Essays Tagged: "World Health Organisation"
Examine the argument that poverty is best explained in terms of personal moral failings
rd "normal" depends on the society in which the person lives. The usual accepted indicator of third world poverty is the number of people living on an income of less than $1 per day, and is termed "ab ... olute income poverty". As this indicator would be inappropriate for use in the UK and the developed world the most widely accepted threshold to show poverty in these regions is 60 per cent of average ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Examine best practice in breastfeeding.
rawn as a guideline for health professionals as well as the infant's mother and family. In 1991 the World Health Organisation (WHO) formalized a system of best practice called the Ten Steps to Success ... ned to overcome the barriers to breastfeeding that had become prevalent in hospitals throughout the world. Because policy and best practice are entwined, this system is used here as a framework for il ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
How Human Behaviour May Influence Health And Disease
s, we spend a lot of time and money on trying to stay healthy, but what do we mean by "Health"? The world Health Organisation (WHO) describes health as "a state of complete physical, mental and social ... protected sex, shared needles and mother to baby.MAP OF HIV INFECTED ADULTSRef: www.who.intIn third world countries the number of infected is the highest, this maybe due to the lack of sex. /health ed ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Obesity
besityObesity is a problem that is growing in the modern day, it is only just being recognised as a worldwide problem1 (globesity)2 by the World Health Organisation (WHO). There are many questions tha ... what are the global effects of obesity?. Others include is obesity a growing problem throughout the world? , What are the trends of obesity? And does it affect specific people or everyone? . All these ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues
THE OTTAWA CHARTA
THE OTTAWA CHARTAIn 1977, The World Health Organisation recognised that governments all over the world should be trying to achieve ... alth Promotion was produced.The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion is a document that represents a worldwide approach to health promotion by the World Health Organisation. It enables people to increa ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
TITLE: CONSIDER KEY ISSUES OF CULTURAL AND GENDER DIFFERENCES, CARE AND CONTROL, SOCIAL PROVISION THAT CHARACTERISE SOCIAL WORK IN THE FOLLOWING CONTEXT:
symptoms or behaviour causing acute or chronic ill-health, personal distress or distress to others"World Health Organisation 1992ICD-10 ClassificationsCultural and gender differencesThere is quite a ... e role of the approved social worker, Social Services Research, Sheffield University, Sheffield.13. World Health Organisation (1992) ICD-10 Classifications.
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
Asia: After SARS; China
China seems to have beaten the virus. Now for the political falloutWHEN the World Health Organisation's director for the western Pacific, Dr Shigeru Omi, told a news conference ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Sociol economic factors that can affect health and illness
or in one period of history may be considered abnormal or healthy in another" (Moore 1996 p334).The World Health Organisation defines health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-bei ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
About HIV/AIDS
th to anyone infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, HIV - the causative agent of AIDS. The World Health Organisation estimates that, by the end of the decade, ten million people will have die ... fungal like organism, is a major cause of pneumonia-related death in AIDS patients in the developed world. Few doctors would have encountered this infection in their normal practice before the start o ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Women and alcohol
is harmful to themselves or others.'Alcoholism or alcohol dependence is more seen as a disease. The World Health Organisation's definition of 'Alcoholism' (1952) read in part:'Alcoholics are those exc ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs
Good Health.
ter Health Commission 1986, cited in Carey, D., Perraton, G.; Weston, K. 2000: 3). According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 'health' can be defined as the absence of illnesses and a state of ... social network, both of which are significant to maintaining good social condition as evidenced by World Health Organisation's definition of 'health'. Conversely, the elderly are able to give emotion ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Health & Fitness
Human iodine consumption: effects of iodine deficiency and measures taken in response.
ciency (Vitti et al, 2001). Globally steps have been taken to increase consumption of iodine by the World Health Organisation, International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders and the ... omen and young children, presenting serious health problems in 130 developing countries, 38% of the world's population (2.2 billion people) live in areas with iodine deficiency and risk its complicati ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
To What Extent Can Obesity Be Explained By Biological Factors
ng problem that contributes to ill health (National Audit Office, 2001). It has been defined by the World Health Organisation (WHO) (WHO, 1998) as an excessive accumulation of fat (lipids) in the adip ... ysicians, 1983, 5-65) and is increasingly encountered in developing as well as developed countries (World Health Organisation, 1990; 29-31). The increase in overweight in the past 20 years and the ass ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Sociology of Health and Illness
s, we spend a lot of time and money on trying to stay healthy, but what do we mean by "Health"? The world Health Organisation (WHO) describes health as "a state of complete physical, mental and social ... isted above are more fatal than others, but they all affect our health one way or another. In third world countries the number of infected is the highest, this may be due to the lack of sex, health ed ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Bowlby’s Theory On Attachment
ertain areas of social work such as day care, adoption and fostering.Bowlby was commissioned by the World Health Organisation in the 1950s to study the effects on child development of being raised wit ... 22%, anxious-resistant 14%) is almost identical to the overall distribution for studies around the world of non-working mothers (van Ijzendoorn and Kroonenberg, 1988). Later research shows that given ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Should Malaria be eradicated?
should learn from history and previous efforts at eradication before we get our hopes too high.The World Health Organisation estimates that malaria claims more than 1-million lives every year and cau ... as chloroquine, gave countries the impetus to attempt to eradicate the disease. In 1955, the Eighth World Health Assembly resolved to begin a worldwide eradication campaign, but Africa was largely ove ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
Analyse a media campaign or media event that involves some kinds of influence such as agenda setting-recent. You may pick any public information media campaign.
credibility.�IntroductionThe first case of HIV infection in Singapore was reported in 1985. (World Health Organisation, statistic). According to the Ministry of Health, HIV Statistic has shown ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies
Dementia and Family Care
ed care intervention associated with challenging behaviours 13Conclusion 18References 19DementiaThe World Health Organisation (WHO, 1986 cited in Delieu, & Keady, 1996) defines dementia as a"globa ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Palliative Care Nursing Practice - case study
endations made for future practice based on the authors' critique.Definitions of palliative careThe World Health Organisation (2002) stated that the goal of palliative care is to control patient's pai ... this psychologically, spiritually or socially. The whole concept of holistic care is defined in the World Health Organisation guidelines (2002) as it states that the psychological and spiritual needs ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Health Inequalities
are very subjective, depending upon who is defining the term, and to whom it is being aimed at. The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines the term as "A complete state of physical, mental and social ... he majority of them focusing upon the promotion of self-awareness and health.Promotion of HealthThe World Health Organization defines health promotion as: 'The process of enabling people to increase c ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Health & Fitness