The News Review:
- Continent’s First Ladies Meet to Promote Health Education
- How The Economy Is Hurting ur Kids
- Witnessing Violence Affects Kids’ Health
- Kathleen Sebelius clears a hurdle
Continent’s First Ladies Meet to Promote Health Education
AllAfrica.com
Further the Summit format is designed to facilitate formal and informal interaction between the First Ladies and invited guests with the hope that this will lead to a productive exchange of ideas and the development of new and lasting partnerships. During the Summit guests will have an opportunity to hear the First Ladies describe their own work and the many challenges they have faced. For each topic moderators will direct the conversation around the following questions:What are the most pressing current challenges and what kinds of new challenges might be expected in the future?What kinds of solutions and approaches appear to be the most promising?What will it take to implement them?The moderators will also ask panel members to identify roles that First Ladies might play in addressing these issues and how they and their respective organization might assist the First Ladies in their own intervention efforts. Throughout the Summit guests and First Ladies will have the opportunity to informally interact with each other over teas and lunch. Three fundamentals separate this Summit from other similar conferences:First unlike other conferences this Summit does not focus on describing the size scope or magnitude of the problems confronting African countries nor does it expect to set goals for what countries should try to achieve in terms of improvements to health and education. Instead this summit focuses on the pragmatics of how to improve the various aspects of health and education systems.
How The Economy Is Hurting ur Kids
CBS News
And the problems the recession is bringing including homelessness and lack of health insurance are driving more and more children into poverty. It’s a heartbreaking phenomenon that CBS News will explore in a series called “Children of Recession” beginning Wednesday April 22 across its different outlets including The Early Show and the CBS Evening News.
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Witnessing Violence Affects Kids’ Health
Science Daily (press release)
Shakira Franco Suglia from the Harvard School of Public Health and her team lead by Dr. Wright from Brigham and Women’s Hospital Harvard Medical School in Boston USA because these children are not diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder these abnormal physiological symptoms are unlikely to be picked up by their doctors. The study1 has just been published online in Springer’s International Journal of Behavioral Medicine. Young people living in urban communities in the US experience and witness high levels of serious and lethal violence.
Kathleen Sebelius clears a hurdle
Kansas City Star
“I believe in the right of every American to choose the doctor the hospital the health plan of his or her choice” Sen. said before the vote. But he contended that Sebelius had displayed “insufficient commitment to these principles. Kyl and company make it sound like all of us enjoy this utopian relationship in which we can call up our family doctor and have our ills cured.
