Make better use of UN food and agriculture stats

Agriculture and food policies can promote better health and

The greatest challenge to health in the Region is the premature death and physical and mental disability resulting diseases as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, certain types of cancer, and osteoporosis. Most of those diseases are aptly labeled now Diet-related Chronic Diseases (DCD) as they are associated to lack of physical activity and poor diets, including the consumption of foods ...

How to Make Better Use of Electronic Patient Record Systems

Health care organisations are extremely complex because they consist of heterogeneous groups of people (clinical professions, patients, managers), use advanced technology (medical devices and patient record systems), and apply many organisational and clinical routines. When introducing Electronic Patient Record systems (EPR) in health care organisations, all these aspects get affected. Using a ...

Food and agriculture Chemicals for agriculture

Agricultural production relies heavily on manmade chemicals used as fertilizers and pesticides, and to regulate plant growth. Pesticides are released intentionally into the environment to control insects, weeds, plant diseases and other pests that affect crop or animal production, as well as to control insects that spread human diseases. Pesticides have a well-established role in agriculture an...

Food , Agriculture and Cities

Use science to make world better , grads told

Developmental biologist Lucy Shapiro, PhD, told 2015 graduates of the School of Medicine how, as a basic scientist who spent most of her life studying singlecelled bacteria, she stepped out of her laboratory and onto the global stage to try to help the world avert a potential disaster. “About 15 years ago, I sat up and looked around me and found that we were in the midst of a perfect storm,” sa...