... of this initiative are to increase the quality and years of healthy life and eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health status maternal, infant, and child health Among them are efforts ... resulting in coma and death Trang 31 q Hemoglobinopathies: These inherited diseases of red blood cells result in varying degrees of anemia (shortage of red blood cells), serous infection, pain, and ... PeriStats and the Data Book are powerful tools for helping inform policy to improve maternal, infant, and child health in the United States. marchofdimes.com/peristats Trang 5Maternal, Infant, and
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... partners • Injecting drug use (and sharing infected needles) is an increasingly important factor in Kenya’s epidemic RWanDa • HIV infection among adults is estimated to be 3.1 percent, with infections ... mainland and lower levels in Zanzibar • Information gathered from women’s HIV tests in antenatal clinics shows HIV highest in Iringa, Dar es Salaam, and Mbeya • The 2005 Demographic and Health ... Revision; and Demographic and Health Surveys (Ethiopia 2005, Kenya 2008-2009, Rwanda 2007-2008, Tanzania 2004-2005, and Uganda 2006). Trang 8• In Uganda, fertility has remained consistently high since
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Tài liệu Sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents perinatally infected with HIV in Uganda pptx
... Sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents perinatally infected with HIV in Uganda Sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents perinatally infected with HIV in Uganda Harriet ... adolescence and adulthood, thereby engaging in dating and sexual relationships However, the sexual and reproductive health needs of this unique and rapidly increasing population are largely unmet In Uganda, ... immediately and/or offer appropriate referral In addition, existing counseling and support training packages for HIV positive individuals need to be updated to include vital information on the sexual and
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Tài liệu Integrating Youth-Friendly Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Public Health Facilities: A Success Story and Lessons Learned in Tanzania ppt
... Services (YFS) and institutional capacity building (Pathfinder International); policy and advocacy, and coordination and dissemination (UNFPA); and behavior change communication and life and livelihood ... collaborator and host, especially the President’s Office - Planning and Privatization, and the Ministries of Health, Mainland and Zanzibar The following were implementing partners of AYA/Pathfinder: ... YFS is not included in the pre-service training that health staff receive at training institutions Although the Tanzanian National Policy Guidelines for Reproductive Health and Child Health Services
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Tài liệu Accelerating Reproductive and Child Health Program Development: The Navrongo Initiative in Ghana docx
... daily life into resources for organizing, financing, and sustaining community health services Using the Bamako approach, program managers focused resources on recruiting community health-care ... understanding that the resources and mechanisms of the Ministry of Health could be better used to establish a fully functioning community health program for expanding access to reproductive and ... producing stand-alone end products This process of generating and using evidence is illustrated in the overlapping phases depicted in Figure 1 In Phase I, a Navrongo micropilot community-health-service
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Tài liệu Health sector reform and reproductive health in Latin America and the Caribbean: strengthening the links pptx
... aspects of health sector reform and reproductive health in LAC countries and attempts to identify the links between them Strategies of decentralization, changes in health services financing, and the ... well coordinated, and such fragmentation has resulted in overlapping policies and lagging programmes Policy and programme development have also been hindered by inadequate human and financial ... reproductive health services in the public and private sectors; identifying mechanisms for the collection and reinvestment of user fees at the service delivery level; and evaluating health care financing
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Tài liệu ASTHMA MANAGEMENT IN MINORITY CHILDREN: PRACTICAL INSIGHTS FOR CLINICIANS , RESEARCHER AND PUBLIC HEALTH PLANNERS docx
... Practical Insights: Public Health Notes 31 Planning Phase 32 Implementation Phase 33 Educational Content and Format 33 Modalities of Implementation 35 Recruiting, Training, and Retaining ... publishing and widely disseminating the 1991 Expert Panel Report: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma A continuing challenge in asthma control efforts is reaching minority populations ... English and Spanish, and conducting mass media campaigns for African American and Hispanic populations It is hoped that the information in this document will assist others in planning and implementing
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Tài liệu Differentiation in Health and Physical Education doc
... skill e.g., dribbling The first station may involve dribbling in a straight line, the second may involve dribbling between cones and the third may be dribbling against a defender In each station, ... their understanding of a health concept Cubing is a second powerful differentiation tool that provides a new twist on question asking and answering, and works well in a health and physical education ... classroom begins with the teacher modeling inclusiveness and continues as students work together to achieve their learning goals in a variety of settings Students work in flexible groupings, while
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: TEC family kinases in health and disease – loss-of-function of BTK and ITK and the gain-of-function fusions ITK–SYK and BTK–SYK pptx
... mutation in the BTK PH domain; arginine 28 is in dark blue, encircled in red Bottom left: SH2 domain Right: kinase domain The mutated residues are indicated in yellow, a-helices are in cyan, ... tyrosine kinase; EBV, Epstein–Barr virus; ITK, inducible T-cell kinase; NKT cell, natural killer T cell; PH, pleckstrin homology; PKB, protein kinase B; R28C, arginine 28 mutated to cysteine; ... kinase (ITK) could influence the infectivity of HIV and also have anti-inflammatory activity Since 2006, several patients carry-ing a fusion protein, originatcarry-ing from a translocation joincarry-ing
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Tài liệu Indoor air pollution in developing countries: a major environmental and public health challenge doc
... practical value, for instance in insect control, lighting, the drying of food and fuel, and the flavouring of foods (3) Many of the substances in biomass smoke can damage human health The most important ... industrial and vehicle emissions Indoor air pollution in the form of environmental tobacco smoke can be expected to increase in developing countries It is worth noting that fires in open hearths and ... sources of indoor air pollution in developing countries include smoke from nearby houses (6), the burning of forests, agricultural land and household waste, the use of kerosene lamps (7), and industrial
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Tài liệu Armed conflict, household victimization, and child health in Côte d''''Ivoire docx
... Jensen (2000) examines investments in child education and health in the face of weather shocks to agricultural income in Côte d'Ivoire and finds adverse effects on enrollment and short-run measures ... Chamarbagwala and Morán (2011), Shemyakina (2011), Swee (2011), Minoiu and Shemyakina (2012), Leon, forthcoming; Mansour and Rees, forthcoming; Verwimp, forthcoming Trang 4us to explore distinct mechanisms ... cocoa-growing regions of western Côte d'Ivoire had long-standing tensions between indigenous ethnic groups and non-Ivorians (mostly of Burkinabe and Malian origin) over property and land rights
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Tài liệu INVESTING IN MATERNAL, NEWBORN AND CHILD HEALTH ppt
... reductions in infant and child mortality and subsequently in fertility rates, and also improvements in reproductive health.19 4 Investing in maternal, newborn and child health has political benefits, including ... state crisis and conflict.20 5 Investing in maternal, newborn and child health makes the health system work better In fact, investment in maternal, newborn and child health along the continuum of ... Investing in Maternal 47 Health: Learning from Malaysia and Sri Lanka World Bank: Washington DC. Harding A, Loevinsohn B 2005 Buying results? 48 Contracting for health service delivery in
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Tài liệu Aneuploidy in Health and Disease Edited by Zuzana Storchova doc
... Defects in SAC lead inevitably to high chromosome missegregation levels both in vitro and in vivo and thus to aneuploidy Besides mutations in spindle assembly checkpoint and in mitotic spindle ... spindle assembly checkpoint and often remain uncorrected, resulting in lagging chromosomes and aneuploidy, F syntelic attachments lead to incorrect chromosome segregation, G defects in SAC interfere ... other factors influencing the DNA strand breaks The increasingly detailed map of human DNA will certainly bring new insight into the possible links between DNA secondary structure and sites of
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World Vision’s Little Book of Maternal and Child Health in the Asia Pacific pdf
... standards and increase action around maternal and child health to take good care of themselves and their children, including nutrition, vaccinations, first aid and family health responses, and birth ... government healthcare reaches most mothers and children in and around cities, rural communities, ethnic minorities, and urban migrants are still missing out In China, World Vision administers over 30 health ... projects in areas of need, with a focus on global health indicators such as maternal and child health, malnutrition, tuberculosis, HIV and AIDS, and new and re-emerging infectious diseases, such as influenza
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HUMAN RIGHTS AND GENDER EQUALITY IN HEALTH SECTOR STRATEGIES pdf
... (and other) health inequities; • supporting the overall health system and ensuring that health systems functions such as health information, health financing, and leadership and governance (including ... delivery, health workforce, health information, medicines and health financing; > human rights concepts and a HRBA to programming and gender mainstreaming, ideally in the area of health Annex ... standards and principles A HRBA also aims to support better and more sustainable health outcomes by analysing and addressing the inequalities, discriminatory practices (intentional and non-intentional)
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Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Malawi: Results from the 2004 National Survey of Adolescents pdf
... de- sign of survey instruments and/or data collection and processing; and Susheela Singh, Akinrinola Bankole, Ann E. Biddlecom and Humera Ahmed from the Guttmacher Institute, for helping to develop ... for input into all facets of the survey design and coordinat- ing the pretest, sample selection, training, fielding, and data editing and cleaning; colleagues from the Nation- al Statistical ... Population and Health Research Center (Kenya); and Pav Govindasamy, Albert Themme, Jeanne Cushing, Alfredo Aliaga, Rebecca Stallings and Shane Ryland, all from ORC Macro, for input into all facets
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ADOLESCENTS AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH IN PAKISTAN: A LITERATURE REVIEW docx
... resulting in a girl covering her head and finding her mobility outside the home restricted, and, at worst, causing her withdrawal from school Trang 29In a study on the transfer of health and ... Throughout the main report, and the sections reviewing topics in reproductive health research, gaps in available figures, research, and information will be pointed out repeatedly This is an inevitable ... within which to limit a definition of adolescence, and findings pertaining to boys and girls within these ages will be considered appropriate to present This parameter does have its shortcomings,
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Tài liệu Health of Children Living in Urban Slums in Asia and the Near East: Review of Existing Literature and Data pdf
... Status and Determinants in Three Cities 7 India and Ahmedabad 7 Child Health Status 9 Child Health Determinants 11 The Philippines and Manila 16 Child Health Status 17 Child Health Determinants ... program interventions in urban slum health. The research team used the following approaches, techniques, and resources for collecting, storing, and analyzing information on urban slum child health: ... municipal health, water and sewer services, and infrastructure and thus has a higher standard of health and welfare. The data would seem to bear out these assumptions. For understanding the health...
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Tài liệu HEALTH CONTINUUM AND DATA EXCHANGE IN BELGIUM AND IN THE NETHERLANDS docx
... the EC programmes Advanced Informatics in Medicine (AIM) and Biomedical and Health Research (BHR), bioengineering branch. A driving aspect of international health informatics is that telecommunication ... is increasing more rapidly than the government financing, leads to: – an increase of private financing: the patient will have to pay more “out of pocket” resulting in a growing private insurance ... two main streams: 1) using panels of expert nurses and NMDS-coordinators to build the acceptability of the tool and 2) making use of existing and new empirical nursing data for developing a...
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Tài liệu Ethical Issues in Environmental and Occupational Health pptx
... of numbers of coal miners, the health of miners appears to be diminishing. That is, coal mine deaths, per thousand coal-mine employees in the US, have been increasing since 1950. Note that ... question, influences on the funding of some research projects (and not others), influences on the outcome of research (i.e., findings), and influences on the dissemination of research findings? ... placing those who investigate such risks in a position of conflicting interests? Module 7: Ethical Issues in Environmental and Occupational Health 186 Case Study 4: Part 3 In arguing...
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