HEALTH MEET - MUSIC

Meet the occupational health nurse.

Dat beroepsgesondheidsdienste groter produktiwiteit beteken, is tydens albei wêreldoorloë bewys, sodat die beroepsgesondheidsverpleegster onbeperkte geleenthede het. Aangesien belangstelling in the gesondheid van die werker diepe betrokkenheid in sy werk verg is dit die algemene doelstelling van ’n beroepsgesondheidsdiens om die gesondheid van die werker te bevorder — die aanpassing van die wer...

Music and Mood: Where Theory and Reality Meet

The affective aspect of music, often referred as music mood or emotion, has been recently recognized as an important factor in organizing and accessing music information. However, music mood is far from being well studied in information science. For example, there is no consensus on whether to use mood or emotion to refer the affective aspect of music. Also, the lack of consensus on music mood ...

Meet Bournemouth Association for Mental Health

Strengthening health systems to meet MDGs.

The UNDP report on the Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs (UNDP 2005), cautions that the Goals will not be met by 2015 in the most needy countries, and, in fact, warns that the situation in Africa may actually worsen. What can be done to secure some measure of success in the health-MDGs effort? Should strengthening health systems be regarded a ‘first-order’ goal within ‘higher-order’ MDGs to...

Music and Mental Health

Of a similar mind was Dr. Emmett Dent, for many years Superintendent of the Manhattan State Hospital. After segregating a number of patients for a time and recording the effects of especially selected music upon them, Dr. Dent became an enthusiastic user of music as a means of alleviating some of the symptoms of the unsound mind. He said : "Music is responsible for cures among the insane, and i...