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Advancing Health Around the World
Advancing Health Around the World
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The IOM has considered how the nation can best protect its residents from global health threats and also how it can help other countries with limited resources to tackle health problems within their own borders. Helping fight cardiovascular disease A growing challenge worldwide is cardiovascular disease (CVD)
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The report emphasizes that success will depend on a wide array of stakeholders taking action at the global, regional, and local levels. The report offers specific recommendations and guidance for both short-term and long-term actions for a number of important target audiences, including governments, international health and development agencies, academic and research institutions, the private sector, and nongovernmental groups.
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50. Figure 2-1 The report emphasizes the R01642create environments that pro need to uneditable bitmapped image this requires pubmote lifestyle choices that help protect heart health, and lic health infrastructure and health systems with the capacity to conduct programs that will effectively detect and reduce risk and manage CVD.
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It will be important as well for all parties to help improve healthcare facilities, build the medical work force, and strengthen primary healthcare services in low- and middle-income nations, and to ensure that health service providers include prevention and care for cardio vascular disease and other chronic diseases as a focus. Infectious diseases crossing borders The United States and the world face threats from a number of emerging infectious diseases.
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Greater integration of the human health and veterinary medicine sectors should be a key feature of this new system, because the current lack of coordination and communication between these groups results in missed opportunities to detect potential species-crossing pathogens and leads to less effective measures to contain diseases. There also should be a International travel and fundamental shift in surveillance away from commerce -- most notably the urgent, time-constrained reactions to new explosive growth of commercial individual diseases and toward a sustained air transportation over the past focus on preventing the conditions for zoo- 50 years -- drives the rapid, notic agents to emerge and detecting pos- global distribution of microbial sible threats on an ongoing basis.
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Human travel and migration have been implicated in the spread of numerous diseases, including influenza and severe acute respiratory syndrome. In response to such concerns, the forum held a public workshop to explore a variety of topics associated with the emergence, detection, and surveillance of infectious diseases globally.
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, found that developing medical countermeasures against this deadly pathogen remains an essential need because of the potential for an accidental or deliberate release, and that having access to stocks of live variola virus will critically aid researchers in reaching these goals. At a January 2011 meeting, WHO's executive board supported the retention of smallpox virus stocks in the authorized repositories for research purposes, a position in line with IOM recommendations.
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In Strategic Approach to the Evaluation of Programs Implemented Under the Tom Lantos and Henry J
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government. SOURCE: Strategic Approach to the Evaluation of Programs Implemented Under the Tom Lantos and Henry J
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Challenges of drug-resistant tuberculosis An estimated 2 billion people, one-third of the global population, are infected with the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB)
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The international workshops, the bacterium that causes taking place between 2010 and 2012, are tuberculosis. intended to enable participants to learn from the historical and contemporary experiences of each nation's public health community in controlling and combating the spread of drug-resistant TB, and to draw lessons about best practices and novel approaches that can be applied in the regions and across the globe.
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The forum held a third workshop in India in April 2011, in collabo ration with the Indian National Science Academy and the Indian Council of Medical Research, and a report is forthcoming. Continuing the effort undertaken at the meetings in South Africa and Russia, participants in this third international workshop considered the current status of drug resistant TB in India and across the globe, highlighted key challenges to controlling the spread of drug-resistant strains, and discussed innovative strategies to advance and harmonize local and international efforts to pre vent and treat drug-resistant TB.
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SOURCE: Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders in Sub-Saharan Africa: Reducing the Treatment Gap, Improving Quality of Care: Workshop Summary, p.
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In 2010, the IOM launched Forum on Global Violence the Forum on Global Violence Prevention to Prevention to work to work to reduce violence worldwide by proreduce violence worldwide moting research and encouraging evidenceby promoting research and based prevention efforts. Additional inforencouraging evidence mation about the IOM's newest forum can based prevention efforts.
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