Implementation and evaluation of a parenting program to prevent child maltreatment in Suriname - van der Kooij IW, Bipat S, Boer F, Lindauer RJL, Graafsma TLG.
The prevention of child maltreatment has become a global health concern because child maltreatment is a violation of children's rights. Across the world, a variety of parenting programs have been developed to address this problem. However, no such parentin... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 21, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news
Here ’s Where You Can See Every Total Solar Eclipse for the Next 50 Years
A total solar eclipse will obscure the sun in parts of 14 states across the U.S. on Aug. 21, a rare event that’s been called the “Great American Eclipse.” You can find a detailed map showing the path of the eclipse here. But if you live in a place that won’t see the total eclipse or even a partial eclipse, don’t worry: It won’t be the last time the U.S. — and the rest of the world — will get a chance to see the moon block the sun in the coming decades.
The next total solar eclipse to cross the U.S. will take place in seven years, and even before then total eclipses will take ...
Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories - August 16, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mahita Gajanan Tags: Uncategorized eclipse onetime space 2017 Source Type: news
Snail fever: the threat in Suriname ’s water
The last steps in fighting the ‘most deadly neglected tropical disease’ are being slowed by a lack of funding (Source: FT.com - Drugs and Healthcare)
Source: FT.com - Drugs and Healthcare - April 18, 2017 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Socio-economic Impact Assessment of the Zika Virus in Latin America and the Caribbean: With a Focus on Brazil, Colombia and Suriname
United Nations Development Programme. 04/03/2017 This 104-page assessment measures the socio-economic impacts of Zika on countries, families, and communities, and examines institutional responses. A focus is the impact of Zika on the most marginalized and vulnerable women. It finds that Zika is responsible for tangible losses to gross domestic product, imposing an immediate burden on health care and social welfare systems, and could undermine decades of hard-earned health gains and social development progress. It discusses how larger investments in prevention, preparedness, and response strategies at the local, national, a...
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - April 7, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news
Yellow fever – Suriname
On 9 March 2017, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) in the Netherlands reported a case of yellow fever to WHO. The patient is a Dutch adult female traveller who visited Suriname from the middle of February until early March 2017. She was not vaccinated against yellow fever. (Source: WHO Disease Outbreaks)
Source: WHO Disease Outbreaks - March 28, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: news Source Type: news
D.C. Museum's 'Nasty Women' Tour Celebrates Art History's Feminist Heroes
During the third presidential debate, Hillary Clinton was responding to a question about social security when Donald Trump notoriously interrupted her, muttering the phrase “Such a nasty woman,” not so under his breath.
What Trump meant by those words was immediately and abundantly clear to women watching throughout the country, many of whom had been called similar slurs throughout their lives. It took approximately four seconds in Twitter-time for what the president-elect intended as an insult to become something of a feminist battle cry.
“A nasty woman is someone who refuses to be bound by th...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - January 10, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: news
Cataract Surgery Soars in Suriname After Launch of Intervention Program Cataract Surgery Soars in Suriname After Launch of Intervention Program
A cataract intervention program implemented in Suriname a decade ago increased cataract surgery more than threefold, with a success rate of more than 85% in the past few years, researchers say.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape General Surgery Headlines)
Source: Medscape General Surgery Headlines - December 1, 2016 Category: Surgery Tags: Ophthalmology News Source Type: news
Health-related fitness, motor coordination, physical and sedentary activities of urban and rural children in Suriname - Walhain F, van Gorp M, Lamur KS, Veeger DH, Ledebt A.
This study evaluates the association between living environment and HRF, MC, physical and sedentary activities of children in Surin... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 29, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Study Finds Strong Link Between Zika And Guillain-Barre Syndrome
A comparison of rates of Guillain-Barre syndrome before and after Zika arrived in seven countries has found a strong association between the virus and the illness, researchers from the Pan American Health Organization said on Wednesday.
The current Zika outbreak was first detected in Brazil last year and has since spread across the Americas and the Caribbean.
Pregnant women are considered to be at greatest risk because the virus can cause severe birth defects, including microcephaly, which is marked by small head size and underdeveloped brains. In Brazil, Zika has been linked to more than 1,800 cases of microcephaly.
The f...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 1, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Rotterdam woman lost her baby at 11 weeks after catching Zika virus on a trip to Suriname
The woman, from Rotterdam, the Netherlands, caught Zika on a trip to Suriname, which borders Brazil. The virus was found in foetal cells after she lost the baby. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 29, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Man's penis infected and began to ROT after he removed his piercing with a razor blade
A 26-year-old man treated in Suriname, South America, had cut out a nodule - an implant he had put under the skin as a teenager. But the wound became infected and his skin began to rot. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - June 30, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Epidemiology and aetiology of childhood ocular trauma in the Republic of Suriname - Minderhoud J, van Nispen RM, Heijthuijsen AA, Beunders VA, Bueno de Mesquita-Voigt AT, Moll AC, Mans DR, Saeed P.
PURPOSE: To describe the epidemiology and aetiology of ocular trauma in school-aged children who previously visited the Suriname Eye Centre (SEC) of the Academic Hospital Paramaribo. METHODS: In a hospital-based retrospective study, all cases of ch... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 2, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Flora, fauna and fortitude: the extraordinary mission of Maria Sibylla Merian
Three hundred years after her journey into the South American rainforest to observe its plants and insects, Merian’s vibrant paintings are to go on public display. An exquisite response to nature, they reveal an artist ahead of her timeIn the history of art there are few more singular practitioners than the German naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717). Her work straddles the territories of art and science – it includes some of the most striking, even disturbing, visions I have ever seen. Her life-size studies capture the insects of tropical Suriname, on the northeastern coast of South America, and the plants that...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 1, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Amanda Vickery Tags: Art and design Culture Exhibitions Wildlife Illustration Source Type: news
The Latest On Zika: Experts Are Divided Over Genetically Modified Mosquitos
The Zika virus, which is spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, is strongly suspected to be linked to a new wave of microcephaly cases in Brazil. Babies born with the birth defect have smaller heads and sometimes brains that aren't fully developed, which can result in life-long developmental problems. Zika is currently spreading through Central and South America and the Caribbean, and with the high volume of news about the virus, it's tough to stay up-to-date. Check out our full coverage, or read our daily recaps. Here are four updates, opinions and developments to know about now: 1. ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Guillain-Barre on rise in five Latam countries, no proven link to Zika - WHO
GENEVA (Reuters) - A neurological disorder suspected of links to the mosquito-borne Zika virus is on the rise in Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Suriname and Venezuela, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 13, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
