The News Review:
- Mentally ill in Africa get little help
- Some but not all Wash. government records online
- UMDNJ president: Stimulus package is a lifesaver
- In powerhouse India child hunger abounds
Mentally ill in Africa get little help
The Associated Press
“I have to leave sometimes even if it’s just to fetch water. “In Kenya and many other African countries poverty lack of access and the stigma of mental disease prevent many patients from getting the help they desperately need. Despite some recent progress just 0. 01 percent of Kenya’s health budget is spent on mental health compared to around 6 percent in the U. Yet about a quarter of Kenyans seeking medical help have problems with mental health says Dr.
Some but not all Wash. government records online
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Some but not all Wash. government records online.
UMDNJ president: Stimulus package is a lifesaver
The Star-Ledger – NJ.com
Many people may not readily recognize a major indirect benefit of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 the economic stimulus package signed by President bama: In all likelihood actual lives will be saved as a result of the increased funding it will provide for research into new treatments for cancer and other life-threatening diseases. The stimulus plan calls for an increase in excess of $10 billion for the National Institutes of Health the nation’s government-supported research agency which funds vital biomedical and behavioral research carried out at more than 3000 research universities and institutes across the country. In fact most of the cutting-edge research carried out at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and its high-performing national research centers like the Center for Advanced Biomedical Research Environmental and ccupational Health Institute Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) and Center for Biodefense rely heavily on NIH support. ur health scientists are immersed in the kinds of investigations that demand enormous resources. But the payoffs are well worth the investment. Take cancer for example.
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In powerhouse India child hunger abounds
San Jose Mercury News
Economists and public health experts say stubborn malnutrition rates point to a central failing in this democracy of the poor. Amartya Sen the Nobel Prize-winning economist lamented that hunger was not enough of a political priority here. India’s public expenditure on health remains low and in some places financing for child nutrition programs remains unspent. Yet several democracies have all but eradicated hunger. And ignoring the needs of the poor altogether does spell political peril in India helping to topple parties in the last elections. ther experts point to the efficiency of an authoritarian state like Advertisement yld_mgr. place_ad_here(“adPosBox”); China.
