The monsoon sure is a big welcome relief from the scorching summer sun. But the same brings with it, its own set of instructions to have a safe monsoon. Here are a few to be remembered and noted.

Eating out:

While eating out, we must keep in mind that soups, pasta and other such food which are supposed to be served hot, must not be allowed to become lukewarm. Avoid ice-creams. The season is…

Laser hair removal technology is one such process that will make your hair growth less permanently. However, make sure that you don't carry a careless attitude after the treatment is done and follow all the necessary guidelines as advised by the expert.

Are you frustrated with those unwanted hair that keeps on growing on your body? So have you lost your patience of doing waxing and tweeting out those troubling hair and looking for some better yet easy option to say bye to them…

Sharing this as I thought it would be useful to those working in health screening to know of the work being done in north India. I visited over the weekend and was very impressed by the energy and passion of the team, as well as the structure of the collaboration between Philips Healthcare, RAD-AID and PGIMER Chandigarh. Guess the Clinton Global Initiative was impressed too since it recognized the effort at last year's meeting :)…

Richard Coker, Head of CDPRG, LSHTM, and his colleagues have published the paper entitled "Who Should Pay for Global Health, and How Much?", which has been published in the PLOS…

14 December 2012: The paper entitled "An analysis of health system resources in relation to pandemic response capacity in the Greater Mekong Subregion" resulting from the work of the AsiaFluCap project (http://www.cdprg.org/asiaflucap.php) has been published in the  International Journal of…

Financial burden of household out-of pocket health expenditure in Viet Nam: findings from the National Living Standard Survey 2002-2010

Hoang Van Minh (Department of Health Economics & Center for Health System Research, Hanoi Medical University, Ha Noi, Viet Nam), Nguyen Thi Kim Phuong (WHO, Ha Noi, Viet Nam), Priyanka Saksena (WHO, Geneva, Switzerland), Chris D James (WHO, Manila, The Philippines), Ke Xu (WHO, Manila, The Philippines)

This paper aims…

Nowadays, Asia Pacific countries are in different stage of economic development as well as its health status. Some countries are still fighting with high maternal mortality rate while other countries have succeeded in declining it. Condition of health system also varies in Asia Pacific countries. For some countries, especially low middle income country, outreach of adequate basic health are still become the challenges while for other countries resources allocation and public private…

One of these days I found an old book published by WHO in the year 1977 titled ‘Global Strategy Health for All by 2000’. As I kept reading the book, there were a lot of questions I could not answer. This is 2012 and I don’t feel like anything closer to health for all.

From 1977 to 2012, if we talk…

Nowadays, NCDs issue is disccused everywhere. Even UN who conventionally not dealing with health issue put it in th eir 66th General Assembly Agenda. Thus, put NCD being mainly issued talked about by international figures, national leaders, private sector, civil society and many more. Yet, there is often misleading…

Find out how the first Telegeriatric Nursing Training in the Philippines went!

http://www.accessh.org.ph/blog/2012/10/access-health-did-the-first-telegeriatric-nursing-training/

A training-workshop on Telegeriatric nursing for Metro Manila health professionals will be conducted for the benefit of home-bound senior citizens and physically impaired adults, on 15^th-17^th of October 2012. This is a joint project of ACCESS Health International, Ayala Foundation, Inc., Home Health Care, ClickMedix and Asian Institute of Management-Zuellig Center for Asian Business Transformation.…

During the last decade, various demand-side health financing schemes targeting the poor and the informal sector have been piloted by the Ministry of Health and development partners in Cambodia and in the Lao PDR.

How to combine the different schemes within a broader social health protection or universal coverage arrangement is a topical issue in many developing countries.

The Health Policy and Health Finance Hub has published a working paper on the institutional and operational barriers to strengthening universal health coverage in Laos.

The Lao PDR is committed to achieving a form of universal health coverage by 2020. A key step towards universal coverage is integration of the existing social health protection schemes.

The purpose of this integration is to address fragmentation and…

What in the world is U-health?

Find out more! http://silverevolution.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/u-health-in-korea/

21st IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion 2013

Call for Abstracts: Present - 20 December 2012  

We look forward to receiving submissions relating to research, policy and practice on the Conference theme, Best Investments for Health, including:  

• Intersectoral Policies, Strategies and Ac tions Conducive to Sustainable Health Investment  

• Multisectoral and Multi-stakeholders Partnership and Collaboration for Health Promotion  

•…

Are there new ideas on how to counter the risks of polypharmacy?

New medical devices on the line such as Proteus Digital Health -- A patch device that analyzes bodily health after taking a pill -- provide ground-breaking fields in medicine. Find out more!…

Call for Papers

Annals of Operations Research

Special Volume: Policy Analytics

The Annals of Operations Research seeks submissions for a special volume on Policy Analytics.…

The US Supreme Court recently upheld key elements of the Obama Administration’s healthcare reforms, promising improved access to health care for 43 million citizens.

My colleague Peter Annear has written a media release to highlight the significance of this decision.

While the verdict was delivered in an increasingly hostile political environment, with November’s…

June 13, 2012

Good day Health Space Asia community!

Warmest greetings from medical students from Asia-Pacific!

We are the International Federation of Medical Students' Associations (IFMSA), an independent, non-governmental and…

Ian Campbell  and Alison Campbell have been working with communities from all over the world on issues related to health especially HIV for past two decades. Ian and alison Campbell are re-visiting these communities and so far have visited 9 countries in Asia and Africa and here are the patterns emerging on community response to Global Health. I am sharing Ian's blog originally posted at…