Category: Service
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Two senior UN humanitarian officials have called for more funding and less bureaucratic impediments to support civilians affected by the war in Sudan, including roughly 14 million children. Ted Chaiban of the UN children’s agency, UNICEF, and Edem Wosornu with the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, briefed journalists on their recent mission to the country and Chad,…
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The coronavirus pandemic has been a disruptive force across the globe. Only by working together will WE combat it. Global TotalLast update on: 2020-04-19 18:59:14 Cases 2,404,234 Deaths 164,891 Recovered 624,713 Active 1,614,630 Cases Today 73,468 Deaths Today 4,844 Critical 54,225 Affected Countries 212 Total in USALast update on: 2020-04-19 18:59:14 Cases 763,083 Deaths 40,495 Recovered 70,806 Active 651,782 Cases Today…
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Disease prevention is a procedure through which individuals, particularly those with risk factors for a disease, are treated in order to prevent a disease from occurring. Treatment normally begins either before signs and symptoms of the disease occur, or shortly thereafter. Treatment can include patient education, lifestyle modification, and drugs. There are three levels of…
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Physical activity or exercise can improve your health and reduce the risk of developing several diseases like type 2 diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease. Physical activity and exercise can have immediate and long-term health benefits. Most importantly, regular activity can improve your quality of life. A minimum of 30 minutes a day can allow you…
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Physical accessibility “is understood as the availability of good health services within reasonable reach of those who need them and of opening hours, appointment systems and other aspects of service organization and delivery that allow people to obtain the services when they need them”. Universal health coverage and universal access, Bulletin of the World Health…
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All humans have to eat food for growth and maintenance of a healthy body, but we humans have different nutrition requirements as infants, children (kids), teenagers, young adults, adults, and seniors. For example, infants may require feeding every 4 hours until they gradually age and begin to take in more solid foods. Eventually they develop into the…
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Background Community health promotion is of strategic significance in contemporary health systems. The overarching context of this stems from the inability of most countries with mixed health systems to deliver health as a public good; coupled with the emerging role of the market in health and resource constraints at the social sector level, particularly in…
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Trends among U.S. Adults The incidence of kidney failure treatment in the United States increased 57% from 1991 to 2000. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) prevalence was 11% among U.S. adults surveyed in 1988 to 1994. The objective of this study was to estimate awareness of CKD in the U.S. population during 1999 to 2000 and…
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Malaria has been a major cause of poverty and low productivity accounting for about 32.5 percent of all OPD attendances and 48.8 percent of under five years admissions in the country. (NMCP annual report, 2009) The attempt to control malaria in Ghana began in the 1950s. It was aimed at reducing the malaria disease.