"This book is designed to introduce a community health group to the potential of using a Geographic Information System … to improve birth outcomes. It provides an overview of why geography is important in the investigation of health, the … found between urban and rural health environments"--Provided by publisher. …

technology. This book provides an international perspective on the benefits of mobile health technology and describes examples … health care systems that provide quality patient care services. … / Ana Ferreira ... [et al.] -- Personal health records systems go mobile: defining evaluation concepts / Phillip Olla …

of contemporary ubiquitous health and medical informatics. Contributions highlight changes to healthcare distribution …Identifying the Emerging e-Health Technologies To Ubiquity 2.0 and Beyond / Sabah Mohammed, Jinan Fiaidhi -- Semantic … Interoperability Issue of Standardizing Medical Vocabularies / W. Ed Hammond -- Personal Health Records Status-Quo and Future …

This report presents an assessment of school health policies and institutions that affect young children in Uganda. The … countries reform their education systems to help ensure learning for all. School health policies are a critical component of an … effective education system, given that children's health impacts their school attendance, ability to learn, and overall …

While Ukraine has spent a significant amount of resources on health, its health outcomes fare poorly when compared with … death rates related to noncommunicable diseases (NCD) than the neighboring countries on their west. The suboptimal health … of theinefficiency and waste in the health sector …

Disasters and emergencies often have disproportionate impacts on a country's health system and the overall health of … women, men, girls, and boys. The interruptions of routine public health programs, such as vaccination campaigns, are common … in the wake of a disaster, setting back gains to overall public health. This guidance note for post- disaster health …

Investing in One Health - cross-sectoral, multidisciplinary coordination and collaboration across the human health …, animal health, and environmental health sectors - is crucial for maintaining healthy agricultural and food systems and … addressing global health security risks. Such action can reduce the threat of future pandemics through upstream preventive …