Ten Top Issues for Women's Health
Извор: WUNRN – 19.06.2018
Dr Flavia Bustreo, Assistant Director General for Family, Women’s and Children’s Health through the Life-course, World Health Organization
We've come a long way since 1995--and it is time to celebrate women and their achievements. But it is also time to take stock of how women’s rights are fulfilled in the world --especially the right to health. Twenty years after countries signed pledges in the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform of Action, women still face many health problems and we must re-commit to addressing them.
Here are ten of the main issues regarding women's health that keep me awake at night:
Cancer: Two of the most common cancers affecting women are breast and cervical cancers. Detecting both these cancers early is key to keeping women alive and healthy.
Adolescent Research Briefs: Low- & Middle-Income Countries
Извор: WUNRN – 18.06.2018
Via SVRI – Sexual Violence Research Initiative
THIS WEBSITE GIVES LINKS TO 7 ADOLESCENT RESEARCH BRIEFS.
ADOLESCENT RESEARCH BRIEFS
The world is home to 1.2 billion adolescents: the largest cohort of this age-group in history. Adolescence is a critical period of cognitive, emotional, physical and sexual development with consequences that stretch far into adulthood. The period also provides a second “window of opportunity” to build on early investments, promote positive behaviours, and offer a second chance to those who fared less well in early childhood.
Special Rapporteur Violence Against Women Report to the UN Human Rights Council 2018 - Online Violence Against Women
Извор: WUNRN – 17.06.2018
UN Special Rapporteur VAW Website: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Women/SRWomen/Pages/SRWomenIndex.aspx
REPORT OF THE UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN TO THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL SESSION 38-2018
Special Rapporteur on Health Report to the UN HRC 2018 - The Right to Health in Detention, Confinement - Women in Prison
Извор: WUNRN – 07.06.2018
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health – Website
THE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON THE RIGHT TO HEALTH REPORT TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL SESSION 38 ON THE RIGHT TO HEALTH IN DETENTION, CONFINEMENT
To access Full 21-Page Report, go to http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A/HRC/38/36 and on the right side of the page, see Documents, and click on the UN Language Translation of Choice.
State of Civil Society Report 2018 - Year in Review: Top Ten Trends
Извор: WUNRN – 06.06.2018
Информација за состојбата со мали сипаници во Република Македонија во 2018, заклучно со 20.06.2018
Извор: Институт за јавно здравје на Р. Македонија - 22.06.2018
Вовед
Во оваа информација е даден преглед на моменталната состојба со мали сипаници во Република Македонија во текот на 2018 година, заклучно со 20.06.2018 година.
Моментална состојба
Во споредба со претходното епидемиолошко известување од 20.03.2018 година, регистрирани се три нови потврдени случаи на мали сипаници.
World Refugee Day: WHO trains Syrian refugees to serve as home-care staff to older and disabled refugees in Turkey
Извор: Светска здравствена организација - 19.06.2018
WHO/Rocío López
Aaliyah is one of the 350 Syrian refugees WHO is training as home-care staff to serve older and disabled Syrians in Turkey.
Each day, Aaliyah* wakes up to a dark sky in her home near the Mediterranean city of Mersin, in southern Turkey. Before leaving the house to catch the first bus of the day, she checks on her sister Lilah*, bedridden since a bomb hit the family house in the Syrian city of Homs. The explosion caused burns all over her body as the roof fell over her head. She is now unable to walk, move her hands or even talk.
WHO releases new International Classification of Diseases (ICD 11)
Извор: Светска здравствена организација - 18.06.2018
18 June 2018
News Release
Geneva
18 June 2018 - Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) is today releasing its new International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11).
The ICD is the foundation for identifying health trends and statistics worldwide, and contains around 55 000 unique codes for injuries, diseases and causes of death. It provides a common language that allows health professionals to share health information across the globe.
“The ICD is a product that WHO is truly proud of," says Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General.
Investment and innovation for inclusive health systems key to nations’ prosperity
Извор: Светска здравствена организација - 18.06.2018
“Investment in health is an investment in future human development, and well functioning health systems are so essential to improve societies’ health in general.” President Kersti Kaljulaid of Estonia delivered this message in a speech at the opening of the high-level meeting Health Systems for Prosperity and Solidarity: leaving no one behind, which took place in Tallinn, Estonia, on 13–14 June 2018.
President Kaljulaid’s sentiments would be repeated many times throughout the meeting, which celebrated 10 years since the signing of the Tallinn Charter. The event offered a platform to reflect on the progress made since its signing and to explore new ways of transforming health systems to improve health.
The High Cost of Gender Inequality in Earnings - World Bank
Извор: WUNRN – 03.06.2018
Gender Pay Gap Costs the Global Economy $160tn, Says World Bank Study
Equal pay, equal hours and equal participation in the workforce could lead to a global wealth jump of $23,620 a person, as well as creating knock-on benefits such as lower malnutrition and child mortality rates, said the report. Using data from 141 countries, economists analysed the potential skills, education, training and future worth of each person in the workforce, then compared those so-called “lifetime earnings” to generate estimated global losses……..
Direct Link to Full 28-Page 2018 World Bank Report
Save the Children Report 2018 - The Many Faces of Exclusion - Gender
Извор: WUNRN – 02.06.2018
Amnesty Report 2017-2018 - State of the World's Human Rights - 159 Countries - Gender
Извор: WUNRN – 31.05.2018
Direct Link to Full 409-Page 2018 Report
Annual Report 2017/18: State-Sponsored Hate Spurs New Era of Social Activism
The report, The State of the World’s Human Rights 2017-2018, covers 159 countries and delivers the most comprehensive analysis of the state of human rights in the world today.