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As part of Polio Day, a nationwide Pulse Polio Immunization drive was conducted on March 3 to administer polio drops to children under the age of five. The video shows a health worker walking through deep snow to reach the Health and Wellness Centre of the area so as to be able to administer drops.
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2 years ago Read more at Hindustan Times

China’s immature systems for global health engagement with scarce resources allocated to this innovative partnership [5], e.g. the complicated procedures of funding transfer from China to Tanzania, the time-consuming visa application for Chinese staff’s field support, and the scarce resources. Therefore, it is essential to mobilize resources for these trilateral collaborations. This would necessitate the optimization of domestic structures and the introduction of supportive policies aimed at empowering the Chinese workforce to contribute to global health.
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2 years ago Read more at Infectious Diseases of Poverty - BioMed Central

Nana Oye Bampoe Addo addressed the 11th African Conference on Sexual Health and Rights in Rabat, Morocco, on the theme. She highlighted several challenges impeding progress in sexual and reproductive health, including prevalence of unsafe abortions, inadequate legal frameworks, and socio-cultural barriers.
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2 years ago Read more at Myjoyonline

The Task Force submitted its final report to the Governor’s Office today. Multiple recommendations support key steps toward a long-term vision for a healthier Minnesota with an academic health system at the core. Through the University’s leadership, partnerships and research, Minnesota can strengthen its health care workforce, enhance health care access and quality.
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2 years ago Read more at India Education Diary

Tangerang regency’s health agency reported that 600 people caught dengue fever and four of them died in February alone, the agency said on Monday. In West Java, authorities recorded over 1,000 cases and five deaths last week.
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2 years ago Read more at asianews.network

The next chapter of our Manifesto by Nurses will focus on sustainability. The most commonly cited call to action was for measures to tackle the spread of misinformation about vaccinations, particularly on social media. It comes as a decline in uptake of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccination in recent years has led to outbreaks. Nurses going into schools to speak to students about immunisation was one suggestion put forward.
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2 years ago Read more at Nursing Times

Florida hospitals alone are losing hundreds of millions of dollars each week of the disruption. The AHA says billions of dollars have stopped flowing to hospitals and other providers. “This unprecedented cyberattack has the potential to cause significant negative operational and financial consequences on hospitals, other providers, and the communities they serve for months to come,” the AHA said.
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2 years ago Read more at Chief Healthcare Executive

ADVERTISEMENT Nearly 10,000 South Korean junior doctors have resigned in an act of protest against the government's new plan to recruit more medical students. South Korea has the most hospital beds per 1,000 patients among OECD countries. This is more than twice the number of beds in France and six times more than in Sweden.
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2 years ago Read more at Euronews

MATLAB is a software-based model for embryo health grading. The results are shown in Supplementary Fig. 15c. We used a 3D transformation algorithm to calculate the amplitude of nuclei. Each nucleus in a z-section image was.
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2 years ago Read more at Nature.com

Since the millennium, there has been a significant improvement in global population health. However, since 2015, the pace of expanding access to basic healthcare has slowed down, and inequalities still persist [1]. This established facts raise a notable question: Does the geographical distribution of medical resources tend towards convergence or divergence during the process of economic development? Since 2010, China’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has also increased from around $300 in 1980 [5] to $12,741 in 2022.
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2 years ago Read more at Globalization and Health