Responding to Migrant and Refugee Healthcare Needs in Ireland

Responding to the Needs of Aging Pupulation

The phenomena of "graying" of population which was started in 20th century will continue in the next. It confronts the world with new challenges in the realms of health economy, politics, and cultural issues which are very difficult to overwhelm. The problems arising of this phenomena must be welcome, because they are indicators of upcoming development. Aging of population has occurred in devel...

Responding to user needs

To date, the Resources Notebook has been the primary outlet for efforts to provide users with Network-wide information. A separate RFC, from the NIC, discusses the past and current history more completely. In this RFC, we would like to second the NIC’s suggestion for the formation of a Working Group concerned with User Information and Services, and we would like to offer a specific suggestion f...

Informal International Border Crossing, Refugee and Illegal Migrant Workers: Issue in Travel Medicine

Humanitarian and primary healthcare needs of refugee women and children in Afghanistan

This Commentary describes the situation and healthcare needs of Afghans returning to their country of origin. With more than 600,000 Afghans returned from Pakistan and approximately 450,000 Afghans returned from Iran in 2016, the movement of people, which has been continuing in 2017, presents additional burden on the weak health system and confounds new health vulnerabilities especially for wom...

The Latino Healthcare Professionals Project: responding to the diverse needs of the 21st century.

The Latino Healthcare Professionals Project (LHPP) is a privately-funded initiative to provide healthcare management training to first-generation educated Latino bilingual and bicultural upper division university students planning careers in healthcare. This unique curriculum, scholarship, and mentorship program is based in the Health Care Administration (HCA) Program at California State Univer...

Responding to the needs of adolescents.

Correspondence to Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli (e-mail: [email protected]). The rationale for strengthening linkages between sexual and reproductive health and HIV programmes is well recognized,1 and benefits that have accrued from these linkages have been discussed in the November 2009 issue of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization and elsewhere.2,3 However, real progress in scaling u...