Climate change is a major challenge facing public health. National governments play a key role in public health adaptation to climate change, but there are competing views on what responsibilities and obligations this will-or should-include in different nations. This study aims to: (1) examine how national-level public health adaptation is occurring in Organization for Economic Cooperation and ...

Agility is a distinctive aspect of the health care profession. Clinicians operate in a fast changing environment with needs to access different pieces of information in different situations. On the surface it would appear that clinicians would benefit tremendously from the use of modern mobile technology. In reality, however, the health care sector has been hesitant to embrace electronic clinic...

Lessons learned, opportunities, and barriers to scaling up health adaptation were identified from evaluation reports and other materials from three multinational health adaptation projects covering 14 low- and middle-income countries and from qualitative data collected through a focus group consultation and interviews with key informants purposively selected for their expertise and role in heal...

In resource-limited countries, interventions to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) have not yet realized their full potential health impact, illustrating the common gap between the scientific proof of an intervention's efficacy and effectiveness and its successful implementation at scale into routine health services. For PMTCT, this gap results, in part, from inadequate adaptation...

conclusions along with adaptation and development process of cpgs, their utilization should also be planned; otherwise spent time and money would be in vain. certainly, imposing above-mentioned interventions with the ultimate goal of sustainable behavior change in health system service providers is beyond the capacity of specific groups or few academic centers. it requires the participation of ...

The rise in the average age and the decrease in the rate of births, cause the phenomenon called population ageing, which rises a number of issues. The oncoming shortage of caregivers and the strong desire of the older adults to live in their own homes originated an increasing interest in Ambient Assisted Living (AAL). AAL encompasses technical systems to support people in their daily routines. ...

HimL (www.himl.eu) is a three-year EU H2020 innovation action, which started in February 2015. Its aim is to increase the availability of public health information via automatic translation. Targeting languages of Central and Eastern Europe (Czech, German, Polish and Romanian) we aim to produce translations which are adapted to the health domain, semantically accurate and morphologically correc...

background & aim: one of the factors of affecting maternal anxiety is a history of fetal death or neonatal death. this anxiety affects fetal and maternal health. by consideration the impact of anxiety on fetal and maternal health and the lack of protective activities in this field, this study was done to determine the impact of adaptation with pregnancy educational package on anxiety and matern...