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‘Salty’ Concern: Tackling High Salt Consumption in China
Veena S. Kulkarni, Associate Professor, Department of Criminology, Sociology and Geography, Arkansas State University, USA; and Raghav Gaiha, (Hon.) Professorial Research Fellow, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, England.By Veena S. Kulkarni and Raghav GaihaNEW DELHI, India and JONESBORO, US, Oct 7 2019 (IPS) China’s almost meteoric transition from a being a low income to a middle income country within a span of four decades is often perceived as a miracle analogous to the post Second World War Japanese economic development experience. China’s GDP rose from $200 current United States dollars (US$ ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - October 7, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Veena Kulkarni and Raghav Gaiha Tags: Asia-Pacific Development & Aid Economy & Trade Food & Agriculture Food Sustainability Globalisation Headlines Health Labour TerraViva United Nations Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition Foundation (BCFN) Source Type: news
Room to breathe for L.A. apartment residents
Public health efforts in California over the last two decades have succeeded in clearing the air of tobacco smoke in workplaces, restaurants, bars and many other public places. But for those who reside in multi-unit apartment complexes, the home is not always a smoke-free zone — even if they want it to be and even if their health suffers as a result.
With a $3 million federal grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research in the public health school is leading an initiative to change that reality for low-income Latino and African-American families living ...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - July 7, 2015 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Toxic Air – The ‘Invisible Killer’ that Stifles 300 Million Children
On 24 October 2016 in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria, children pass in front of a flame fed by waste and rubber materials in order to make Kanda, a type of smoked meat, at an abattoir. Photo: UNICEF/Tanya BindraBy Baher KamalROME, Nov 1 2016 (IPS)About 300 million children in the world are living in areas with outdoor air so toxic – six or more times higher than international pollution guidelines – that it can cause serious health damage, including harming their brain development. This shocking finding has just been revealed by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), in a new report — ‘Clear the...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 1, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Baher Kamal Tags: Climate Change Featured Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse Poverty & SDGs Source Type: news
UCLA helps many to live long and prosper
In Westwood, more than 100 faculty experts from 25 departments have embarked on anall-encompassing push to cut the health and economic impacts of depression in half by the year 2050. The mammoth undertaking will rely on platforms developed by the new Institute for Precision Health, which will harness the power of big data and genomics to move toward individually tailored treatments and health-promotion strategies.On the same 419 acres of land, researchers across the spectrum, from the laboratory bench to the patient bedside, are ushering in a potentially game-changing approach to turning the body ’s immune defenses again...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - November 9, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Medtronic inks 5-year partnership with Lehigh Valley Health Network
Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) today announced a five-year strategic partnership with Lehigh Valley Health Network looking to develop value-based solutions for patients within the network.
The LVHN serves a total of eight hospitals across seven counties in Northeastern Pennsylvania, Fridley, Minn.-based Medtronic said.
The healthcare network’s partnership with Medtronic will aim to create programs for more than 70 major medical conditions with goals of reducing cost by $100 million and improving outcomes for as many as 500,000 patients.
“This agreement is exciting not only for Medtronic and LVHN, but also for the health...
Source: Mass Device - February 28, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Fink Densford Tags: Business/Financial News Hospital Care Medtronic Source Type: news
Medtronic Finds Another Value-Based Care Partner
Dublin, Ireland-based Medtronic continues to lead the charge toward value-based care with a new five-year strategic partnership with Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN), an eight-hospital network in Northeastern Pennsylvania. The partnership is aimed at developing innovative, sustainable, and integrated value-based solutions to improve healthcare outcomes for LVHN's patients.
The partnership will create programs that span more than 70 major medical conditions, with the goal of positively impacting as many as 500,000 patients and reducing their cost of care by $100 million.
The organizations said the partnership will leve...
Source: MDDI - February 28, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Amanda Pedersen Tags: Medical Device Business Source Type: news
