Highlighting nurses and midwives’ commitment to delivering the highest quality care

Извор: Светска здравствена организација - 04.05.2017

Russian Nurses Association

The WHO European Region has 7.3 million nurses and midwives, who play a vital role in promoting health, preventing illness and providing care to expectant mothers and newborns, and to people in good and ill health across diverse settings.

On the occasions of International Day of the Midwife on 5 May and International Nurses Day on 12 May, the WHO Regional Office for Europe is highlighting these critically important professions by featuring the voices of nurses and midwives from around the Region. They share what it means to be a nurse, midwife, researcher, administrator, educator and/or leader, and how they are committed to delivering the highest quality care.

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HIV: From a devastating epidemic to a manageable chronic disease

Извор: Светска здравствена организација - 03.05.2017

WHO

3 May 2017 – WHO Director-General, Dr Margaret Chan, in her chronicle for the last 10 years that she has served, highlights how in the decade since the United Nations declared HIV an unprecedented human catastrophe, the AIDS response has underscored the ethical imperative of fair access to medicine. WHO’s standard-setting work helped make prevention and treatment more accessible, safe, effective and efficient, and encouraged integrating HIV services into existing health systems.

Dr Margaret Chan on HIV

Точните податоци ќе помогнат да се спасат животи

Извор: Институт за јавно здравје на Р. Македонија - 27.04.2017

“ТОЧНИТЕ ПОДАТОЦИ ЌЕ ПОМОГНАТ ДА СЕ СПАСАТ ЖИВОТИ“, изјава на Геј Рајдер, генерален директор на МОТ

Во прилог кон одбележувањето на 28 април – Светскиот ден за безбедност и здравје на работа, Институтот за јавно здравје, како единствен овластен носител на здравствените статистики за евиденциите што се водат во здравствените установи во Република Македонија, ја објави Информацијата за повреди на работа во 2016 година.

Податоците покажуваат дека во 2016 година во Република Македонија се регистрирани 894 повреди на работа од кои 356 (39,8%) се во индустријата и рударството.

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USA - 3 in 10 Workers Have No Paid Sick Leave: Major Challenge for Mothers - Paid Sick Days Have Significant Benefits, Low Costs

Извор: WUNRN – 03.05.2017

Institute for Women’s Policy Research

April 26, 2017 - Unlike most nations in the industrialized world, the United States does not guarantee that workers receive paid sick leave. Some employees are eligible for unpaid time off to care for their own or a close family member’s “serious health condition” under the Family and Medical Leave Act. But more than 50 million workers in this country still have no access to paid sick days. Two recent IWPR-IMPAQ International studies show that national paid sick leave would disproportionately benefit women and low-paid workers – without significantly increasing employers’ costs.

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ICTs in Humanitarian Response - Women

Извор: WUNRN – 03.05.2017

Direct Link to Full 28-Page 2017 Report

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Gender Imbalances in the Teaching Profession

Извор: WUNRN – 03.05.2017

Direct Link to FULL 4-PAGES 2017 OECD Publication

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Canada - Challenge of Child Care for ALL

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/child-care-all-us

Direct Link to Full 21-Page 2016 Publication

CANADA – UNIVERSAL CHILD CARE FOR CANADIANS BY 2020

Author(s): Lynell Anderson - Morna Ballantyne - Martha Friendly

December 7, 2016 - It is disturbing but not surprising that, despite some initiatives in a number of provinces, child care across Canada remains unaffordable, unavailable and inconsistent in quality to this day. Federal leadership, together with provincial/territorial collaboration in working toward a long-term vision of a universal, high-quality, comprehensive early childhood education and care (ECEC) system, is demonstrably the best way to ensure real early learning and child care options for families.

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Georgia hosts meeting on improving antenatal care in eastern Europe and central Asia

Извор: Светска здравствена организација - 02.05.2017

WHO/David Kharatishvili

From right to left: Nino Berdzuli, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia, David Sergeenko, Minister of Labor, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia, and Marijan Ivanusa, Head of WHO Country Office, Georgia.

At the opening of an intercountry meeting on antenatal care, the Minister of Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia, David Sergeenko, underscored the importance of providing pregnant women with adequate information, stating, “Child development begins before a child is born, therefore the right information and guidance is very important”.

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Antimicrobial resistance: Now a political priority

Извор: Светска здравствена организација

WHO/C. Tephaval

2 May 2017 – Looking back at the ten years that she has served as the Director-General of WHO, Dr Margaret Chan emphasizes the complex challenge that the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses, threatening to reverse the substantial progress against infectious diseases since the discovery of antibiotics. Antimicrobial resistance can be tackled only through a concerted global effort, led by heads of state and global institutions, and through coordinated action by the health and agricultural sectors, in partnership with the food industry, campaign groups, and community organizations.

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New WHO/Europe report sheds light on antibiotic consumption in eastern European and central Asian countries

Извор: Светска здравствена организација - 01.05.2017

WHO

A new WHO/Europe report collates and reviews surveillance data on the consumption of antimicrobial medicines in 11 non-European Union countries and Kosovo* from 2011–2014, gathered through the WHO Antimicrobial Medicines Consumption (AMC) Network. The report indicates that consumption across the surveyed countries varies widely. It concludes that the variation recorded may not be explained by population health problems alone, and calls for further investigation.

The quantitative data provide a starting point for better understanding the use of antibacterials in clinical practice. This requires further quantitative and qualitative studies in primary care and hospital sectors.

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Hepatitis B vaccination has dramatically reduced infection rates among children in Europe, but more is needed to achieve elimination

Извор: Светска здравствена организација - 28.04.2017

WHO/ A Mozalevskis

All countries should seek to achieve universal childhood vaccination against hepatitis B.

The introduction of the hepatitis B vaccine in 1982 led to a dramatic fall in the prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections globally. Today, 4.5 million infections are prevented each year in children, as the first WHO “Global hepatitis report 2017” revealed last week.

The WHO European Region has contributed to the worldwide decline in HBV infections by reaching a prevalence of 0.4% in children under 5, thus achieving one of the targets of the first Action plan for the health sector response to viral hepatitis in the WHO European Region. Most of the 15 million people in the Region living with the disease are adults born before the hepatitis B vaccine became widely available in the 1990s.

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Women & Chemicals - The Impact of Hazardous Chemicals on Women

Извор: WUNRN – 01.05.2017

WECF - Women in Europe for a Common Future - is an international network of over 150 women’s and civil society organisations implementing projects in 50 countries and advocating globally to shape a just and sustainable world.

In our modern societies, women and men are all continually exposed to hazardous chemicals in their every day lives. But women are often differently exposed due to their (entrenched) gender roles and because of biological susceptibilities and health impacts. In this publication WECF looks at the impacts of highly hazardous pesticides, mercury, and endocrine disrupting chemicals on women’s health.

Direct Link to Full 66-Page 2016 WECF Publication