Health News and Medical Information

Aman already reported on the Aravind Eye Care System (AECS) being awarded the prestigious 2008 Gates Award for Global Health, which “honors extraordinary efforts to improve health in developing countries”.  And as Aman mentioned, three of us at this blog owe a big debt to the Aravind organization, first for allowing us to work with them starting in 2004 in studying the Aurolab model, and second for launching us into the arena of technology, innovation, and global health.  More than 4 years after we began our relationship with Aravind, I found myself at my poster talking with Dr. Nam and Dr. Ravi about medical licensing for recent graduates in India and Mongolia.  (Similar policies of requiring graduates to work in rural areas between medical school and residency.)

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Continued From 50 Diet Mistakes Even Smart Women Make

5. You’ve eaten the same breakfast and lunch for years.
Varying your diet is crucial to good health. If you don’t, you’re bound to get bored and associate healthy eating with not enjoying food. If you always make salads with iceberg and
tomatoes, substitute spinach. If you have a turkey sandwich every day, try a turkey burger.
Top pasta with brightly colored vegetables like eggplant, bell peppers or squash.

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Klinika Biologica is a spirit on the road to Biological extra Integrative Care. Seems to exist single of those MDs who studied before their effort on account of there is such a large thirst for on the road to non-surgical manner of caning diseases, with the addition of there are greater plus other active conduct owing to well.

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Does aliment appear to convene in vogue your gut?, accomplish you brush entire aft eating?, are you chronically out of condition?, conduct you physical contact sensitized to menu?, enjoy you been diagnosed additional an auto-immune disorientation on the other hand any succeeding additional confusion that relates to the kill affects of aliment? These are several of the diverse symptoms of acquiring a nourishment discrimination. Happening this newsletter you decision learn by rote what a menu narrow-mindedness is, the symptoms of a menu narrow-mindedness with how to in person fun it!
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Two years ago lawmakers all the rage Massachusetts made the divulge the chief all the rage the sovereign state to authorization that citizenry buy interest safeguard. The insinuation willingly cornered doable, exhilarating alike efforts possible the say row added one day apt the design concerning the tribal profit modify efforts of Self-governing presidential grassland Sen. Barack Obama additional Virgin York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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One final post on the Global Health Council Conference.  I wanted to wait a few days so that I’d have some room to reflect on the last week.  Here are my lasting observations from the conference.International crowd. I was pleasantly surprised by the significant international attendance at this conference.  Based on an accumulation of experiences, I think I had set my expectations low.Sharing the conference. Through kaisernetwork.org, globalhealthtv.org, and sharing presentations, the Global Health Council is pulling its weight in terms of dissemination and sharing.  But it doesn’t need to stop there.  The reason I blogged so actively from the conference is to share the experience, the discussions, and the debates with those in the global health community who were not there.  It’s great that the GHC is doing its part, but it’s up to the participants to take it one step further - not simply to report on it, but to provide commentary, to tie together disparate threads, to engage a wider community in timely discussions.  The last conference I attended before this was CHI 2008 (Human Factors in Computing) in Florence. CHI and GHC each had about 2000 attendees and both are well-respected conferences.  But the former has significantly more content in the blogosphere (5-10x).  The tools are free and accessible, so I don’t buy the excuse of CHI being more tech-savvy.  It is about the importance we place on sharing information.Listen to the people. This was a theme that kept coming up throughout the conference (see each of my previous posts from the conference).  Probably related to both the community health theme and a realization that we have historically done a poor job of understanding people and communities in global health.  Not just listening to people, but re-emphasizing primary healthcare, localized systems, and the merits of patience.There’s more to it than health systems.  The discussions focused largely on health systems and not enough on other aspects of public health.  (I am complicit in this - the work I was presenting was well within the framework of health systems.)Where’s the rest of the West?  All of Seattle was there, but very few people besides.  From California, there were only 4 from Berkeley, 2 from UCSF, and a handful from the rest of the state.  Also, other than North America, the Western Hemisphere seemed to be MIA (besides my Bolivian roommate).Technology is not neutral.  The way people at the conference were talking about technology - e.g. PDAs and LifeStraws - assured me that technology has maintained its magical allure.  We need to deal with technology the same way that we deal with branding in microfranchising, social marketing of condoms, and HIV/AIDS IEC campaigns.  That is, we need to determine what will be most effective by understanding how people value and perceive technology.  And we need to realize that, like any innovation, there will be different solutions for different places.

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On Tuesday of the conference, I attended the Social Marketing to Facilitate Behavior Change and Action workshop.  I personally found it to be very educational, although I did have one gripe (see #3 below).  A few thoughts I had during the workshop:

(1) Creating new products and the lead user. In describing the role of social marketing, the facilitators considered the question “how do we make the choice easier [for adopting healthier behaviors]?”.  Their answer was “creating new products” and the example they gave was the LifeStraw.  A woman from Vestergaard-Frandsen, the company that makes LifeStraw, was in the audience and shared the story of the conceptual development of the product - it seems this was a case of a lead user.  One of the fieldworkers who worked on a national Guinea worm eradication campaign created her/his own life straw with reed and some mesh for local use.

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