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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 23, Issue 47) Peer-ReviewedNew guidance on assisted suicide is to be published by the RCN, following its decision to adopt a neutral stance on any change in the law. The college's ruling council took the decision to drop its opposition to...
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From:West Virginia Medical Journal (Vol. 110, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedCalling their service commendable, the West Virginia State Senate adopted a resolution this past session honoring Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine resident physicians for...
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From:Journal of Australian Political Economy (Issue 73) Peer-ReviewedIn The Health of Nations: Towards a New Political Economy, Gavin Mooney (2012) strongly argues that more can be done to improve peoples' health in both developing and developed countries. One central way forward...
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From:International Journal of Health Policy and Management (Vol. 3, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedPolitics is not the ghost in the machine of global health policy. Conceptually, it makes little sense to argue otherwise, while history is replete with examples of individuals and movements engaging politically in...
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From:Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (Vol. 20, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedPOLITICS AND policy was the focus of a plenary session by Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand (KTNNZ) co-editor Teresa O'Connor and NZNO's senior policy analyst Marilyn Head. A condensed version of O'Connor's address was...
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 92, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedIn October 2014, nearly 2000 people from 125 countries shared and debated issues that are critical to improving the performance of health systems, at the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, in Cape Town,...
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From:International Journal of Health Policy and Management (Vol. 4, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Background: In recent times, there has been a growing demand internationally for health policies to be based on reliable research evidence. Consequently, there is a need to strengthen institutions and...
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 90, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedProblem Outbreak analysis and mathematical modelling are crucial for planning public health responses to infectious disease outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics. This paper describes the data analysis and mathematical...
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 90, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedFrance has just passed a law making it mandatory for all cars to carry breathalyzers, which measure blood alcohol content. The new legislation, which came into effect on 1 July, means that every car driving through...
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From:Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (Vol. 17, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedWorkers who are injured and carry the cost of that injury, have no say at all in Accident Compensation Corporation Minister Nick Smith's proposed changes to ACC, according to ACC Futures chair Hazel Armstrong. Speaking...
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From:Nursing Management (Harrow) (Vol. 17, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedRCN SCOTLAND has welcomed the publication by the Scottish government of its blueprint document, Delivering Quality in Primary Care. The strategy for primary care aims to tackle concerns highlighted recently by...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 25, Issue 14) Peer-Reviewed'Why did Humpty Dumpty fall off the wall?' No, I have not lost the plot after years of NHS stress. It was a query put to us by Max, one of our small patients. We have a picture of Humpty in our children's play area...
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 88, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedScience plays an increasingly important role in the development ofinternational health policy and this has certainly been true in the case of a global response to alcohol-related problems. In May 2010, the World Health...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 24, Issue 33) Peer-ReviewedLabour support for specialist staff: 'One of the best ways we can improve care for all patients with long-term conditions is by supporting and investing in specialist nurses. 'This is why we are calling for every...
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From:Progress in Health Sciences (Vol. 1, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction: Recent studies have indicated that an adequate nurse staffing in a hospital exerts an effect on both the level of health services provided and the safety of patients. Numerous reports confirm the shortage...
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From:Canadian Bulletin of Medical History (Vol. 26, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract. From 1939-1945, Dr. J. J. Heagerty, the long-serving federal Director of Public Health Services, championed a national health insurance program which united curative and preventive services while avoiding the...
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From:Pharmaceutical Medicine (Vol. 23, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThere has been some concern that the current economic crisis may adversely impact public health as a result of job losses, increased mental health and addiction problems, the adoption of less healthy lifestyles and...
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From:Indian Journal of Medical Sciences (Vol. 63, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed
Establishment of population-based surveillance for invasive pneumococcal disease in Bangalore, India
Byline: Aparna. Shah, Ramnilinga. Nisarga, K. Ravi Kumar, Robin. Hubler, Guillermo. Herrera, Paul. Kilgore Background :Invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) is vaccine-preventable but few data on the incidence of PD... -
From:Indian Journal of Palliative Care (Vol. 15, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedByline: Cherian. Koshy The message of palliative care in India has become a movement in several parts of India in a short span of time. The past two decades have seen palpable changes in the mindset of health care...
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From:Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (Vol. 1410, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedWhat do Health Minister David Cunliffe's announcements on minimum staffing levels and other changes (see Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand, September 2008, p7) in aged care really mean? At the presentation of the...