Caleb Does – Health, Nutirition, Wellness

Kemptville District Hospital Opens Digital Mammography Unit

Kemptville, Ontario, Canada (PRWEB) November 04, 2011

Kemptville District Hospital (KDH) is pleased to announce the opening of a new digital mammography unit. The addition of the mammography suite, along with a bone mineral density scanner, is demonstrative of KDH’s ongoing efforts to improve the quality of the patient experience, providing state-of-the-art tools for doctors and nurses.

DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY – BRINGING THE BEST TECHNOLOGY TO KEMPTVILLE AND AREA

Thanks to the fundraising efforts of the Kemptville District Hospital Foundation, KDH was able to purchase the best mammography technology currently available. A digital unit was selected, as digital mammography images have better contrast than film-screen images and the technology images dense breast tissue, usually found in premenopausal women, much more clearly. These digital images are done at a lower radiation dose as well, compared to film-screen mammography. When this machine was tested by the government to ensure its performance within the strict standards, the tester commented that he was quite impressed with the quality of the images of his test phantom. Of the spots, specks and masses that vary in size in the phantom, he could see a speck group that usually doesn’t show up.

Mammography imaging at KDH is performed by highly skilled Medical Radiation Technologists who have additional training, education and experience in mammography and are registered with the College of Medical Radiation Technologists of Ontario.

Cathy Watson is the Manager of Clinical Programs, including Diagnostic Imaging. She is very proud of the Diagnostic Imaging team’s commitment to patient care. Many of the hospital’s departments have been working together for almost a year to make the new mammography suite a reality; together they take pride in what they have accomplished.

One of the Mammography Technologists is Karen Finner, herself a cancer survivor. She has been working at KDH for 14 years. It was on her first day of work at the hospital that she discovered a lump in her breast. Three years of surgery, chemotherapy and drug treatment followed. Today she is a big proponent of mammograms for early detection. She urges women not to put off their mammograms, offering reassurance that although mammograms can be uncomfortable, KDH’s Medical Radiation Technologists endeavor to put patients at ease.

The mammograms performed at KDH are screening mammograms, for women without any symptoms. Screening mammograms are done to find very early breast cancer, which cannot yet be felt during a breast exam. Finding early breast cancer offers the best chance of survival. The Canadian Cancer Society recommends regular screening every two years for women over 50. Women aged 40 to 49 should talk to their doctor about the benefits and risks of mammography screening. Women over 70 should discuss with their doctor how often they should have a mammogram. Patients can ask their doctor for a referral to the mammography unit of their choice.

The digital images captured at KDH are transmitted to the Queensway Carleton Hospital (QCH) in Ottawa via a Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). Radiologists at QCH then read the mammograms and send a report to the ordering doctor in approximately one week. For a small number of patients (fewer than 5%), more pictures will be required. Further imaging, such as spot view or breast ultrasound, will be performed at QCH. If more pictures are required, QCH will call the patient directly to set up an appointment, avoiding possible delays created by first contacting the family doctor, then having the family doctor contact the patient. For most patients, further pictures will rule out breast cancer.

Diagnostic Imaging Team Leader, Shelley Bottan, elaborates on the relationship with QCH: “Our partnership with the Diagnostic Imaging Department at the Queensway Carleton Hospital has made this possible. I believe that we will be providing the best patient service for the mammography program with the initial exam at KDH and follow-up being initiated from the QCH facility. By sharing the radiologists, PACS, and IT professionals, we get the benefit of the big city expertise in our small town hospital.”

The Canadian Cancer Society states that breast cancer is the most common cancer among Canadian women (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer). Breast cancer accounts for 28% of all new cancer cases in women, and 15% of all cancer deaths in women. One in nine women is expected to develop breast cancer during her lifetime and one in 29 will die of it. Encouragingly, breast cancer death rates have been declining in every age group since the mid 1980s.

There is a myth that only women with a family history of breast cancer are at risk. The Medical Radiation Technologists who perform mammography imaging at KDH emphasize that approximately 85% of breast cancers occur in women who have no family history of the disease. (Source: breastcancer.org.)

The total cost of the new mammography suite at KDH was $ 750,000. The KDH Foundation has to date raised half of this amount; fundraising activities continue to raise the remaining funds.

BONE MINERAL DENSITY TESTING – PREVENTING FRACTURES SINCE 2007

Located within KDH’s new diagnostic imaging department is the hospital’s Bone Mineral Density (BMD) scanner. KDH has had the capacity to conduct this screening since 2007, and is accredited with the Canadian Association of Radiologists’ Bone Mineral Densitometry accreditation program.

A bone mineral density test measures how much calcium and other types of minerals are present in a section of a patient’s bone. Health care providers use this test, along with other risk factors, to predict the patient’s risk of bone fractures in the future and to detect osteoporosis, the thinning of bone tissue and loss of bone density over time. Bone fracture risk is highest in people with osteoporosis; a broken bone may be a warning sign of osteoporosis, and in fact could be the first and only sign. For this reason osteoporosis is one of several diseases known as “silent killers”. Osteoporosis affects more than two million Canadians, both men and women, aged 50 and over. Osteoporosis increases with age but can affect younger people, and can be inherited. If a patient is diagnosed with osteoporosis, there is a variety of different medications that can be prescribed to prevent further thinning of the bone tissue.

The bone mineral densitometry machine at KDH produces a dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scan, using low-dose x-rays (about 1/10th the radiation dose of a chest x-ray). It takes a ‘central’ DEXA scan, measuring bone density in the lower spine or hip, the best test to predict the patient’s risk of fractures. The test results are given as a T score, a measuring system used to compare a patient’s BMD to an established standard – the higher the T score, the more dense the bone.

BMD testing or screening is recommended for women over the age of 65 and men over 70. BMD is also indicated for women under 65 and men aged 50 to 70 who have some of the following risk factors: bone fracture caused by normal activities, such as a fall from standing height or less; chronic rheumatoid arthritis, chronic kidney disease, or eating disorders; early menopause (either from natural causes or surgery); history of hormone treatment for prostate cancer or breast cancer; significant loss of height; smoking; family history of osteoporosis; use of corticosteroid medications (prednisone, methylprednisolone) every day for more than three months; and three or more drinks of alcohol per day. If a patient is already being treated for osteoporosis, BMD testing is used to monitor his or her response to treatment.

Shelley Bottan, KDH’s Diagnostic Imaging Team Leader, stresses the importance of being tested: “Detecting osteoporosis early is important and can help prevent fractures from occurring in the first place. Because bone loss can occur without you knowing, it is important to be tested early to determine your baseline and then if needed at regular intervals as your doctor recommends.”

For more information about osteoporosis, contact Osteoporosis Canada at http://www.osteoporosis.ca or call toll free, 1.800.463.6842.

For more information about breast cancer, visit the Canadian Cancer Society at http://www.cancer.ca or breastcancer.org.

To book a mammogram or a bone mineral density scan at Kemptville District Hospital, call 613.258.6133, extension 400.

ABOUT KEMPTVILLE DISTRICT HOSPITAL

Kemptville District Hospital (KDH) is a fully accredited healthcare facility committed to building healthy communities. KDH offers a range of services based on advanced expertise, technologies and patient care practices. The emergency department is open around the clock and provides prompt medical attention. The use of new medical applications such as Tele-health and remote diagnostic imaging has made KDH a service leader in Eastern Ontario. Further, the surgical program at KDH provides timely access to high demand specialists, while the staff’s dedication to patients has earned KDH a reputation for excellence in caring. Kemptville District Hospital consistently ranks among the top hospitals in Ontario for patient satisfaction.

###

Attachments

©Copyright 1997-

, Vocus PRW Holdings, LLC.
Vocus, PRWeb, and Publicity Wire are trademarks or registered trademarks of Vocus, Inc. or Vocus PRW Holdings, LLC.

More Health Education Press Releases

Technorati Tags: Digital, District, Hospital, Kemptville, Mammography, Opens, Unit

“An Apple a Day Is Not Enough” is a powerful poem written and performed by Taylor Mali (a well-known spoken word artist and teacher) about the importance of health education. It’s done in the style of kinetic typography. We must get the word out about the importance of health education and its ability to get this country’s health back on track—but we can’t do it alone. Please share this video: Forward it, blog about it, like it on Facebook and send it to your Twitter followers. We’d also love to hear your thoughts on the issue in the comments below.
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Technorati Tags: Apple, Enough, Mali, Poem, Taylor

NEED AND CONTEXT

It has been observed that the recent economic growth in the Asian cities indicate that there has been a breakdown of traditional support systems such as the family because of rapid urbanization and modernization. Moreover, a large number of people are living below the poverty line in impoverished environment in urban and rural communities. Their acute needs for housing, food, health, education, and incomes are the very forces that push adolescents to look for a means of livelihood on the streets, engage in prostitution, be hooked up with crime/drug syndicates, or become victims of sexual and physical abuse. It is a battle of bare struggle for daily survival and contributes in every ways they can. Any measure to penalize parents of such children will only result in further abuse and oppression of people who are already disadvantaged. Such children struggle hard in getting the most essential requirements to meet the basic needs of life and such children need special attention and educational intervention. These disadvantaged adolescents are generally malnourished and often anemic; many of them physically stunted, suffer psychologically from undue family pressures and abuses and are neglected at home. They tend to develop low self-esteem from broken families, single-headed households because of the death, separation, or labor migration of one of their parents. Moreover, they live in slums and squatter communities, sub-human conditions and are susceptible to crime syndicates and gang conflicts, substance/drug abuse, and gambling.

In the developing and under developed countries like India and Thailand a large percentage of population live below the poverty line and adolescents from such environment face difficulties in getting access to good education. It is therefore felt that in both the surround adolescents are of in the process of development and failure to meet their developmental need have lend to safe and serial destructions behaviors. Adolescents lack necessary life skills for cape up in to the realities and challenges of life. Adolescents accords for the largest portion of the world’s population and have been on an increasing trend and there are “230 million Indian adolescent in the age of group of 4 to 19” that (Population and Health IndoShare, 2006). Moreover, it is expected that this age group will continue to grow reaching over “214 million by 2020” (United Nations (UN) 2000) due to has traditionally been a male dominated society and has a strong son preference in most part of but Indian girls tend to be discriminated against by their families and also demographic trends indicate deep-rooted gender discrimination. In India, the condition of disadvantaged adolescents resembled that of their centers pail Thailand. Indian Young adolescents are facings serious problem of lack of access to reliable knowledge on the process of growing up reproductive health practices and value system. There has been a need to provide education on the developmental changes and needs during teenagers. This may reduce the risk of future.

Today, almost every Indian and Thai whether rich or poor, young or old, is exposed to much that is foreign, largely because in the last two decades India and Thailand has become one of the region’s most popular tourists destinations. At times, the growing economy and favorable investment opportunities have also attracted many foreign multinationals, which continue to add to the already fair large expatriate community. However, despite the intensity of their exposure to “foreign” influences, particularly western cultures and lifestyles, Indian and Thai culture remains a solid influence within family life and early childhood. From birth, Indian and Thai adolescents are still much more deeply immersed in culture than they are exposed to foreign influences despite the fast-paced changes that have been affecting Indian and Thai adolescents. The adolescents of deferred families are emotionally disturbed and driven adrift as wanderers, delinquent children with im-permissive behaviors such as loitering, gambling, drug addiction, crime, truancy, prostitution, and begging, illegal dealings. As the consequence of these adverse behaviors, cases of illegal pregnancy, baby abandonment, and HIV/AIDS infection are becoming more and more severe.

There also reported, “Thai Children are spending more time in talking and chatting on the phone and the trendiest models of mobile phones, love hanging out with their friends at night, the drugs problem and the loss of Thai identity and shopping for brand name products. The latest fashion among the hobbies of many of today’s Thai children is they are becoming increasingly violent and blaming society and their own families for their behavior and involve in premature sex, drugs and aggressiveness”. “The study found that despite the well-to-do family backgrounds of the teens surveyed, most of them shared a common problem of loneliness, depressive tendencies and a need for love”. The gap between parents and children is greater than ever before, arising from broken families or from families which faille to inculcate morals in their children because they havenless time for their children and had left them to the peril of sick and violent society in Thailand (Aphaluck Bhatiasevi, Thongbai Thongpao 2002), (Tong Thum Struggles, 2006)

With the best intention and efforts of the education as a social instrument, it is possible to promote the complete welfare of disadvantaged population. Among the several types of disadvantaged adolescents, Adolescents forced to enter the labour market, adolescents affected by HIV/AIDS and adolescents affected by narcotic drugs need special attention. They have trouble in getting proper guidance to overcome personal problems and require proper guidance and counseling to become aware of the ill effects narcotic drugs, labour market and HIV/AIDS. It may not be possible to develop awareness in the expected manner through normal school curriculums. Hence, a separate educational intervention, which is nothing but a planned programme of educational guidance, organized to meet the scientific and psychological needs of disadvantaged adolescents in the age group of 13-16. Hence, in this study, an attempt will be made to study the educational adjustment of disadvantaged adolescents and to find out the impact of a structured educational intervention programme in developing proper awareness and attitude towards reproductive health, drugs, sexuality and values.

The present study examined the impact of an educational intervention programme on the knowledge and attitude on disadvantaged adolescents in Northern India and Thailand. The study intends to assess and compare the knowledge about the process of growing up, HIV/AIDS awareness, values and attitude of teen-age students staying in the schools. Reproductive health education is a key strategy for promoting preventive measures among teenagers.

METHOS

The sample for the study consisted of 225 disadvantaged adolescents who included 125 adolescents from India (Chennai Himmat Slum area, Jammu region) and Thailand (Yong People Develop Chiang Mai and Teresa Anusorn Foundation (Ban Teresa) Chiang Rai, Province). The sample populations of disadvantaged adolescents are residents of orphanages and slum area and studying in high school classes in the age of groups from 13 to 16 years. Data was collected by administering knowledge test consisted of items on process of growing up HIV/AIDS, reproductive organs and their functions family planning and parenting and attitude scale to measure beliefs and practices about sexuality and abstinence. An experimental design consisted of experimental and control group was formed. Questionnaires were translated from English to Hindi and Thai, (mother tongue of the respondent), then back in to English to ensure that no meaning was lost in translation. There were use two groups of learner: both the groups were given Pre-Test as well as Post-Test, where experimental group were given intervention programme and control group was not be given any intervention programme.

Control group: – there were in two states: ten administrators conducted face-to-face interviews and Focus groups with disadvantaged adolescent in India and Thailand.

First state, in India country; 10 Indian administrators were called the Indian disadvantaged adolescents from there house at Slum area (Jammu), meeting for data collected were an adjustment questionnaire in each of person and groups by Hindi (mother tongue of the respondent).

Second state, in Thailand country: 125 questionnaires in Thai (mother tongue of the respondent) were administered to the Thai disadvantaged adolescent of two orphanages, I collected later the questionnaires.

Intervention / Treatment Programme

Experts: Facilitators who were willing to participate in the study were invited for receiving community sensitization, booklet distribution, and CD training;

Experimental group: 200 students (and also inmates) belonging to Channai Himmat, Slum area (Jammu, India), Teresa Anusorn Foundation (Ban Teresa), and Yong People Develop (Thailand) who had got least scores namely, were given one day training programme on intervention or treatment as;

In the morning: the orientation and participants programme concentrated on basic issues such as general framework of adolescent growth, and consisted of discussions and demonstrations. The training programme practiced the activities to develop the knowledge level and the attitude about HIV/AIDS, drug abuse and reproductive health education

In the afternoon until evening: the revised questionnaires were administered to the experimental group in 3 sessions as: (a) the personal details. (b) The knowledge level and attitude were administered to find out themselves and whenever they had doubt in understanding the items, the administrators made them easy by giving supplementary examples. In addition, (c) group discussed for preparation of suggestive measures to improve and policies.

]]>

Design of the study

An educational intervention programme consisting of awareness activities presented through media presentation, discussion and interaction was presented to the experimental group. Universals and multivariate analysis of the data were used to assess the impact of interventions and to identify the predictors of change in knowledge and attitude. Significant changes in terms of gain between pre-test and post-test was observed.

Analysis

The completed questionnaires were collated and entered into the computer. The data was entered and analyzed using SPSS. After verification and reduction of data, descriptive frequencies were completed. This was followed by uni-variate and multi-variety procedures to assess the impact of the interventions and to identify other predictors of change in knowledge and attitude. Analysis was stratified by sex shown how responses to the variables of knowledge and attitude, differ boys, girls, age, and education. Descriptive statistics was used to profile the study population. Knowledge and attitude was then used to explore the demographic variables associated with HIV/AIDS, drug abused and reproductive Health Education. The following statistical techniques were applied in the present project: Paired Samples “T”-test and “F”-test.

FINDINGS

The demographic profile of the 250 Indian and Thai respondent questionnaires is shown the relationships between demographic characteristics of Indian and Thai were founds Indian boys (54.40%) less than Thai boys (56%), and Indian girls (45.60%) more than Thai girls (44%). In the same age group of Indian and Thai 15 years old, and the same of the secondary school of Indian: (Standard: 9) and Thai: (Grades 3), had significant .05 is shown in Table 1.

Answers were grouped in comparing scores from Indian and Thai disadvantage adolescent after received a treatment on knowledge and attitude about HIV/AIDS, drug abuse and reproductive health education, all participating (N= 200) were group interviewed and after the intervention had significant difference is (0.05), are shown in Table 2-16.

The findings also revealed significant differences between boys and girls in knowledge and attitude towards reproductive health education. Implications of the study for the awareness programmes were suggested.

DISCUSSION

In many Northern states of India and Thailand, the HIV/AIDS, drug abuse and reproductive health needs of Indian and Thai disadvantaged adolescents are either poorly understood or not fully appreciated. Evidence is growing that this neglect can seriously jeopardize the HIV/AIDS, drug abuse and reproductive health education needs and future well-being of them.

The policies addressed the effectiveness of the programmed to highlights what there needs to be done to promote and protect to the disadvantaged adolescent in India and Thailand in the future as: all schools should develop textbooks making learning interesting by following extensive community sensitization in support of adolescent reproductive health education appropriate in Indian and Thai cultural and tradition. Because of Indian and Thai culture and tradition, adolescents kept learning by them long time ago that, made them grow up in the wrong life and have been against morality.

Indian and Thai adolescent problems erupt from families and by themselves after they have been sexually abused or because their families could not understand adolescent behavior and teach them about reproductive health education and sexual health education. Such as should improve in knowledge and attitude among school-going adolescents with the media modern of families. In addition, it was found that sexually abused violated in Indian and Thai adolescents should learn and practice self-protection and should gather knowledge of the Child Rights and much more.

India disadvantaged adolescents

1. Indian disadvantaged adolescents are neglected from home, school and there country of the knowledge. They tend to undeveloped of the confidents and very poorly of the knowledge, attitude about Reproductive Health, drug and HIV/AIDS. Thus as, should to improve and increase and learn the knowledge attitude and understanding of disadvantaged adolescents

2. In India, the responsible organizations both governmental and non-governmental of India have to develop policies for adolescent and should to include HIV/AIDS education and health programme in schools curriculums. In addition, those reproductive health educational services for adolescent girls are especially needed in schools and families.

3. Parents, families, teachers and administrators in orphanages or schools should be encouraged to discuss or give guidance and approval about reproductive health education, drug and HIV/AIDS with their disadvantaged adolescent.

Thailand disadvantaged adolescents

1. Should to improve and increase the knowledge attitude and understanding of disadvantaged adolescents in Northern about reproductive health education and sexual health education.

2. Especially, in Northern, Thailand having spread of higher Drug and HIV/AIDS, thus as should to teach or train to get about the knowledge attitude and understanding of reproductive health to adolescents and parents more then other.

3. The reproductive and sexual health education should be included in the curriculum for the second level – primary education (Grades 4-6), Third level – secondary education (Grades 1-3) and Fourth level – secondary education (Grades 4-6). It is too late to start from Third level – secondary education (Grades 1-3) in Thailand thus; the Ministry of Education has to prepare a new policy to put this subject at the Basic Education Curriculum Standard as soon as possible.

4. It appears that in Thailand media has caused a change in sex related values among adolescents. With the misuse of Internet in getting information on sex related issue supplemented by the use of Cell phone, TV, VCD, DVD and booklets is increasing Crime problems of sexually abused. Thus, the qualities of the textbooks or booklets to be distributed to the adolescents.

TABLE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I thank to Dr. Y. N. Sridhar, Guide of Research for me. I would like too many helpful and thank the following students, Mr. Kasame Sakonllapap, Mr. Santi Jongkongka, Mr. Prasarn Ruansang and people for their supported. I thankfulness to Father Carlo Luzzi, Mother Elisa Cavana, Father Niphot Thiengwiharn and my family, for contributing to this study by providing funding.

REFERENCE

1. Aphaluck Bhatiasevi. Youngsters want love in the family; 2002 January 7,- Thailand. Available from: URL: http://www.thailandlife.com/ Thaiyouth_67.html/

2. Arundhati Mishra. Enlightening Adolescent Boys in India on Gender and RSH. 2002. Available from: URL: http://www.jhuccp.org/igwg/ Presentations/Monday/ Plan/

Enlightening.pdf

3. Arunee Hongsiriwat. A comparison of errors in forecasting Educational time series data with stationary and no-stationary data using ARIMA model, ARIMA intervention model and regression model, Bangkok, Thailand (dissertation). Chulalongkorn Univ.; 2000.

4. APPENDIX A: Country Summaries, Health and Education needs of Ethnic Minorities in the greater Mekong, sub region in Thailand. p. 10-11. (Copyright)

5. A.G. Sathe and Shanta Sathe. Pune, India. Available from: URL: http://www.

medind.nic.in/jah/t05/i1/jaht05i1p49.pdf

6. Child Help Foundation. Available from: URL: http://www.centralsingapore.org.

sg/site/ volunteer/expedition2004/chf.htm

7. C.P. González-Camacho (Mexico), J. U. Quevedo-Torrero (USA), J.M. Loaiza Moreno, M. Larios-Rosas, V.C. Ocegueda-Hernández (Mexico), and S.H.S. Huang (USA). A Complete Referral-Intervention-Identification-System for Special Education: RIIS. Available from: URL: http://www.actapress. com/PaperInfo. aspx? PaperID=26281

8. Chaturon Chaisang. Road map for expediting Education Reform for the forthcoming Quarter; Education Reform: Next Step Forward. Press Conference. Meeting Room of the Ministry of Education, Bangkok, Thailand. 2005 November 6. (Copyright).

9. Children in Need. Available from: URL: http://www.mercycentre.org/ helpess.

htm1#orphanages.

10. CSC. A Civil Society Forum for East and South East Asia on Promoting and Protecting the Rights of Street Children. Civil Society forum report, Bangkok, Thailand. 2003 March; 12-14 (Copyright).

11. Dilok Sritong, The disadvantaged children in Jammu. 30 March 2007. (Not copyright).

12. Disadvantaged Home. Available from: URL: http://www.cssr.or.th/Work/

HTML/pattaya03.asp.

13. Education Commission Education in Thailand. Bangkok: Amarin Printing and Publishing, Ministry of Education, Thailand. 1998. ISBN 974-8086-30-5,

14. Education in Thailand. Number of Disadvantaged Students in OBEC Schools by Type and Gender: Academic Years 2002- 2003. Office of the National Education Commission Education in Thailand, Bangkok: Amarin Printing and Publishing, Ministry of Education, National. 2004: ISBN 974-241-733-4, p: 20-34.

15. Education in Thailand. Past Development of Thai Education. 1998. Available from: URL: http://www.edthat.com/publication/edu/1998/chapter/1page.7htm

16. Education in Thailand. The National Education Plan (2002-2016). Office of the National Education Commission Education in Thailand, Bangkok: Amarin Printing and Publishing, Ministry of Education, Thailand. 2004 ISBN: 974-8086-30-5, p: 19. (Copyright).

17. ECPAT. Available from: URL: http://www.ecpat.net/eng/Ecpat_ inter/projects/monitoring/online_database/countries.asp?arrCountryID=1

18. Eastern Child Welfare Protection Home. Available from: URL: http://www. geocities.com/houypong_home/

19. Father Carlo Luzzi. The Hill Tribes Disadvantaged in Northern, Thailand. 9 October 2007. (Not copyright).

20. Father Komkrit Anamnat. The disadvantaged students in Nuchanat Ansorn School. Available from: URL: http://www.nuchanat.com/documents/ Management%20

structure.htm

21. Father Niphot Thiengwiharn. Yong People Development. Doi Sa Kuat, Chaing Mai, Thailand. 10 December 2006. (Not copyright).

22. Foundation for the Better Life of Children (FBLC). Available from: URL: http://www.citizenbase.org/crtools/helement.html

23. Global March Against Child Labour. Children’s World Congress on Child Labour. 2004. Available from: URL: http://www/globalmarch.org/ Worldcongress/ gaw

2004.php.

24. International Bureau for Children’ Rights. Making Children’s Rights Work: Country Profile on Thailand. 2004 p: 3-4. (Copyright).

25. Kittisak Ketunuti. A development of a parent education program providing Home-based early intervention for Cerebral Palsy children, Bangkok, Thailand, (dissertation). Chulalongkorn Univ.; 1997

26. Government of Rajasthan. 1995. Available from: URL: http://www.

policyproject.com/pubs/countryreports/ARH.India.pdf

27. IIPS. National Family Health Survey (NFHS-2). 2000. Available from: URL: http://www.nfhsindia.org/nfhs3.html

28. Kasame Sakonllapap. Yong People in Bangkok, Thailand. 9 November 2006. (Not copyright).

29. Laddawan Chanvititkul. The Effectiveness of Counseling Intervention as Health Education Program on Self-Care Behavior among Hypertensive Patient Attending Service at Charoenkrungpracharak Hospital (dissertation). Bangkok (Thailand). Mahidol Univ.; 1995.

30. Ministry of Social Development and Human Security. A target of Society, Bangkok, Thailand. 1999. Available from: URL: http://www.dsdw. go.th

31. Maha Chakri Sirindhon, H.R.H. Princess. Education of the Disadvantaged: a lecture, the 15th Annual Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Day, (Prasarnmit branch), Bangkok, Thailand, Srinakarinwirot Univ.; 2001 November 12, p: 7-29

32. Mother Elisa Cavana. The Hill Tribes Disadvantaged in Northern, Thailand from Teresa Anusorn Foundation (Ban Teresa), Winag Pa Pow, Chaing Rai. 20-30 October 2006. (Not copyright).

33. National Statistical Office. Report of the Labor Force Survey Whole Kingdom (Round 4: October-December), Bangkok, Thailand. 2003. (Copyright)

34. Niklaus Steiner. Available from: URL: http://www.ucis.unc.edu/resources/pubs

/development/Moon.pdf#search=%22Knowledge%20and% 20attitude%20HIV%2FAIDS

%20%22

35. Nichet Sunthornpitak and Kanokkorn Phruksakit. Troubled teens cannot turn to teachers. 2003. Available from: URL: http”//www.Thailandlife.com/thaiyouth_95.htm

36. Patcharaporn Panyawuthikrai. Evaluation an Educational Program on dispensing behavior between Intervention and Control groups of drug stores in Bangkok (dissertation). Bangkok, Thailand. Mahidol Univ.; 1999.

37. Patong Street Children Shelter. Available from: URL: http://www. phuket.

holiday-inn. .com/ foundation.htm

38. Parwej Saroj, Kumar Rajesh, Walia Indarjeet, Aggarwal Arun K. Available from: URL: http://www.ijppediatricsindia.org/article.asp?issn=0019- 5456;year=2005;

volume=72;issue=4; spage=287;epage=291;aulast=Parwej/

39. Population and Health IndoShare. A Socio-Medical Assessment of the Sexual and Reproductive Heath of Adolescents in Bihar. 2006 March. (Copyright).

40. Project of Jaipur’ Government, Rajasthan India. January, p: 1. (Copyright).

41. Prasarn Ruansang. The disadvantaged children in Channai Himmat, Slum area (Jammu), Jammu & Kashmir State, India. 19 February 2007. (Not copyright).

42. Suwat Srisorrachatr. Domestic violence: Socio-cultural perspective and Social intervention in a Thai community, Bangkok, Thailand (dissertation). Mahidol Univ.; 2001.

43. Santi Jongkongka. The disadvantaged children in Jammu. 29 March 2007. (Not copyright).

44. S.D. Gupta. Adolescent Reproductive Health in India. Status, Policies, Programs, and Issues. Indian Institute of Health Management Research. POLICY 2003. (Copyright).

45. State of the World’s Children. Childhood under threat. 2005. Available from: URL: http://www.bangkoktourist.com/Bangkok.php and phishare.org/documents/PRC Pantana/4107

46. Thai Basic Education Curriculum. BE 2544 (AD 2001). Available from: URL: http:// cilab.ied.edu.hk/clprogram/icp/Curriculum_and_Learning_ Reform_in_ Thailand. pdf#search=%22 Thai%20Basic%20Education%20 Curriculum.%20BE%202544%20

(AD%202001)%20%22

47. Thai Education History. Available from: URL: http://www.school-portal.co.uk/groupHomepage.asp?GroupID=66561

48. Thai Post Newspaper. Thai’s family crisis, the moment has arrived to appoint of Government of Thailand. 2005. Available from: URL: http:// www.thaipost.net// index.

asp?=thaipost&postdate=27/Much/2548& cat id=501

49. Thailand. Library of Congress – Federal Research Division. 2005. Available from: URL: http:www.//lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/profiles/Thailand.pdf

50. Thongbai Thongpao. Save our youth from sin. 2002. Available from: URL: http://www.thailandlife.com/thaiyouth_83.html

51. Tong Thum Struggles. Thailand Sex and Drug. 2006 February 20. Available from: URL: http://www. thailand-blog.com/

52. The Bangkok Post, Newspaper. An Economic review, mid-year, Thailand. 1998 July 1. (Copyright)

53. The Bangkok Post, Newspaper. An Economic review, year-end, Thailand. 1998, December, 31. (Copyright)

54. The Express Transportation Organization of Thailand. Department of Provincial Administration. Population Record. 2005. Available from: URL: http://www. dopa.go.th/ stat/y_ stat48.html

55. The Nation, Newspaper (daily). RCA tops list of Bangkok nightspots for young students. 2005; Saturday, February 10. (Copyright).

56. The Post Newspaper. An Economic review, year-end, Thailand. 1997 December 31. (Copyright).

57. The Thai Health Promotion Foundation. Available from: URL: http://www. Thailand life. com/thaiyouth_67.html

58. The Office of the Education Council. Education in Thailand. Bangkok: Amarin Printing and Publishing, Ministry of Education, Thailand. 2004 ISBN 379-5930-32-E, p: 23-26

59. The Office of Welfare Promotion, Protection and Empowerment of Vulnerable Groups. Thailand’s Second Report. Available from: URL: http://www.thaiembdc.org/

pressctr/announce/ThaiYouth2UNGA62.pdf

60. The Office of the National Education Commission Education in Thailand. Bangkok: Amarin Printing and Publishing. 1998. ISBN 974-8086-30-5, p: 154

61. The World Bank (Thailand). Population by age and Sex. Youth in Numbers: East Asia and the Pacific, Children and Youth – Human Development Hub, Children and Youth, HDNCY, Washington DC, USA. 2004 November, p: 4-5

62. Teacher Chantana Rangsome. Street Children at Khon Khen, Thailand. 5 December 2006. (Not copyright).

63. United Nations (UN). UN medium population projection. World Population Prospects, the 2000 Revision, into the POLICY Project’s, SPECTRUM Model and projecting the population to 2020. 2000. (Copyright).

64. UNICEF House. Working Children’s Report. 3 UN Plaza, New York, NY 10017. 2004; ISBN: 92-806-3817-3, p: 2. (Copyright).

65. UNDP/ UNFPA/ WHO/ World Bank Special Programme of Research. Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP). Progress in Reproductive Health of Adolescents. Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. 2003; Document Number: 64, p: 1, 3. (Copyright).

66. UNESCO. Education and Training strategies for Disadvantaged group in Thailand. 2001 December, International Institute for Educational Planning, p: 55-70.

67. UNESCO. Early Childhood Care and Education and other Family Policies and Programs in South-East Asia: Working for Access quality and inclusion in Thailand, Philippine and Viet Nam, Bangkok, Thailand. 2004 p: 4-5. (Copyright).

68. UNAIDS. HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections – Update Thailand the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, World Health Organization (WHO). 2004 November. (Copyright).

69. Vosburg, Jill. Preschool Children’s Classification Skills and a Multicultural Education Intervention to Promote Acceptance of Ethnic Diversity. (Statistical Data Included). 2000. Available from: URL: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_ hb1439/is_ 200003/ai_n5870666

70. World Health Organization (WHO). Promoting and safeguarding the sexual and reproductive health of adolescents. Department of Reproductive Health and Research & Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development, Geneva, Switzerland, March; p: Implementing the Global Reproductive Health Strategy. Policy Brief No. 4. 2006; Document Number: 312300. (Copyright).

71. World Health Organization (WHO). Population by age and Sex. Available from: URL: http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/2006/RHR_policybrief4_eng.pdf

72. Yuan-Hsiang, Chu. Sexuality Education Intervention Effects of Teacher (dissertation). Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Shu-Te Univ.; 2005.

73. Yi JK. Vietnamese American college students’ knowledge and attitudes toward HIV/AIDS (dissertation). J Am College Health. 1998

74. Y. N. Sridhar. The disadvantaged children in India. 29 July 2007. (Not copyright).

Technorati Tags: Adolescents, case, Disadvantaged, Education, Health, India, Northern, Reproductive, Study, Thailand

C.H.E.F.®’s Health Equity Partners™ Division Hires New Coordinator for Health Advocates Program

Gretchen Hansen recently joined the Health Equity Partners division of Comprehensive Health Education Foundation (C.H.E.F.) as Coordinator for its new Health Advocates Program.

Seattle, Washington (PRWEB) May 11, 2011

Health Equity Partners™, the division of Comprehensive Health Education Foundation (C.H.E.F.®) that strives to reduce health inequities through a powerful combination of advocacy, education, grant-making, and partnerships, announced that it has hired Gretchen Hansen as Coordinator for its new Community Health Advocates Program. In this position, Hansen will be responsible for planning, organizing and coordinating all aspects of this resident-based program at the Salishan Housing community in Tacoma.

Reporting directly to Kathy Burgoyne, PhD, Vice President of C.H.E.F.’s Health Equity Partners Division, Hansen will also work in partnership with the Tacoma Housing Authority, Tacoma Pierce County Public Health, the Kimi and George Tanbara Health Center, and the Salishan Community Association to recruit, train and support a group of Salishan Community residents as Health Advocates for their families, friends and neighbors.

With fifteen years of experience working in the nonprofit sector, Hansen joins C.H.E.F. from the Tacoma Community House, where she was employed most recently as Adult Employment Coordinator. Prior to this, she served as Community Education Programs Manager at the Tacoma YWCA. Earlier in her career, Hansen held positions with the Tacoma YWCA as Domestic Violence Prevention Program Coordinator, as well as at Helping Hand House in Tacoma as Emergency Housing Specialist. Hansen is a graduate of the University of Washington, Tacoma.

According to Kathy Burgoyne, PhD, Vice President of C.H.E.F.’s Health Equity Partners Division, “Gretchen’s work experience and credentials make her an excellent addition to our team, and we look forward to her contributions in the launch and successful coordination of the new Health Advocates Program”.

About Comprehensive Health Education Foundation

Founded in 1974, Seattle-based Comprehensive Health Education Foundation (C.H.E.F.®) is a nationally known nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote health and quality of life through education. With a long history of innovation in bringing better health to individuals and communities, C.H.E.F.’s efforts today focus on eliminating health inequities through a powerful combination of advocacy, education, grant-making, and partnerships, as well as consulting. Whether assisting organizations in becoming more effective advocates for change as part of its Health Equity Partners™ division, or providing consulting through its MissionWise® division to help organizations better deliver services and become more sustainable, C.H.E.F. brings together foundations, government, nonprofits, and coalitions to create a social movement to eliminate health inequities. For information about C.H.E.F. and MissionWise, please visit http://www.chef.org and http://www.missionwise.org or call 1.800.323.2433.

# # #

©Copyright 1997-

, Vocus PRW Holdings, LLC.
Vocus, PRWeb, and Publicity Wire are trademarks or registered trademarks of Vocus, Inc. or Vocus PRW Holdings, LLC.

Find More Health Education Press Releases

Technorati Tags: , Advocates, Coordinator, Division, Equity, Health, Hires, Partners, Program

African Americans, disease, diabetes, arthritis, stroke, heart attack, erectile dysfunction,overweight, thyroid,cancer, asthma,the secret, the secret missing link,health education, health business, health promotion, sick, energy, consciousness, tapping, tapology, hyperactive, body talk, energy awarenes,
Video Rating: 5 / 5

Technorati Tags: educationtraining, Health, Promotion

Advanced Cardiac Life Support Study Guide Offered In New Healthedsolutions.com Special Section

Lincoln, NE (PRWEB) May 03, 2011

To provide helpful resources to the growing number of healthcare professionals looking online for certification options, Health Education Solutions, the leading provider of ACLS certification online, today released a new “Study Guide” Special Section. Available in Health Education Solutions’ online research library, this series of articles provides tools and tips to help professionals in the rapidly growing healthcare industry prepare for advanced cardiac life support and pediatric advanced life support certification exams.

“Online courses are an effective and efficient option for busy healthcare professionals and first responders who need to be prepared to provide emergency care,” said Melissa Marks, president of Health Education Solutions. “Health Education Solutions provides a variety of convenient online certification options. Our online research library offers comprehensive resources to help professionals successfully complete their certification exams.”

The special section is free and available for individuals interested in PALS or ACLS certification requirements, as well as those who simply want to be prepared to provide care in an emergency situation. Highlights include:

    Preparing for the PALS Exam: Four Keys to Success
    Time for Advanced Cardiac Life Support Recertification? Why Studying is More Important Than Ever This Time Around

Health Education Solutions offers online ACLS certification and online PALS certification courses for first responders and healthcare professionals, as well as first aid courses and CPR and AED training for individuals seeking lifesaving skills. ACLS and PALS courses were developed in partnership with Union College.

For more information, please visit healthedsolutions.com.

About Health Education Solutions

Health Education Solutions (HES) is a leading provider of continuing education solutions for healthcare professionals. HES, a subsidiary of Nelnet Inc. (NYSE: NNI), offers ACLS and PALS courses developed in partnership with medical faculty at Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska.

(code #: nnig)

###

©Copyright 1997-

, Vocus PRW Holdings, LLC.
Vocus, PRWeb, and Publicity Wire are trademarks or registered trademarks of Vocus, Inc. or Vocus PRW Holdings, LLC.

More Health Education Press Releases

Technorati Tags: Advanced, Cardiac, Guide, Healthedsolutions.com, Life, Offered, Section, Special, Study, Support

Geisinger Partners with Orion Health to Build Mission-Critical Foundation for Data Integration

Santa Monica, CA (PRWEB) May 23, 2011

Geisinger Health System, a physician-led health care system dedicated to health care, education, research and service spanning 42 counties and serving 2.6 million people, has selected the Orion Health Rhapsody Integration Engine as the health system’s new platform for migrating, managing, and streamlining message exchange between over 200 clinical and business systems. The new integration engine will enable them to better participate in Pennsylvania’s Keystone Health Information Exchange.

Gregory Miller, technical analyst at Geisinger explains, “We needed a reliable and flexible data integration platform that supports newer technology capabilities and connectivity to our RHIO — Rhapsody is a key component in our participation — and participation in health information exchanges. Rhapsody will also support our goals to automate and connect to federal programs such as NHIN and PHIN.”

Geisinger Health System’s previous integration engine was sunsetting so they used the opportunity to review their criteria list and explore other product options. Rhapsody was selected for its ability to provide a broad set of monitoring capabilities, for its easy to use drag and drop functionality and its ability to run anywhere, including UNIX. In addition, Rhapsody provides a migration tool set to enable a seamless, step by step process away from eGate, significantly reducing migration time.

Orion Health Senior Vice President of Global Marketing Christopher Ward says, organizations faced with a sunset situation as with eGate have the opportunity to deploy a platform for the future. “Orion Health’s focus on health care customers results in products that are remarkably straight forward and adapted to future requirements. Rhapsody’s eGate migration tool kit means an IT department can reduce the time it spends replacing technology and implement a platform to get on to the current and future business of meeting health data exchange needs.”

“Geisinger Health System is a leader in developing systems that help patients and physicians use technology to connect for better health outcomes. Orion Health is delighted to enjoy association with innovative, mission-forward organizations like Geisinger.”

Orion Health solutions use standards-based technology to integrate data within a facility and external partners without incurring costly rip and replace approaches. Currently the company helps facilities and healthcare communities that connect 35 million patients with tens of thousands of active users.

About Orion Health™ Rhapsody® Integration Engine

Orion Health Rhapsody is a powerful integration engine that delivers advanced inter-system messaging capabilities to health sector organizations of all kinds. Rhapsody is designed for rapid, effortless installation and use, and enables quick accurate and efficient exchange of electronic data. For more information please see http://www.orionhealth.com/products.

About Geisinger Health System

Geisinger is an integrated health services organization widely recognized for its innovative use of the electronic health record, and the development and implementation of innovative care models including ProvenHealth Navigator, an advanced medical home model, and ProvenCare® (“warranty”) program. The system serves more than 2.6 million residents throughout 42 counties in central and northeastern Pennsylvania. For more information, visit http://www.geisinger.org.

About Orion Health Inc.

Orion Health™ is the leading Health Information Exchange (HIE) solution provider with expertise in clinical workflow and integration technology for the healthcare sector. Orion Health’s easy-to-use solutions and applications improve patient care and clinical decision making by enabling the exchange of healthcare information among disparate systems and providing integrated health data in a single, unified view. By extending existing healthcare information systems, the Orion Health™ Rhapsody Integration Engine and workflow solutions provide healthcare workers with easy access to patient data and trends, and reduce errors and omissions by streamlining information transfer. Orion Health HIE also supports Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) continuing their goal of improved care coordination, cost savings and better quality of care.

Worldwide, Orion Health has deployed health information communities involving over 35 million patients with hundreds of thousands of active clinical users including Maine’s HealthInfoNet, Alberta Health Services and Spain’s IB Salut. Orion Health’s partners include leading health system integrators and IT vendors such as Accenture, Allscripts, IBM, Oracle, Philips and others. Orion Health has more than 1,000 clients around the world, including Lahey Clinic, Ochsner Health System, UCLA Medical Center, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Spain’s IB Salut, South Eastern Norwegian Regional Health Authority, New Zealand Ministry of Health. Orion Health is a preferred Canada Health Infoway Solution. More information can be found at http://www.orionhealth.com.

Orion Health and Rhapsody are registered trademarks of Orion Health Inc, its parent/or its affiliates. Other names used may be trademarks of their respective owners.

###

©Copyright 1997-

, Vocus PRW Holdings, LLC.
Vocus, PRWeb, and Publicity Wire are trademarks or registered trademarks of Vocus, Inc. or Vocus PRW Holdings, LLC.

Technorati Tags: Build, Data, Foundation, Geisinger, Health, Integration, MissionCritical, Orion, Partners

Relegent and HealthTeacher Merge

Nashville, TN (PRWEB) December 23, 2004

Relegent today announced the acquisition of HealthTeacher from Health Strategies, a Nashville, Tenn.-based provider of health curriculum to K-12 Schools through the Internet and Print. Privately held, HealthTeacher has continually grown since its creation by The Health Network and now serves over 3,000 schools worldwide, including The State of Delaware and Bom Jesus Schools in Brazil.

The acquisition of HealthTeacher will enhance Relegent’s growing content business by strengthening its capability to offer a wider continuum of health education to both schools and hospitals.

“The HealthTeacher brand is one of the most respected in health curriculum as it was built on the National Health Education Standards and backed by more than five years of high-quality work and commitment to teachers and students,” said J. Tod Fetherling, president and chief executive officer of Relegent. “We believe there is a significant opportunity to create a competitive advantage within the education and healthcare outsourcing markets for health content. By combining with a well-established company like HealthTeacher we can take advantage of this opportunity sooner and on a larger scale,” he added.

“Health and Education are the two fastest growing segments of the GDP combining for approximately 22% of total expenditures,” said Anita Davis, president of Health Strategies. “Unfortunately, health education in schools has long been a low priority and we as a nation are now paying multiples on healthcare because of poor lifestyle choices that are learned at an early age. We are working with school districts throughout the world to elevate the status of health education through our curriculum”    

About Relegent

Relegent is a leading healthcare marketing firm based in Nashville, TN. Relegent exclusively markets the Discovery Hospital content offering to hospitals and provides additional healthcare marketing services to hospitals, health plans and employers.

About HealthTeacher

HealthTeacher is a leading provider of health education curriculum for kindergarten through 12th grade level. HealthTeacher curriculum focuses on the nine topics identified by the National Health Education Standards: Tobacco, Alcohol and Other Drugs, Community and Environmental Health, Injury Prevention, Mental and Emotional Health, Nutrition, Personal and Consumer Health, Physical Activity and Family Health.

Media Contact:

Relegent

J. Tod Fetherling

615-309-8376

tod@relegent.com

# # #

©Copyright 1997-

, Vocus PRW Holdings, LLC.
Vocus, PRWeb, and Publicity Wire are trademarks or registered trademarks of Vocus, Inc. or Vocus PRW Holdings, LLC.

Related Health Education Press Releases

Technorati Tags: HealthTeacher, Merge, Relegent

what is making people use private system in both health and education and why are they using it, what can we do to attract them back to the public one? should we cut government funding in private health and education and channel it back into the public one which would give us world class services for all? please tell me your thoughts?

because the government encourages it

What is a true statement from the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance?

A. Fit people reduce their risks of health problems related to lack of exercise
B. Fit people can perform daily activities with vigor
C. Fitness is a physical state of well-being
D. All of the above

It must be ( C ) . All other include this. Anybody unless has a good physical fitness,( need not necessarily have a physic body.) cannot enjoy life nor even attend routines of life with more and more enthusiasm and vigor and succeed.
That awareness is essential for everybody who is with body. Even great saints take much more care than any ordinary people , since they have lot of spiritual activity .