scholarly journals OSTEOPOROSIS - STATISTICAL DATA FOR PATIENTS WITH OSTEOPOROSIS IN THE PERIOD FROM 2020 AND THE CURRENT 2021

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 366-370
Author(s):  
Jihe Zhu ◽  
Blagica Arsovska ◽  
Kristina Kozovska
Keyword(s):  
Hip Fracture ◽  
Older People ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Hospital Care ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
World Health ◽  
Need For Treatment ◽  
Treatment And Prevention ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

About 120.000 women in Macedonia suffer from osteoporosis. These statistics of the World Health Organization are just a warning about the need for treatment and prevention of this disease. For this research were analyzed statistical data for patients with osteoporosis in the period from 2020 and the current 2021. The data were taken from PHI Medika - Strumica, R.N. Macedonia and the Faculty of Medicine, Skopje RS Macedonia. From the obtained data from 2020 and 2021 for the number of examinations that have been performed in patients with osteoporosis over 50 years, in 2020, out of a total of 542 examinations, 523 are women diagnosed with osteoporosis and 19 are men. In the current 2021, out of a total of 115 examinations, 112 are women and 3 men are registered with osteoporosis. From the obtained data from the PHI Medika - Strumica, in 2020, out of a total of 792 examinations, 762 are women diagnosed with osteoporosis and 30 are men. In the current 2021, out of a total of 256 examinations, 250 are women and 6 men. In women osteoporosis is significantly more common than in men. From the hospitalized patients with hip fracture because of osteoporosis, 3.4% of those who are hospitalized are patients aged from 60 to 69 years, 30.6% are aged from 70 to 79 years, 66% are patients aged 80+ years. Age also plays an important role in osteoporosis and fractures. Older people are more likely to need hospital care than younger people.

scholarly journals A qualitative study of old patients’ experiences of the quality of the health services in hospital and 30 days after hospitalization

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingvild Lilleheie ◽  
Jonas Debesay ◽  
Asta Bye ◽  
Astrid Bergland
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Financial Burden ◽  
Healthcare Quality ◽  
World Health ◽  
Old Patients ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background: The number of people aged 80 years and above is projected to triple over the next 30 years. People in this age group normally have at least two chronic conditions. The impact of multimorbidity is often significantly greater than expected from the sum of the effects of each condition. The World Health Organization has indicated that healthcare systems must prepare for a change in the focus of clinical care for older people. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines healthcare quality as care that is effective, efficient, integrated, patient centered, equitable and safe. The degree to which healthcare quality can be defined as acceptable is determined by services’ ability to meet the needs of users and adapt to patients’ expectations and perceptions.Method: We took a phenomenological perspective to explore older patients’ subjective experiences and conducted semistructured individual interviews. Eighteen patients (aged from 82 to 100 years) were interviewed twice after discharge from hospital. The interview transcriptions were analyzed thematically.Results: The patients found their meetings with the health service to be complex and demanding. They reported attempting to restore a sense of security and meaning in everyday life, balancing their own needs against external requirements. Five overarching themes emerged from the interviews: hospital stay and the person behind the diagnosis, poor communication and coordination, life after discharge, relationship with their next of kin, and organizational and systemic determinants.Conclusion: According to the WHO, to deliver quality healthcare, services must include all six of the dimensions listed above. Our findings show that they do not. Healthcare focused on measurable values and biomedical inquiries. Few opportunities for participation, scant information and suboptimal care coordination left the patients with a feeling of being in limbo, where they struggled to find balance in their everyday life. Further work must be done to ensure that integrated services are provided without a financial burden, centered on the needs and rights of older people.

Sometimes Falls Are Difficult to Prevent. What Comes Next?

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (7) ◽  
pp. 318-319
Author(s):  
Chris Alderman
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
World Health ◽  
Important Contributor ◽  
Risk Of Death ◽  
Clinical Community ◽  
The World ◽  
Risk Of Falls ◽  
Serious Injury ◽  
Health Organization

The World Health Organization highlighted that older people have the highest risk of death or serious injury from falls, and the associated risks increase with age. The effects of medications are an important contributor in the overall equation for the risk of falls-related morbidity and mortality, and that is consistently demonstrated in research from around the world. In this edition of The Senior Care Pharmacist, there is further evidence presented, and the importance of this information cannot be challenged. However, the question remains: why has effective remediation of this risk consistently defeated the clinical community around the world?

Panel 2.5: Mass-Casualty Management and Hospital Care

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 412-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agostino Borra ◽  
Luis Jorge Perez ◽  
Tin Min ◽  
Wilai Puavilai ◽  
Norimasa Seo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
Hospital Care ◽  
Mass Casualty ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
World Health ◽  
Tsunami Disaster ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Conclusion Section ◽  
Key Questions

AbstractThis is a summary of the presentations and discussion of Panel 2.5, Mass-Casualty Management and Hospital Care of the Conference, Health Aspects of the Tsunami Disaster in Asia, convened by the World Health Organization in Phuket, Thailand, 04–06 May 2005. The topics discussed included issues related to mass-casualty management and hospital care as pertain to the responses to the damage created by the Tsunami. It is presented in the following major sections: wing (1) key questions; (2) recommendations; and (3) conclusions. Subsections of the conclusion section include: (1) lessons learned; (2) what was done well?; and (3) what could have been done better?.

scholarly journals Peculiarities of Teaching Problems of Metabolic Syndrome in Children to Interns

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olha Bobrykovych
Keyword(s):  
Metabolic Syndrome ◽  
Childhood Obesity ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
World Health ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Global Epidemic ◽  
Treatment And Prevention ◽  
The World ◽  
Symptom Complex ◽  
Health Organization

Obesity has become one of the most urgent social problems worldwide. Continuous and rapid increase in obesity rates is considered by the World Health Organization as a global epidemic. Obesity affects children as well; the World Health Organization recognized childhood obesity as an acute public health crisis. Childhood obesity is often accompanied by arterial hypertension, hyperlipidemia and disorders of        carbohydrate metabolism resulting in symptom complex – metabolic syndrome. While teaching the problems of metabolic syndrome in children to interns, a significant attention is paid to risk factors, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of syndrome. Such approach will allow future pediatricians to diagnose and prevent the development of early complications of metabolic syndrome in children timely.

scholarly journals Environment, Lifestyle and Health Status: a European Perspective

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Seke ◽  
Ljiljana Marković-Denić ◽  
Velimir Štavljanin ◽  
Zoran Radojičić ◽  
Nataša Petrović
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
World Health ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
European Perspective ◽  
Joint Influence ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Impact

Although population health cannot be measured in exact measurable form, a large number of concepts have been developed, and measurements have been framed through the presence of many different indicators. The impact of the environment on human health is well known. However, attention should be paid that no significant number of papers focused on the co-occurrence of environmental and lifestyle determinants on health status. This paper aims to emphasize the joint influence of environmental and lifestyle determinants on the European population's health status. The study was based on the World Health Organization statistical data, and 50 European countries were included. Three data sets were observed: Health status, Environmental, and Lifestyle indicators. Taking into account a large number of data, multivariate analyzes were applied. Results indicate that co-occurrence of environmental and lifestyle determinants have a significant impact on the health status in Europe.

scholarly journals Framework Implementation of the INSPIRE ICOPE-CARE program in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) in the Occitania region

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
N. Tavassoli ◽  
A. Piau ◽  
C. Berbon ◽  
J. De Kerimel ◽  
C. Lafont ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Care Program ◽  
World Health ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Digital Medicine ◽  
The World ◽  
Intrinsic Capacity ◽  
Health Organization

Introduction: Limiting the number of dependent older people in coming years will be a major economic and human challenge. In response, the World Health Organization (WHO) has developed the «Integrated Care for Older People (ICOPE)» approach. The aim of the ICOPE program is to enable as many people as possible to age in good health. To reach this objective, the WHO proposes to follow the trajectory of an individual’s intrinsic capacity, which is the composite of all their physical and mental capacities and comprised of multiple domains including mobility, cognition, vitality / nutrition, psychological state, vision, hearing. Objective: The main objective of the INSPIRE ICOPE-CARE program is to implement, in clinical practice at a large scale, the WHO ICOPE program in the Occitania region, in France, to promote healthy aging and maintain the autonomy of seniors using digital medicine. Method: The target population is independent seniors aged 60 years and over. To follow this population, the 6 domains of intrinsic capacity are systematically monitored with pre-established tools proposed by WHO especially STEP 1 which has been adapted in digital form to make remote and large-scale monitoring possible. Two tools were developed: the ICOPE MONITOR, an application, and the BOTFRAIL, a conversational robot. Both are connected to the Gerontopole frailty database. STEP 1 is performed every 4-6 months by professionals or seniors themselves. If a deterioration in one or more domains of intrinsic capacity is identified, an alert is generated by an algorithm which allows health professionals to quickly intervene. The operational implementation of the INSPIRE ICOPE-CARE program in Occitania is done by the network of Territorial Teams of Aging and Prevention of Dependency (ETVPD) which have more than 2,200 members composed of professionals in the medical, medico-social and social sectors. Targeted actions have started to deploy the use of STEP 1 by healthcare professionals (physicians, nurses, pharmacists,…) or different institutions like French National old age insurance fund (CNAV), complementary pension funds (CEDIP), Departmental Council of Haute Garonne, etc. Perspective: The INSPIRE ICOPE-CARE program draws significantly on numeric tools, e-health and digital medicine to facilitate communication and coordination between professionals and seniors. It seeks to screen and monitor 200,000 older people in Occitania region within 3 to 5 years and promote preventive actions. The French Presidential Plan Grand Age aims to largely implement the WHO ICOPE program in France following the experience of the INSPIRE ICOPE-CARE program in Occitania.

The Rise of Telemedicine

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Diyakonov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Emerging Technology ◽  
Access To Healthcare ◽  
World Health ◽  
Delivery Of Healthcare ◽  
Treatment And Prevention ◽  
Needed Information ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

In 2017, the World Health Organization estimated that over half of the world’s population does not have access to healthcare services. Not having healthcare can be fatal, but telemedicine is proving to be a possible solution. Telemedicine is the delivery of healthcare services at a distance, enabling the exchange of needed information for diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, advancing the health of individuals and their communities (WHO, 2010). With the COVID-19 pandemic causing a spike in telemedicine usage, this emerging technology has proven to be a useful alternative to save lives around the world.

Risk of hip fracture according to the World Health Organization criteria for osteopenia and osteoporosis

Bone ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 585-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.A Kanis ◽  
O Johnell ◽  
A Oden ◽  
B Jonsson ◽  
C De Laet ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hip Fracture ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
World Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

scholarly journals Lung cancer - statistical analysis data from 2016 to 2019 in Shtip, Republic of North Macedonia

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (05) ◽  
pp. 350-353
Author(s):  
Jihe Zhu ◽  
Blagica Arsovska ◽  
Kristina Kozovska
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Lung Cancer ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
World Health ◽  
Age Group ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

According to the data of the World Health Organization, globally, in 2018, 18 million new cases of cancer were registered, of which 2.09 million (11.6%) were diagnosed with lung cancer and 9.6 million deaths, of which 1.76 million (18.4) are in lung cancer. The overall standardized incidence rate by age is 25% higher in men than in women. Statistical data taken from the Center for public health – Shtip,  shows that lung cancer is more common in men and more common in people aged 55-65, while in women there is no dominance of a certain age group. The total number of newly registered cases of lung cancer in Stip for 2016 is a total of 25. In 2017 the total number is 35 of which 30 of the patients are men, most of them are aged 55 to 65 years. In 2018 the total number is 22. The total number of newly registered cases of lung cancer in Shtip for 2019 is 7 of which are all registered in men, most are aged 45 to 54 and 65 to 75 years. Due to the frequency of this type of cancer, it is important to raise the awareness in people to prevent or detect the disease early, which improves the chances for a better prognosis and a better outcome of treatment.

scholarly journals An Accidental Nutritionist

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Alfred Sommer
Keyword(s):  
Vitamin A ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Vitamin A Deficiency ◽  
World Health ◽  
Formal Training ◽  
Global Control ◽  
Treatment And Prevention ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Unnecessary Death

My career as an accidental nutritionist began with my immersion in cholera control, a cyclone disaster, a smallpox epidemic, and formal training in ophthalmology and epidemiology. Interest in blindness prevention inexplicably led me to (re)pioneer the effects, treatment, and prevention of vitamin A deficiency, while faced with intense criticism by many leading scientists in the nutrition community. The resulting efforts by the World Health Organization and UNICEF in support of programs for the global control of vitamin A deficiency still face vocal opposition by some senior scientists, despite having been estimated to have saved tens of millions of children from unnecessary death and blindness. This entire journey was largely an accident!

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