Using internet technology and search engines for learning about health problems trends is cost effective and cheap tool in the hand of today’s epidemiologists.
Each week, millions of users around the world search for online health information. As you might expect, there are more flu-related searches during flu season, more allergy-related searches during allergy season, and [...]
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At the end of his second term as the 42nd President of the United States, President Clinton established the William J. Clinton Foundation. Since then the Foundation has grown into a global nongovernmental organization with more than 800 staff and volunteers around the world, with offices in New York City, Little Rock, Arkansas, and Boston, [...]
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Based on the US Bureau of Labor Statistics Report in October 2008, job losses continued in manufacturing, construction, and several service-proving industries. Health care and mining continued to add jobs. Nonfarm payroll employment fell by 240,000 in October, and the unemployment rate rose from 6.1 to 6.5 percents. Employment has fallen by 1-2 million in [...]
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Devex is a resource for jobs, business opportunities, professional networking, and news for professionals working in international development, global health, and foreign assistance.
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Each year, international development agencies such as the World Bank and foundations such as the Gates Foundation spend over 200 billion euros on projects [...]
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During the time of economic crisis finding a right job for an entry level international health professional is not easy. It is a process and you need to plan the process in advance.You need to practice preparation and develop your skills for getting a job. Hunting a job, conducting a successful interview, starting a job [...]
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Reducing Birth Defects: …
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Each year more than 4 million children are born with birth defects. This book highlights the unprecedented opportunity to improve the lives of children and families in developing countries by preventing some birth defects and reducing the consequences of others. A number of developing countries [...]
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Improving Birth Outcomes: …
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Birth outcomes have improved dramatically worldwide in the past 40 years. Yet there is still a large gap between the outcomes in developing and developed countries. This book addresses the steps needed to reduce that gap. It reviews the available statistics of low birth weight, [...]
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An Iranian band (in Iran ), Arian Band, has been produced a great song with Chris De Burg.
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The below training resource is designed by Family Health International, to build skills for conducting quality monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities. The course is anchored by three core modules: Introduction to M&E; Collecting, Analyzing and Using Monitoring Data; and Developing an M&E.
Work Plan. The course features seven additional modules designed for specific contexts, such as [...]
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Global Environmental Health in the 21st Century: …
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Environmental management systems (EMSs) are tools that corporations and some government agencies use to manage environmental issues. These systems may vary from facility (or agency) to facility but the basic premise is to implement the broader concept of sound and proactive [...]
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Reproductive Health in Developing Countries: …
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Sexually transmitted diseases, unintended pregnancies, infertility, and other reproductive problems are major concerns around the world, especially in developing countries. This book describes the magnitude of these problems and what is known about the effectiveness of interventions in four areas: infection-free sex, intended [...]
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Cancer is low or absent on the health agendas of low- and middle-income countries (LMCs) despite the fact that more people die from cancer in these countries than from AIDS and malaria combined. International health organizations, [...]
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Control of Cardiovascular Diseases in Developing Countries: …
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Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are increasing in epidemic proportions in developing countries. CVD already accounts for almost 10 percent of the developing world’s burden of disease and is likely to become the developing world’s leading cause of death. There is reason for [...]
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Today I met with David Flynn, one of the knowledgeable and very helpful librarians, at Boston University Medical Library.
I told David for conducting a review of literature, I usually use Google to see the magnitude of the literature in the field, and then I search in Cochran Systematic Review, PubMed, Medline and Lexis Nexis.
I told [...]
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Preventing chronic diseases: a vital investment, is a Book wrote by WHO. You can see the book below. I found it very useful for understanding the current challenges in global health.
Key messages
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Key messages
Chronic diseases: major cause of death
Poorest countries are the worst affected
The risk factors are widespread
Misunderstanding #10
Misunderstanding #9
Misunderstanding #8. Story of Roberto [...]
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25 April is a day of unified commemoration of the global effort to provide effective control of malaria around the world.
World Malaria Day is an opportunity for malaria-free countries to learn about the devastating consequences of the disease and for new donors to join a global partnership against malaria. It is an occasion for research [...]
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Health students and professionals make posters all the time, but it happens sometimes, you have been asked to make a poster and you do have no idea how you can do that. I started to right a step by step guideline for this purpose, and during my search I found a guideline written by University [...]
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The New Your Times published a report from AP yesterday talking about the Internet search giant Google Inc. unveiled a new feature Tuesday for its popular mapping programs that shines a spotlight on the movement of refugees around the world.
The maps will aid humanitarian operations as well as help inform the public about the millions [...]
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Iranian Journal of Public Health has been continuously published since 1971, as the only Journal in all health domains with wide distribution (including WHO in Geneva and Cairo) in two languages (English and Persian). From 2001 issue, the Journal is published only in English language. During the last 35 years more than 1000 scientific research [...]
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Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, starts in the first day of spring. The Persian Parade is an annual event in New York City each year in the last week of March. This year it was on March 30th. Iranians start the parade in Madison Ave from 41st street to 27th street. Please find below [...]
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In the era of information age, as a student, sometimes we need to create on-line surveys to learn about a particular aspect. SurveyMonkey.com has created very interesting intelligent survey software and you can use the basic version of the software for free. The basic version allows you to create a survey with maximum 10 questions with [...]
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Happily married people have lower blood pressure than unhappy married people or singles, a Brigham Young University study says.
On the other hand, even having a supportive social network did not translate into a blood pressure benefit for singles or unhappy married people, according to the study.
“There seem to be some unique health benefits from marriage. [...]
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A traditional Haft Sin table celebrating Nowruz, the Persian New Year, is seen set Wednesday, March 19, 2008, in the State Dining Room of the White House. Nowruz is, in Persian and some other cultures, including Kurdish culture, a family-oriented holiday celebrating the New Year and the coming of spring. The Haft Sin table has [...]
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As a global issue, road traffic injuries have been largely ignored by the international community. Even in most low and middle income countries with a huge burden of problem, this problem is ignored by policy makers and societies for a variety of reasons. Corruption is one of those reasons. Poor governance and corruption [...]
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The sixth in a series, the March 2008 poll was designed and analyzed by public opinion researchers at the Kaiser Family Foundation. A nationally representative random sample of 1,770 adults who say they are registered to vote was interviewed by telephone February 7-16, 2008. This poll finds that health care plays a role [...]
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A finding by a team of scientists at the National Institutes of Health may account for why the flu virus is more infectious in cold winter temperatures than during the warmer months.
At winter temperatures, the virus’s outer covering, or envelope, hardens to a rubbery gel that could shield the virus as it passes from person [...]
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Every trip on this vital mountain road through the Andes is a hair-raising roller coaster ride. A video by the National Geographic Channel:
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The new site at UN Data allows anyone to access the United Nations Data Access System. This online, easy-to-use database was created by the UN in order to provide current, relevant, and reliable statistics to the whole world, for free. Using UN Data, you can access statistical information on populations, demographics, trade, commodities, agriculture, [...]
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Roughly a billion people live on less than $1 a day. And 3 billion – fully half the people on Earth – survive on $2 a day or less. Among that first billion, the poorest of the poor, 70 percent are women. For them, each day is a struggle. They simply do not earn enough [...]
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In academia, usually we love to add some new pages to the human knowledge; we are looking for increasing the current knowledge most of the time. Therefore, usually we forget that we already have a lot of existing knowledge and data and we rarely take advantage of using these data. Our goal is to make [...]
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The first time that I wrote a paper in the school of public health I arranged all of my references by hand using index cards, it means at that time, I didn’t know that I can at least use the Insert/ References tool at Microsoft Word. So simply I marked each piece of information with a [...]
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In some countries, people feed caws like this!
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One of my favorite TV productions is The Commanding Heights by PBS. In this show you can grasp a concentration of change from economic, social and political viewpoints in the world during 20th century.
The Commanding Heights Storyline provides a complete netcast of the six-hour television program as originally broadcast — in three two-hour episodes. The [...]
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“Extreme poverty can be ended, not in the time of our grandchildren, but our time.” Thus forecasts Jeffrey D. Sachs, whose twenty-eight years of experience observing the world from many vantage points has helped him shed light on the most vital issues facing our planet: the causes of poverty, the role of rich-country policies, and [...]
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If you are interested in the idea of development and you are familiar with the concept of sustainable development most likely you know Professor Sen. He is winner of Noble prize of Economy in 1998 “for his contributions to welfare economics” for his work on famine, human development theory, welfare economics, the underlying mechanisms of [...]
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Dr. Saeid Shahraz a post doctorate fellow at Harvard Initiative for Global Health created a blog to share with other interested people his concerns about healthcare system in Iran as an example of a developing country. Dr. Shahraz tries to comment on the major challenges of the healthcare system in Iran.
Healthcare disparity, quality and [...]
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As a health professional or health student you need to know a minimum of the health terminology and historical events as well as ongoing debates. For example you have to know the differences between reliability and validity, sensitivity and specificity, bias and confounding factors, also you must be able to explain the John Snow approach [...]
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GINI index is a measure of income inequality in a society. A society that scores 0.0 on the Gini scale has perfect equality in income distribution. Higher the number over zero means higher inequality. The Gini coefficient was developed by an Italian statistician Corrado Gini and published in his 1912 paper “Variabilità e mutabilità” [...]
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In this program, two human rights advocates discuss the ethics of access to care and protection from secret experiments. Dr. Jonathan Moreno, director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia and author of Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans, is a commentator and columnist for ABCNews.com. He is also [...]
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The Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) represents the 40 Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH)-accredited schools of public health (SPH) in North America.
The ASPH Public Health Policy Fellow will be placed in either a congressional or committee office, to be determined, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Selected fellows are required to [...]
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The current presidential race in the United States is one of the exciting episodes of the history of the American nation. This nation as a generous and patriot nation is an example of change for making a difference. If you look at the history of this country you will be impressed with the amount [...]
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Last week in a Medical Care Class at the BU school of public health, we discussed about the health market, professor said that the health market is an imperfect market, because it doesn’t have the characteristics and assumptions adhered to a perfect market. A perfect market has some assumptions like rationality of the market [...]
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Placing global health in the spot light of public attention is a critical first step toward improving the lives of billions of people around the world. Some preventable diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, TB, and injuries like Road Traffic Injuries are responsible for death of millions of people each year. In searching some valuable articles [...]
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Today through a telephone conversation with Dr. Mark Rosenberg, the Executive Director of the Task Force for the child survival and development, I learned that Sweden is leading the field of road safety in the world.
Have you ever heard that Sweden argue that Road Traffic Injuries can be eradicated as Smallpox was in 1980. Smallpox [...]
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Last year when I took Policy Analysis Course with Professor Foster, I never thought that one day I will meet the architecture of Policymaker Software. This tool is a Window-based software program for analyzing the political dimensions of public policy. This tool provides a computer-assisted guide for strategic thinking about policy reform. The software leads [...]
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CDC describes Ebola as a hemorrhagic fever (Ebola HF) that is a severe, often-fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanzees) that has appeared sporadically since its initial recognition in 1976.The disease is caused by infection with Ebola virus, named after a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) [...]
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KaiserEDU.org invites undergraduate and graduate-level students in all disciplines to submit an original essay for the website’s annual competition. Students are asked to submit entries by March 17, 2008 in response to the following topic:
Topic:
The date is November 24th, 2008. You have just started a job as an analyst working on the President-elect’s health care [...]
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Prof. Bicknell believes the public health for the next 50 years is “The art and science of deciding who lives a longer, less miserable and happier life”. It means public health mission is to increase lives of people (quantity) with less misery (quality). Avicenna an Iranian physician and philosopher (980-1037 C.E.), believed that the quality of [...]
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Road Traffic Injuries are responsible for a global health burden similar to malaria and tuberculosis. Tuberculosis and Malaria are in the international global agenda and receive enough attention in media and political community, but Road Traffic Injuries are ignored by most of health policy makers and it doesn’t receive enough attention even from academia.
During my [...]
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The first time that I was impressed with an organization who shares information easily and openly with interested people, was when I visited WWF-Pakistan in Oct 2000. After I came to the US, I found a lot of open doors who let you in easily and they share their findings generously.
Today I learned about OPENCOURSEWARE [...]
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Some authorities treat the sick as potential enemies in the pandemic preparations for example in Flu Pandemic. Experts call this approach as a misguided approach to pandemic preparation that relies on a law enforcement/national security approach, rather than a public health approach to the problem, and which exposes nations to unnecessary risk.
Professor Annas as one [...]
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Nomination deadline: Feb. 1, 2008.
The Excellence in Media Award for Global Health is given each year to a journalist (print, electronic, and/or visual) who has in the prior year most effectively captured the essence of a major issue in global health and conveyed it to a broad audience.The Global Health Council recognizes the vital role [...]
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Geographical Information System (GIS) is a powerful computer-aided database management and mapping technology that uses for organizing and storing large amount of multi-purpose information. GIS provides an interface between the data and a map. For example by using GIS maps we can show visually the trends of disease or injuries in a particular geographical region, [...]
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I like this term “Policy Window”. It feels smart; you can see the framework that is not always visible to most of people. As a Health Policy Maker, you have to be able to see this window in your journey for increasing the public value, addressing public health problems and making a difference. So what [...]
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“The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.” -Stephen R. Covey
Have you ever thought to write down your personal mission statement? Do you know how important could be having a clear personal statement to show your meaning of life?
The sense [...]
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Some people work full time, they have spouse and kids, at the same time they are students and also do a lot of volunteer activities like helping their kids to sell cookies for the Girl Scouts, planting trees, go to walk for breast cancer or heart disease, serve communities in the events, or blogging daily [...]
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Call for Nominees
The Best Practices in Global Health Award is given annually to celebrate and highlight the efforts of a public health practitioner or organization dedicated to improving the health of disadvantaged and disenfranchised populations, and to recognize the programs that effectively demonstrate the link between health, poverty and development. The person or organization selected [...]
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One of the concepts that a health policy maker should be aware about it, is the measurement of opportunity cost in a policy or program. For example, if a city decides to build a hospital on vacant land it owns, the opportunity cost is the value of the benefits forgone of some other thing which [...]
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Are you happy? When do people feel happiness? If they don’t have anything to eat make them happy, or if their babies are dying from pneumonia is a happy situation. If they live under Bomb and there is no hope in their country makes them feel as developed and happy nation. Of course, normal human [...]
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Dr. George Lakaoff a professor of cognitive linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley believes that “Global warming” is the wrong term: “Warm” seems nice. So people think, “Gee, I like global warming, Pittsburgh will be warmer.” “Climate change” is the attempt to be scientific and neutral. “Climate crisis” would be a more effective term. [...]
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A landmark study conducted by BUSPH International Health Professor Donald Thea and colleagues from Pakistan and WHO, showing that children with severe pneumonia can be treated as effectively at home as they can be in hospitals, could change the way the illness is managed in developing countries, saving lives and taking pressure off health systems. [...]
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I am a Dr PH student in Boston. I am here to share my learning with other Public Health students and professionals in this field. Having the opportunity to study in a graduate school is not always possible for interested people, so I decided to share and disseminate my knowledge with people who are interested. I try to summarize [...]
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