Healthy lifestyle: students’ position

2021 ◽  
pp. 38-45
Author(s):  
P.A. Guzhovа ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Parental Education ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Sharp Decrease ◽  
High Position ◽  
Low Resource ◽  
High Resource ◽  
Complex Development ◽  
Responsible Attitude ◽  
Gender Characteristics ◽  
Almost All

Analyzes are factors that negatively affect the health (physical, mental, moral, social, etc.) of students. The author conducted a study in the leading universities of the Yaroslavl region. It was found that the majority of students have superficial ideas about a healthy lifestyle, which does not allow them to adhere to its principles. It has been proven that girls pay more attention to their health. Regardless of gender characteristics, distance learning led many students to a violation of the diet, sleep, and a sharp decrease in physical activity. Despite the fact that when polling to identify terminal values (life values), almost all respondents put health first, students are dominated by an irresponsible attitude towards their health. Students from families who belong to high resource groups (parents have a higher education, high position, wealthy, etc.), self-preservation behavior is more developed than students who belong to low resource groups (low level of parental education, lack of regular income etc.). It was found that students from families who belong to low-resource groups are characterized by self-destructive behavior (smoking, drug use, alcohol, etc.) to a greater extent than students from families who belong to high-resource and medium-resource groups. The study showed that the management of universities pays considerable attention to the complex development of the physical and mental qualities of students, taking into account their interests in certain sports and systems of physical training. Measures are proposed to increase the interest of young people in physical improvement, to reveal the value of a responsible attitude to their health.

scholarly journals A framework for designing medical devices resilient to low-resource settings

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Davide Piaggio ◽  
Rossana Castaldo ◽  
Marco Cinelli ◽  
Sara Cinelli ◽  
Alessia Maccaro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Delphi Study ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Low Resource Settings ◽  
Health Technologies ◽  
Low Resource ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
High Resource ◽  
International Experts ◽  
Global Population ◽  
Different Parts

Abstract Background To date (April 2021), medical device (MD) design approaches have failed to consider the contexts where MDs can be operationalised. Although most of the global population lives and is treated in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMCIs), over 80% of the MD market share is in high-resource settings, which set de facto standards that cannot be taken for granted in lower resource settings. Using a MD designed for high-resource settings in LMICs may hinder its safe and efficient operationalisation. In the literature, many criteria for frameworks to support resilient MD design were presented. However, since the available criteria (as of 2021) are far from being consensual and comprehensive, the aim of this study is to raise awareness about such challenges and to scope experts’ consensus regarding the essentiality of MD design criteria. Results This paper presents a novel application of Delphi study and Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) to develop a framework comprising 26 essential criteria, which were evaluated and chosen by international experts coming from different parts of the world. This framework was validated by analysing some MDs presented in the WHO Compendium of innovative health technologies for low-resource settings. Conclusions This novel holistic framework takes into account some domains that are usually underestimated by MDs designers. For this reason, it can be used by experts designing MDs resilient to low-resource settings and it can also assist policymakers and non-governmental organisations in shaping the future of global healthcare.

Low Resource ASR: The Surprising Effectiveness of High Resource Transliteration

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shreya Khare ◽  
Ashish Mittal ◽  
Anuj Diwan ◽  
Sunita Sarawagi ◽  
Preethi Jyothi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Resource ◽  
High Resource

scholarly journals Low Salt Diet Counseling as an Effort to Increase Knowledge of Hypertension Patients

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 034-037
Author(s):  
Ani Sutriningsih ◽  
Pertiwi Perwiraningtyas ◽  
Wahyu Dini Metrikayanto
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Public Knowledge ◽  
Salt Diet ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Low Salt ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Diet Counseling ◽  
Category Knowledge ◽  
Almost All

The prevalence of hypertension has increased throughout the year. Hypertension spreads widely because of the lack of knowledge and a healthy lifestyle. People's lifestyle which is more practical has an impact on the implementation of inappropriate hypertension diets and triggers various diseases. Based on this phenomenon, it is necessary to increase public knowledge about hypertension diets. The purpose of this activity was to provide counseling about a low-salt diet as an effort to increase knowledge of hypertension patients. The method was done by giving counseling about low salt diet through lectures to 30 hypertension patients who were routinely monitored at the Panti Rahayu Clinic. The pre test showed that almost all of the hypertension patients (80%) were in the poor category of knowledge. The post test showed that after being given counseling the knowledge of hypertension patients increased almost half (46%) were in the good category. Knowledge of hypertension patients increased after getting information through counseling activities about a low salt diet. Suggestions for clinics are expected to hold regular and periodic health education or promotion programs to provide information so as to increase the knowledge of hypertension patients.

Infectious Diseases

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doug Fink
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Emerging Infections ◽  
High Resource ◽  
The World ◽  
Causes Of Mortality ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Immunomodulatory Therapies

Infectious diseases are global and local. They impact health and dis­ease in every country, but protean factors— cultural, geographical, and political— determine their particular local distribution. Every single patient is globally colonized by microorganisms, but singular behaviours, genetics and co- morbidities significantly determine what organisms cause disease in any individual. The practice of infectious diseases medi­cine necessarily demands an understanding of the person and the world in which they live. This chapter will emphasize the importance of context in assessing patients for infectious diseases. In terms of global mortality, communicable diseases remain the leading causes of mortality. Despite the evocative epithet of ‘infectious diseases’, these are not all caused by creatures that creep and crawl. Cosmopolitan diseases (i.e. universally distributed infections such as influenza or bac­terial pneumonia) represent a huge burden wherever medicine is prac­tised. However, it is important to note that in high- resource settings, infection imported by travel and migration is increasing. In particular, the international traffic of emerging infections, such as Zika virus, and anti-microbial resistance (AMR) are already major healthcare problems. As the world shrinks and the climate changes, the distribution of infectious diseases will continue to change. The threat of AMR no longer looms— it is a present and real danger. In the time it will take for disciples of this text to reach the end of their specialty training, AMR will account annually for more deaths than cancer. The delivery of almost all interventional, surgical, and immunomodulatory therapies depends on our ability to provide effective anti- microbial prophylaxis and rescue. The ability of organisms to adapt rapidly to novel iatrogenic selection pressures means that the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), tuberculosis (TB), malaria, and manifold other pathogens will be compromised, not simply anti- bacterial agents. The future of modern medicine depends on the global healthcare community sharing both concern and responsibility. This chapter will include cases pertaining to the management of AMR.

scholarly journals Decolonising the medical literature: We are not just a low-resource setting

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 170
Author(s):  
Adamson S Muula
Keyword(s):  
Medical Journal ◽  
Medical Association ◽  
Medical Literature ◽  
Low Resource ◽  
Resource Setting ◽  
Low Resource Setting ◽  
Daunting Task ◽  
Medical Publishing ◽  
Almost All

I was appointed the Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of the Malawi Medical Journal (MMJ), a periodical of the Malawi College of Medicine (www.medcol.mw) and the Medical Association of Malawi (MAM) in February 2019. It is a daunting task certainly to be at the helm of such a prestigious medical journal indexed in/by almost all the databases that matter in medical publishing. Our journal has published since the 1970s, first as the Medical Quarterly, and later as the Malawi Medical Journal.

scholarly journals Report on the Treatment of Hodgkin Lymphoma With ABVD Chemotherapy at Two Rural District Hospitals in Rwanda

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 67s-67s ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca J. DeBoer ◽  
Caitlin D. Driscoll ◽  
Yvan Butera ◽  
Jean Bosco Bigirimana ◽  
Clemence Muhayimana ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hodgkin Lymphoma ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Treatment Protocol ◽  
Rural District ◽  
Standard Chemotherapy ◽  
International Partnership ◽  
Low Resource ◽  
High Resource ◽  
District Hospitals ◽  
Abvd Chemotherapy

Abstract 34 Background: While Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is highly curable with standard chemotherapy in high resource settings, there are few reports of HL treatment in low resource settings. In Rwanda, a treatment protocol using six cycles of ABVD chemotherapy (doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine, dacarbazine) without radiotherapy has been implemented at two rural district hospitals. Here we report on the feasibility of this approach, our patient characteristics, and preliminary outcomes. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of all patients with biopsy confirmed HL seen at Butaro and Rwinkwavu hospitals between June 2012 and August 2015. Data was extracted from clinical charts and analyzed using descriptive statistics. Results: 43 HL patients were seen at Butaro (n=38) and Rwinkwavu (n=5); 58% male, median age 17 (range 4-54). Five (12%) were HIV positive. Of 22 patients with biopsy specimens evaluated for EBV, 12 (55%) were positive, 9 (41%) negative, and one indeterminate. Most patients were staged with chest x-ray (79%); fewer had liver ultrasound (33%) or CT (9%). With that, Ann Arbor stages were I (28%), II (23%), III (21%), IV (21%), and undetermined (7%). Of 39 patients who started ABVD, 25 (64%) completed all 6 cycles. Median time to completion of the 24 week ABVD regimen was 26.1 weeks (IQR 25-27); 26 patients (67%) experienced at least one treatment delay. Dose reductions were rare. At the time of data extraction, 5 (12%) were still on treatment, 18 (43%) in remission, 2 (5%) alive with relapse, 15 (35%) deceased, and 2 (5%) lost to follow up. Conclusions: Here we demonstrate the feasibility of treating HL with standard chemotherapy in a low resource setting through international partnership. Our preliminary results suggest that a majority of patients who complete treatment may experience a clinically significant remission with this approach. Further data analysis will identify areas for improvement with the hope of increasing sustained remissions. AUTHORS' DISCLOSURES OF POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST: No COIs from the authors.

scholarly journals Augmenting Neural Machine Translation through Round-Trip Training Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 268-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benyamin Ahmadnia ◽  
Bonnie J. Dorr
Keyword(s):  
Machine Translation ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Training Dataset ◽  
Round Trip ◽  
Neural Machine Translation ◽  
Low Resource ◽  
Translation Quality ◽  
High Resource ◽  
Training Approach ◽  
Language Pair

AbstractThe quality of Neural Machine Translation (NMT), as a data-driven approach, massively depends on quantity, quality and relevance of the training dataset. Such approaches have achieved promising results for bilingually high-resource scenarios but are inadequate for low-resource conditions. Generally, the NMT systems learn from millions of words from bilingual training dataset. However, human labeling process is very costly and time consuming. In this paper, we describe a round-trip training approach to bilingual low-resource NMT that takes advantage of monolingual datasets to address training data bottleneck, thus augmenting translation quality. We conduct detailed experiments on English-Spanish as a high-resource language pair as well as Persian-Spanish as a low-resource language pair. Experimental results show that this competitive approach outperforms the baseline systems and improves translation quality.

Impact of COVID-19 on the system of higher education

2020 ◽  
pp. 12-22
Author(s):  
S.L. Talanov ◽  
◽  
F.Yu. Kushnarev ◽  
D.T. Berezin ◽  
E.S. Rumyantseva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Economic Capital ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Low Resource ◽  
High Resource ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

Analyzed is the impact of restrictions on higher educational system introduced by the Government of the Russian Federation in connection with spread of coronavirus infection COVID-19. Sociological study (online survey) was conducted among students, enrolled in budgetary and extra-budgetary forms of education, as well as among graduates of secondary schools (11th classes), located in small, medium and large cities of Yaroslavl region. In addition, video interviews were conducted, using Zoom service among number of applicants, parents of applicants, teachers, positional experts. It was established, that emergence and spread of COVID-19 and limitations, associated with it, made certain adjustments to strategies of applicants and students. Despite all changes that have arisen due to coronavirus infection, only a small part of applicants and students studying on extrabudgetary basis, decided to change their plans. It is concluded, that for significant part of applicants, obtaining higher education is an attempt to continue to remain in a familiar comfortable environment (continuation of “childhood”). Despite constant stresses at school, expectation from prospect of losing a measured, familiar, predictable life is even more stressful. Parents from families, belonging to medium-resource and high-resource groups, as a rule, support decision of their children to keep on studying. In this case, decision to enter university is made long before graduation. Parents from low-resource groups, as a rule, try to give profession, not a higher education. At the same time, it was revealed, that children from families, belonging to low-resource groups, for the most part, anyway note that if they had necessary resources, they would try to get higher education. In addition, the authors conclude, that decision on admission to university is greatly influenced by not at all economic capital of family, how much family’s value, as well as influence of the reference person.

scholarly journals Gambaran Tingkat Kepuasan Pasien pada Pelayanan Kesehatan dengan Jamu di Rumah Riset Jamu Hortus Medicus Tawangmangu

2018 ◽  
pp. 81-86
Author(s):  
Tri Wahyuni Lestari ◽  
Nurhayati Nurhayati ◽  
Delima Delima ◽  
Cicih Opitasari ◽  
Hadi Siswoyo
Keyword(s):  
Patient Satisfaction ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Service Model ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Treatment Action ◽  
Almost All

Abstrak Rumah Riset Jamu Hortus Medicus (RRJHM) berdasarkan Permenkes No.003/Menkes/Per/2010, merupakan klinik jamu yang melakukan kegiatan penelitian berbasis pelayanan. Sebagai bagian dari fasilitas penelitian berbasis pelayanan kesehatan, maka RRJHM terus meningkatkan kualitas pelayanannya agar senantiasa dapat memenuhi kebutuhan pasien. Salah satu aspek peningkatan mutu pelayanan adalah aspek kepuasan pasien. Penelitian ini menggunakan disain cross-sectional dan merupakan analisis lanjut dari data penelitian Model Pelayanan Kesehatan Tradisional tahun 2016. Subjek penelitian adalah pasien yang berobat di RRJHM pada saat penelitian berlangsung. Tujuan analisis untuk mengetahui gambaran tingkat kepuasan pasien yang berobat ke RRJHM. Data dianalisis secara deskriptif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan hampir seluruh responden merasa puas terhadap pelayanan di RRJHM. Namun, masih ada beberapa responden yang berpendapat tidak atau kurang puas terhadap beberapa aspek pelayanan seperti: pelayanan yang dapat diberikan dengan cepat, selalu menanyakan keluhan pasien, selalu memberikan kesempatan bertanya kepada pasien, memberikan informasi tentang penyakit, cara pengobatan/tindakan yang dilakukan, kontra indikasi dan efek samping yang mungkin terjadi secara jelas/mudah dimengerti, memberikan edukasi tentang pola hidup sehat (diet, aktivitas fisik), prosedur administrasi yang cepat, ruangan yang tertata bersih, rapi dan nyaman. Kata kunci: Kepuasan pasien, pelayanan kesehatan, jamu Abstract Based on Permenkes No.003/Menkes/Per/2010, Rumah Riset Jamu Hortus Medikus (RRJHM) is a jamu clinic that conducts service-based research activities. As part of the service based research facility, RRJHM continues to improve the quality of its services so that it can always fulfill the needs of patients. One aspect of improving the quality of service is the aspect of patient satisfaction. This cross-sectional descriptive study is an analysis of secondary data from the former research i.e.Traditional Health Service Model in 2016 that was conducted regarding patient satisfaction who visited at RRJHM. This study aims to determine the aspects of patient satisfaction at RRJHM. Data were analyzed descriptively. The results show that almost all respondents satisfied with the service at the RRJHM. However, there are still some respondents who are not satisfied with the service, especially in the aspect such as: the service is given quickly, always asks the patient’s complaint, always gives the opportunity to ask the patient, providing information about the disease, how the treatment/action is done, contra indications and side effects that may occur clearly/easily understood, providing education about healthy lifestyle (diet, physical activity), rapid administration procedures, clean, neat and comfortable room. Keywords: patient satisfaction, health service, herbal medicine

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