International Health Masters

Top 50 Blogs by International Health Organizations

Written by admin at 08:00 am on 2nd June, 2011 Global Health, Health Policy

One of the most interesting career fields right now is international health. The idea that we can live in a world that is healthier for all is something that is becoming more attainable every day. You can be a part of the solution by becoming an expert in international health, or even by volunteering with different organizations. When you recognize that you can help with a problem, you become powerful.

The Internet provides you with the chance to connect with others, and learn of efforts being made right now in global health. All you have to do is look for the web sites and blogs of international health organizations. Governments, charities, religions and trusts are all working in the interest of public health. If you are interested, here are 50 great blogs by international health organizations:

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20 Essential Web Apps to Monitor Disease Outbreaks

Written by admin at 12:08 am on 14th November, 2010 Health Technology

For many healthcare professionals, keeping up with disease outbreaks just makes good sense for both home and work. Knowing what’s going on in your area can help you keep yourself safe at work, help you spot potential victims of outbreaks when you see them and can also help you keep your family healthy. Here are 20 web apps that can help you track disease outbreaks.

For Your iPhone

1. Outbreaks Near Me: This application is based on health map and is being used regularly by medical professionals to track the H1N1 flu outbreaks. The application was created by researchers at Children’s Hospital in Boston with help from MIT. This app is also available for the Android.
2. Mobile World Disaster: Mobile World Disaster can keep you updated on world disasters, like hurricanes and floods, as well as on disease outbreaks. This application is great not only for keeping up with disease outbreaks and weather issues in your own area, but for checking out places you’re planning to travel to.
3. Swine Flu News Tracker: Specifically designed to track outbreaks of the H1N1 virus, this application has been unbelievably helpful over the past two flu seasons. It uses the same technology as Mobile World Disaster, but has been tailored to tracking the H1N1 virus.
4. Influenza (H1N1) Tracker: Much like Swine Flu News Tracker, this application is specifically for informing about H1N1. This app breaks information down by country. However, within the US, you can also get it broken down by state, and includes the assessment level offered by the World Health Organization.
5. FDA Mobile: Information on this app comes directly from the US Food and Drug Administration. This application delivers disease outbreak information straight to your phone, as well as allowing you to search for other information from the FDA, such as food warnings and drug interactions. You can even find out when the latest medical treatments and devices get FDA approval.
6. CDC News Reader: This is all the outbreak information you need to know, straight from the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. Essentially, it sends you the latest news reports coming out of the CDCm, including disease outbreaks, emergency preparedness and travel notices.
7. PEPID Tracker: You’ll find out all the disease related information you need to know with this iPhone application. This is a great application for people who travel, because you can see what’s going on in the part of the world you’re traveling to. This application is also available for your Android and your Palm Pre.
8. Swine Flu Tracker: Another application designed primarily for H1N1 flu tracking. This app is aimed at travelers, and uses Google maps to display where the swine flu outbreaks have occurred. It also tracks where the flu is believed to be going.
9. The Swine Flu Tracker: This app was created by Garafa, the GPS developer, and aimed at the H1N1 predicted epidemic from last year. However, it is not limited to tracking Swine Flu outbreaks.
10. iEmergency: This app is really designed to help you after you’ve come down with an illness or had another emergency medical situation. You can store your allergies and other pertinent emergency information on your phone. If your phone is password protected, you can display a lock banner with your info.

For Your Android

11. Control of Communicable Diseases Manual: Primarily aimed at healthcare professionals, this app includes the latest on identifying, managing, and preventing hundreds of infectious diseases, as well as public health news feeds and links to journal abstracts and citations. This is the most widely recognized reference for public health workers.
12. Pathology and Disease: This application is a great way to learn more about the diseases that you find are spreading. It allows you to learn all about disease processes. This is a great application for all healthcare professionals.
13. Infectious Diseases: This application for your Android is a great teaching too for helping users learn more about communicable diseases.
14. : This application will give you all the information you need to ensure you’re prepared in the event of a flu pandemic.
15. Infections: This app is another great tool for learning all about infectious diseases, such as symptoms, treatments and mortality rates.
16. Travel Advisory Alerts: This application is the perfect one for travelers. It quickly updates you on all travel alerts, including disease outbreaks where you’re traveling.
17. Health News: Get all the health news you need including alerts about disease outbreaks with this android app.

For Your Blackberry

18. Flu Radar: Keep track of what’s going on this flu season with this app for your Blackberry.
19. My Personal Health Record: Keep all of your personal health information in one convenient place, so that when you get sick from the flu or another communicable disease while traveling, your physician will have everything he needs.

For your Palm Pre

20. Profile MD: This is a great personal health record for your phone. You can keep your allergies, drugs and any medical alert information right at your fingertips.

6 Quick and Easy Ways to Travel Healthier

Written by admin at 06:51 am on 2nd August, 2010 Uncategorized

It is therefore is very necessary to take good care of your health while you are on travel as to enjoy your journey to its fullest and with entirety. In case, if you are not alert to  take care of yourself and more concerned when you are going for journey then you can sometimes even can spoil all excitement and fun at journey. So you should follow as below provided steps as to remain healthy when you are on the tour and journey of a place.

1. Always plan ahead of journey whether there are required any immunizations or vaccinations before setting on journey. Some vaccines don’t reach the highest protection until about 6 weeks after you get the shots.  Before going for journey there should be a medical and dental check up before taking the trip to the place for journey.
2. More natural and practical is that you should first enquire with your doctor about taking any vaccine on the journey.  Some general Vaccine a person should take on journey includes Hepatitis A or hepatitis A immune globulin, Hepatitis B, Influenza (the flu), Japanese encephalitis, Measles-mumps-rubella, Meningococcal meningitis and  Yellow fever
3. However, the another important way to keep you healthier while on a travel to a place of importance with respect to leisure activities is eating carefully at place of increased risk of traveler’s diarrhea.  Steaming-hot, well-cooked food is best to eat and one should always avoid eating from street vendors and unpasteurized dairy products.
4. In case you are traveling an area with having risk for malaria than you should take some preventive medicine for malaria and other diseases. Always keep in your mind to take medicine for malaria, even, before you leave on the trip. Take that medicine during journey and even enjoy them if you take it for 4 weeks even after you get home.
5. Never take up overcrowded transportation and avoid journeying in vehicles without any safety belts. Always wear a helmet in case you are riding a motorcycle. Do not drive at night at areas which are not familiar to you.
6. While you are set to take journey you should check out your first aid box for having all compulsory and necessary medications being in it. There medicine should be in the box for diarrhea and upset stomach. Check for medicines for cold. Also keep in first aid box medicine for Pain like as aspirin, acetaminophen, naproxen, ibuprofen. Scissors, tweezers, nail clippers, pocket knife, thermometer, mirror, hand wipes and hand sanitizers should be the part of First Aid Box.

5 Most Famous Health Administrators in History

Written by admin at 05:16 am on 4th June, 2010 Uncategorized

Health care administrators or health services administrators play different role in health care system. There are two types of administrators, generalists and specialists. Generalists are individuals who are responsible for managing or helping to manage an entire facility and specialists look around a specific branch of health. Below are mentioned some health care administrator famous in history.

1. Henry Norman Bethune: He was a Canadian physician and medical innovator and was better know for his medical services during the Spanish Civil War and with the People’s Liberation Army during the Second Sino Japanese War. He created the first mobile blood-transfusion service in Spain in 1936. He was the pioneer of theory of socialized medicine and formed the Montreal Group for the Security of People’s Health.
2. Christian Albert Theodor Billroth: He was a German born Austrian surgeon and an amateur musician. He is considered as founding father of the present day abdominal surgery. He is held responsible for great achievements in surgery including the first esophagectomy (1871), the first laryngectomy (1873), and above all the most famous and predominant successful gastrectomy (1881) for gastric cancer. He also put great efforts of him in creating first modern school of thought in surgery.
3. Guy de Chauliac: He was born in, Chaulhac, Lozère France, the son of French peasants. After learning medicine and anatomy he became physician to three popes.  He was among the most important physicians of his time, and his ideas were in circulation and in cause for about 200 years. Chauliac’s Chirurgia magna is his seminal work on surgery covering anatomy, bloodletting, cauterization, drugs, anesthetics, wounds, and fractures, ulcers, special diseases, and antidotes involving other things.
4. Marcello Malpighi: He was an Italian doctor, who developed many concepts related to physiological features. In 1956 he received a chair of medical practice in the university, after three years when he applied for the position. Later same year, the University of Pisa created a chair of theoretical medicine for him. In 1667 Henry Oldenburg invited Malpighi to correspond with the Royal Society regularly and he became a fellow the next year, the first such recognition given to an Italian.
5. Jean-Martin Charcot: He was a French neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology. He is termed as founder and father of modern neurology. His works has aggressively influenced the fields of neurology and psychology. He is called as “The Napoleon of the neuroses.” He to a greater extent was influenced by Spanish and Chinese Communist movements.  He specifically refused to work under Chiang Kai Shek’s Nationalist government and insisted to help Chinese Communists therefore.

Masters In International Health

Written by admin at 12:08 pm on 24th May, 2010 Uncategorized

Focusing on theory lessons such as medical anthropology, biomedicine, epidemiology, tropical medicine, nutrition, sociology, clinical and nursing sciences, political science, parasitology and public health, Masters in International Health training is focused on providing professionals who can handle health issues affecting middle and low income societies. When pursuing these studies, concentration will be more levied on research methods and training and special emphasis is laid on how students can analyze and handle the more complex and serious diseases plaguing these groups.

Masters in International Health also focuses on aspects that affect regional and local health and how the relationship between the society and health system are inter-related to affect the general service offered in low and middle income societies. In essence, it will encompass all factors that affect health such as promotion of health and how to look for reliable preventive measures, how to treat various ailments and diseases and effective rehabilitation measures. Due to the fact that there are various social and economical aspects that hinder provision of quality health services, these studies will also explore the reasons that trigger these inequalities and use analytical methods to outline procedures through which this state can be reversed.

If you are interested in pursuing this line of study, then you can enroll for a Masters in International Health program online and have the chance to change the manner in which people perceive the medical industry. This program is especially ideal for medical practitioners who at one time or another have come face to face with the issues earlier mentioned. By pursuing these masters, they are better equipped with the necessary information and skills to approach and address these issues with effectiveness. Among some of the benefits students accrue from enrolling for online studies include; the opportunity to expand their career while still working due to the fact that they do not have to quit work, gaining access to tailor made programs which will suit their programs and gaining the necessary tools which will enable them to come up with conclusive, direct and appropriate mannerisms of dealing with the health issues that affect these disadvantaged groups on an international level.

Once you have decided to enroll for Masters in international Health studies, then you have to pick out an online university that will match up to your needs and on average the whole course may take up to one and a half years for full time students and approximately three years for students who prefer to spread the training period. The cost of the whole course may also vary from one university to another and as such, you should do proper background research to establish which online universities offer favorable prices. Successful graduates can get employment in international public health sectors, health work trainees development project officers and international research.