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Global Health Workforce, Finances Remain Low for Mental Health
Worldwide, nearly 1 in 10 people have a mental health disorder, but only 1% of the global health workforce is working in mental health. This means, for example, that nearly half of the world’s population lives in a country where there is less than one psychiatrist per 100 000 people.
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MUrgency Launches Global Emergency Response Mobile App in India
A new decentralized and personalized mobile app called MUrgency ( One Global Emergency Response Network) is being set up to create a global emergency response to help people in distress in developing countries.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Rural India Healthier Than Urban India, Malayalees Sickest
As much as 86% of the rural population and 82% of the urban population is without health-expenditure support. The average medical expenditure for treating one ailment without being admitted to hospital was Rs 509 in rural India and Rs 639 in urban India. Up to 58% of hospital care occurred in private hospitals in rural India; it was 68% in urban India.
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- South Asia
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Sanofi Unveils Restructuring Plans, Prunes Business Units
Sanofi’s (SNY - Analyst Report) newly appointed Chief Executive Officer Olivier Brandicourt, after just three months of being at the helm, has made a big move by declaring plans to reorganize its business. Brandicourt intends to restructure the seven existing business units into five global business units. Along with its existing vaccines unit – Sanofi Pasteur – and the animal health business – Merial, the company plans to create three new global business units, namely, General Medicines & Emerging Markets, Specialty Care and Diabetes & Cardiovascular.
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- Health Care
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GSK and Save the Children Launch 2015 Call for Developing Country Healthcare Innovations to Reduce Child Deaths
GSK and Save the Children today announced the launch of their third annual $1 million Healthcare Innovation Award that rewards innovations in healthcare that have helped to reduce child deaths in developing countries.
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Caveats, Costs and Complexities Shadow First Malaria Vaccine
It's a showpiece drug that has the potential to end a disease that kills half a million African children a year. Yet even before it wins a license, the world's first malaria vaccine has lost some of its sheen.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Bigger May Not Be Better for China’s ‘Super Hospitals’
Just before midnight, the pavement outside the glowing high-rise towers of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University is littered with slumbering bodies. Splayed on colorful mats or tucked into folding cots, these are patients' relatives.
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- South Asia
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Channing Tatum Retires From Stripping and Focuses on Saving Lives
Recently, we all found out Channing Tatum?'s deepest, darkest secrets revealed during an AMA — from his admittance that his acting was horrible in Step Up? to his love for Pinterest. (Yes, he seriously has a Pinterest board, and it's magical.)
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- Health Care
- Region
- Latin America
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