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Thu, 05/08/2014 - 07:08
“What is your top (not disease) public health challenges of the future?”
That’s all what Dr. Glenn Laverack, an international leader in public health and empowerment and a Freelance public health advisor had to post on the LinkedIn group: Global...
Tue, 03/11/2014 - 13:41
Maternal death rates represent the single largest health discrepancy between developed and developing populations, with nearly all - over 99% -- maternal deaths worldwide occurring in developing countries and over half of them in sub-Saharan Africa...
Mon, 03/10/2014 - 10:51
Framing Maternal Morbidity
WHO Scoping Exercise
Rachel C Vanderkruik, Özge Tunçalp, Doris Chou, Lale Say
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2013;13(213)
Abstract
Background Maternal morbidity estimations are not based on well-documented methodologies and...
Mon, 03/10/2014 - 10:47
This review defines crisis risk communication, traces its origins to a
number of applied fields, and then shows how basic principles have
become incorporated into emergency preparedness and risk com-
munication for public health. Literature from...
Mon, 03/10/2014 - 10:33
by Lauren Glenn Manfuso
For many cultures, a newborn’s umbilical cord comes attached to something more than the placenta—it has deep and spiritual meanings. And with this belief follows a host of customs meant to honor the cord and ensure its...