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Want to Prevent Stroke, Diabetes, Cancer? Get Moving … Now!
Worldwide, 81 per cent of school-aged children are not active enough. Photo: WHOBy Baher KamalROME, Feb 2 2017 (IPS)Tired, lazy, bored, laying down long hours watching TV or seated checking your email? Wrong. And dangerous: not enough exercise contributes to cancer, diabetes, depression and other non-communicable diseases. The warning is bold and comes from the United Nations top health organisation, which is urging people to get up and get active.And the risks of inactivity are expanding alarmingly: according to a new document by the World Health Organization (WHO), less and less people are active in many countries – wi...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 2, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Baher Kamal Tags: Environment Featured Global Headlines Health IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news

Stroke risk factors increase among breast cancer survivors
(American Heart Association) Risk factors for stroke rise sharply in post-menopausal women in the first year after they are diagnosed with breast cancer, according to preliminary research.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - January 30, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

EPMA-World Congress 2015
Table of contents A1 Predictive and prognostic biomarker panel for targeted application of radioembolisation improving individual outcomes in hepatocellular carcinoma Jella-Andrea Abraham, Olga Golubnitschaja A2 Integrated market access approach amplifying value of “Rx-CDx” Ildar Akhmetov A3 Disaster response: an opportunity to improve global healthcare Russell J. Andrews, Leonidas Quintana A4 USA PPPM: proscriptive, profligate, profiteering medicine-good for 1 % wealthy, not for 99 % unhealthy Russell J. Andrews A5 The role of ...
Source: EPMA Journal - May 8, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research

Partial and complete retirement due to ill-health among mature age Australians
Conclusions: To reduce early retirement due to ill-health, health practitioners, governments and employers should address targeted health problems, particularly in areas outside capital cities.
Source: Public Health - February 20, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: S.W. Pit, R. Shrestha, D. Schofield, M. Passey Tags: Original Research Source Type: research

Long-Term Trends in Adult Mortality for U.S. Blacks and Whites: An Examination of Period- and Cohort-Based Changes
Abstract Black–white differences in U.S. adult mortality have narrowed over the past five decades, but whether this narrowing unfolded on a period or cohort basis is unclear. The distinction has important implications for understanding the socioeconomic, public health, lifestyle, and medical mechanisms responsible for this narrowing. We use data from 1959 to 2009 and age-period-cohort (APC) models to examine period- and cohort-based changes in adult mortality for U.S. blacks and whites. We do so for all-cause mortality among persons aged 15–74 as well as for several underlying causes of death more pertinent fo...
Source: Demography - November 18, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research

Standardized mortality ratios by region of residence, Israel, 1987-1994: a tool for public health policy.
CONCLUSIONS: Regional SMR differences, adjusted for age, gender, and ethnicity, may be due to socioeconomic, nutritional, environmental, occupational, or health care factors. SMRs provide a tool to identify regions for epidemiological investigation and priorities for preventive interventions. Regional health monitoring should be undertaken routinely on mortality data, as well as other national databases, as part of national health monitoring. PMID: 15255160 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Source: Public Health Reviews - November 25, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Public Health Rev Source Type: research

Mortality Attributable to Excess Body Mass Index in Iran: Implementation of the Comparative Risk Assessment Methodology
Conclusions: Despite the priority of the problem, there is currently no comprehensive program to prevention or control obesity in Iran. The present results show a growing need to comprehensive implications for national and sub‑national health policies and interventional programs in Iran.Keywords: Body mass index, burden, mortality, obesity, population attributed fraction
Source: International Journal of Preventive Medicine - November 7, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research

Women ’s Health Policies Should Focus on NCDs
Professor Robyn Norton, co-founder and Principal Director of the George Institute for Global Health. Credit: Neena Bhandari/IPSBy Neena BhandariSYDNEY, Apr 11 2017 (IPS)Science and medicine were not subjects of dinnertime conversations in the Norton household in Christchurch, New Zealand, but Professor Robyn Norton grew up observing her parents’ commitment to equity and social justice in improving people’s lives. It left an indelible impression on her young mind.Her high school years coincided with the women’s movement reaching its peak. She got drawn into thinking about addressing women’s health issues and moved t...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 11, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Neena Bhandari Tags: Asia-Pacific Featured Global Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs Women's Health Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) Source Type: news

Prevalence of Cardiovascular Diseases Among Breast Cancer Survivors: Findings From the NHANES 2003-2018
CONCLUSION: Our findings suggest that BC survivors are at risk of suffering from CVD and public health strategies for the long-term management of CVD risk factors in this vulnerable population group is recommended.PMID:35975972 | DOI:10.1177/08901171221120910
Source: American Journal of Health Promotion : AJHP - August 17, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Youngdeok Kim R Lee Franco Alexander R Lucas Arnethea L Sutton Jessica G LaRose Jonathan Kenyon Jeremy Via Richard K Cheng Ralph B D'Agostino Vanessa B Sheppard W Gregory Hundley Source Type: research

Complicated and complex: the management of older cancer patients, a frame of reference to approach clinical complexity
Abstract In this article, we propose a frame of reference to approach complexity in clinical practice. Complexity is becoming a more and more common issue, due to the aging of the population, increased prevalence of polymorbidity, dwindling pool of home caregivers, and the social and economic issues associated with age. The case of a 79-year-old woman with hemiparesis from a previous stroke, breast cancer, and chronic myelogenous leukemia is analyzed. From the analysis of the case, we concluded that: there was an urgent need of a person charged with making the final medical recommendations to an older individual w...
Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person - October 31, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research

Needs of Internally Displaced Women and Children in Baghdad, Karbala, and Kirkuk, Iraq
Conclusions The vulnerability of this population is great, and the emotional trauma of multiple displacements, kidnapping and deaths from intentional violence is great. While some aid is reaching families, much more is needed. Though Iraq is a middle income country, reaching the IDPs in central Iraq will take much more in international assistance than is currently being received. Unfortunately, at this time of great need, assistance is being cut back throughout the region because of lack of funding.10 The local civil society organizations which have sprung up in many locations to assist IDPs, offer an avenue for targeting ...
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - June 10, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Gilbert Burnham Source Type: research

Improvement in quality of hospital care during accreditation: A nationwide stepped-wedge study
Conclusion</div>These findings support the hypothesis that hospital accreditation leads to improvements in patient care.</span>
Source: International Journal for Quality in Health Care - January 31, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research

Mind the Treatment Gap
getty images/ istock photoBy Vani S. Kulkarni and Raghav GaihaPHILADELPHIA AND NEW DELHI, Apr 14 2017 (IPS)Implementation of the Mental Healthcare Act will require a restructuring of health-care services The Mental Healthcare Bill, 2016, which was passed in the Lok Sabha on March 27, 2017, has been hailed as a momentous reform. According to the Bill, every person will have the right to access mental health care operated or funded by the government; good quality and affordable health care; equality of treatment and protection from inhuman practices; access to legal services; and right to complain against coercion and cruelt...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 14, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Vani Kulkarni and Raghav Gaiha Tags: Asia-Pacific Development & Aid Gender Gender Violence Headlines Health Human Rights Women's Health Source Type: news

Predictors of the effectiveness of accreditation on hospital performance: A nationwide stepped-wedge study
ConclusionHospital characteristics were not found to be predictors for the effects of accreditation, whereas conditions and types of care to some extent predicted the effectiveness.
Source: International Journal for Quality in Health Care - May 2, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

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