scholarly journals WHO global strategy to eliminate cervical cancer as a public health problem: An opportunity to make it a disease of the past

2020 ◽  
Vol 152 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Princess Nothemba Simelela
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 818-824
Author(s):  
Patiyus Agustiansyah ◽  
Rizal Sanif ◽  
Siti Nurmaini ◽  
Irfannuddin ◽  
Legiran

WHO has created a global strategy to accelerate the elimination of cervical canceras a public health problem and a world burden. Cervical cancer is a disease thatcan be prevented and cured, as long as it is detected early and treated effectively.Cervical cancer is also a disease that reflects global injustice. The burden isgreatest in low- and middle-income countries, where access to public healthservices is limited and screening and treatment for the disease has not been widelyapplied. In 2018, nearly 90% of all deaths worldwide occurred in low and middleincome countries. Furthermore, the proportion of women with cervical cancer whodie from the disease is more than 60% in these countries, more than double thenumber in many high-income countries, which is only 30%.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 642-648
Author(s):  
Patiyus Agustiansyah ◽  
Rizal Sanif ◽  
Siti Nurmaini ◽  
Irfannuddin ◽  
Legiran

WHO has created a global strategy to accelerate the elimination of cervical canceras a public health problem and a world burden. Cervical cancer is a disease thatcan be prevented and cured, as long as it is detected early and treated effectively.Cervical cancer is also a disease that reflects global injustice. The burden isgreatest in low- and middle-income countries, where access to public healthservices is limited and screening and treatment for the disease has not been widelyapplied. In 2018, nearly 90% of all deaths worldwide occurred in low and middleincome countries. Furthermore, the proportion of women with cervical cancer whodie from the disease is more than 60% in these countries, more than double thenumber in many high-income countries, which is only 30%.


2021 ◽  

Distracted driving is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as “the practice of driving a motor vehicle while engaged in another activity, typically one that involves the use of a mobile phone or other electronic device.” However, other distractions not involving the use of a cell phone or texting are important as well, contributing to this burgeoning public health problem in the United States. Examples include talking to other passengers, adjusting the radio or other controls in the car, and daydreaming. Distracted driving has been linked to increased risk of motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) in the United States, representing one of the most preventable leading causes of death for youth ages 16 to 24 years. Undoubtedly, the proliferation of cell phone, global positioning system (GPS), and other in-vehicle and personal electronic device use while driving has led to this rise in distracted driving prevalence. This behavior has impacted society—including individual and commercial drivers, passengers, pedestrians—in countless numbers of ways, ranging from increased MVCs and deaths to the enactment of new driving laws. In 2016, for example, 20 percent of all US pediatric deaths (nearly 4,000 children and adolescents) were due to fatal MVCs. It has been estimated that at any given time, more than 650,000 drivers are using cell phones or manipulating electronic devices while driving. In the United States, efforts are underway to reduce this driving behavior. In the past two decades, state and federal laws have specifically targeted cell phone use and texting while driving as priority areas for legal intervention. Distracted driving laws have become “strategies of choice” for tackling this public health problem, though their enforcement has emerged as a major challenge and varies by jurisdiction and location. Multimodal interventions using models such as the “three Es” framework—Enactment of a law, Education of the public about the law and safety practices, and Enforcement of the law—have become accepted practice or viewed as necessary steps to successfully change this behavior caused by distractions while driving. This Oxford Bibliographies review introduces these and other aspects (including psychological influences and road conditions) of distracted driving through a presentation of annotated resources from peer- and non-peer-reviewed literature. This selective review aims to provide policymakers, program implementers, and researchers with a reliable source of information on the past and current state of American laws, policies, and priorities for distracted driving.


2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary E Lynch ◽  
Donald Schopflocher ◽  
Paul Taenzer ◽  
Caitlin Sinclair

Chronic pain is an escalating public health problem. There are inadequate resources to assist patients suffering with pain in Canada. Therefore, it is important that research examining novel and appropriate treatment for chronic pain is conducted. To determine the current level of research funding for pain in Canada, the Canadian Pain Society conducted a survey. Of 79 active researchers performing pain-related studies, 65 received funding in the past five years amounting to a total of approximately $80.9 million. This is less than 1% of the total funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and 0.25% of the total funding for health research.


Author(s):  
Carla Monteiro Santos ◽  
Doralice De Almeida Nascimento Silva ◽  
Gleise Gonçalves Passos da Silva ◽  
Tatiana Santana de Oliveira ◽  
Luiz Faustino dos Santos Maia

O Câncer de Colo Uterino apresenta nos dias atuais um grande problema de saúde pública no Brasil, necessitando cada vez mais de profissionais capacitados para o combate a essa doença maligna, minimizando sua morbimortalidade. Neste âmbito podemos destacar o Papel do enfermeiro como fundamental na transformação dessa realidade que vivemos hoje. O enfermeiro atua tanto no sentido de assistir, coordenar as práticas de cuidado, quanto no sentido de educar, promover, proteger, reabilitar essas mulheres, de forma autônoma, criativa e ativa nos múltiplos níveis de atenção à saúde, através do levantamento de hipóteses analíticas e intervenções sistematizadas de rotinas de cuidados, subsidiando falhas e promovendo continuidade e resolutividade do cuidado em saúde.Descritores: Câncer de Colo Uterino, Mulher, Enfermagem. Nurses in care woman with cervical cancerAbstract: The Cancer Cervical presents nowadays a major public health problem in Brazil, requiring more and more trained professionals to combat this evil disease, minimizing morbidity and mortality. In this context we can highlight the nurse's role as fundamental in transforming this reality we live in today. The nurse acts both to assist coordinate care practices, as to educate, promote, protect, rehabilitate these women in an autonomous, creative and active in multiple health care levels, through the lifting of analytical assumptions systematized and interventions care routines, subsidizing failure and promoting continuity and resolution of health care. Descriptors: Cervical Cancer, Women, Nursing. Enfermero en la atención la mujer con cáncer de cuello uterinoResumen: Los regalos del cáncer de cuello uterino hoy en día un importante problema de salud pública en Brasil, lo que requiere cada vez más capacitados profesionales para combatir esta enfermedad mal, lo que minimiza la morbilidad y la mortalidad. En este contexto cabe destacar el papel de la enfermera tan fundamental en la transformación de esta realidad que vivimos hoy. La enfermera actúa tanto para ayudar, coordinar las prácticas de atención, como para educar, promover, proteger, rehabilitar a estas mujeres en un autónomas, creativas y activas en múltiples niveles de atención de salud, a través de la elevación de supuestos analíticos rutinas sistematizados y las intervenciones de atención, subsidiando el fracaso y la promoción de la continuidad y de la resolución de la atención sanitaria. Descriptores: Cáncer de Cuello Uterino, Mujer, Enfermería.


Tequio ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 15-25
Author(s):  
Édgar Villegas Hinojosa ◽  
Verónica Gallegos García ◽  
Anahid Elizabeth Campuzano Barajas ◽  
Omar Medina de la Cruz ◽  
Luz Eugenia Alcántara Quintana

Cervical cancer (CeCa) is a public health problem, the prevention efforts have focused on the screening of women at risk of contracting the disease since timely prevention can predict the evolution of the disease. The purpose of the histopathological study is to provide a more accurate diagnosis in order to give guidelines on the basis of which the treatment and follow-up of the patients is planned. However, despite the certainty of the histopathological study, certain methodological improvements have been suggested in which some researches report that making cuts at different levels in the paraffin block of the cervical biopsy could increase the sensitivity of the histopathological study.


2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Y Song ◽  
Y Zhang ◽  
W B Xu

Abstract Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) had the highest yearly incidence, with over 10 million cases of HFMD annually reported in China. Enterovirus A71 (EV-A71) and coxsackievirus A16 (CV-A16) have been regarded as the leading pathogens of HFMD outbreaks worldwide and in China; however, in recent years, the leading pathogens have been changing, as large outbreaks of CV-A6-associated HFMD have been reported worldwide. Since 2013, repeated large-scale HFMD outbreaks caused by CV-A6 happened in mainland China, where, as a result, CV-A6 has surpassed EV-A71 and CV-A16 as the leading HFMD pathogen in most Chinese provinces. We sequenced the whole genomes of 158 CV-A6 clinical samples that were isolated between 2010 and 2018 from the HFMD Surveillance Network established in our laboratory. Our results showed that: seven recombination forms (RFs) of Chinese CV-A6 were detected; different CV-A6 RFs showed distinct virulence and transmissibility; VP1283T may play an important role in the virulence of Chinese CV-A6. HFMD epidemics in China have become a serious public health problem over the past decade. In this research, we have attempted to explore the causes of the high transmissibility of the emerging CV-A6 in mainland China on the basis of CV-A6 evolution based on 336 whole-genome sequences, and we have yielded some fruitful results for the future research and surveillance of HFMD in China. Key messages HFMD epidemics in China have become a serious public health problem over the past decade. CV-A6 has surpassed EV-A71 and CV-A16 as the leading HFMD pathogen in most Chinese provinces.


2020 ◽  
Vol 148 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Arbyn ◽  
Murat Gultekin ◽  
Philippe Morice ◽  
Pekka Nieminen ◽  
Maggie Cruickshank ◽  
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