Health and Nutrition
Government officials and the mainstream media repeatedly claim that there is no possibility that the nuclear radiation from Japan will reach the Philippines and that the radiation leak is minimal and pose no significant health risks. This is gross misrepresentation of facts.
The state of the nursing profession in the country is in need of government assistance to prevent the deterioration of the quality of education and to handle the surplus of nurses that are jobless.
“The nursing profession has provided our country with a major source of income from the numerous nurses that have sought employment abroad. But now there are major …
Ten steps to successful breastfeeding highlighted during World Breastfeeding Week
Geneva | Friday 30 July 2010 — During World Breastfeeding Week, celebrated from 1 to 7 August in more than 170 countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) reiterates its call on health facilities and health workers to implement ten steps to help mothers breastfeed successfully and improve their babies’ health and …
t would be highly offensive of Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III to continue claiming that his administration is about change, about justice, about respect for human rights while the so-called “Morong 43” continue to languish in jail.
MANILA, Philippines, June 28, 2010—The Philippines did not make the list of the top 20 countries cited for their overall progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a report released by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and the United Nations Millennium Campaign revealed.
The MDGs are a set of time-bound, concrete and specific goals to reduce extreme poverty, illiteracy and …
HEALTH The tobacco industry is training its guns and armor not for battle but to entice our young children to smoking addiction and lead them to suffer from tobacco-related deaths. Expect the industry to launch more sophisticated marketing and public relation gimmicks to penetrate the Asia Pacific market where governments are starting to implement stricter bans on smoking and tobacco advertising and promotions, said Dr. Maricar Limpin, FCAP Executive Director.
POPULATION Reproductive health must be viewed and not separated from the overall context of peoples health. As the economy worsens, the state of the public health system also deteriorates.
Almost two years ago, mercury in schools was a big headline. A mercury spill had occurred in a school in Paraaque, exposing dozens of students to mercury poisoning and creating a clean-up and decontamination effort that cost millions of pesos.
A different and more benign mercury incident is happening at the School of Saint Anthony (SSA) at Lagro, …
