nowhere are the barriers to a functional health infrastructure more clearly on display than in the goma region of democratic republic of congo. kaboru et al. report poorly integrated services for hiv and tb in this war-torn region. priorities in conflict zones include provision of security, shelter, food, clean water and prevention of sexual violence. in goma, immediate health priorities includ...

The provision of good nutrition has long been recognised as essential for hospital patients and ensuring patients received adequate food used to be a key nursing responsibility. However, changes in the preparation and delivery of hospital food and in the nurse's role. have reduced nurses' control over their patients' diet. This article reports on the progress of the Better Hospital Food program...

This study estimated the proportion of U.S. nursing homes (NHs) collaborating with Medicare hospices and identified state-level factors associated with this collaboration. Collaboration was classified as present when at least one of a NH's residents dying in July through December, 2000 received hospice. Seventy-six percent of NHs (n=12,174) had hospice collaborations, with proportions ranging f...

Microcredit loans have transformed the lives of impoverished people in many countries by allowing them to start businesses. But increasingly microcredit banks are realizing that providing some kind of health coverage in tandem with the loans is essential if they want to fulfil their mission to improve lives.

Food marketing research shows that child-directed marketing cues have pronounced effects on food preferences and consumption, but are most often placed on products with low nutritional quality. Effects of child-directed marketing strategies for healthy food products remain to be studied in more detail. Previous research suggests that effort provision explains additional variance in food choice....

BACKGROUND Health workers are the key to realising the potential of improved quality of care for mothers and newborns in the weak health systems of Sub Saharan Africa. Their perspectives are fundamental to understand the effectiveness of existing improvement programs and to identify ways to strengthen future initiatives. The objective of this study was therefore to examine health worker perspec...

In the current geopolitical conditions, Russian agriculture faces risks, overcoming of which requires new solutions in determining state policy. The main leitmotif is import substitution. This has been task agrarian policy since 2012. anti-Russian sanctions 2022 exacerbated problems agriculture, genesis many dates back to and land reforms 1990s., overcome modern measures support are aimed. Amon...

There has been a marked increase in community concerns of the risk of food induced anaphylaxis in children and a consequent increase in the provision of the self or carer injectable epinephrine (EpiPen) (CSL Ltd, Parkville, Victoria, Australia)). The Australian use of EpiPens in children under 10 years has increased by 300% over 5 years with a crude rate of EpiPen provision of 1 per 544 Austral...

In this article, the sensitisation method is introduced as an approach suited to investigating nutrition-related issues affecting disadvantaged families. Using a longitudinal design, sensitisation is a combination of self-introspection, memory work, observation, individual interviews, and focus groups. The method was applied to child obesity as experienced in low socioeconomic families to gener...