CHINA'S HEALTH SYSTEM REFORM

An unprecedented scientific collaboration on China and global health launched by The Lancet, Peking University Health Sciences Centre, and the China Medical Board, was launched in Beijing on Oct 20, 2008. This Series-focusing on health-system Reform in China - consists of 19 commissioned research papers that bring together the most recent scientific evidence on China's major health challenges, its health strategies, and China's health future. The Series was produced by a team of 63 scientists, with Chinese scientists constituting two-thirds of the authors, collaborating with an international team from 10 countries.

GLOBAL NETWORK FOR NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES

Μία ενδιαφέρουσα πρωτοβουλία του Sabin Vaccine Institute

1ο ΔΙΕΘΝΕΣ ΦΕΣΤΒΑΛ ΚΙΝΗΜΑΤΟΓΡΑΦΟΥ ΓΙΑ ΘΕΜΑΤΑ ΥΓΕΙΑΣ

1-6 ΣΕΠΤΕΜΒΡΙΟΥ 2009

Το Διεθνές Φεστιβαλ Κινηματογραφου της Κω ,Ιπποκράτης για θέματα Υγείας, αποτελεί μια πρωτοβουλία της Λουκίας Ρικάκη και των συνεργατών της την οποία υιοθέτησε γενναιόδωρα ο Δήμος Κω για τη δημιουργία ενος Παγκόσμιου Τόπου Συνάντησης, στη γεννέτειρα του Ιπποκράτη, μελών της ιατρικής κοινότητας, καλλιτεχνών και του κοινού γύρω απο την Υγεία και τη πρόληψη. Δείτε περισσότερα

Mpes! στο Συμβουλευτικό Κέντρο Φοιτητών

Το Εργαστήριο Ψυχολογικής Συμβουλευτικής Φοιτητών του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών, γνωστό και ως Συμβουλευτικό Κέντρο Φοιτητών, προσφέρει δύο διαδικτυακές υπηρεσίες: Η υπηρεσία "από Φοιτητές για Φοιτητές" σας επιτρέπει να προσφέρετε και να λάβετε ψυχοκοινωνική υποστήριξη, συζητώντας με συμφοιτητές σας για θέματα ελεύθερου χρόνου, ερωτικών και φιλικών σχέσεων, οικογένειας, προσαρμογής στο πανεπιστήμιο και φοιτητικής ζωής γενικότερα. Η υπηρεσία "Μιλήστε με έναν Ειδικό" σας επιτρέπει να απευθύνετε ερωτήσεις στους ειδικούς του Εργαστηρίου, αν το θέμα που σας απασχολεί είναι πιο προσωπικής φύσεως. Μη διστάσετε να επικοινωνήσετε μαζί μας για θέματα άγχους και διάθεσης, ακαδημαϊκών και σεξουαλικών δυσκολιών, χρήσης ουσιών, δυσκολιών με την οικογένεια και προβλημάτων με τη διατροφή. Όλες οι υπηρεσίες προσφέρονται δωρεάν. Mpes! στο http://www.mpes.uoa.gr/

6th EUROPEAN CONGRESS ON TROPICAL MEDICINE AND INTERNATIONAL HEALTH

SEPTEMBER 6-10 2009 VERONA -ITALY

Απο την Ασπασία Μιχαλάκη λάβαμε την ανακοίνωση αυτού του ενδιαφέροντος συνεδρίου. Ετοιμάστε τις εργασίες σας και κρατήστε εισητήρια για την πόλη του Ρωμαίου και της Ιουλιέτας !

Defining the Rights of the Internally Displaced

GENEVA,16 October 2008 (IRIN) - At least 26 million people across the world are displaced within their own countries because of armed conflict. Another 50 million have been made homeless by natural disasters and experts predict that the effects of climate change, population growth and poverty could increase that number to 200 million by 2050.

Kενές θέσεις στην υπηρεσία INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY FOR DISATER REDUCTION (ISDR) του ΟΗΕ

World leaders launch a plan for saving 10 million mothers and newborns by 2015

Source: Global Campaign for the Health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Today, a group of world leaders committed to actions aimed at saving 10 million mothers and newborns in the poorest countries by 2015. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg of Norway launched the first year Progress Report on the Global Campaign for Health. The Report demonstrates that increased investments in health - a doubling of health aid since 2000 - are having results. More than 2 million people are now receiving AIDS treatment, the rapid scale-up of effective malaria programmes is leading to dramatic reductions in child mortality, and measles deaths have fallen by 68% since 1999. But the Report also calls for urgent, effective international action to accelerate progress towards the UN goals of reducing maternal and child deaths by 2015. For more information click here απο την Εβίκα Καραμαγκιώλη

10 ΟΚΤΩΒΡΙΟΥ: ΠΑΓΚΟΣΜΙΑ ΗΜΕΡΑ ΨΥΧΙΚΗΣ ΥΓΕΙΑΣ

Η ΠΑΓΚΟΣΜΙΑ ΟΡΓΑΝΩΣΗ ΥΓΕΙΑΣ ΚΑΝΕΙ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΗ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΑΝΤΙΜΕΤΩΠΙΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΨΥΧΙΚΗΣ ΝΟΣΟΥ ΣΤΟΝ ΑΝΑΠΤΥΣΟΜΕΝΟ ΚΟΣΜΟ

• Mental, neurological and behavioural disorders are common to all countries and cause immense suffering. People with these disorders are often subjected to social isolation, poor quality of life and increased mortality. These disorders are the cause of staggering economic and social costs.
• Hundreds of millions of people worldwide are affected by mental, behavioural, neurological and substance use disorders. For example, estimates made by WHO in 2002 showed that 154 million people globally suffer from depression and 25 million people from schizophrenia; 91 million people are affected by alcohol use disorders and 15 million by drug use disorders. A recently published WHO report shows that 50 million people suffer from epilepsy and 24 million from Alzheimer and other dementias.
• In addition to the above figures, many other disorders affect the nervous system or produce neurological sequelae. Projections based on a WHO study show that worldwide in 2005, 326 million people suffer from migraine; 61 million from cerebrovascular diseases; 18 million from neuroinfections or neurological sequelae of infections. Number of people with neurological sequelae of nutritional disorders and neuropathies (352 million) and neurological sequelae secondary to injuries (170 million) also add substantially to the above burden.
• About 877,000 people die by suicide every year.
• One in four patients visiting a health service has at least one mental, neurological or behavioural disorder but most of these disorders are neither diagnosed nor treated.
• Mental illnesses affect and are affected by chronic conditions such as cancer, heart and cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and HIV/AIDS. Untreated, they bring about unhealthy behaviour, non-compliance with prescribed medical regimens, diminished immune functioning, and poor prognosis.
• Cost-effective treatments exist for most disorders and, if correctly applied, could enable most of those affected to become functioning members of society.
• Barriers to effective treatment of mental illness include lack of recognition of the seriousness of mental illness and lack of understanding about the benefits of services. Policy makers, insurance companies, health and labour policies, and the public at large – all discriminate between physical and mental problems.
• Most middle and low-income countries devote less than 1% of their health expenditure to mental health. Consequently mental health policies, legislation, community care facilities, and treatments for people with mental illness are not given the priority they deserve.

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8 ΟΚΤΩΒΡΙΟΥ: ΠΑΓΚΟΣΜΙΑ ΗΜΕΡΑ ΠΡΟΣΤΑΣΙΑΣ ΑΠΟ ΚΑΤΑΣΤΡΟΦΕΣ

Hospitals safe from disaster World Disaster Reduction Campaign 2008-2009 The price we pay for the failure of hospitals or health facilities due to disasters is too high. In comparison, the cost of making hospitals safe from disasters is tiny. Disaster damage to health systems is a human tragedy, results in huge economic losses, deals devastating blows to development goals, and shakes social confidence. Making hospitals and health facilities safe from disasters is an economic requirement, and also a social, moral and ethical necessity.

Special attention must be given to ensuring the physical and functional integrity of health hospitals and facilities in emergency conditions. This is about more than just protecting buildings. Health facilities are only truly safe from disasters when they are accessible and functioning, at maximum capacity, immediately after a hazard strikes.

More information on the 2008-2009 World Disaster Reduction Campaign is avalaible on the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) web site.