The News Review:
- What the Candidates Had to Say
- The economic advantages of disease control
- Health Calendar
- KARACHI: ‘Task force to monitor anti-polio campaigns’
- Muskogee County Health Department schedule, 05.18.08
- U. nursing student gets fellowship
- FEATURE-Death in childbirth: A health scourge for Afghanistan
What the Candidates Had to Say
Washington Post – May 18, 2008
believes that solving the problem of obesity in children can help prevent a lifetime of chronic health conditions. To accomplish that, we must do a better job of teaching children and their parents about child health, nutrition and exercise. "What role do you think the federal government should play in tackling the issue, and how much additional money would you commit to that?Clinton: "Clinton believes that the federal government, along with other stakeholders, has an important role to play in ensuring that all Americans, including children, have access to quality health care, including preventive services. Her health care plan will require an up-front federal investment of $110 billion.
The economic advantages of disease control
Taipei Times – May 18, 2008
This would save more than 1 million child deaths and produce economic benefits worth US$20 billion. The nascent Affordable Medicines Facility-malaria (AMFm) is a particularly attractive mechanism for committing resources to malaria control. The fourth alternative for policymakers is to focus on child health initiatives. The best measures are familiar ones: expanding immunization coverage, promoting breastfeeding, increasing the use of simple and cheap treatments for diarrhea and childhood pneumonia, ensuring widespread distribution of key micronutrients and spreading the use of anti-retroviral drugs and breastfeeding substitutes to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission. Expanding immunization and micronutrient coverage are perhaps the most critical measures. Spending US$1 billion on such initiatives could save 1 million lives annually and create economic benefits worth more than US$20 billion a year. The next option is to reduce the number of tobacco-related deaths.
Health Calendar
Washington Post – May 18, 2008
Two residents will explain the challenges of mental illness and describe their path toward recovery. Presented by Friends of Loudoun Mental Health in recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month… BIRTHRIGHT OF LOUDOUN COUNTY, free pregnancy tests, clothes, baby clothing, transportation and support throughout pregnancy, 823 S. , Suite I, Leesburg. BOND BETWEEN US, a nonprofit organization that offers support to birth parents and their significant others when children have been placed for adoption, 7:30 p.
KARACHI: ‘Task force to monitor anti-polio campaigns’
Pakistan Dawn – May 18, 2008
Speaking at a media briefing here after his meeting with representatives of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Unicef on Saturday, provincial Minister for Health Dr Saghir Ahmed said that Sindh had reported eight polio cases since January this year as against 12 last year, which was certainly an alarming situation as far as services related to polio eradication in the province were concerned. He pointed out the reservations of donor agencies and NGOs working in the health sector and national experts on child health and said: “Despite repeated claims of giving a final push to achieve polio eradication in Sindh, the quarters concerned have been unable to make it. ”
He said though he was a new minister in the health sector, he understood that there had been some loopholes in the management of the supplementary vaccination campaigns and there was a lack of coordination and collaboration between different departments and wings of the governments at the local, provincial and national levels, which now needed to be addressed on a war footing. However, the minister avoided setting any exact deadline for the end of polio in the province. He said he would try to get proper management and a system of checks and balances and monitoring of the system on a campaign to campaign basis in order to improve the campaign coverage rates and ensure a system of accountability. He said the situation was grave and needed to be sorted out with honesty, commitment and transparency.
Muskogee County Health Department schedule, 05.18.08
Muskogee Daily Phoenix – May 18, 2008
No appointment needed for immunizations, family planning supplies, tuberculosis, sexually transmitted disease, head lice checks and pregnancy testing. Appointments are necessary for family planning check-ups, WIC, guidance, child health, chronic disease and TakeCharge. Tuesday, Evening clinic, walk-in until 6 p. for immunization, STD, head lice checks, family planning supplies, pregnancy testing; appointment needed for family planning annual exam. Wednesday, Food Handler’s Class, 10:30 a.
U. nursing student gets fellowship
Deseret News – May 18, 2008
Iribarren will spend almost a year working with a mentor in the Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy in Buenos Aires, Argentina. American fellows are paired with counterparts from other countries, so she’ll be teamed with a student from Argentina, although probably not a fellow nurse. At the institute, she’ll be working in the twin areas of mother-and-child health research and health-care policy and research, including health technology assessment and economic evaluations. Both are areas of global concern and dovetail nicely with Iribarren’s interest in health as a global issue, according to her mentor in the U. College of Nursing, assistant professor Patricia Pearce. Story continues below “She’s an extraordinary doctoral student — focused, determined and has always set her sights on working in international health and infectious disease,” Pearce said. “The Fogarty fellowship is a big award” that’s not often awarded to nurses.
FEATURE-Death in childbirth: A health scourge for Afghanistan
Reuters AlertNet – May 18, 2008
Among the prime complications of childbirth in Afghanistan are bleeding, infection, hypertension and obstructed labour. It is not uncommon for girls as young as 13 to marry in Afghanistan and there are often complications when they give birth. "The mothers are very young, so their (pelvic) bone development is immature," said Karima Mayar, a family planning team leader at the Ministry of Public Health. Poor and malnourished, many pregnant women in Afghanistan are severely anaemic. "If they get post-partum haemorrhage, they will die 100 percent of the time," said Mayar. Women’s access to healthcare has generally been poor in deeply conservative Afghanistan. Afghan men prefer their women to consult only women doctors, but that is easier said than done in a society where there are few female doctors and nurses and little emphasis is placed on educating girls… MATERNAL DEATH "One woman dies every 27 minutes in Afghanistan due to complications in childbirth and the tragedy doesn’t stop with the mother’s death," said Mayar. "When the mother of a newborn dies, 75 percent of these babies die. Who will feed them, keep them warm? There’s an Afghan saying: ‘When the mother dies, the child is sure to die’. " The government plans to distribute the drug misoprostol to pregnant women in 13 provinces this year. "We will distribute this to women in their seventh month of pregnancy and they must take it right after delivery. It will remove the placenta and prevent haemorrhage," Mayar said. In the pipeline are plans to set up more midwifery schools and assign more female students to medical and nursing schools.
