understanding Health is one of the most complicated issues for governments, professionals, Organizations, individuals and academia even in this 21st century. However, WHO consider Health not only as the absence of a disease or infirmity but a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being (World Health Organisation Constitution, 1948). The WHO definition acknowledged the fact that our physical, mental and social well-being is important if indeed we want to remain Healthy. Good Health care is critical
improvement of maternal and child health. Maternal and child health services is said to play a vital role in achieving improved health outcomes. The decision to use health care is undoubtedly influence by the characteristics of the health delivery system such as the availability and accessibility of the services. However, this does not necessarily mean that where there is a good supply of services, demand is created in and of itself, which will then lead to increased utilization. In this context, there has
BOOK REVIEW HEALTH ECONOMICS PEOPLE’S HEALTH MOVEMENT (2011), GLOBAL HEALTH WATCH III SUBMITTED BY:- AYUSHI BASOYA M.A. ECONOMICS 3rd SEMESTER GROUP 1 The book “Global Health Watch III” published in the year 2011, gives us an analysis of the health and health care issues across the globe. A huge variety of issues related to health and health care have been dealt in this book. The book deals not just with issues directly related to health but also with other political, economical and social
stress among training nurses in Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) Healthcare disciplines are often identified as high stress professions. Among these disciplines, it is observed that nursing students undergo tremendous amounts of stress during various stages of their course (Papazisis et al, 2008). Nursing focuses on meeting physical, social and emotional health care needs of these individuals. In the process of meeting the needs, nurses often have to give care under emotionally intense conditions. Thus
The main problem health sector faces is the fact that even though there is more and more data available, most of it is under the form of unstructured data and so it is hard to use it appropriately. Also, veracity of data in a sector in which it is easy to make mistakes (also due to the presence of many unstructured data), errors should be reduced as more as possible to have a good quality of data. To minimize big data problems, many hospitals started to focus in 5 main concepts 18 : • Right provider
nutrition and health of poor farmers in developing countries (Asenso-Okyere et al., 2009). Ill heath in the farming community can reduce agricultural
However, there are perceptions that the levels of utilization of program evaluation findings are very low, compromising the overall goal of investing in program evaluations. Indeed, Orszag (2009) mentions that numerous crucial federal programs remain formally unevaluated, and the findings from those that have
Health Information Introduction Reliable and sound information on health issues becomes the foundation of an informed decision-making across the entire health system building blocks. Moreover, this health information is essential for the health system policy development and implementation, regulation and governance, human resource development, health research, service delivery and financing, health education and training. Health information refers to the data that is related to an individual’s medical
presents a review of literature on farming households’ food utilization, nutrition and health. The subsequent subsections describes the theoretical framework for food nutrition security (FNS), health and income theory, UNICEF’s conceptual framework of under nutrition and ill health, conceptual framework for the impact of illness/disease on agriculture and review of empirical literature on agricultural households’ food utilization, nutrition and health. 2.1 Concepts of Food and Nutrition Security (FNS)
child health (MCH) is a global public health concern. Maternal health refers to the health of women during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period while child health specifically refers to physical, mental and social well-being of a child (World Health Organization, 2014). MCH is a dynamic field that aims to improve the health of women, children, youth, and entire families and communities, while addressing health inequities and the systems and policies that contribute to family health (Boston