The WHO/Europe 2022 report on prison health is clear:

✅Create alternatives to incarceration
✅Invest in #MentalHealth workers
✅Ensure care continuity in and outside prisons

#MentalHealth Matters even more so in prisons.
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Nestlé adds sugar to infant milk sold in poorer countries, report finds theguardian.com/global-develop…

🤝 Telebridge session today! 🔗

World Health Organization Kyrgyzstan & #Thailand 's National Health Commission introduced the National Health Assembly #concept to Kyrgyz partners.

Sharing #best practices & fostering #knowledge exchange to enhance healthcare governance & citizen participation.

NEW: Swiggy has gamified health insurance for its food delivery workers. Divided into gold, silver & bronze, their insurance changes weekly as per the category they fall under that week based on the points earned.

My latest for Rest of World: restofworld.org/2024/swiggy-he…

.World Health Organization (WHO) and partners went to Khan Younis yesterday to assess the health facilities there. The team described the destruction as 'disproportionate to anything one can imagine'. No building or road is intact, there is only rubble and dirt.

Hostilities in the vicinity of a WHO

'Shockingly, India is experiencing a TB drug shortage, with⬆️frequency.Just 7 months ago, there was an acute shortage of MDR-TB drugs; disruptions in drug supply, which began with drug-sensitive medicines in 2022 & snowballed to include MDR-TB drugs, lasted for nearly a year' 2/n

From public to private: understand the shift in India’s healthcare system and how it’s affecting marginalised women

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Priyanka | پرینکا #Caste | Social and racial hierarchies devalue specific communities, justifying violence, discrimination, and exclusion as mechanisms for maintaining power structures.

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📢 Отстаивайте ваше право на здоровье – одно из основных прав человека.

Каждый должен получать необходимую медицинскую помощь в любое время, в любом месте и без финансовых трудностей.

«Мое здоровье — мое право»

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#MyHealthMyRight

Everyone, everywhere has the right to health. The Mitanin community health workers of Chhattisgarh, India defend the rights of their communities not just to health services, but to food security, and to live in freedom from violence. Learn more: bit.ly/3RADnTY #WHD2024

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This past Saturday we attended the screening of Carl Collison's film 'The Unexceptional Parent'. The title derived from a parent in the film that expressed she is not exceptional for loving and accepting her child as she is.

The primary care medical workforce crisis in the European region: a call for evidence and analysis papers on causes, impacts, and solutions biomedcentral.com/collections/MW… Submission Deadline has been extended to 30 June

This World Health Worker Week #WHWeek , we celebrate 👏 the dedication of #healthworkers across the WHO/Europe Region and call for action to fix the #HealthWorkforce crisis: bit.ly/43Igani

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#TimeToActHCW

For second time in seven months, India is running short of TB drugs, putting patients at risk

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Destruction of Al-Shifa Hospital - #Gaza 's largest health facility - has ripped the heart out of the health system.

Only 10/36 hospitals remain partially functional.

Left without vital health care, ultimately it's civilians who will pay the price.

We repeat: health must not

For countries to make smart investments in their health & care workforce, one needs to thoroughly understand current reality - strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats that impact health care providers and institutions.

WHO/Europe works with Member States to do just that.

The #HealthWorkforce crisis is a crisis on many fronts, gender equality being one of them.

It’s #TimeToActHCW

Learn how countries can tackle these challenges and more: who.int/europe/publica…

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