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Now a Green Agenda for Mental Health

...walk, 22 per cent report depression increase after urban walk. Backed by growing evidence to show that ecotherapy is effective, the organization is suggesting that ecotherapy be recognized as a clinically-valid frontline treatment for mental health problems. Ecotherapy involves getting outdoors and get...

Psychosocial Support for Cancer Survivors Needs Strengthening

...symptoms of depression or anxiety. Younger age and urban residence did not predict support group use. While physical functional status did not predict use among cancer patients, it did among patients with other chronic conditions. Dr. Owen also found that while physicians passively supported patient use ...

Modest Increase in Urban Parks Could Equalize Global Warming Until 2080s

A modest increase in the number of urban parks and street trees in our major cities could o...nt of green space in built-up centres would reduce urban surface temperatures by as much as four degrees Centigrade. This 4C drop in temperature is equival...

WHO Launches Yellow Fever Initiative for West Africa

...stimated 200,000 per year, with 30,000 deaths, and urban outbreaks were starting to occur. "As we see more people moving to cities for work, but returning to their rural villages from time to time, we also see the possibility of Yellow Fever epidemics multiply," said Sylvie Briand, Project Manager of th...

Quality Improvement Effort Pays Off in Diabetes Care

...which provide primary care services in underserved urban and rural communities, received the current standard of care. This includes regular testing for glycosylated hemoglobin (a measure of blood sugar control), assessment of fats and cholesterol in the blood, eye exams and blood pressure checks, with app...

Health Benefits Of Traditional Land Ownership

...r Indigenous health is a problem in both rural and urban areas, he says. What is needed is more support for programs to improve the health and wellbeing of all Indigenous people, wherever they choose to live, says Dr Scrimgeour....

Pollution Induced Cancer Emerges as Top Killer in China

...topped the list of the 10 most lethal diseases for urban residents last year, followed by cerebrovascular diseases and heart ailments. Death rate from cancer had also risen to 19 percent in cities and 23 percent in rural areas, while in rural areas, 92 percent of fatalities were caused by 10 illnesses, t...

Aggressive Family Planning Sparks Riots in China

...ion with some 1.3 billion people. Beijing allows urban dwellers to have one child, while villagers can have two if the first child is a girl. Worse, stiff penalties are levied on those who dont fall in line. And when they wont cough up, local officials carry away whatever is available in the house, it...

Medical Admissions Test Integrity Under Threat

...to undertake the same courses that their wealthier urban counterparts may be attending, Mr Mitchell said. The Australian Council of Educational Research (ACER), the body that administers the UMAT, has warned that there is no advantage in training for the test. AMSA has recently written to the UMAT ma...

Fire Ants are Emerging Nuisance for Virginians

...ller, Virginia Cooperative Extension specialist on urban pest management and associate professor of entomol... techniques not commonly used for similar pests in urban areas. Burning a fire ant mound, for example, will not work and may even cause the colony to scatter...

Study Tests Depression Treatment for Diabetes Patients

...ese findings are consistent with those observed in urban samples. Part of the significance of the paper is that it helps put rural Appalachia on the map in terms of depression and diabetes, de Groot said. According to Schwartz, in research conducted by the ARHI Diabetes Center, Appalachia has a diabete...

Low Weight Newborns at Greater Risk in Community Hospitals

...more than 90 percent of the births occurred within urban areas with at least 100 very-low-weight births. The move away from regional centers is growing as increasing numbers of neonatal ICUs spring up at community hospitals around the state. Many of these new neonatal ICUs offer lower levels of care that, ...

MRSA, the Super Bug Spreading to Urban Poor in US

...n hospitals and nursing homes, is now spreading to urban poor settlements. The strain has turned up recently among athletes, prisoners and people who get illegal tattoos. It is a type of infection caused by a Staphylococcus (or "staph") bacteria. Called methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or M...

Rapid Syphilis Could Prevent Congenital Disease and Stillbirths in Haiti

... are found. The second, considered the standard in urban areas, is a blood test for antibody response to th... syphilis screening standards of care in rural and urban areas was represented by cost-effectiveness ratios of $7-$10 per DALY. This is similar to or better ...

Children Pick Up Drinking Habits from Home

...r study has followed young, racially diverse, poor urban youth over a two and a half year period, observing patterns of social and commercial alcohol access in this manner. Researchers found that out of the 11-14 year olds who choose to drink, only a small fraction (2.4 percent in the 6th grade, rising t...

Tobacco Menace and What can Be Done About It

... of cigarette smoking among sexes, among rural and urban residents, and among different socioeconomic classes was similar to the distribution tobacco related health diseases among these groups. Types and burden of tobacco consumption: There are two types of tobacco species that are commonly used. N....

My Show Will Make People Health Conscious: Rahul Aggarwal

...grave health problem in India as 55 percent of the urban population is obese. Also two out of every five children is suffering from the disease,' Aggarwal told IANS. 'Through my reality show I want to change the lives of both participants and viewers by motivating them to be health conscious,' he added. ...

Metabolic Syndrome may Be Associated With Heart Function

...eart health. The authors investigated a sample of urban Portuguese adults who were invited to a full screening interview including questionnaires, blood tests for cholesterol and glucose levels, and an ECG measurement. This was followed up with a structured clinical interview including a cardiovascular ph...

AIDS Incidence in India Far Lower Than Previously Estimated New Study

... sampling the blood of pregnant women who come to urban health clinics and the blood of high-risk groups ...samples in randomly chosen households in rural and urban areas. One of those, called the National Family Health Survey, produced Indias new figures. Such sur...

Hospitals in Older Cities Close Down, Blacks Worst Affected

...r in Washington, D.C. "This is occurring in older, urban inner-city areas." New York City, Philadelphia and parts of New Jersey have seen waves of hospital closings in inner-city neighborhoods, said Siegel, who directed a 2004 report examining the phenomenon for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. But ...

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