Fighting inequality, corruption, and conflict - how to improve South Asia's health
The BMJ has published a series of articles, taking an in-depth look at health in South Asia. In this collection, authors from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Afghanistan collaborate to identify evidence-based solutions to shape health policy and interventions, and drive innovations and research in the region.
In this podcast,... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 11, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Fighting inequality, corruption, and conflict - how to improve South Asia's health
The BMJ has published a series of articles, taking an in-depth look at health in South Asia. In this collection, authors from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Afghanistan collaborate to identify evidence-based solutions to shape health policy and interventions, and drive innovations and research in the region.
In this podcast, two of the driving forces behind the series - Dr Zulfiqar Bhutta, from Aga Khan University, and Dr Samiran Nundy from the Ganga Ram Postgraduate institute for Medical Education and research - join Anita Jain to discuss the key issues affecting the region now.
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Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 11, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Fighting inequality, corruption, and conflict - how to improve South Asia ’s health
The BMJ has published a series of articles, taking an in-depth look at health in South Asia. In this collection, authors from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Afghanistan collaborate to identify evidence-based solutions to shape health policy and interventions, and drive innovations and research in the region.
In this podcast, two of the driving forces behind the series - Dr Zulfiqar Bhutta, from Aga Khan University, and Dr Samiran Nundy from the Ganga Ram Postgraduate institute for Medical Education and research - join Anita Jain to discuss the key issues affecting the region now.
Read all of the open ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 11, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Dengue fever
Around two fifths of the world ’s population (those in tropical and subtropical countries), or up to 2.5 billion people, are at risk of dengue infection.
An estimated 50 million infections occur annually worldwide, with 0.5 million of these cases being admitted to hospital for dengue haemorrhagic fever. Approximately 90% of th ese cases are in children aged less than 5 years. The epidemiology is, however, changing both regionally and globally.
In this podcast, Senanayake A M Kularatne, senior professor of medicine at the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka, joins us to discuss which symptoms should make doctors cons...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 24, 2015 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Dengue fever
Around two fifths of the world’s population (those in tropical and subtropical countries), or up to 2.5 billion people, are at risk of dengue infection.
An estimated 50 million infections occur annually worldwide, with 0.5 million of these cases being admitted to hospital for dengue haemorrhagic fever. Approximately 90% of these cases are in children aged less than 5 years. The epidemiology is, however, changing both regionally and globally.
In this podcast, Senanayake A M Kularatne, senior professor of medicine at the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka, joins us to discuss which symptoms should make doctors consid...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 24, 2015 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
#53 Restarting lives in Sri Lanka
More than a year after the end of the war in Sri Lanka, people who suffered spinal injuries as a result of the conflict are starting life again. We meet some of the patients at MSF's rehabilitation unit in Pompamadhu Hospital in Vavuniya. (Source: MSF Podcasts)
Source: MSF Podcasts - August 3, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Source Type: podcasts
MSF Frontline Reports - January 2008
Reports on three of the most underreported humanitarian stories from the past year, including stories on how MSF is responding to Sri Lanka's rekindled civil war and the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province. The struggle for civilians to survive amid the violence in the Central African Republic is the top story. (Source: MSF Podcasts)
Source: MSF Podcasts - February 1, 2008 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Source Type: podcasts
MSF Frontline Reports May 2007
In this month's edition, you'll hear stories on how Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is responding to the upsurge of violence in the South Asian nation of Sri Lanka and West Africa's Ivory Coast. And a feature on MSF's reconstructive surgery program in Amman, Jordan, for war-wounded Iraqi civilians. Visit us at www.doctorswithoutborders.org or www.msf.org. (Source: MSF Podcasts)
Source: MSF Podcasts - May 23, 2007 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Source Type: podcasts
