Africa: Universal Health Coverage - Think of Health Workers, Not Just Health Services
[IPS] Washington DC/ Chapel Hill, North Carolina/ Geneva -- Health services don't deliver themselves. It is the nurse who triages in the emergency department, the midwife who delivers babies and cares for mothers, the community health worker who gives babies vaccines, the care assistant who bathes someone at home, the surgeon who performs the operation, the anesthetist who blocks the pain, the pharmacist who matches the script to the medication, and the physiotherapist who restores movement. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 19, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Universal Health Coverage: Think of Health Workers, not just Health Services
A laboratory technician works at a health and science centre in Bangkok, Thailand. It is a WHO Collaborating Centre for research and training on viral zoonoses. Credit: WHO/P. Phutpheng
Universal Health Coverage Day on 12 December is the annual rallying point for the growing movement for health for all. It marks the anniversary of the United Nations’ historic and unanimous endorsement of universal health coverage in 2012. By Roopa Dhatt, David Bryden and Gill AdynskiWASHINGTON DC/ CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA/ GENEVA, Dec 19 2022 (IPS) Health services don’t deliver themselves. It is the nurse who triages in the e...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - December 19, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Roopa Dhatt - David Bryden - Gill Adynski Tags: Editors' Choice Featured Global Global Governance Headlines Health Human Rights TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
Why Indigenous women are bringing 'the first ceremony' — birth — back to their communities
In North America, Indigenous midwives and doulas practised their traditions and helped bring Indigenous babies into the world long before the creation of government health-care systems. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - December 18, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Radio/Unreserved Source Type: news
Welsh midwives vote to strike, but not in England
The vote in England didn't make the 50% legal threshold for turnout. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - December 13, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Welsh midwives vote to strike, but England turnout too low
The strike vote didn't make the 50% legal threshold for turnout in England. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - December 13, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
