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In Latin America, Heat Warnings Can Prevent Deaths
Residents of Mexico City take shelter from the heat in a covered area, on a central street in the capital, in the month of March, when spring has not even arrived yet in the country. Heat waves will become more frequent and will last longer, due to the climate emergency. CREDIT: Emilio Godoy/IPSBy Emilio GodoyMEXICO CITY, Mar 14 2023 (IPS) On Mar. 9, more than half of Mexico reported maximum temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius, although spring has not even arrived yet in this Latin American country located in the northern hemisphere.
In fact, the Megalopolis Environmental Commission, which brings together the federal gov...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 14, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Emilio Godoy Tags: Climate Change Development & Aid Editors' Choice Environment Headlines Health Latin America & the Caribbean Regional Categories Extreme Weather heat waves Mexico Source Type: news
UN Aims at People-Centered Governance in a Post-Pandemic World
A rescued boat woman and her two children eat some welcome food at a centre in Kuala Cangkoi, Indonesia. The UN urges 'people-centred' approach to migrants and refugees in Southeast Asia. Credit: UNHCRBy Simone GalimbertiKATHMANDU, Nepal, Apr 29 2022 (IPS) The recently disseminated Zero Draft Ministerial Declaration of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF)– the main UN event to track the member states’ progress to achieve the Agenda 2030 slated to be held in the first half of July– is a disappointment.
For all its comprehensiveness, the document neglected to mention one of the most...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 29, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Simone Galimberti Tags: COVID-19 Development & Aid Featured Food and Agriculture Global Global Governance Headlines Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
Functional dependence and support for the older persons in Mexico, 2001-2026Depend ência funcional e apoio em idosos no México, 2001-2026
CONCLUSIONS: Factors associated with future dependence and death were age, educational level, certain chronic diseases, having fallen, and having prior functional dependence; the factors associated with receiving support for basic ADLs were severe dependence and age. It is estimated that the prevalence of dependence will increase 2.1 times over 25 years (2001-2026).PMID:34475881 | PMC:PMC8369130 | DOI:10.26633/RPSP.2021.71
Source: Pan American Journal of Public Health - September 3, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: C ésar González-González Gianluca Cafagna Mar ía Del Carmen Hernández Ruiz Pablo Ibarrar án Marco Stampini Source Type: research
Explaining Chronic Illness and Self-Rated Health Among Immigrants of Five Hispanic Ethnicities
AbstractThe largest racial/ethnic minority group in the United States, Hispanics, especially Hispanic immigrants, have been considered healthier than groups of other ethnicity (including Whites, the majority). However, chronic illnesses such as cancer and diabetes are often seen in this culturally, ethnically diverse group. The present study had two aims. First was to explain two health outcomes, which were presence of chronic illness (any of the five common conditionscardiovascular disease,stroke,hypertension,cancer, and/ordiabetes/prediabetes) and self-rated health, in terms of links to certain factors in acculturation...
Source: Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities - October 24, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Cost-effectiveness of a fixed-dose combination pill for secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease in China, India, Mexico, Nigeria, and South Africa: a modelling study
Publication date: Available online 30 August 2019Source: The Lancet Global HealthAuthor(s): John K Lin, Andrew E Moran, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Bode Falase, Andrea Pedroza Tobias, Charuta N Mandke, Dhruv S KaziSummaryBackgroundFewer than 25% of patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in countries of low and middle income (LMICs) use guideline-directed drugs for secondary prevention. A fixed-dose combination polypill might improve cardiovascular outcomes by increasing prescription rates and adherence, but the cost-effectiveness of this approach is uncertain.MethodsWe developed microsimulation models to assess ...
Source: The Lancet Global Health - September 1, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Collegiate Neurosurgery in disaster and mass medical emergencies: lessons learned from Mexico - Ramos-Z úñiga R, Arellano-Contreras JR, Rochin-Mozqueda JA, Plascencia-JİMéNEZ JA.
Every year, natural or people -generated disasters disrupt the functioning of society, causing human and material loses which leads to an increase in the demand of medical attention. In the morning of September 19th , 2017 a 7.1 earthquake stroke Mexico Ci...
Source: SafetyLit - April 18, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news
