You are here

One Health

Primary tabs

The mission of the OneHealth Working Group is to integrate all health domains into one discipline worldwide.

General Topic Tags: 
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Group description: 
The One Health Working Group is focused on the issues of integrating all health domains into one discipline worldwide.
Group roles and permissions: 
Use default roles and permissions
Group visibility: 
Public - accessible to all site users

Members

admin Carrielaj ChrisAllen jranck Kathy Gilbeaux mdmcdonald
MDMcDonald_me_com TheresaBernardo

Email address for group

Mexico City restricts thousands of public places over swine flu

Many governments around the world have begun to impose restrictions in hopes of limiting the spread of Swine Flu. A CNN story gives an update of cases and focuses on Mexico's new enforcement of restaurant closures and contemplation of transportation restrictions.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/28/swine.flu/index.html

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- About 35,000 public venues in Mexico City were shut down or told to serve only takeout meals Tuesday as officials tried to contain a deadly swine flu outbreak.

Seven People in U.S. Hit by Strange New Swine Flu

Hello,

We are writing you today in light of the unusual strain of swine influenza which has sickened at least seven people in the U.S. The CDC said that the virus is a new mixture of viruses typical among pigs, birds and humans. The World Health Organization said it was concerned about what it called 800 "influenza-like" cases in Mexico, and also about a confirmed outbreak of a new strain of swine flu in the United States. The Reuters story on this is copied below.

G8 admits losing battle against hunger

By Javier Blas in Cison di Valmarino, Italy

Published: April 20 2009 14:03 | Last updated: April 20 2009 14:03
The Group of Eight leading nations called on Monday “for increasing public and private investment” in agriculture, but their communiqué after the first meeting on the subject acknowledged that efforts to tackle hunger were lagging.

Strengthening Country-Led Monitoring & Evaluation System

Organized by UNICEF CEE/CIS, and Pan American Health Organization PAHO/WHO
April 15th, 2009


Good practices in using DevInfo: Recorded Knowledge Sharing Event

Chronic Disease: An Economic Perspective

Marc Suhrcke, WHO Regional Office for Europe (Venice, Italy)
Rachel A. Nugent, director of health and economics at the Population Reference Bureau.
David Stuckler, working with OxHA members and the WHO on issues pertaining to the global governance of chronic diseases.
Lorenzo Rocco, assistant professor of economics with the University of Padova in Italy.
London: Oxford Health Alliance

Web site: http://www.oxha.org/initiatives/economics/chronic-disease-an-economic-perspective

Hand-foot-mouth disease deaths rise to 19 in Shandong

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-04-13 22:33

JINAN -- One more child has died of hand-foot-mouth disease in Shandong, bringing to 19 the death toll in the eastern China province, according to health officials Monday. The death occurred Sunday in Liaocheng City, the Shandong Provincial Health Department announced Monday, giving no details about the child.

Related readings:
HFMD death toll rises to 15 in E China city
HFMD kills 18 kids in C China, 195 severely ill
HFMD death toll rises to 11 in E China
Worst of HFMD outbreak still to come, warn top medics

Global economic crisis and health

Oslo, Norway, 1-2 April 2009

The global economic downturn occurs as the world is also confronted with the consequences of major demographic changes and global environmental and energy problems. The crisis therefore represents a major threat for both health and health and social protection systems.

Link to recordings: http://www.smartcom.no/who/who_eng_001.html

Links to materials, conference programme and the webcast can be found at
url: http://www.euro.who.int/healthsystems/econcrisis/20090316_1

Objectives:

A World of Science in the Developing World

Website: http://www.nature.com/nature/supplements/collections/npgpublications/twas/index.html

“….The public and policy-makers are increasingly looking to the scientific community to address critical global problems.

Finding solutions will require the collective insights and experience of scientists, policy-makers, industry and non-governmental groups. A World of Science in the Developing World reflects the expertise of members and associates of TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world, and coincides with its twenty-fifth anniversary…”

PHREE-Way

PHREE-Way is a global action-learning consortium of organizations working together to expand education and strengthen capacity for disaster risk reduction and humanitarian action towards sustainable development and human security. The founding and initial members include international non-governmental organizations, research and training support organizations, and universities. All members adhere to human security, sustainable development, and humanitarian imperatives, as well as globally-recognized ethics and standards.

Pages

howdy folks
Page loaded in 0.665 seconds.