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Distributional Equity in Public Health Budget: Hormozgan Province and Neighbouring Regions

Distributional Equity in Public Health Budget: Hormozgan Province and Neighbouring Regions Ali Heyrani1* 1 MD, PhD, Assistant Professor Social Determinants in Health Promotion Research Center, Hormozgan Health Institute, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran Abstract Equitable improvement in the health status of different regions is essential for the balanced and sustai...

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Ring vaccination of the last few participants in the first trial testing the efficacy of a new Ebola vaccine in the western African epidemic is due to be completed next month. Ring vaccination involves identifying people who have been recently infected with the virus and vaccinating those who have been in contact with them, thus creating a ring of immunity to stop further spread of the virus in...

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Films with smoking scenes should be rated to prevent children and adolescents from seeing these scenes and starting to smoke cigarettes, according to a new WHO report, Smoke-free movies: from evidence to action. The report calls on governments to require health warnings to be shown before films containing smoking scenes, to ban the display of tobacco brands in films and to require film-makers t...

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The head of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Health Emergencies Programme expressed alarm at reports of the use of highly toxic chemicals in an attack in the Syrian Arab Republic on 5 April. At least 70 people died and hundreds more were affected in Khan Shaykhun in the governorate of Idleb, according to United Nations Health Cluster partners who were treating patients – many of them women...