type: news
Nurses praised for work to 'advance' human rights across globe
A nurse has received a prestigious award for her instrumental work in ensuring that all nursing staff throughout Brunei have the opportunity to engage in ethics education to improve patient care. (Source: Nursing Times)
Source: Nursing Times - July 29, 2019 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Pride and protest
In a world where nationalism and intolerance are rising and governments pander to reactionary views, a million and a half people hit the streets of London on Saturday to celebrate tolerance and diversity and thumb their noses at bigotry.
A UNISON delegation took part in the parade as London Pride cast a rainbow over the capital – marching (dancing) behind a samba band and welcomed by the enormous crowds at every stage along the route.
Getting the banner ready on Portland Place
Members were present from the West Midlands and there was another group in the parade from Homerton Hospital UNISON branch, carrying a mess...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - July 8, 2019 Category: Food Science Authors: Amanda Kendal Tags: Article News equalities equality LGBT Pride Source Type: news
U. S. Backing for Heated Tobacco Products Triggers Misrepresentation
By Wendell BalderasBANGKOK, Thailand, Jun 14 2019 (IPS) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decision authorizing the sale of Philip Morris International (PMI)’s heated tobacco system, IQOS, in the United States inadvertently puts a foot in the door to increase sales of new tobacco products in the developing world.
In April this year, the FDA authorized the sale of IQOS heated tobacco products in the US. However, it clarified that it has not approved IQOS as a ‘modified risk tobacco product’ (MRTP). But PMI is riding on this ‘US-FDA approved for sale’ of its IQOS as also safer alternative to regular c...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - June 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Wendell Balderas Tags: Aid Development & Aid Environment Featured Global Headlines Health TerraViva United Nations Women's Health Source Type: news
Measles – Western Pacific Region
Globally, between 2016 and 2017, the number of reported measles cases increased by 31%, while in the WHO Western Pacific Region (WPR), the total number of cases reported decreased by 82% during the same period. However, there was an increase in cases reported in WPR, from 11 118 in 2017 to 26 163 cases in 2018. A resurgence of measles cases has been seen in all WHO Regions. An unusually high number of cases reported from countries and areas of the WPR in 2019 have been reported from: 1) several countries/areas where measles has been eliminated due to importation-related outbreaks; and 2) endemic countries such as the Phili...
Source: WHO Disease Outbreaks - May 7, 2019 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: news Source Type: news
Sultan of Brunei stripped of RCGP honours
The College meets next week to discuss its future professional relations with 'repressive regimes' Related items fromOnMedica RCGP 'reviewing' links with Brunei amid anger over LGBT laws Doctors slam Brunei for ‘abhorrent’ laws Tobacco production 'breaches human rights laws ’ Women second-class citizens when it comes to healthcare Genetic risk model could guide prostate cancer screening (Source: OnMedica Latest News)
Source: OnMedica Latest News - April 17, 2019 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Global nursing body condemns 'inhuman' Brunei laws
The International Council of Nurses has joined a chorus of voices condemning the nation of Brunei for new laws that punish gay sex with death. (Source: Nursing Times)
Source: Nursing Times - April 12, 2019 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Doctors slam Brunei for ‘abhorrent’ laws
RCGP plans to strip Sultan of honour Related items fromOnMedica Lancet condemns human 'atrocities' in Gaza A child under 15 dies every five seconds around the world RCGP 'reviewing' links with Brunei amid anger over LGBT laws G8 must tackle health inequality, says Bill Gates and WHO Health Outcome Framework may include measure on loneliness (Source: OnMedica Latest News)
Source: OnMedica Latest News - April 11, 2019 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
