Healthcare of undocumented migrant children
–-> santé des enfants sans-papiers
Nando Sigona analyses the predicament of undocumented migrants and the way the uncertainty and stress of the family struggle, as well as restricted access to healthcare services, impact the mental and physical well-being of the children.
http://nandosigona.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/healthcare-of-undocumented-migrant-children
Scanadu | Sending your Smart Phone to Med School
http://www.scanadu.com
Scanadu est un dispositif de capteurs qui s’associent au smartphone pour favoriser l’autodiagnostic médical. Scanadu est candidat au "Tricorder X-Prize" : http://www.qualcommtricorderxprize.org/competition-details/overview Tags : #quantifiedself fing internetactu internetactu2net (...)
#QS
Sri Lankan corporate profits soar as workers face poverty - World Socialist Web Site
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/25/sril-a25.html
Sri Lankan corporate profits soar as workers face poverty
By Saman Gunadasa
25 April 2013
Profit results published by Sri Lanka’s corporate sector for the financial year that ended in March 2013 demonstrate that a handful of big businesses are pocketing the country’s wealth while the working people are being forced to bear stringent austerity measures.
Access to healthcare in Europe in times of crisis and rising xenophobia
An overview of the situation of people excluded from healthcare systems
Médecins du monde
Our latest reports present some of the results of comparative data collected in 2012 in 14 cities across seven European countries.
This report covers a sample of 8,412 patients, 19,302 consultations (including 10,968 medical consultations) and 11,921 diagnoses reported by our volunteer health professionals.
In order to capture the context in which this data collection took place, a concise update on the national legislations of these seven countries has been included. We also added to the quantitative data a number of qualitative reports from our field teams on the most important European trends identified by our network.
The crisis has generated austerity measures that have had a deep impact on all social safety nets, including healthcare provision. Groups who were already facing numerous vulnerability factors before the crisis, such as migrants, drug users, destitute European citizens and homeless people, have seen a reduction in or a termination of social safety nets and networks which provide them with basic help. Whilst all levels of the population must cope with increasing poverty, we are witnessing a significant increase in xenophobic actions and declarations against migrants, who have become the scapegoats of a situation which is making them even more vulnerable.
http://www.mdm-international.org/IMG/pdf/legal_update_full_v06042013.pdf
#santé #pauvreté #santé #xénophobie #europe
Why Medication Can Be Dangerous to Your Health- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leo-galland-md/why-medication-can-be-dan_b_643690.html
Did you know that the majority of FDA approved drugs have serious potential side effects that were not detected before marketing approval? (1)
That about three quarters of a million people a year are rushed to emergency rooms in the U.S. because of adverse drug reactions, according to the CDC? (2)
That the number of medication-related deaths in the U.S. is estimated at over 200,000 a year, making medications the third or fourth leading cause of death in this country? (3)
1) Manag Care Interface. 2005 Oct;18(10):49-52 “Preventing adverse drug reactions in the general population” Pezalla E.
2) JAMA. 2006 Oct 18;296(15):1858-66. “National surveillance of emergency department visits for outpatient adverse drug events.” Budnitz DS, Pollock DA, Weidenbach KN, Mendelsohn AB, Schroeder TJ, Annest JL
3) Pezzalla E., Manag Care Interface. 2005 Oct;18(10):49-52
World Poverty is Shrinking Rapidly, New Index reveals
The conventional method of measuring poverty based on income levels offers a poor analysis of the state of global poverty. The previous formula of people living on less than $1.25 per day is now replaced by a more comprehensive Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) in the latest UN report. It allows for poverty to be measured through a set of 10 indicators, namely nutrition, child mortality, years of schooling and attendance, cooking fuel, water, sanitation, electricity, assets and a covered floor; all essential for alleviating poverty. A new study by the University of Oxfords’ poverty and human development initiative uses this index to calculate poverty projections and finds that acute poverty in impoverished countries will likely be eliminated within the next 20 years. It is attributed in part to the work of aid agency investments in healthcare, education, housing, infrastructure access etc. Although there is concern that development progress is inconsistent globally, the MPI offers a more robust approach to monitoring progress. Critics of the MPI, however, point that it is convenient to change the index to obtain a more satisfactory result.
GSK chief: Drug prices should be lower
http://www.pharmatimes.com/Article/13-03-18/GSK_chief_Drug_prices_should_be_lower.aspx
Drug prices should be lower and the high cost of research is a myth – these are the frank words of GlaxoSmithKline’s boss Sir Andrew Witty.
Speaking to a conference in London last week and reported by Reuters, Sir Andrew said the $1 billion price tag of R&D, often touted by pharma firms and the ABPI, was “one of the great myths of the industry”.
This is because it was an “average figure” that includes money spent on treatments that fail in later stages, costing firms hundreds of millions of dollars.
“It’s not unrealistic to expect that new innovations ought to be priced at or below, in some cases, the prices that have pre-existed them,” he went on. “We haven’t seen that in recent eras of the (pharma) industry, but it is completely normal in other industries.”
Looking at his own UK-based firm, Sir Andrew said he has managed to increase the rate of return on R&D investment as because fewer drugs have failed in Phase III development.
“If you stop failing so often you massively reduce the cost of drug development,” he said, adding: “It’s why we are beginning to be able to price lower.”
Reward people who ’live healthily’, says think-tank - Health News - NHS Choices
http://www.nhs.uk/news/2013/03March/Pages/Reward-people-who-live-healthily-says-think-tank.aspx
Synthèse, mise en situation et revue des réactions faites par le NHS.
Le rapport du think tank Demos suggère l’instauration dans les système de soins d’un système de type bonus-malus en fonction des habitudes de vie saines ou non. Par exemple, faire passer les « bons éléments » en premier dans les listes d’attente…
Le NHS indique que ce n’est pas encore tout de suite que cette option sera intégrée dans les choix du système national de santé.
The Demos report makes a series of recommendations based on engagement with experts, policy makers and politicians. In terms of public health, it argues that the health service should use a model of care similar to the insurance industry.
For example, drivers with a good safety record are often ’rewarded’ with lower insurance premiums. The report suggests that people who commit to reducing their risk of developing chronic health disorders – by taking regular exercise or quitting smoking, for example – should also be rewarded.
One reward proposed by the report, which has dominated many of the headlines, is that people who live healthily should be moved to the front of the queue for non-emergency NHS procedures. However, as these proposals have been put forward by a think-tank, they are unlikely to become NHS policy any time soon, if at all.
L’article souligne que l’auteur principal de ce rapport, financé par une compagnie d’assurance, est responsable du projet Progressive Conservatism !…
HBS study reveals that Harvard’s MBA alumni perceive management as high-quality if it succeeds in meeting quarterly numbers and getting stock prices up, even if it fails wider and longer term competitive goals - http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2013/03/10/the-surprising-reasons-why-america-lost-its-ability-to-compete #finance #management
Hebrew lessons prove popular in Gaza schools | Maan News Agency
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=564987
Navy Seal who allegedly shot Bin Laden says US military has abandoned him | World news | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/11/navy-seal-bin-laden-military-benefits
Retired commando alleges he’s been left without healthcare or financial support as he struggles to adapt to a new civilian life
2012 Corruption Perceptions Index — Results
Le Vénézuela dans la classe la pire, la plus corrompue. mais oui, mais bien sur Monsieur transparency. Dans la même classe que Birmanie et Turkménistan. Très crédible l’indicateur de Transparency (dont le fondateur est un ancien de la Banque mondiale qui imposait par la force les plans d’ajustement structurels aux pays pauvres et endettés, mais ça n’a rien à voir)
http://www.transparency.org/cpi2012/results
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Looking at the Corruption Perceptions Index 2012, it’s clear that corruption is a major threat facing humanity. Corruption destroys lives and communities, and undermines countries and institutions. It generates popular anger that threatens to further destabilise societies and exacerbate violent conflicts.
The Corruption Perceptions Index scores countries on a scale from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean). While no country has a perfect score, two-thirds of countries score below 50, indicating a serious corruption problem.
Encephalitis Kills Over 1,000 in India - India Real Time - WSJ
http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2012/11/01/encephalitis-kills-over-1000-in-india
The encephalitis season is past its peak in India and data suggests no significant progress has been made in reducing the number of victims it claims each year.
This year so far, 1070 people have died of encephalitis through October
Genetic profiteering : scandal of firm ’hiding vital breast cancer data’ - Science - News - The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/genetic-profiteering-scandal-of-firm-hiding-vital-breast-cancer-data-
Myriad Genetics is accused of deliberately withholding data that could help other scientists to understand cancer genetics, on the grounds that the information is commercially sensitive.
Ghana: People With Mental Disabilities Face Serious Abuse | Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/10/02/ghana-people-mental-disabilities-face-serious-abuse
Ghana: People With Mental Disabilities Face Serious Abuse
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October 2, 2012
At Heavenly Ministries Spiritual Revival and Healing Center, some people with presumed mental disabilities lived in buildings with cubicles for each resident and were chained to walls. They could not leave the cubicles without permission of the staff at the prayer camp.
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Ghana: Serious Abuse for People With Mental Disabilities
The government needs to take immediate steps to end abuses against people with mental disabilities in institutions, prayer camps, and the community. The conditions in which many people with mental disabilities live in Ghana are inhuman and degrading.
Medi Ssengooba, Finberg fellow
People with mental disabilities suffer severe abuses in psychiatric institutions and spiritual healing centers in Ghana, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The Ghanaian government has done little to combat such abuse or to ensure that these people can live in the community, as is their right under international law.
The 84-page report, “‘Like a Death Sentence’: Abuses against Persons with Mental Disabilities in Ghana,”describes how thousands of people with mental disabilities are forced to live in these institutions, often against their will and with little possibility of challenging their confinement. In psychiatric hospitals, people with mental disabilities face overcrowding and unsanitary conditions. In some of the spiritual healing centers, popularly known as prayer camps, they are often chained to trees, frequently in the baking sun, and forced to fast for weeks as part of a “healing process,” while being denied access to medications.
A Crucial Election in Georgia - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
http://carnegieendowment.org/2012/09/11/crucial-election-in-georgia/drlp
Thomas de Waal September 11, 2012
Georgia Elections Georgia’s parliamentary election on October 1 will be its most important since the disputed polls of 2003 which led to the Rose Revolution and the subsequent election of Mikheil Saakashvili as president. The governing party, the United National Movement (UNM), is seeking to win a majority for a third time. The emergence of the Georgian Dream coalition led by billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili poses the most credible challenge yet to the elite that has governed Georgia for more than eight years.
Health firms told to get set for £20bn NHS bonanza
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/sep/16/health-firms-nhs
Private health firms can expect to win business worth around £20bn from the NHS in the next few years by taking over GP surgeries and setting up new community health clinics, according to a report written for profit-making companies keen to expand their role in the health service.
Vinod Khosla: Machines will replace 80 percent of doctors (Wired UK)
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-09/04/doctors-replaced-with-machines
#boulet # santé
Myriam Francois-Cerrah: Get Over Colonial Guilt? Not So Fast Mr Hague
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/myriam-francois/william-hague-colonial-guilt_b_1864207.html
In a recent interview with the Evening Standard, William Hague argued that Britain needs to get over its feelings of “post-colonial guilt”, stating that we have a “new and equal partnership” with countries unburdened by our colonial past history. Apparently we all need to ’relax’, because Britain’s empire history is “no longer an issue for the rest of the world.” Is that so? In what world do the populations of former colonies, British or otherwise, no longer consider the lasting consequences of decades of exploitation and oppression “no longer an issue.”
Presumably, all that post-colonial guilt was washed away with Jeremy Paxman’s incondite effort to portray colonial administrators as benevolent public schoolboys on a mission to improve healthcare and education for the darker folk, in his very establishment series “Empire”. Owen-Jones has already covered why speaking of ’getting over’ our ’post-colonial guilt’ is farcical, but to suggest that the UK has an equal relationship with its former colonies is no less bombastic.
Africa’s Natural Resources can be a Blessing, not an Economic Curse
By Joseph Stiglitz
Guardian
August 6, 2012
This Guardian article discusses the “resource curse” that plagues many resource-rich countries. Extracting resources brings about little job creation and volatile resource prices generate unstable growth. Moreover, most of the wealth generated from resources goes abroad, depriving countries from revenues. Weak political institutions and corruption aggravate the problem. In this article, J. Stiglitz gives a number of measures that resource-rich countries need to take in order to turn this “resource curse” into a “resource blessing”.
New discoveries of natural resources in several African countries – including Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania and Mozambique – raise an important question: will these windfalls be a blessing that brings prosperity and hope, or a political and economic curse, as has been the case in so many countries?
Norway continues funding Cuban health services in Haiti « Cuba Standard
http://www.cubastandard.com/2012/07/12/norway-continues-funding-of-cuban-health-services-in-haiti
Continuing a trend of wealthier donor nations funding Cuban healthcare expertise for developing countries, Norway signed an agreement July 12 with the Cuban government under which the Scandinavian country provides $800,000 for healthcare services in Haiti.
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The tri-party arrangement is “a way of investing money efficiently in a needy country,” said Ambassador John Pette Opdahl, according to Prensa Latina.
#santé #coopération #cuba #norvège #cdp
Protesters Confront Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos
http://www.thenation.com/article/168109/protesters-confront-amazon-founder-jeff-bezos
Amazon has received intense and well-deserved criticism for working conditions in its warehouses, where temperatures can reportedly rise above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. The people working inside them are underpaid, overworked, subject to firing without cause and deprived of employee benefits. Amazon gets away with this because it uses a variety of legal tricks, like demanding that its employees call themselves “independent contractors.”
L’occasion de (re)lire :
►http://blog.mondediplo.net/2010-07-02-Amazon-de-l-autre-cote-de-l-ecran
The Chief Complaint : Dr. Otis Brawley - Features - Atlanta Magazine
http://www.atlantamagazine.com/features/story.aspx?ID=1648804
She walks through the emergency-room doors sometime in the early morning. In a plastic bag, she carries an object wrapped in a moist towel.
She is not bleeding. She is not in shock. Her vital signs are okay. There is no reason to think that she will collapse on the spot. Since she is not truly an emergency patient, she is triaged to the back of the line, and other folks, those in immediate distress, get in for treatment ahead of her. She waits on a gurney in a cavernous green hallway.
The “chief complaint” on her chart at Grady Memorial Hospital, in Downtown Atlanta, might have set off a wave of nausea in a hospital at a white suburb or almost any place in the civilized world. It reads, “My breast has fallen off. Can you reattach it?”
Roma shown to be Europe’s poorest and most reviled people - Europe - World - The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/roma-shown-to-be-europes-poorest-and-most-reviled-people-7609052.html
“These are not simply consequences of poverty; they are the result of widespread, often systematic, discrimination and other human rights violations,” says the report. “They are, in particular, the result of prejudice – of centuries of societal, institutional and individual acts of discrimination, that have pushed the great majority of Roma to the very margins of society – and which are keeping them there.”
NHS shake-up leaves some private health firms turning to tax havens
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/mar/17/nhs-shakeup-health-firms-tax-havens
Report exposes how four of five biggest health companies that lobbied in favour of health bill can keep taxes to a minimum
http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/?lid=4251
While in public they have been presenting themselves as the future of the NHS, a Corporate Watch investigation into the accounts and finances of five of the major private healthcare companies has found widespread use of tax havens,* including the British Virgin Islands, Luxembourg, Jersey, Guernsey and the Cayman Islands, and tax avoidance schemes Barclays or Vodafone accountants would be proud of.