Household air pollution and health
Извор: Светска здравствена организација - 01.05.2018
Key facts
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Around 3 billion people cook using polluting open fires or simple stoves fuelled by kerosene, biomass (wood, animal dung and crop waste) and coal.
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Each year, close to 4 million people die prematurely from illness attributable to household air pollution from inefficient cooking practices using polluting stoves paired with solid fuels and kerosene.
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Household air pollution causes noncommunicable diseases including stroke, ischaemic heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer.
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Close to half of deaths due to pneumonia among children under 5 years of age are caused by particulate matter (soot) inhaled from household air pollution.
Photo story – “Leaving no one behind – saving lives through immunization” exhibit
Извор: Светска здравствена организација - 28.04.2018
To mark European Immunization Week and World Immunization Week 2018, WHO/Europe and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) collaborated to create a photo and video exhibit titled “Leaving no one behind – saving lives through immunization”. The exhibit showcases WHO and UNICEF’s strong partnership and joint commitment in the field of immunization, and it seeks to increase awareness that vaccines work and they save lives.
“We are here to call on you to act this week, to have a voice, to make sure the public hears that voice, that your constituents and your counterparts hear that voice in their countries,” said Robb Butler, Programme Manager of the Vaccine-Preventable Diseases and Immunization unit at WHO/Europe, who opened the exhibit together with Heather Deehan, Chief of the Vaccine Centre at UNICEF’s Supply Division.
Светски ден за безбедност и здравје на работа
Извор: Институт за јавно здравје на Р. Македонија - 27.04.2018
Оваа година Светскиот ден за безбедност и здравје на работа се одбележува заедно со Светскиот ден против детски труд и има за цел за подобрување на безбедноста и здравјето на работа на младите работници и елиминација на детскиот труд.
Кампањата по повод одбележувањето на овој ден тежнее кон што побрзо постигнување на Одржливите развојни цели 8.8 и 8.7 за безбедни и сигурни на работните услови за сите работници до 2030 година и за елиминација на сите форми на детски труд до 2025 година. За ова е потребен интегриран и сеопфатен мултисекторски пристап, затоа што во светот има 541 милиони млади работници на возраст од 15-24 години, што вклучува и 37 милиони на деца изложени на штетни агенси при работа.
European Immunization Week – vaccination is a right and responsibility for all
Извор: Светска здравствена организација - 23.04.2018
WHO
Vaccines protect people of all ages from potentially serious diseases. On 23–29 April 2018, European Immunization Week (EIW) is celebrated across the WHO European Region to raise awareness of the critical role vaccines play in protecting public health, and to remind each person to do their part to immunize Europe.
WHO and UNICEF issue new guidance to promote breastfeeding in health facilities globally
Извор: Светска здравствена организација – 11.04.2018
11.04.2018
11 April 2018
News Release
Geneva
WHO and UNICEF today issued new ten-step guidance to increase support for breastfeeding in health facilities that provide maternity and newborn services. Breastfeeding all babies for the first two years would save the lives of more than 820 000 children under age 5 annually.
The Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding underpin the Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative, which both organizations launched in 1991. The practical guidance encourages new mothers to breastfeed and informs health workers how best to support breastfeeding.
2018 Freedom in the World Report: Democracy in Crisis - Gender
Извор: WUNRN – 13.04.2018
2018 Freedom in the World Report: Democracy in Crisis - Gender
Freedom in the World 2018
Democracy in Crisis
By Michael J. Abramowitz, President-Freedom House
Political rights and civil liberties around the world deteriorated to their lowest point in more than a decade in 2017, extending a period characterized by emboldened autocrats, beleaguered democracies, and the United States’ withdrawal from its leadership role in the global struggle for human freedom.
Democracy is in crisis. The values it embodies—particularly the right to choose leaders in free and fair elections, freedom of the press, and the rule of law—are under assault and in retreat globally.
Women & Poverty - Challenges to Have Gender Specific Data on Poverty - Research
Извор: WUNRN – 12.04.2018
Cycle: Global
ABSTRACT - This paper uses household surveys from 89 countries to look at gender differences in poverty in the developing world. In the absence of individual-level poverty data, the paper looks at what can we learn in terms of gender differences by looking at the available individual and household level information. The estimates are based on the same surveys and welfare measures as official World Bank poverty estimates. The paper focuses on the relationship between age, sex and poverty. And finds that, girls and women of reproductive age are more likely to live in poor households (below the international poverty line) than boys and men. It finds that 122 women between the ages of 25 and 34 live in poor households for every 100 men of the same age group. The analysis also examines the household profiles of the poor, seeking to go beyond headship definitions.
Ageing, Older Persons & The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development - Older Women
Извор: WUNRN – 12.04.2018
The Gender Pay Gap Can Affect Women’s Physical & Mental Health
Извор: WUNRN – 10.04.2018
The gender pay gap is very, very real. Women all over the world are paid less than men, and in the Staters, Equal Pay Day, on April 10, marks how long into 2018 women have to work, on average, to earn as much as their male counterparts did in 2017 — though, as the official Equal Pay Day website notes, that date differs greatly depending on your race. And while there are many hypotheses for why this pay gap exists, one thing is for sure: like other kinds of systemic discrimination, the gender pay gap can affect your health in some pretty surprising ways.
The Legal Protection of Women From Violence - Normative Gaps in UN International Law +
Извор: WUNRN – 08.04.2018
Friday 6 April 2018, by siawi3
Source: Routledge, April 2018 - https://www.routledge.com/The-Legal-Protection-of-Women-From-Violence-Normative-Gaps-in-International/Manjoo-Jones/p/book/9781138737969
The Legal Protection of Women From Violence
Normative Gaps in International Law
Edited by Rashida Manjoo, University of Cape Town, South Africa and Jackie Jones, University of the West of England, UK
Roma Women: Rising Above Discrimination + Roma Info
Извор: WUNRN – 08.04.2018
International Roma Day, 8 April 2018
Roma people have a long history of living in Europe with a presence recorded from the 13th Century. They are now widely recognized as one of the EU’s largest minority groups with an estimate of more than 10 million Roma living in Europe. The term 'Roma', first chosen at the inaugural World Romani Congress held in London in 1971, is now widely accepted across the European Union (EU) as a generic and pragmatic term to describe a diverse range of communities, tribes and clans.