Category: Travel Health
Articles relating to travel health issues.
Happy New 2010 - the latest newsletter is available for download here!
We hope to see you at an Alma Mata event this year!
The UCL Health and Society Summer School 13 - 17 July 09 focusing on the social determinants of health and global health is now accepting registrations. Speakers included Professor Sir Michael Marmot and Professor Richard Wilkinson (author of the recently published The Spirit Level - Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better).
A comprehensive archive of public seminars is available online on the website of the International Institute for Society and Health of University College, London. The seminars cover a broad range of topics which Alma Mata members will find interesting and useful.
Topics have included:
Risk, Resilience and Social Integration
Conflict Medicine: A Neglected Challenge
Social Inequalities in Health - New Evidence and Policy Implications
Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis
UNDP November 2006 - web site: http://hdr.undp.org/hdr2006/
“….Throughout history water has confronted humanity with some of its greatest challenges. Water is a source of life and a natural resource that sustains our environments and supports livelihoods – but it is also a source of risk and vulnerability. In the early 21st Century, prospects for human development are threatened by a deepening global water crisis. Debunking the myth that the crisis is the result of scarcity, this report argues poverty, power and inequality are at the heart of the problem.
Education and Training: Grants and Funding Directory of Grants and Fellowships in the Global Health Sciences
Website: http://www.fic.nih.gov/funding/directory_fellowships.htm
A comprehensive compilation of international funding opportunities in biomedical and behavioral research published by the Fogarty International Center,
part of the National Institutes of Health. NIH Publication 06-3027, February 2006
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Please find attached the latest Alma Mata Newsletter.
Gaz Lewis looks at the how the media impact on recognition of global health problems, how can we manage this important vehicle for health promotion?
Adam Musgrove, who works for Practical Action, raises issues surrounding indoor smoke, a large course of morbidity and mortality in the less developed world.
We round up with an article covering the Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene and the latest news form Medact and Medsin.
Many thanks for your continued support.
Website: http://www.who.int/whr/2006/en/index.html
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World Health Organization – April 2006
The World Health Report 2006 - Working together for health contains an expert assessment of the current crisis in the global health workforce and ambitious proposals to tackle it over the next ten years, starting immediately.
The report reveals an estimated shortage of almost 4.3 million doctors, midwives, nurses and support workers worldwide. The shortage is most severe in the poorest countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, where health workers are most needed. Focusing on all stages of the health workers' career lifespan from entry to health training, to job recruitment through to retirement, the report lays out a ten-year action plan in which countries can build their health workforces, with the support of global partners.
Researchers have identified a gene in mosquitoes that helps the insects to fight off infection by the Plasmodium parasite, which causes malaria in humans. Anopheles mosquitoes transmit the malaria parasite to nearly 550 million people worldwide each year with these cases resulting in more than 2 million deaths annually. The protective gene was identified in a study conducted by a team of investigators from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Malaria Research Institute , the Imperial College of London and the University of Texas Medical Branch. It will be published in the Online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of October 24.
