By GHHub
Up to 20 percent of children in the United States suffer from a mental disorder, and the number of kids diagnosed with one has been rising for more than a decade, according to a report released on Thursday by the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention. via Up to 1 in 5 children suffer [...]
By GHHub
The American Psychiatric Association is about to release an updated version of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The DSM helps mental health professionals decide who has problems such as depression, anxiety and schizophrenia. via Why Is Psychiatry’s New Manual So Much Like The Old One? : Shots – Health News : NPR.
By GHHub
People in the military who suffer more than one mild traumatic brain injury face a significantly higher risk of suicide, according to research by the National Center for Veterans Studies at the University of Utah. via Repeat brain injury raises soldiers’ suicide risk.
By Eldis Jobs
Organization: International Medical Corps Country: World Closing date: 21 Jun 2013 NOTE – THIS POSITION IS TO APPLY TO A STAND BY ROSTER FOR INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM (ERT). Candidates selected for this position will be placed on the ERT standby roster and may be called when the International Medical Corps ERT responds to an emergency. This position is not compensated unless candidates are responding to an emergency response. When catastrophe hits, International Medical Corps is often one of the first humanitarian aid organizations on the scene—providing rapid and effective aid that saves lives, reduces suffering, and promotes self reliance. International Medical Corps has established an International Emergency Roster to ensure that emergency positions are filled in a timely manner with professionally qualified, gender balanced, geographically diverse, linguistically able and a highly motivated corps of professionals.
By Eldis Jobs
Organization: International Medical Corps Country: World Closing date: 21 Jun 2013 NOTE – THIS POSITION IS TO APPLY TO A STAND BY ROSTER FOR INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM (ERT). Candidates selected for this position will be placed on the ERT standby roster and may be called when the International Medical Corps ERT responds to an emergency. This position is not compensated unless candidates are responding to an emergency response. When catastrophe hits, International Medical Corps is often one of the first humanitarian aid organizations on the scene—providing rapid and effective aid that saves lives, reduces suffering, and promotes self reliance. International Medical Corps has established an International Emergency Roster to ensure that emergency positions are filled in a timely manner with professionally qualified, gender balanced, geographically diverse, linguistically able and a highly motivated corps of professionals
By Eldis Jobs
Organization: International Medical Corps Country: Turkey Closing date: 21 Jun 2013 International Medical Corps is a global, humanitarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs. Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, International Medical Corps is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in underserved communities worldwide. By offering training and health care to local populations and medical assistance to people at highest risk, and with the flexibility for rapid response to emergencies. International Medical Corps rehabilitates devastated health care systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.
By Eldis Jobs
Organization: Management Sciences for Health Country: Afghanistan Closing date: 14 Jun 2013 SCOPE OF WORK CONTEXT AND BACKGROUND: Funded by USAID, the 5-year (2011-2016) Leadership, Management and Governance Project (LMG) collaborates with health leaders at all levels to improve leadership, management and governance practices to create stronger health systems and improve health for all, including vulnerable populations worldwide. The LMG technical approach has four main pillars including senior leadership and governance; local ownership for local results; knowledge exchange and measurement and gender equity. This LMG Afghanistan (LMG-AF) project is a field support buy-in to the LMG project which aims to further strengthen the capacity of the Afghan Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) to lead, manage and govern the scale of access to and quality of the Basic Package of Health Services (BPHS) and the Essential Package of Hospital Services (EPHS), particularly for those at highest health risk. The project will also continue to support capacity building of the Ministry of Education.
By GHHub
Disrupted sleep is so commonly a symptom of depression that some of the first things doctors look for in diagnosing depression are insomnia and excessive sleeping. Now, however, scientists have observed for the first time a dysfunctional body clock in the brains of people with depression. via Brain’s Circadian Clock Disrupted in Depressed People: Scientific [...]
By GHHub
Children born after being exposed to the flu during pregnancy may have a nearly four-fold higher risk of later developing bipolar disorder, according to a small new study. via Bipolar disorder tied to mother’s flu in pregnancy | Reuters.
By Sara Gorman
Over the last decade, a number of influential organisations have called for the integration of mental, neurological and substance use (MNS) disorders into large scale public health programmes. Although progress at the implementation level has been slow, the development of a number of evidence-based, potentially scalable interventions in the MNS field provides new impetus to [...]
By GHHub
Not only are women who have experienced violence from their partner (intimate partner violence) at higher risk of becoming depressed, but women who are depressed may also be at increased risk of experiencing intimate partner violence, according to a study by international researchers published in this week’s PLOS Medicine. via Link between intimate partner violence [...]
By Eldis Jobs
Organization: International Medical Corps Country: United States of America Closing date: 14 Jun 2013 International Medical Corps is a global, humanitarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs. Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, International Medical Corps is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in underserved communities worldwide. By offering training and health care to local populations and medical assistance to people at highest risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergency situations, International Medical Corps rehabilitates devastated health care systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance. PROGRAM BACKGROUND The East & Southern Africa portfolio is one of the most demanding regions within the organization, also with the most potential for growth.
By Eldis Jobs
Organization: International Medical Corps Closing date: 14 Jun 2013 International Medical Corps is a global, humanitarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs. Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, International Medical Corps is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in underserved communities worldwide. By offering training and health care to local populations and medical assistance to people at highest risk, and with the flexibility for rapid response to emergencies. International Medical Corps rehabilitates devastated health care systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.
By Eldis Jobs
Organization: International Medical Corps Closing date: 14 Jun 2013 International Medical Corps is a global, humanitarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs. Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, International Medical Corps is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in underserved communities worldwide. By offering training and health care to local populations and medical assistance to people at highest risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergency situations, International Medical Corps rehabilitates devastated health care systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance. PROGRAM SUMMARY: The influx of refugees into southern Turkey due to conflict in Syria has increased drastically since mid-2012.
