News tagged with health workers
Cell phones become handheld tools for global development
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Oct 29, 2009 |
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Mobile phones are on the verge of becoming powerful tools to collect data on many issues, ranging from global health to the environment.
Half of health workers reject swine flu shot
Aug 25, 2009 |
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(AP) -- About half of Hong Kong's health workers would refuse the swine flu vaccine, new research says, a trend that experts say would likely apply worldwide. In a study that polled 2,255 Hong Kong health workers this year, ...
Huge cost to filling health worker gap in sub-Saharan Africa
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Hiring the nearly 800,000 workers needed to eliminate the staggering shortage of health care professionals in sub-Saharan Africa by 2015 will cost $2.6 billion a year, or 2.5 times the annual funds currently allocated for ...
1 in 6 public health workers unlikely to respond in pandemic flu emergency
Jul 24, 2009 |
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Approximately 1 in 6 public health workers said they would not report to work during a pandemic flu emergency regardless of its severity, according to a survey led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public ...
Mexico says suspected swine flu deaths now at 149
Apr 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Mexico canceled school nationwide Monday and warned the death toll from a swine flu epidemic believed to have killed 149 people would keep rising before it can be contained. Health Secretary Jose ...
Study improves recovery for mothers with depression
Nov 10, 2008 |
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Scientists at the University of Liverpool have developed a therapy programme to treat depression in women in developing countries.
