No global health without peace: from Afghanistan to Ukraine violence casts long shadows in the 21st century - Birch M, van Bergen L.
Some of the articles in this issue of Medicine, Conflict& Survival cover conflicts in Libya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia and Afghanistan, all reminders that - despite the understandable domination of the conflict in Ukraine in the media - lo... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - June 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Somalia: At Least 30 Children Died From Malnutrition At Kismayo Hospital
[Shabelle] KISMAYO [SMN] - About 30 children have died of malnutrition in Kismayo, the regional capital of Lower Jubba, south of Somalia in the past few hours. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 24, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Somalia: Nation Faces Climate Emergency and Famine As Fourth Rainy Season Fails
[Norwegian Refugee Council] An unprecedented fourth failed rainy season with catastrophic hunger, disease and displacement has forced Somalia into a climate crisis, the Norwegian Refugee Council's Secretary General Jan Egeland warned today. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 24, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
2022 Health Care Heroes: Inspired by nurse who cared for him, Mohamed Mohamed now inspires others
Mohamed Mohamed was badly burned while fleeing the Somali Civil War in 1991. The nurse who cared for him in Kenya inspired him to pursue a career in health care. He is now an RN and operating room nurse at M Health Fairview and has started his own nonprofit. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - June 16, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Brigitt Martin Source Type: news
FAO, UNICEF, WFP and WHO work jointly to accelerate action on maternal and child undernutrition ...
Amman/Cairo 15 June 2022 | Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Near East and North Africa Region, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Programme (WFP) Middle East and North Africa Region are convening a high-level meeting to accelerate action on maternal and child undernutrition. The meeting brings together senior representatives from ministries of health, agriculture, planning, social welfare and education, and a wide range of stakeholders, including academia, research in...
Source: WHO EMRO News - June 16, 2022 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: news
Hit Hard By COVID-19, Black Americans Share Their Grief
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, as hospitals facilitated goodbyes over iPads and funeral homes buried dead without services, families were left with a uniquely isolating grief, devoid of the rituals that traditionally surround death.
For Black Americans, who were 1.9 times more likely than white Americans to die of COVID-19 at the start of the pandemic, this stifled grief fits into a long history of unacknowledged pain. Dating back to slavery, when scientific journals claimed that Black people had higher pain tolerances, to now, as the maternal mortality rate for Black women is 2.9 times that of white women, Black A...
Source: TIME: Health - June 13, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Simmone Shah and Photographs and interviews by Andrea Ellen Reed Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 freelance healthscienceclimate Photo Source Type: news
How to Stop the ‘Hunger Pandemic’ During COVID-19
In conclusion, we hope that through reading this article, the depths of food waste and loss are understood and will encourage our audience to develop forward-thinking solutions for the betterment of our future.
Sungjoon Ham, Souta Oshiro, and Alex Yoon are middle school learners living in the USA and Asia. They participated in a joint APDA, and IPS training on developing opinion content. Hanna Yoon led the course and edited the opinion content.
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Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - June 13, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sungjoon Ham - Souta Oshiro - Alex Yoon Tags: Asia-Pacific COVID-19 Food Security and Nutrition Food Sustainability Headlines Humanitarian Emergencies North America TerraViva United Nations Youth Thought Leaders Asian Population and Development Association (APDA) IPS UN Bureau I Source Type: news
Epidemiology, risk factors and etiology of altered level of consciousness among patients attending the emergency department at a tertiary hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia - Adan Ali H, Farah Yusuf Mohamud M.
INTRODUCTION: An altered level of consciousness (ALOC) means that the patient is not as awake, alert, or able to understand or react to the surrounding environment. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the epidemiology, risk factors, and etiol... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - June 9, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Ethiopia: MSF Resumes Medical Humanitarian Activities in Gambella and Somali States
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- M édecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), an international medical and humanitarian organization, announces the restart of activities in Gambella and Somali regions of Ethiopia. "We are relieved to once again provide some assistance to people in these areas, many of whom have gone wit hout essential and even life-saving care during the period of our suspension," MSF said in a statement sent to Addis Standard. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 8, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Only God can help': Hundreds die as Somalia faces famine
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Source: Reuters: Health - June 8, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
'Only God can help': Hundreds die as Somalia faces famine
No mother should have to lose her child (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - June 8, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
A prospective cohort study of the relationship of female genital mutilation with birth outcomes in Somalia - Kulaksiz D, Abdi Nor I, Erin R, Baki Erin K, Toprak T.
In this study,... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - June 2, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Funding Spotlight – Year 2 Award Recipients
Region 6 of the Network of the National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce the five Health Information Outreach subawards for the 2022-2023 performance period. The purpose of the Health Information Outreach Award is to improve health literacy and increase health equity through engagement and training for health information.
Central Ohio Hospital Council – Led by Jeffrey Klingler
This project, “Health Information Translations”, will maintain and update titles on the Health Information Translations (HIT) website. Health Information Translations (HIT) is a website for low-literacy health information translated ...
Source: The Cornflower - May 27, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Miles Dietz-Castel Tags: Funding health information outreach Source Type: news
Biden Approves Plan to Redeploy Several Hundred Ground Forces Into Somalia
The president also signed off on targeting about a dozen Shabab leaders in the war-torn country, from which Donald J. Trump largely withdrew in his final weeks in office. #shabab #groundforces #donaldjtrump (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - May 16, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Displacement, polygyny, romantic jealousy, and intimate partner violence: a qualitative study among Somali refugees in Ethiopia - Abudulai F, Pichon M, Buller AM, Scott J, Sharma V.
This study aimed to explore factors that elicit jealousy among Somali refugees in the Bokolmayo Refugee... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 16, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
