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The official theme this year is Mental Health at Work. The latest World Health Organisation (WHO) figures reveal an estimated 12 billion working days are lost every year to depression and anxiety globally.1 The WHO's data remind us of the importance of focusing on mental health at work, wit...
Framework was developed to improve the health and well-being of staff and students ByÉanna Ó CaollaíTue Dec 11 2018 - 17:11 ‘A stark inequity’: People with severe depression, schizophrenia die 10-25 years earlier Opinion: The majority of these premature deaths are due to physical heal...
European Pact for Mental Health and Well-being, 2008; J. Olesen, et al. Eur J Neurology. 2012; 19:155-162 World Health Organisation. Depression Factsheet. Available at:http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs369/en/ European Commission. Actions against depression. Improving mental and ...
World Health Organisation names urban areas that are failing to meet standards Thu May 12 2016 - 19:46 Equal but different: targeting healthcare by sex and gender Awareness of how men and women respond differently to ill health is key to helping everybody look after their health better By Sy...
③The World Health Organisation declared that Omicron poses a “very high” global risk. ④The boss of Moderna, a vaccine-maker, warned that existing jabs may struggle against the heavily mutated new variant. ⑤Faced with the ghastly prospect of yet more lockdowns, closed borders and nervous ...
Disability in depression and back pain: evaluation of the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule (WHO DAS II) in a primary care setting. The World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule (WHO DAS II) is a new measure of disability based on the ICIDH-2 model of ...
The World Health Assembly, convened by World Health Organisation (WHO) has applauded nurses and midwives in their fight against coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, describing them as true health heroes. Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of WHO, said this at the ongoing two-day World ...
Old age can be a time of growth for the seeds of depression and suicide ByJune ShannonTue Aug 06 2013 - 01:00 You can retrain yourself to like healthy food Consistently tasting once-rejected food, such as vegetables, can help that food ‘grow’ on the taste buds ...
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