Knocking at Alternate Doors

2020 ◽  
pp. 22-38
Author(s):  
Rafiullah Khan ◽  
Mohib Ullah ◽  
Bushra Shafi ◽  
Urooj Beenish Orakzai ◽  
Seema Shafi
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Medicine ◽  
World Health ◽  
Smartphone App ◽  
Medical Systems ◽  
Major Drawback ◽  
Prefer Alternative ◽  
Alternative Medicines ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Health Organization

Despite the extraordinary progression in modern medicines, alternative medicine has always been practiced. Alternative medicine or complementary medicine is a term referring to any practice that aims to achieve healing effects using pseudoscience or without biological explanation. The major drawback of alternative medicine is that these medicines are not scientifically tested as claimed by different studies. Nevertheless, according to the World Health Organization, more than 70% of the population of developing countries prefer alternative medicine systems. In this work, a review of ten most popular Android based smartphone applications that belongs to two most popular alternative medicines systems i.e. Homeopathy and Ayurveda are presented. The apps are selected based on the number of reviews, user rating, and the number of downloads provided by Google's play store. From the reviews of users, it was noted that most of the users are satisfied with the selected smartphone app. Based on this fact, it can be implicitly concluded that these medical systems can effectively solve user health-related issues.

scholarly journals Taiwan and the World Health Assembly/World Health Organization: Perspectives from Health Services and Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-27
Author(s):  
Yen-Fu Chen
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
International Health ◽  
World Health ◽  
Active Member ◽  
World Health Assembly ◽  
The World ◽  
Taiwanese People ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Health Organization

Despite being one of Asia’s major economies with a population of over 23 million, Taiwan has been mostly excluded from the World Health Assembly/World Health Organization (wha/who) since 1972, due to China’s objection. While this has not stopped Taiwan from developing a comprehensive healthcare system and being an active member of international health community, the lack of membership in the world’s leading health authority undermines global health and presents perverse, and yet often neglected, inequality faced by Taiwanese people. This article aims to provide contextual information concerning the impacts of Taiwan’s exclusion from wha/who by: (1) enumerating health-related areas where Taiwan has rich knowledge and experiences that would have been cascaded much more widely and efficiently to those in need around the world had it been allowed to participate; and (2) highlighting difficulties faced by Taiwanese people and potential threats to international health arising from the exclusion.

scholarly journals Examining ways to enhance active transportation and the impact on commuters’ health, wellbeing and sustainable development

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Papageorgiou ◽  
Eudokia Balamou ◽  
Theophano Efstathiadou ◽  
Athanasios Maimaris
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Physical Inactivity ◽  
Cardiovascular Complications ◽  
Active Transportation ◽  
World Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Relevant Variables ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Impact

Active transportation and physical activity is a major remedy to health-related problems in our society. According to the World Health Organization the lack of physical activity is one of the leading risk factors for global mortality as well as health problems such as diabetes, cardiovascular complications and other diseases that are threatening public health. To reduce the health risks of physical inactivity, active transportation and generally physical activity have recently gained great interest in our modern societies. This paper investigates ways to enhance active transportation and the impact on commuters’ health, wellbeing and urban sustainability. As a result, a theoretical framework is developed that explores the relevant variables that influence commuter’s willingness for active mobility.

The Politics of Intergovernmental Organizations in Global Health

2018 ◽  
pp. 345-365
Author(s):  
Tine Hanrieder
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
World Health ◽  
Intergovernmental Organizations ◽  
Autonomous Action ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Cross Fertilization

The rules and services of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) such as the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and even the World Trade Organization affect health outcomes around the globe. Health-related IGOs have grown more numerous and more powerful but also more contested. This chapter explores the role of health-related IGOs in two main sections. The first section discusses the power of IGOs in global health, focusing on their capacity for autonomous action and their authority vis-à-vis states. The second section explores dynamics of change in and between health-related IGOs. The aim of the chapter is to outline productive cross-fertilization between the global health and IGO literatures.

Development of Human Rights through WHO

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Mason Meier ◽  
Florian Kastler
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
World Health ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Response ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Health Organization

With both the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the World Health Organization (WHO) coming into existence in 1948, there was great postwar promise that these two institutions would complement each other, with WHO serving to support human rights in its health policies, programs, and practices. Yet WHO’s support for human rights would vary dramatically in the decades that followed: neglecting human rights law during crucial years in the development of health-related rights, implementing human rights as a foundation for its “Health for All” campaign, and operationalizing rights-based standards in the international response to HIV/AIDS. This chapter examines WHO’s evolving contributions to (and, in some cases, negligence of) the rights-based approach to health, with this history framing WHO’s enduring challenges in exercising its international legal authorities, collaborating with the United Nations human rights system, and mainstreaming human rights in the WHO Secretariat.

scholarly journals Depression: International intervention for a global problem

2004 ◽  
Vol 184 (5) ◽  
pp. 379-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike. J. Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
World Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Health Organization

Since 1948 the World Health Organization has had the challenging task of trying to achieve ‘the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health’ (World Health Organization, 1946). A central part of this work has involved assessing the extent of health-related problems in different parts of the world and advocating for the implementation of effective strategies to address these problems. For many years the World Health Organization has expressed concerns about the relatively low level of funding assigned to mental health services in many countries. Estimates based on data collected in 2000 show that in most of sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia there are fewer than one mental health nurse and one psychiatrist per 100 000 people (World Health Organization, 2001). Two papers produced with the support of the World Health Organization and published in this issue of the Journal strengthen the argument for additional funding for mental health services. In the first paper, üstün and colleagues (2004, this issue) summarise data on the relative impact of common health-related problems in different regions of the world, and in an accompanying paper Chisholm and others (2004, this issue) estimate the cost-effectiveness of different interventions for depression in these different areas.

scholarly journals How blameless are hospitals in climate change? An example of a province in Turkey

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 45-53
Author(s):  
Manar Aslan ◽  
Ayşe Yıldız
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Medical Waste ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
World Health ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Carbon Footprints ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Health Organization

Abstract Starting from the 1970s, the discussion about the negative effects of human activity on the world has accelerated and with a increasingly raised voice and it has been noted that the natural balance of our world was being altered. The World Health Organization has focused its policies and directives on strategies aimed on dealing with climate change (and its impact on human health), and diseases related to air pollution and implementing health-related sustainable development goals in climate friendly-hospitals. Hospitals exist to treat patients, but they also pollute the environment because hospitals consume a lot of energy and water and produce hazardous waste. These organizations need to work hard to improve their carbon footprints. The study investigated practices at 21 public hospitals in Konya, Turkey. Results show that domestic waste was on average 54.83 tons per year, medical waste was 33.59 tons per year and packing waste was 24.36 tons per year. It was determined that medical waste disposal costs on average of €26,800 per annum, and the amount of medical waste per bed was 1.15 kilograms per annum. According to 2014 medical waste data the average medical waste per bed of these hospitals in Konya province is less than the average in Turkish public hospitals, in which it is 1.18 kilograms per bed. The hospitals in our study were found to be especially inadequate at water management and did not pay much attention to green practices.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Mobile Phone Healthcare Applications During the Covid-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamid Reza Saeidnia ◽  
Zahra Mohammadzadeh ◽  
Mohammad Hassanzadeh
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
World Health ◽  
Smartphone App ◽  
Healthcare Applications ◽  
System Usability Scale ◽  
System Usability ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

Our aim in the present study was to evaluate the HealthBuddy+ smartphone app, designed and implemented by the World Health Organization for the European region. For this purpose, we have used Heuristic evaluation method. The tools utilized in this study included 10 heuristics and measure System Usability Scale (SUS), as well as Nielsen’s five-point Severity Ranking Scale.

scholarly journals Depression worsens health of people with chronic illness

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Jonathan Spencer-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Chronic Illness ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
World Health ◽  
Health Statistics ◽  
World Health Survey ◽  
Major Chronic Disease ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Health Organization

<p>Individuals with depression are generally less healthy than those with a major chronic disease, according to data collected by the World Health Organization (WHO) in its World Health Survey on health and health-related outcomes and their determinants in adults aged 18 years and older and presented in the organisation’s World Health Statistics 2007.</p>

scholarly journals Considerations on the Update of the Risk Assessment Document During the Pandemic State by COVID-19 in Italy

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luigi Cirrincione ◽  
Venerando Rapisarda ◽  
Caterina Ledda ◽  
Ermanno Vitale ◽  
Rosanna Provenzano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
World Health ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
Biological Risk ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
Health Organization

Immediately after the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic (which had risen to the level of a pandemic according to the World Health Organization), the question arose whether or not to update the risk assessment, which, as required by Legislative Decree 81/2008, with the consequent updating of the prevention measures. In light of these forecasts, we asked ourselves whether the risk of coronavirus infection should be taken into account by the employer by updating the risk assessment or not. An in-depth analysis of current legislation has led to the conclusion that the biological risk from SARS-CoV-2 is to be considered specific only in health-related activities, in other activities it can be considered exclusively generic or generic aggravated. The Risk Assessment Document can therefore only be integrated.

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