Africa: WHO Releases Guidelines On Chronic Low Back Pain
[WHO] The World Health Organization (WHO) is releasing its first-ever guidelines on managing chronic low back pain (LBP) in primary and community care settings, listing interventions for health workers to use and also to not use during routine care. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 7, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Africa External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Sustainable Development Source Type: news
Nigeria: Trans-Fats and Health - the Hidden Danger Lurking in Your Food
[Nigeria Health Watch] Vegetable and groundnut oil are familiar cooking ingredients in many Nigerian homes. While they add flavour to meals, using the wrong cooking fat, can increase the risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), especially heart disease. The World Health Organisation (WHO) describes trans-fats as unsaturated fatty acids of natural or industrial origin. The natural trans-fats are derived from ruminants (cows and sheep). Industrially produced trans-fats are formed during the industrial process of adding hydrogen (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 7, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Food and Agriculture Health and Medicine Nigeria West Africa Source Type: news
Alcohol Taxes Aren't High Enough, Says World Health Organization Alcohol Taxes Aren't High Enough, Says World Health Organization
WHO urged governments on Tuesday to increase taxes on alcoholic drinks and impose them on products that are currently exempt, such as wine in some European countries.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - December 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health & Prevention News Source Type: news
Africa: Health Practitioners From 5 African Countries Meet in Monrovia
[New Dawn] Over ninety health practitioners from five African countries are currently in Monrovia, participating in a week-long intensive and interactive brainstorming symposium of the World Health Organization (WHO's) health emergencies country readiness strengthening workshop on infection prevention and control guidelines for Ebola and Marburg disease. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 6, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Health and Medicine Liberia West Africa Source Type: news
Electrifying Cooking: Decarbonizing Africa ’s Electricity Grid Towards Net Zero
Discussions around climate, clean energy, and women’s empowerment must find space in such high-level forums if there is to be any meaningful progress towards net zero.”
Muigai was speaking on the sidelines of a session dubbed ‘Electrifying Cooking: A Just Journey Toward Net Zero’ at the ongoing COP28 Summit in Dubai, UAE. As climate change increasingly becomes the most pressing issue facing humankind today, countries are urged to pursue ambitious climate actions towards net zero—the cutting of greenhouse gas emissions to as close to zero as possible, with any remaining emissions re-absorbed from the atmosphe...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - December 5, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Joyce Chimbi Tags: Africa Biodiversity Civil Society Climate Action Climate Change Climate Change Justice COP28 Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Food and Agriculture Global Headlines Health Sustainable Development Goals TerraViva Unit Source Type: news
Nigeria: Climate Change May Reverse Gains in Malaria Prevention - WHO
[Vanguard] The World Health Organisation, WHO, has warned that despite expanding access to malaria prevention, more people are getting sick with the disease. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 4, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Climate Environment Health and Medicine Malaria Nigeria West Africa Source Type: news
World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule versus Functional Independence Measure in traumatic brain injury - Tarvonen-Schr öder S, Koivisto M.
OBJECTIVE: In patients with traumatic brain injury, to compare functioning measured using the 12-item patient and proxy World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS-12) with assessments made by professionals. PATIENTS AND METHOD... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news
Africa: WHO's Annual Malaria Report Spotlights the Growing Threat of Climate Change
[WHO] Despite strides in expanding access to insecticide-treated nets and medicines to help prevent malaria in young children and pregnant women, more people were getting sick with malaria, according to a new report published by the World Health Organization (WHO). (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - December 3, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Africa Climate Environment External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Malaria Source Type: news
Africa: GCF, UNDP and WHO Join Forces to Ramp Up Climate Health Support for Developing Countries
[WHO] Dubai -- The Green Climate Fund (GCF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have launched an ambitious new initiative that will ramp up support for developing countries to mitigate and respond to the impacts of climate change on health in 14 countries in Africa, Asia and Southeastern Europe. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 3, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Climate Environment External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Source Type: news
Effects of hazards and sensation-seeking on intermediate swimming college students' hazard perceptions - Zhang H, Yun LZ, Luo S.
BACKGROUND: According to the Global Report on Drowning: Preventing a Leading Killer and Preventing Drowning: An Implementation Guide, two documents released by the World Health Organization in 2014 and 2017, respectively, 372,000 people drown each year glo... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Is there a lesser value type of violence? Older people abuse: "the silence of the lambs" - Casella C, Aquino CI, Sarno L, Di Donna G, Capasso E.
The World Health Organization (WHO) describes gender violence as a real global health problem with a major impact not only on the victims' physical and mental health, but also on the economics of the National Health System. Gender-based violence has been a... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
Africa: Climate Change Identified As Serious Threat in Fight to End Malaria
[RBM] New findings published today by the World Health Organization (WHO) in its 2023 World Malaria Report have revealed that the number of malaria cases globally rose between 2019 (pre-pandemic) and 2022. Cases rose by 16 million in this period, from 233 million to 249 million. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - December 2, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Africa Climate Environment Health and Medicine Malaria Source Type: news
Africa: Climate Change Risks Upending Global Fight Against Malaria - WHO
[UN News] Climate change and its impacts, particularly extreme weather and heatwaves, pose a "substantial risk" to progress being made to fight malaria, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 1, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Climate Environment External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Malaria Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic expert on future of HIV on World AIDS Day
World AIDS Day, observed on Dec. 1, raises awareness about HIV/AIDS and pays tribute to those affected by the disease. Globally, about 39 million people are living with HIV infection, according to the World Health Organization. HIV is the virus that causes the condition. The virus can spread through sexual contact, sharing infected needles and, less commonly, it can pass from mother to child. Dr. Stacey Rizza, a Mayo Clinic infectious diseases physician and HIV researcher, says that, while there… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - December 1, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
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Argentina’s president targets science
The election last week of libertarian Javier Milei as Argentina’s next president has many of the nation’s scientists fearing the future. Milei, who won 55.7% of the vote, has
vowed to close or dramatically restructure the National Scientific and Technical Research Council
(CONICET), Argentina’s main science funding agency, and its health and environment ministries. He views climate change as a “socialist hoax.” Milei has called CONICET, which employs nearly 12,000 researchers and ranks as one of South America’s top government s...
Source: ScienceNOW - November 30, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
