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SECTOR / INDUSTRY
HEALTH
WELLNESS / HEALTHCARE VERY IMPORTANT FOR EVERYONE / A KEY COMPONENT FOR PEOPLE'S QUALITY OF LIFE
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About AIDS in South Africa
Tender Moments South Africa ... An aspiring pop star in South Africa shoulders the burden of being HIV positive while trying to realise her dreams.
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The crisis of AIDS in Africa
In Kenya, a nation of 31 million, 15 percent of adults have AIDS or HIV, U.N. statistics indicate.
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AIDS in Africa
Will US AIDS cash make a difference? A question posed in 2003.
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NCDs ... Non-Communicable Diseases
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GO TOP
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Body Mass Index (BMI) ... female
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Body Mass Index (BMI) ... male
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Obesity: Fast Facts ... Overweight & Obesity Statistics About Overweight and Obesity
This publication by NIH describes the prevalence of overweight and obesity in the United States.
Overweight refers to an excess amount of body weight that may come from muscles, bone, fat, and water.1
Obesity refers to an excess amount of body fat.1
Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2009–2010 2, 3
(1) More than 2 in 3 adults are considered to be overweight or obese.
(2)More than 1 in 3 adults are considered to be obese.
(3)More than 1 in 20 adults are considered to have extreme obesity.
(4)About one-third of children and adolescents ages 6 to 19 are considered to be overweight or obese.
(5)More than 1 in 6 children and adolescents ages 6 to 19 are considered to be obese.
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Zika
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Presentation at the Press Club by Dr Friden of CDC
Video ... 2015
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ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED IN THE HEALTHCARE IDUSTRY
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IBLF
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Health ... Many Happy Returns
A report by IBLF on the role of business in tackling chronic or 'non-communicable' diseases
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HEALTHCARE SITUATION BY COUNTRY
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Aravind Eye
Country ... India ... Health ... Vision Quest ... India's Aravind Eye Care System has restored the sight of millions, including those who cannot afford it.
VIDEO BLOCKED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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India Hospital
Country ... India ... Health ... India shows there is a better way! ... About Indian Hospital ... We go inside a hospital complex as it delivers high quality healthcare to rich and poor alike.
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India Hospital
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India Hospital
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India Hospital
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India Hospital
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India Hospital
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India Hospital
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Healthcare in the USA
Obama passed healthcare reform against tough opposition. Today Bomb Buried in Obamacare Explodes - Hallelujah!
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Report on the Cost Effectiveness of Healthcare in the USA
Mirror Mirror 2017
International Comparison Reflects Flaws and Opportunities for Better U.S. Health Care
By Eric C. Schneider, Dana O. Sarnak, David Squires, Arnav Shah, and Michelle M. Doty
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/interactives/2017/july/mirror-mirror/
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Healthcare in the USA ... Misunderstood mandates and medicare madness
Democrats and Rebulicans seem incapable of keeping promises to their constituents, epitomised by the health care debate. ... AlJazeera English ... Opinion
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USA ... Paying for Health Care
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Public-Citizen-USA-Health-Insurance
'http://truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/Initiatives/PublicCitizen/Public-Citizen-USA-Health-Insurance.pdf'
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Corruption-in-the-Pharmaceutical-Sector
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STRUCTURES that make up the health sector
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Nursing
Country ... USA ... Gallup Poll ... Ethics ... Gallup Poll ... Americans Rate Nurses Highest on Honesty, Ethical Standards
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Healthcare ... The great billion dollar drug scam
The great billion dollar drug scam ... Part one of a two-part series examining methods used by multinational drug corporations to control markets - and lives. ... AlJazeera English ... Opinion
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Healthcare ... Big Pharma in the USA
Mass psychosis in the US How Big Pharma got Americans hooked on anti-psychotic drugs ... AlJazeera English ... Opinion
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Healthcare - CPR
First Aid Continuous Chest Compression VIDEO Learn Contrinuous Chest Compression ... it may save a life.
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Health
Health Information Systems ... This video is about Health Information Systems, but it totally ignores the issue of cost effectiveness. (update ... video has been taken down from YouTube)
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Healthcare
Grameen Nursing Colleges ... This is a bit of dialog about Grameen Nursing Colleges ... a collaboration that has huge social value
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PEOPLE with impact on the health sector
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Jonathan Gruber
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Jonathan Gruber
People ... Economists ... Jonathan Gruber tops list of influential economists ... per the Economist ... big role in developing Affordable Care Act
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Donald W. Light
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SSRN-id2282014-Issue-of-big-pharma-corruption
Donald W. Light et al ... Institutional Corruption of Pharmaceuticals and the Myth of Safe and Effective Drugs
'http://truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/Health/Drugs/SSRN-id2282014-Issue-of-big-pharma-corruption.pdf'
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Young Professionals ... Non-Communicable Disease Network
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PERSONAL HEALTH ... Pharmaceuticals
Six 'Miracle' Drugs Big Pharma Now Regrets ... With big pharma, first they promote it, then they discover the risks.
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THE HEALTH SECTOR
The Health Sector
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HEALTH / The individual perspective
Health and wellness from the perspective of the individual
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HEALTH / Health issues
Many of the issues around the global health sector
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Browne-Flynn-what-matters-and-where-managing-sustainability-in-the-health-care-sector
Health and wellness from the perspective of the individual
'http://truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/Sustainability/Health/Browne-Flynn-what-matters-and-where-managing-sustainability-in-the-health-care-sector.pdf'
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Social determinants of health ... WHO called to return to the Declaration of Alma-Ata
Alma-Ata International conference on primary health care 1978
The Alma-Ata Declaration of 1978 emerged as a major milestone of the twentieth century in the field of public health, and it identified primary health care as the key to the attainment of the goal of Health for All. The following are excerpts from the Declaration:
() ... The Conference strongly reaffirms that health, which is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, is a fundamental human right and that the attainment of the highest possible level of health is a most important world-wide social goal whose realization requires the action of many other social and economic sectors in addition to the health sector.
() ... The existing gross inequality in the health status of the people, particularly between developed and developing countries as well as within countries, is politically, socially, and economically unacceptable and is, therefore, of common concern to all countries.
() ... The people have a right and duty to participate individually and collectively in the planning and implementation of their health care.
() ... Primary health care is essential health care based on practical, scientifically sound, and socially acceptable methods and technology made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community through their full participation and at a cost that the community and country can afford to maintain at every stage of their development in the spirit of self-reliance and self-determination. It forms an integral part both of the country's health system, of which it is the central function and main focus, and of the overall social and economic development of the community. It is the first level of contact of individuals, the family, and community with the national health system bringing health care as close as possible to where people live and work, and constitutes the first elements of a continuing health care process.
() ... An acceptable level of health for all the people of the world by the year 2000 can be attained through a fuller and better use of the world's resources, a considerable part of which is now spent on armaments and military conflicts. A genuine policy of independence, peace, détente, and disarmament could and should release additional resources that could well be devoted to peaceful aims and in particular to the acceleration of social and economic development of which primary health care, as an essential part, should be allotted its proper share.
Note the Alma-Ata health conference took place in 1978 calling for results by the year 2000. In 2000 the UN (and the whole of the development asssistance community) diverted attention from the poor performance of the prior 22 years by initiating the Millennial Development Goals (MDGs) that started off as if there had been no development assistance experience during the prior decades.
http://www.who.int/social_determinants/tools/multimedia/alma_ata/en/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Ata_Declaration
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Bruno-Moonen-Clive-Shiff-Debate-on-malaria-eradication-BMJ-2017
Should we commit to eradicating malaria worldwide? Bruno Moonen cannot accept the iniquitous alternative, but Clive Shiff believes the necessary huge investment could be better spent
'http://truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/HealthMalaria/Bruno-Moonen-Clive-Shiff-Debate-on-malaria-eradication-BMJ-2017.pdf'
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SOCIAL MEDIA INITIATIVE IN UKRAINE: ANALYSIS OF ONLINE CONVERSATIONS ON POLIO, VACCINATION, AND ROUTINE IMMUNIZATION
'http://truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/Health/Polio/170611-Anna-Postovoitova.pdf'
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SLIDES
SOCIAL MEDIA INITIATIVE IN UKRAINE: ANALYSIS OF ONLINE CONVERSATIONS ON POLIO, VACCINATION, AND ROUTINE IMMUNIZATION
'http://truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/Health/Polio/170611-Anna-Postovoitova-slides.pdf'
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USA / Healthcare ... Political Football
How Obamacare may morph into Medicaid
by JB Silvers ... Professor of Health Finance, Case Western Reserve University
June 11, 2017 4.17pm EDT
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Future-of-Health-Kim-Porter-Farmer
'http://truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/Health/WB/Future-of-Health-Kim-Porter-Farmer.pdf'
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WBG-Report: Climate-Smart Healthcare Low-Carbon and Resilience Strategies for the Health Sector
From the Forward: Climate change is a risk multiplier that threatens to unravel decades of development gains. Among the most critical and direct risks to humans is the impact of climate change on health. Heat stress will worsen as high temperatures become more common and water scarcity increases; malnutrition, particularly in children, could become more prevalent in some parts of the world where droughts are expected to become more frequent; and water- and vector-borne diseases are likely to expand in range as conditions favor mosquitoes, flies, and water-borne pathogens. Worse still, these threats will be greatest in regions where the population is most dense, most vulnerable, and least equipped to adapt, pushing more people in poverty and reinforcing a cycle of environmental degradation, poor health and slow development.
'http://truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/Health/WB/WBG-Climate-Smart-Healthcare-14401.pdf'
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Data Quality Review Methodology (DQR)
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Data Quality Review (DQR)
This toolkit is the result of collaboration between the World Health Organization (WHO), The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (The Global Fund), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/MEASURE Evaluation. The toolkit proposes a unified approach to data quality. It integrates and builds upon previous and current tools and methods designed to assess data quality at facility level, taking into account best practices and lessons learned from many countries.
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Table 1.1 Recommended core indicators for the DQR
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Recommended DQR indicators
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Maternal health
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Antenatal care coverage, 1st visit (ANC1)
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Number and % of pregnant women who attended at least once during their pregnancy
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Immunization
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DTP3/Penta3 coverage
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Number and % of children < 1 year receiving three doses of DTP/Penta vaccine
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HIV
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Currently on ART
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Number and % of people living with HIV who are currently receiving ART
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TB
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TB notification rate
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Number of new and relapse cases of TB that are notified per 100 000 population
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Malaria
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Confirmed malaria cases1
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Confirmed malaria cases (microscopy or RDT) per 1000 persons per year
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ANC = antenatal care;
ART = antiretroviral therapy;
DTP3 = diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis three-dose vaccine;
Penta = pentavalent vaccine;
RDT = rapid diagnostic test;
TB = tuberculosis.
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Module 1 ... Framework and metrics ... 36 pages
'http://truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/Health/Metrics/WHO-Iris-Health-metrics-methodology-01.pdf'
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WHO-Iris-Health-metrics-methodology-01
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Module 2 ... Desk review of data quality ... 56 pages
'http://truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/Health/Metrics/WHO-Iris-Health-metrics-methodology-02.pdf'
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WHO-Iris-Health-metrics-methodology-02
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Module 3 ... Data verification and system assessment ... 56 pages
'http://truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/Health/Metrics/WHO-Iris-Health-metrics-methodology-03.pdf'
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More Health for the Money
A Practical Agenda for the Global Fund and Its Partners
consultation draft ... A Report of the Center for Global Development Working Group on Value for Money in Global Health
'http://truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/Health/Policy/more-health-for-the-money-consultation-2019.pdf'
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ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND SAFETY (EHS)
The problems are massive, but too much ignored by critical decision makers with influence
'http://truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/Risk/EHS-Risk-Mgmt-Guidebook-2017.pdf'
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THE ISSUE OF HEALTHCARE
From the Burgess Book on ISSUES
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Issue
Health
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Basic observation
Health has been a priority sector within the ORDA world, but it is costly and does not generate economic progress on its own. Some health initiatives have had a very good impact. Health is a good PART of a comprehensive plan for development
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Prevailing response
Health continues to be a priority, but it has not been integrated into a total development framework, and now there is widespread un-sustainability of public health services without significant external funding. The issue is now a crisis because of the impact of HIV-AIDS, and other diseases like malaria and TB
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A better response
Health needs to be a priority, but it should be integrated into the community development planning so that local resources can be used to the maximum, and not assumed to be funded by government or donors. Good health is a precondition for productive employment and therefore important.
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