a human rights and public health imperative

... there are considerable gaps between prison health and public health services Politicians and the general public still seem to be unaware of these evident and unacceptable inequities Human rights and, ... población y las desigualdades suponen tanto un reto como una oportunidad para los sistemas sanitarios de cada país Las altas tasas de encarcelamiento en muchos países, el hacinamiento resultante, ... género y la injusticia social en las prisiones Existen pasos inmediatos que se podrían tomar para solucionar la desatención de la sanidad pública, los abusos de derechos humanos y la falta de sensibilidad...

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... biomass smoke is a potential risk factor for lung cancer Nasopharyngeal and laryngeal cancer Biomass smoke has been implicated as a cause of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (100), although this is not a ... uncertainty about the mechanisms whereby smoke causes emphysema and airway disease Oxidative stress may be a component, as oxidizing radicals are present in tobacco and biomass smoke and are released ... Papua New Guinea highlands Thorax, 1979, 34: 647–653 45 Anderson HR Respiratory abnormalities and ventilatory capacity in a Papua New Guinea island community American Review of Respiratory Diseases,...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... mental health These areas require urgent attention in a gender and human rights- based approach to women's health The Declaration of Alma-Ata, adopted at the Alma-Ata Conference of 1978 on Primary ... David Evans, Samantha Figueroa Garcia, Bob Fryatt, Michelle Funk, Monika Gehner, Sabrina Hassanali, Hans Hogerzeil, Sowmya Kadandale, Rania Kawar, Eszter Kismodi, Jennifer Knoester, Alexandra ... access to safe and potable water and adequate sanitation, safe and healthy working conditions, and a healthy environment The underlying determinants of health, when neglected, can lead to health...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 13:20

... issues in air quality risk management and the emergence of a new regulatory paradigm to complement traditional public health standardsetting While air quality standards have historically and continue ... they may interact to pose a cumulative risk to human health are emerging as important challenges • Urban areas, especially emissions and health effects associated with particulate matter (PM), are ... representatives from national-level regulatory agencies in Canada, the US, Europe, and South East Asia, as well as international environment and health organizations, industry groups, state and provincial...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20

... 0-19-516949-2 Human rights Moral and ethical aspects Medical laws and legislation—Moral and ethical aspects Medical laws and legislation—Moral and ethical aspects—United States Bioethics—United States ... Rights and Health The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the two subsequent treaties form a global human rights framework for action and have a special relevance for global health The relationship ... equality are better recognized today Human Rights and Health 25 Human Rights and Physicians Both medical ethics and human rights are aspirational and difficult to enforce Over the past two decades...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 10:20

... Technical contribution and critiques Beatrice Abrahams Adel Hamid Afana Thérèse A Agossou Bassam Al Ashhab Ignacio Alvarez Ella Amir Paul S Appelbaum Julio Arboleda-Florez Begone Ariño Joseph Bediako ... MENTAL HEALTH, HUMAN RIGHTS AND LEGISLATION Stop exclusion, dare to care WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data WHO Resource Book on Mental Health, Human Rights and Legislation Mental health ... Human Rights and Health Law, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland People Who, Santa Cruz, CA, USA World Association for Medical Law, Haifa, Israel Mental Health Program, Ministry of Health, ...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20

... effects, such as contact irritation Water and health, and in particular drinking water and health, has been an area of concern to the World Health Organization (WHO) for many years A major activity ... Dr Mary Drikas, Australian Water Quality Centre, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia (Chapter 9) Professor Ian Falconer, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia (Chapters 4-7) Dr Jutta Fastner, ... England Thanks are also due to Dr Deborah Chapman, the series editor, for editorial assistance, layout and production management, and to Ms Grazia Motturi and Ms Sylvaine Bassi, for secretarial and...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20

... A Guide to Clinical Management and Public Health Response for Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) WHO Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A Guide to clinical management and public health ... Shekhar K, et al Deaths in children during an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease in Peninsular Malaysia-clinical and pathological characteristics Medical Journal of Malaysia, 2005, Aug, ... to ANS, and subsequently to devastating pulmonary oedema Retrospective analysis of IVIG-treated cases in Taiwan (China) and Sarawak, Malaysia, seen during earlier outbreaks, appear to demonstrate...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 09:20

... we have a right to ‘the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health .8 But that cannot be so The highest attainable standard of physical and mental health is not even a reasonable ... dignity and human rights, involves far more that conforming to human rights laws, such as anti-discrimination law, and health and safety regulations, and suggests that there is a powerful moral imperative ... Correctional Organisations DAVID BILES 189 Human Rights, the Moral Vacuum of Modern Organisations, and Administrative Evil GUY ADAMS AND DANNY BALFOUR 205 Humanity, Military Humanism and the New Moral...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 02:20

... Grassly NC, Balloux F, Ghani AC, Ferguson NM, Rambaut A, Pybus OG, Lopez-Gatell H, Alpuche-Aranda CM, Chapela IB, Zavala EP, Guevara DM, Checchi F, Garcia E, Hugonnet S, Roth C, WHO Rapid Pandemic ... development an early and consequent surveillance and monitoring system with a standardized and coordinated international information sharing is crucial for the management not only for pandemic influenza ... seasonal Statistical analysis For statistical analysis, data was inserted into a Microsoft Excel database file This file represented the basis for the detailed analysis using standard MS Excel capabilities...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... that collaborates with Thai authorities and addresses drug user issues creates dilemmas that straddle ethics and international human rights law Could participation in a state-authorized clinical ... Mwamburi DM, Bennish ML, Kupelnick B, Ioannidis JP: Clinical trials in sub-Saharan Africa and established standards of care: a systematic review of HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria trial JAMA 2004, ... Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and US Army IRBs Burma (Myanmar) In the examples of Thailand and Nepal, we present cases of clinical research that could have been conducted in populations...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... Correctional Association of New York Macias J, Japon MA, Saez C, Palacios RB, Mira JA, Garcia-Garcia JA, Merchante N, Vergara S, Lozano F, Gomez-Mateos J, Pineda JA: Increased hepatocyte fas expression ... trial and sentencing transcripts In addition, A. R and M.T assisted in the editing and preparation of this manuscript http://www.harmreductionjournal.com/content/3/1/21 Additional material Additional ... Center's residency program in Social Internal Medicine, in which medical, social work and legal professionals work together to understand the interface of law and health and advocate for better client...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:20

... international law are states, individuals may have access to international human rights tribunals Non-state actors and international organisations may avail themselves of international norms alongside, ... practice disadvantages and marginalises females.81 Valuing human rights and the sanctity of individual human life are obviously not exclusively European norms What today are thought about as ... Globalization, p 12 See Mac Darrow, Between Light and Shadow: The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and International Human Rights Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2006); Balakrishnan Rajagopal,...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... educators) for rural Hispanic children and their families would have an impact on asthma morbidity, cost of asthma care, and family adaptation A randomized block design was used with random assignment ... decrease acute asthma episodes, and increase asthma knowledge and skills among African American children? (3) Can a combined intervention that addresses both asthma education and community health ... professional education sessions, distributing patient and public education materials written in English and Spanish, and conducting mass media campaigns for African American and Hispanic populations...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 09:20

... sugar, restaurant food, and school food • Health organizations: advocacy and service groups interested in cancer and diabetes, wellness, public health (health departments), aging, and minority health ... Co-sponsored by Health Canada, Environment Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Cullbridge Marketing and Communications, NRTEE, and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities www.toolsofchange.com/ Innovations ... enough for such campaigns More effective strategies are now available.) • National campaign strategies and materials have important benefits for state and local programs, and vice versa • Credible...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 00:20

... Visitation  Affordable Care Act  Created the Maternal and Infant Early Childhood Home Visitation Program  Led by Health Resources and Services Administration in collaboration with the Administration ... with annual incomes $30,000 49 Sedlak and Broadhurst U.S Department of Health and Human Services, National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect Third National ... as physical abuse  ~ 5% were confirmed as sexual abuse  Rates of child maltreatment are similar to the national average  FL: 11.3/1,000  USA: 9.3/1,000 National Child Abuse and Neglect Data...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 09:20

... World Health Organization Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) a Administration for Children and Families (ACF) b Administration on Aging (AOA) c Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality ... the health care delivery system A number of proactive suggestions have been offered by health organizations, agencies and health educators In 1994 the American Public Health Association (APHA) and ... preventive health services, major causes of morbidity and mortality, communicable and vaccine preventable diseases, environmental health and occupational health The national trends and forecasts discussed...

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Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 15:21

... 064, India Contributors Padma Yenkatasubramanian Joint Director Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions (FRLHT) 74/2, Jarakabande Kaval Attur Post via Yelahanka Bangalore 560 ... approaches to TCAM at national and local levels, and the growing trend towards global and regional analysis of utilisation patterns and formalisation, there is now a clear need for a set of public ... decision making, as has been done recently in the area of malaria therapy Allan Rosenfield, MD, FACOG DeLamar Professor of Public Health and Ob/Gyn Dean, Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:21

... Earth Materials and Health: Research Priorities for Earth Science and Public Health http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11809.html EARTH MATERIALS AND HEALTH RESEARCH PRIORITIES FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND PUBLIC ... human health are pervasive and complex In some instances, the association between earth materials and disease is clear—certain fibrous (asbestos) minerals and mesothelioma, radon gas and lung cancer, ... © National Academy of Sciences All rights reserved Earth Materials and Health: Research Priorities for Earth Science and Public Health http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11809.html EARTH MATERIALS AND...

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