(Rome, Italy): More than one in four households in Gaza currently face extreme hunger, and there is a risk of famine unless access to adequate food, clean water, health and sanitation services is restored, according to a new Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report released today. The IPC is a multi-stakeholder platform that analyses...
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Category: Health
Saving Lives By Destigmatizing Mental Health And Cancer
As I was exploring DCF’s work, I lost thought for a few minutes when I read these lines on its Homepage, “In Nepal, cancer is still considered a communicable disease and cancer patients are ignored in the society.” I could not help thinking how heartbreaking it must be for someone to be diagnosed with cancer...
Challenging Poverty & Racism Through Vision
The article is part of Ananke's special spotlight edition celebrating The Fred Hollows Foundation's 30 years of change making in the fields of development and eye health. You can check out the special edition here. In Australia, 35 percent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults have never had an eye exam. Vision loss...
One in 100 deaths is by suicide
Suicide remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide, according to WHOs latest estimates, published today in Suicide worldwide in 2019. Every year, more people die as a result of suicide than HIV, malaria or breast cancer – or war and homicide. In 2019, more than 700 000 people died by suicide: one in...
Workplace well being programs failing working moms and millennials
February 11th, 2020, Portland, Ore. (USA): Working women caring for children experience loneliness, isolation and stress at far greater rates than others and are looking to their employers to help them better manage these issues, according to the results of a new survey from WebMD Health Services. The well-being division of WebMD, WebMD Health Services designs and implements workplace...
IN FOCUS – WD2019: Gender Norms, Bias Impact Health Data, Systems Negatively
The Lancet Series on Gender Equality, Norms, and Health finds better global healthcare outcomes and reducing gender inequality are dependent on changing gender norms June 3rd, 2019, London (England):The Lancet, a weekly peer-reviewed and one of the world’s oldest, most prestigious, and best known general medical journals,published a new Series that finds that restrictive...
Groundbreaking womens health event to challenge gender bias, taboos
Some of the most serious issues related to women in Pakistan are their well-being and reproductive health. The World Bank has ranked Pakistani womens general welfare and health among the lowest in the world. The situation, however, is not all that bleak. With the right efforts implementable, advocated and sustained things can improve...
Rise of the Phoenix
I recently launched my newest website, Linda Skarrup Healing Arts, formerly known as Windhorse Consulting, both evolved from Therapeutic Movement, which was the name of my business for fifteen years. All three entities held a common vision: that of helping others heal from a wide range of traumas, injuries from accidents and other life events,...