Digital Health Makes Healthcare Globalised
Consider Atlas Biomed, the company behind the at-home microbiome test: it is based in the U.K. Some 1,900 kilometers away in Italy, Dante Labs offers direct-to-consumer whole genome sequencing kits. On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, in the U. S., is Fitbit, which ships its fitness trackers around the world. Despite being headquartered in different countries and even in different continents, patients now have access to quality digital health services wherever they are (save for some shipping restrictions).
This aspect of digital health heralds one of its lesser-explored advantages: it enables healthcare to be ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 18, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy digital health Source Type: blogs
Small Pleasures Are Just As Important For Our Wellbeing As Long-Term Goals
By Emily Reynolds
When it comes to leading a happy and fulfilled life, many of us focus on long-term goals: what job we want, whether or not we want children, or how to reach a certain level of skill at a particular hobby or interest. There’s a reason so much research looks at how to achieve the things you value in life.
As such, we often (try to) eschew short-term pleasures, deeming them a distraction from more loftier goals. But according to a study in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, the pursuit of those more immediate pleasures could be just as important for our wellbeing.
The ability to engage in short ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - August 17, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Emotion Positive psychology Source Type: blogs
Maternal Mental Health: Mommy Brain?
Before having a child of my own, I spent 3.5 years working in a home based child abuse prevention program. I would screen new mothers for postpartum depression and help link them to mental health resources, while I was working on my master’s degree in social work to be a therapist myself. I would listen to them talk about “postpartum” when referencing their emotional state after giving birth and constantly heard the phrase, “I have mommy brain” or “I don’t know what’s going on with me, I’m not myself.” Never did I truly understand the weight of these phrases until I gave birth to my daughter earlier thi...
Source: World of Psychology - August 12, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ashley Cory, MSW, LSW Tags: Parenting Pregnancy Women's Issues Motherhood postpartum depression Source Type: blogs
New insights on antibiotics use on crops amongst smallholder farmers
Philip Taylor and Robert Reeder, research scientists at CABI, did not start out looking for trends in antibiotic use in crops. In fact, both Drs. Taylor and Reeder’s primary interest at the start of their study was to simply understand the general use of agrochemicals and other agents by smallholder farmers in lower and middle income countries (LMIC). What they found, however, as explained in their recently published article in CABI Agriculture and Bioscience, demonstrates how real-world data, drawn from community support networks, can unearth previously unknown uses of antibiotics which help protect the livelihoods of...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - August 10, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Dylan Parker Tags: Biology Developing World Uncategorized agriculture AMR antimicrobial resistance Source Type: blogs
Too Many Small Steps, Not Enough Leaps
By KIM BELLARD
I was driving home the other day, noticed all the above-ground telephone/power lines, and thought to myself: this is not the 21st century I thought I’d be living in.
When I was growing up, the 21st century was the distant future, the stuff of science fiction. We’d have flying cars, personal robots, interstellar travel, artificial food, and, of course, tricorders. There’d be computers, although not PCs. Still, we’d have been baffled by smartphones, GPS, or the Internet. We’d have been even more flummoxed by women in the workforce or #Blac...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 28, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Tech Public Health Health Age Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
COVID-19 Reveals Urgent Need to Strengthen the World Health Organization
Lawrence O. Gostin (Georgetown University), COVID-19 Reveals Urgent Need to Strengthen the World Health Organization, 323 JAMA 2362 (2020): From the time China reported a novel coronavirus to the World Health Organization (WHO) on December 31, 2019, it took barely... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 23, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Coronavirus effect on other diseases
The effect of coronavirus on the economy and our daily lives has been huge. COVID-19 has rightly dominated government and organization policies, social life, and media headlines so far this year – but are other diseases getting the right attention?
Neglected diseases
The World Health Organization maintains a department dedicated to the research and treatment of Neglected Tropical Diseases. These conditions are considered “neglected” by mainstream Medicine by virtue of a relative lack of impact and presence in Western countries.
In January 2020, GIDEON listed 360 generic infectious diseases in humans – of wh...
Source: GIDEON blog - July 23, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: News Source Type: blogs
Covid-19 and social protection in Europe and Central Asia
World Health Organization -This policy paper, written with the International Labour Organization and the United Nations Children ’s Fund, aims to help strengthen social protection. It makes the case that the crisis offers a moment of opportunity to expand and strengthen social protection mechanisms to safeguard health, well-being and livelihoods, leaving no-one behind in country response and recovery plans.ReportWorld Health Organization - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 15, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
How to Make the Most of Your Staycation During COVID-19
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is easy to feel powerless and isolated. Our inability to chat with friends and family face-to-face, grab a happy hour bite to eat with coworkers, and have a one-on-one with your boss has strained our already-tenuous balance between “work” and “life.” Zoom is now the new “office drop-in.” Emails, blogs, and newsletters flood our inboxes like there’s no tomorrow. While videoconferencing and calls can be helpful tools to stay somewhat connected and informed, they tend to sap a ton of our emotional and mental energy — a commodity that is in short supply already due to the pa...
Source: World of Psychology - July 15, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Guest Author Tags: Mental Health America Publishers coronavirus quarantine Relaxation Staycation Source Type: blogs
The Role of International Health Regulations in Combating COVID-19
Heidi Eissa (Cairo University), The Role of International Health Regulations in Combating COVID-19, SSRN: On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared coronavirus (COVID-19) “a global pandemic”. It infected nearly 5,568,271 people all over the world and killed... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 12, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Medical Misinformation in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Sarah E. Kreps (Cornell University), Doug Kriner (Cornell University), Medical Misinformation in the COVID-19 Pandemic, SSRN: The World Health Organization has labeled the omnipresence of misinformation about COVID-19 an “infodemic” that threatens efforts to battle the public health emergency. However,... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 11, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
COVID-19: information for health and care professionals
Last updated 24th November 2020, 0920 UK time - entries added marked NEW.On this page, evidence summaries, guidelines and government and related information for practitioners.See also theepidemiology and genetics andcurrent awareness pages. There is a page ofjournal and database publishers making content available free.NEW - REACTFindings from the Real-time Assessment of Community Transmission studyResources from Royal Colleges (list maintained by HEE)Clinical TrialsThe WHO ICTRP indexes trials from a number of sources, including the US and EU registries. From thelaunch page you can download lists of ...
Source: Browsing - June 27, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: coronavirus COVID-19 NCOV Source Type: blogs
Daily decisions about risk: What to do when there ’s no right answer
Let’s face it: there’s still a deadly virus out there and it’s not going away anytime soon. And that means we all must make a lot of decisions that involve personal risk. And for many of these daily decisions, there’s no single right answer: no Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines, World Health Organization recommendations, or expert advice exist. And as more places lift restrictions keeping people at home, more questions arise:
Is it safe to go to the grocery store? And, how often is okay?
How safe is it to fly on a commercial airline? Get a haircut? Go out to dinner?
Should I avoid a friend whose daughte...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - June 23, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Coronavirus and COVID-19 Infectious diseases Prevention Source Type: blogs
Bringing Ethics into the Global Coronavirus Response
Covid-19 is a matter of public and global health ethics, and the pandemic is currently accelerating cooperation within and contributions from these fields. A meeting on June 27, hosted by the European Union and Global Citizen, is the latest example another global pledging event on June 27, will include governments and large institutions, as well as individuals and communities worldwide.
The post Bringing Ethics into the Global Coronavirus Response appeared first on The Hastings Center. (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 22, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Susan Gilbert Tags: Health Care Coronavirus Global Response COVID-19 European Union German Public Health Competence Network Covid-19 global health Hastings Bioethics Forum syndicated World Health Organization Source Type: blogs
