Health Academy Research Articles

Health policy, ethics, and the Kansas Legislative Health Academy.

We describe a unique program, the Kansas Legislative Health Academy, that brings together state legislators from across the political spectrum to build their capacity in advancing policies that can improve the health of Kansans. To that end, the academy helps legislators develop new skills to deliberate the ethics of health policy, use systems thinking to understand the long- and short-term effects of policy action and inaction, and engage in acts of civic leadership. The academy also seeks to foster an environment of respectful open dialogue and to build new cross-chamber and cross-party relationships. Among the most important outcomes cited by program participants is the value of sustained, personal interaction and problem solving with individuals holding differing political views.

Virtual Disaster Simulation: Lesson Learned from an International Collaboration That Can Be Leveraged for Disaster Education in Iran.

Disaster education needs innovative educational methods to be more effective compared to traditional approaches. This can be done by using virtual simulation method. This article presents an experience about using virtual simulation methods to teach health professional on disaster medicine in Iran.The workshop on the "Application of New Technologies in Disaster Management Simulation" was held in Tehran in January 2015. It was co-organized by the Disaster and Emergency Health Academy of Tehran University of Medical Sciences and Emergency and the Research Center in Disaster Medicine and Computer Science applied to Medicine (CRIMEDIM), Università del Piemonte Orientale. Different simulators were used by the participants, who were from the health system and other relevant fields, both inside and outside Iran.As a result of the workshop, all the concerned stakeholders are called on to support this new initiative of incorporating virtual training and exercise simulation in the field of disaster medicine, so that its professionals are endowed with field-based and practical skills in Iran and elsewhere.Virtual simulation technology is recommended to be used in education of disaster management. This requires capacity building of instructors, and provision of technologies. International collaboration can facilitate this process. Keywords: Virtual simulation, disaster management, education, training, Iran

Should we mend their broken hearts? The history of cardiac repairs in children with Down syndrome.

* Abbreviation: AVSD — : atrioventricular septal defect In May 2014, Evans et al1 reported that children with Down syndrome had lower rates of in-hospital death after cardiac surgery, compared with children without Down syndrome. Forty years ago, these results would have been unthinkable, as heart defects were not repaired in the majority of children with Down syndrome. However, as the field of cardiac surgery evolved, equal postoperative outcomes were reported between children with Down syndrome and those without. The historical question of whether we ought to offer cardiac repairs to infants with Down syndrome was influenced by a complex web of ethical, social, and legal considerations that changed over time, resulting in the current standard of care in which children with and without Down syndrome have the same opportunity for cardiac repair. Complex intracardiac surgery in infants was not routinely performed until the early 1970s, and Pediatrics published the first report on cardiac repairs in infants with Down syndrome in 1976.2 The authors concluded that overall surgical mortality in Down syndrome was high, especially in atrioventricular septal defects (AVSD), the most common heart defect associated with Down syndrome. Critical appraisal reveals only a minority of the children in the cohort received cardiac repairs, and of those, many were not suitable for full repairs because they had developed pulmonary hypertension by the time of surgery. In a 1978 Letter to the Editor,3 Feingold suggested that children with Down syndrome did poorly because they did not receive prompt surgical repairs, and not because of their Down syndrome. Over the following years, cardiac surgical techniques in infants developed rapidly, with improved outcomes in all children. The advent of … Address correspondence to: Chantelle R. Champagne, BMSc, MD, Department of General Pediatrics, 3rd Floor, Edmonton Clinic Health Academy, University of Alberta, 11405-87 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2J3. E-mail: cchampag{at}ualberta.ca

The Canadian Coalition for Seniors' Mental Health (CCSMH) and Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry (CAGP) Joint Scientific Meeting.

BIOGRAPHYDr. David S. Gold-bloom was born in Montreal and raised in Quebec and Nova Scotia. He completed an honours degree, majoring in Government, at Harvard University and then attended the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar where he obtained an M.A. in Physiological Sciences. He trained in medicine and psychiatry at McGill University and is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Dr. Goldbloom’s activities have been recognized and awarded by his peers and students. He has authored numerous scientific articles and book chapters and has provided talks and lectures to student, professional, and public audiences. He maintains an active clinical and teaching role at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health where he serves as Senior Medical Advisor. He is also Chair of the Mental Health Commission of Canada. In addition to his professional activities, Dr. Goldbloom is the immediate past Chair of the Board of Governors of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival of Canada.Learning Objectives:To become familiar with the mission, structure, and work of the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC).To understand the specific initiatives of the MHCC with regard to seniors.To consider how attendees can contribute to these mental health reform efforts.

Featuring: Linda Slater

1. Tell us about your current position. As Public Services Manager at the John W. Scott Health Sciences Library, University of Alberta (U of A), I am responsible for ensuring that the circulation and reference services provided at our integrated Service Desk and the reference service provided at our satellite location in the Edmonton Clinic Health Academy meet the needs of our users and are in line with system-wide policies and procedures. In this role, I supervise five Public Service Assistants and coordinate the public service activities of nine librarians and two other nonprofessional staff. I participate in the U of A Libraries’ Public Service Council, which is comprised of the Public Services Managers from each unit library as well as other key personnel with duties essential to Public Service. We meet bi-weekly to discuss public service policies and issues and to coordinate upcoming changes to public service policies and procedures. In addition to my duties as Public Services Manager, I have liaison responsibility for the Faculty of Nursing and interim responsibility for the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation. As liaison, I am responsible for collection management as well as coordinating information literacy sessions for these faculties. I also consult with students and faculty on a regular basis when they need assistance with literature searches or other library-related matters. As is the case with many health sciences libraries, I am frequently called upon to work with systematic review teams. In some cases, this involves one or two consultations to assist in developing a search strategy, but in other cases, it involves full membership on the systematic review team. In these cases, I am responsible for developing and executing the search, advising on citation management, and providing the details of the search methodology for the final publication.

About Joint Program of Ministry of Health and National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine «Medical treatment at traumatic brain injury»

About Joint Program of Ministry of Health and National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine «Medical treatment at traumatic brain injury»

Syndromic congenital diarrhea because of the SPINT2 mutation showing enterocyte tufting and unique electron microscopy findings

Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Stollery Children’s Hospital, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Departments of Genetics, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition and Pathology, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital, Paris Descartes University, Paris, France Correspondence to Hien Q. Huynh, MBBS, FRACP, FRCPC (Hon), Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Stollery Children’s Hospital, University of Alberta, Edmonton Clinic Health Academy (ECHA), 4th Floor, Room 4-579, 11405, 87th Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 1C9 Tel: + 1 780 248 5420; fax: + 1 780 248 5628; e-mail: hien.huynh@ualberta.ca

Designing Out Medical Error (DOME)

Designing Out Medical Error (DOME)

World Health Academy lst International Winter Consensus Conference of Dermatology, Kitzbühel, Austria, December 13–15, 2012

World Health Academy l^st International Winter Consensus Conference of Dermatology, Kitzbühel, Austria, December 13–15, 2012

NEW HORIZONS IN HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT AND HYGIENE MANAGEMENT

The International Health Academy has recently the International Journal of Hospital Environment & Hygiene Management. This is an editorial article outlines the scope, aims and objectives of the journal and call for publication in this new journal.

Are you content with being just ordinary? Or do you wish to make progress and be outstanding?' New ritual practices in contemporary Sweden

This article examines the emergence and features of new practices in contemporary Sweden, which are being sold to individuals as therapy or coaching in order for them find their ‘inner potential’ as a means to achieve health, self-realisation and prosperity in life as well as in work. The focus on the inner self and the formation of a new personhood demands new ritual creativity, responding to the individual’s longing for intense experiences of transform­ation and the authentic self. The development of a new outlook on the self is thus the focus of these practices, that is to say, individuals are encouraged to stage new ways to perform themselves. In this construction of a new self, or the image of an ideal self, the layman therapist or coach is very much in demand. In order to discuss these new practices, the Health Academy Europe (Hälsoakademin Europa) is chosen. One reason for a closer study of this enterprise is that it was one of the coaching enterprises chosen in 2009 by the Swedish public Employment Service (Arbetsförmedlingen) to give employment coaching, when the Swedish government allocated 300 million euros to buy the services of 1,500 coaches to help approximately 250,000 unemployed Swedes to get work.These new practices could be classified as new rituals, adapted to late modern society with a focus on the individual, the inner self and prosperity. The ambition is to encourage the participant to design a new, empowered self in order to turn dreams into reality and to find hope for better circumstances in life.

Tsan Ting and his practice on psychoanalysis

Tsan Ting entered the Department of Psychology of Nanjing Central University in 1931 and graduated in 1935, then went to the private Peking Union Medical College for graduate studies, where he received specialized training in psychoanalysis. Later Tsan Ting stayed in the neurology and public health department and worked in the mental health outpatients in Peiping Established First Health Offices, private Beijing Yuying Secondary School, the Peking Renli Carpet Factory there he applied psychoanalysis to cure patients. In 1940, Tsan Ting left Peiping and went to Chongqing, where he became the head of Mental Health Section of the Central Health Academy. During this period, Tsan Ting applied psychoanalysis to case investigation and child behavior guidance. He not only applied psychoanalysis in practice, but also studied psychoanalysis with an objective, complex-evidenced and critical attitude and was a proponent for psychoanalysis in a scientific and popular form. He introduced psychiatry and psychosomaticism associated with psychoanalysis and pushed forward the establishment of medical psychology in our country. Tsan Ting is the practitioner, researcher and proponent of psychoanalysis as well as the promoter of psychology.

New health academy must be financially independent

Financial independence is essential to the future credibility and success of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS), says the former head of the US Institute of Medicine (IOM). Modeled after the IOM and similar national bodies, the recently-minted CAHS, 1 of 3 member academies of the

Effects of a Classroom-based Asthma Education Curriculum on Asthma Knowledge, Attitudes, Self-efficacy, Quality of Life, and Self-management Behaviors among Adolescents

Asthma education interventions primarily target young children and adults, and a few target adolescents. Several constructs of the social cognitive theory were used to design a classroom-based high school asthma education curriculum and to determine if the curriculum would improve asthma knowledge and attitudes among 10th grade students, as well as improve the quality of life, self-efficacy, and self-management behaviors among asthmatic students. Using a nonequivalent control group design with delayed intervention (three-week delay) in one group, we surveyed a sample of 122 10th grade health academy students. Twenty-four students (20%) reported having doctor-diagnosed asthma. Statistical data analysis determined that asthma knowledge mean scores and self-efficacy mean scores significantly improved for students who received the curriculum. Most students held favorable attitudes towards asthmatics before the intervention, with a slight decrease in positive attitudes after the intervention. There were also slight, insignificant improvements in quality of life among asthmatic students. This study demonstrated that the asthma curriculum improved knowledge among asthmatic and nonasthmatic students and self-efficacy among the asthmatic students. Asthma education, based on a theoretical framework, can be effectively incorporated into a traditional high school curriculum.

Health Academy

Health Academy is a day of active, age-appropriate health education for students in grades kindergarten through sixth. All the lessons are designed and taught by university students who are planning to be elementary teachers. Health Academy provides our area children with an intensive and diverse health education experience while providing our prospective teachers with an opportunity to plan and teach lessons through the course of a school day

An analysis on the Medical Rehabilitation Researches in the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Public Health Academy Journal

An analysis on the Medical Rehabilitation Researches in the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Public Health Academy Journal

The Legal Powers of the World Health Organization

Instigated in response to the United Nation's ‘global change’ policy, the World Health Organisation is currently under-going major internal reform. There are indications that serious consideration is being given to the role that the rule of law should play within the international health field and how this should impact upon the WHO. Such developments are crucial if the WHO is to continue to playa leading role as advocate for health within the existing international framework. This article begins by examining the available legal powers as provided in its constitution and considers the limited impact that these powers have had to-date within the Organisation. The recent investigation of a framework treaty system based on the ‘convention-protocol’ approach is an exciting but problematic development, although a more systematic and comprehensive approach to normative issues would certainly be appropriate. This would be an ideal opportunity to initiate a comprehensive legal approach around normative issues using the WHO's constitutive legal powers based on the right to health and under the auspices of a ‘Health Academy’.

Family Violence and the Insurance Industry: Education, Not Discrimination

<h3>To the Editor.</h3> —I applaud Dr McAfee's editorial comments outlining the American Medical Association's (AMA's) commitment to diagnose and prevent family violence.¹While recognizing the impact of violence on health status and society, he did not discuss the staggering medical costs associated with this behavior. In a study sponsored by the Pennsylvania Blue Shield Institute,²we found that from 1990 to 1991 medical costs associated with domestic violence totaled $326.6 million in Pennsylvania. Reviewing child abuse data, we projected another $1.7 million in health care expenditures. Medical costs of violence of all forms in the state totaled more than $434 million. Clearly, the medical manifestations of violence directly increase the cost of health care to Pennsylvania and the nation. Recognizing that merely studying the issue of violence is not enough, the Pennsylvania Blue Shield Institute provided funding for a pilot project (the South Philadelphia High School Health Academy

Obstetrics and gynecology in the USSR

Knowledge of Soviet obstetrics and gynecology has been mostly inaccessible to Western physicians. We share our experience regarding medical education and practice in the USSR. Medical education lasts 6 years and is followed by 2 years of postdoctorate training. Residency is limited to clinical obstetrics and gynecology. No formal subspecialty training exists. Research projects are funded and guided by the Health Ministry and Academy of Medical Science. Most articles are published in Russian and are therefore unknown to physicians in the West. Modern medical technology is not available in the practice of obstetrics and gynecology. Abortion remains the leading method of contraception. Perinatal and infant mortality in the USSR is higher than that in comparable Western countries.