Public Health | -Chronic Disease Modules-

Early this week, I was given my official assignment to complete over the course of my next three months here in Bangladesh: I will be collaborating with the Public Health Science Department here at ICDDR, B in order to design community health modules for chronic disease patients, which are to be implemented at the Centre for Control [...]

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Conflict and Public Health (via The Challenge of Development)

In light of the awful Mumbai bomb blasts, I began thinking about the public health impact of conflict. Beside the obvious loss of life and injury from violence, "conflict" in its many forms have lasting affects on vulnerable (and non-vulnerable) populations. For example, let's take refugees and asylees. Clearly, conditions in Refugee Camps can be [...]

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Malaria Prevention.

When talking about preventing malaria it is first important to understand a few basics about the disease. First, malaria is a global killer with around 1,000,000 million deaths per year. Half of the world's population lives in a malaria risk zone (3.3 billion people). There are an estimated 250 million cases of malaria each year. [...]

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Diabetes crisis worse than thought: 347 million adult sufferers

(From PharmaTimes)  A major international study has been published inThe Lancet which reveals the scale of global diabetes epidemic, with the disease becoming more common almost everywhere in the world. The study, which was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Health Organisation, took worldwide data on diabetes since 1980 and found [...]

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Global Perspectives on Autism -A Growing Public Health Crisis-

Yesterday, May 31, USICD staff attended the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights' hearing entitled Global Perspectives on Autism: A Growing Public Health Crisis.  The hearing, led by Congressman Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ), focused on new and emerging information about autism in the global community and the challenges that nations [...]

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Imagine Cup: Students’ Innovation Tackles Global Issues (via Amy Croan MPH)

Mooie innovatieve ideen bedacht door studenten. Zeker het lezen waard. The world’s best and brightest meet in Microsoft’s annual Imagine Cup competition using technology to solve the world’s toughest problems. High school and collegiate students formed teams and put their creativity and best innovations forward in a global contest to tackle what matters. Finalists have [...]

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