A Public Health Research Agenda for Managing Infodemics: Methods and Results of the First WHO Infodemiology Conference Background: An infodemic is an overflow of information of varying quality that surges across digital and physical environments during an acute public heal... N Calleja,N Abad,AH...
Since this shift, there has been domestic and international disagreement over the terms upon which Taiwan's population is represented at the UN, and this has had a profound effect on participation within technical agencies such as the World Health Organisation (WHO). In 1997, the Taiwanese ...
World Health Organisation. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). Geneva: World Health Organization; 2001. Google Scholar ATS Committee on Proficiency Standards for Clinical Pulmonary Function Laboratories. ATS statement: guidelines for the six-minute walk test. Am...
1Department of Public Health, School of Health Sciences, South Eastern Kenya University, Kitui, Kenya,2Department of Public Health, School of Public Health and Biomedical Sciences, Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kakamega, Kenya,3Department of Public Health, School of Health Pr...
Research utilisationBackground The World Health Organisation (WHO) publishes a large number of clinical practice and public health guidelines to promote evidence-based practice across the world. Due to the variety of health system capacities and contextual issues in different regions and countries, ...
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...
there were concerns about the future feasibility of ongoing research among service providers. One stakeholder indicated that social workers and other health care providers might not realize the importance of research. Hence, frequent communication with staff about the rationale for the research was sugges...
As such, there is a need to instill evidenced-based clinical practices within the healthcare sector by creating a culture that encourages and ensures high quality, ethical and transparent clinical research. This can be achieved through ramping up public health education,...
How, then, can social scientists and historians interrogate the World Bank’s varied influence on “global health” in the current era? How can we improve the relevance of research findings, for holding the Bank to account, recognizing its successes and the contexts in which they are actually ...
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), based at the University of Washington. Their projections were developed as part of their Global Burden of Disease project [52]. The Earth4All project, including members of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Stockholm Resilience...