Donna Ross on LinkedIn: New project launches to investigate issues surrounding how global health… (2024)

🌟🌾 Observing August as Indigenous People Month: Shining a Light on Critical Health Matters 🌾🌟This August, as we celebrate Indigenous People Month, let's bring attention to a critical health issue affecting Indigenous communities. 🙏🏽💚📚 Research Article: Bowker et al. (2023). "Incidence and Outcomes of Critical Illness in Indigenous Peoples: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis." Critical Care (London, England), 27(1), 285.🔗 Read the Full Article Here: As we celebrate Indigenous heritage and contributions, let's also stand in solidarity to address health disparities and promote equitable access to healthcare for all communities. By sharing this article, we can raise awareness and advocate for improved healthcare outcomes for Indigenous peoples. 🌏🤝This Indigenous People Month, let's strive for a more inclusive and empathetic world, where every life is valued, and every community thrives. Join the conversation and share this research to make a positive impact on Indigenous health! 🗣️🌟#IndigenousPeopleMonth #CriticalHealthMatters #EquitableHealthcare #InclusiveCommunities #EmpoweringResearch #SupportingIndigenousHealth #SolidarityinHealthcare

Analyzing a National Health Surveillance Strategy to Reduce Mother-to-child Transmission of Syphilis: the Case of Brazilian Investigation CommitteesWhile the investigation committees drawn on the successful experience of those for reducing maternal mortality, which helped the country achieve the Millennium Development Goals, they are not demonstrated to be sufficient for preventing mother-to-child transmission of syphilis. The committees’ systematic and bureaucratic agenda has not been efficient in managing avoidable factors for syphilis, nor do they operate in the scope of the integration of surveillance and care actions, as recommended by the health policy.The committees’ model needs to be reviewed in the context of Brazil's National Health System. The research process should be rescaled in order to remain a cornerstone for the induction of health policy that integrates surveillance and healthcare across Brazilian Federative Units. The advancement towards an automated case management model becomes relevant for the country to meet global commitments to eliminate congenital syphilis transmission and achieve the goals outlined in the 2030 Agenda.#publichealth #sus #surveillance

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Concerned about #health #misinformation? Check out this new toolkit from WHO Regional Office for Europe for ideas on what health authorities and the wider #publichealth community can do. (Congratulations to Stefan Voinea, Cristiana Salvi, Khaled Mostafa, Kimberly Rambaud, Ravi Shankar Sreenath and everyone else who had an input to it) #infodemic #infodemicmanagement #globalhealth #riskcommunication https://lnkd.in/dZc8tDzZ

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To do their work effectively,Community Health Workers (#CHWs) must have reliable access to essential medicines 💊. But research by the Coalition shows that CHWs are out of stock one third of the time. These stockouts continue to place lies at risk.⚠️In the entire time period considered in our study (2006-2021), CHWs experienced stock-outs 28.93% of the time. This was substantially higher than the health centers to which they were affiliated, which were impacted 9.17% of the time.Perhaps the biggest concern, however, is that essential medicine stock-outs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) appear to be on the rise.When researchers looked at just the data during the period 2016-2021,stock-outs for CHWs increased to 48.65%.Clearly, essential medicine stock-outs for CHWs are a growing concern that requires immediate attention. Learn more and join the #SupplyCHWs campaign: https://lnkd.in/eyBdGvme

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The United States is facing a crisis in our collective health and well-being: the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, compounded by longstanding problems. A new National Academy of Medicine special publication, Valuing America’s Health: Aligning Financing to Reward Better Health and Well Being, focuses on the urgent need to reckon with these shortfalls in the nation’s health system. Learn more here.https://lnkd.in/gMTbxgdB#integrativehealth #IHPC #SDOH

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To do their work effectively,Community Health Workers (#CHWs) must have reliable access to essential medicines 💊. But research by the Coalition shows that CHWs are out of stock one third of the time. These stockouts continue to place lies at risk.⚠️In the entire time period considered in our study (2006-2021), CHWs experienced stock-outs 28.93% of the time. This was substantially higher than the health centers to which they were affiliated, which were impacted 9.17% of the time.Perhaps the biggest concern, however, is that essential medicine stock-outs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) appear to be on the rise.When researchers looked at just the data during the period 2016-2021,stock-outs for CHWs increased to 48.65%.Clearly, essential medicine stock-outs for CHWs are a growing concern that requires immediate attention. Learn more and join the #SupplyCHWs campaign: https://lnkd.in/eyBdGvme

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To do their work effectively,Community Health Workers (#CHWs) must have reliable access to essential medicines. But research by the Coalition shows that CHWs are out of stock one third of the time. These stockouts continue to place lies at risk.In the entire time period considered in our study (2006-2021), CHWs experienced stock-outs 28.93% of the time. This was substantially higher than the health centers to which they were affiliated, which were impacted 9.17% of the time.Perhaps the biggest concern, however, is that essential medicine stock-outs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) appear to be on the rise.When researchers looked at just the data during the period 2016-2021,stock-outs for CHWs increased to 48.65%.Clearly, essential medicine stock-outs for CHWs are a growing concern that requires immediate attention. Learn more and join the #SupplyCHWs campaign: https://lnkd.in/eyBdGvme

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To do their work effectively,Community Health Workers (#CHWs) must have reliable access to essential medicines. But research by the Coalition shows that CHWs are out of stock one third of the time. These stockouts continue to place lies at risk.In the entire time period considered in our study (2006-2021), CHWs experienced stock-outs 28.93% of the time. This was substantially higher than the health centers to which they were affiliated, which were impacted 9.17% of the time.Perhaps the biggest concern, however, is that essential medicine stock-outs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) appear to be on the rise.When researchers looked at just the data during the period 2016-2021,stock-outs for CHWs increased to 48.65%.Clearly, essential medicine stock-outs for CHWs are a growing concern that requires immediate attention. Learn more and join the #SupplyCHWs campaign: https://lnkd.in/eyBdGvme

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Prof John Deanfield CBE, the first-ever government champion for personalised prevention, has concluded that a parallel health service is required to save an NHS struggling to heal an increasingly unhealthy public.He presents digital technologies as the key to delivering personalised prevention at scale. While I am a huge fan of both prevention and digital technologies my first read suggests a very health orienated approach and one that does not focus enough on the wider social determinants of health. In a similar vein you cannot "heal" the NHS without simultaneously addressing the challenges of the current Social Care model. #prevention #personalised #insight #NHS #SocialCare #outcomes #Housing Access Technology Enabled Care Amelia Hillhttps://lnkd.in/eGzRPfEu

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Primary health care can meet up to 90% of a person’s health care needs over their lifetime, but only approximately half of the global population has access to these services. In a conversation with #Exemplars News, Edwine Barasa of Wellcome Trust and Anna Vassall of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U. of London discuss countries like Zambia and Kenya that have improved their #PHC systems by removing financial barriers to care and investing in community health workers. Read their takeaways on how strong #PHC systems can save lives. https://bit.ly/4b1d9RH

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