(The prevalence of high risk is higher in the agriculture sector, followed by construction. Photo: SINC.)

“In Spain, approximately one million workers reaches a high level of cardiovascular risk, but only a minority of them are classified as such,” SINC Miguel Ángel Sánchez Chaparro, ICARIA study coordinator and researcher at the University of Málaga (UMA .) “These figures show that most probably ignore this risk.”

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(Public health budgets are one of the first victims of such deep crisis as the present. Image: P. Osman)

But are not the only possible action. A group of thirteen professionals with experience in health management at different levels published in Gaceta Sanitaria A total of 101 actions to improve efficiency and reduce wastage in the NHS.

The expert group was convened by the Health Innovation Society Foundation and the Institut d’Estudis de la Salut and consisted of doctors, economists and pharmaceutical institutions such as the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, ​​the Centre for Research in Economics and Health Pompeu Fabra University and the Higher School of Public Health Research, which owns Salvador Peiró, first author of the article.

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The research, conducted by a compilation of chapters, analyzes the health situation of women from the study of scientific literature on maternal mortality and intimate partner violence and identify disparities in development in the Spanish autonomous communities and their relationship with women’s health.

The lack of knowledge of macro-structural factors, namely cultural factors, educational, political, economic and social development affecting maternal mortality and the lack of knowledge of intimate partner violence focused on the aggressor, prevents make effective interventions based on evidence. This is one of the results extracted from the thesis.

The author Mercedes Carrasco Portiño Elcira examined, three of the seven articles in the thesis, the gender development in Spain. By calculating the Gender Development Index (GDI) is measured health, economy and education for Spain and its regions from 1980 to 2005.

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“The condom is a step towards autonomy and decision making specific to women about their sexual and reproductive health,” said Carmen Amela, Director General of Public Health and Foreign Health at the launch of the campaign to promote female condom.

The spread of the campaign will run through pharmacies, of which 43,000 have been distributed posters and 216,000 pamphlets. Pharmacists will have the basic information to introduce the condom in a positive way and promote acceptance among the female audience.

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Arranged in barrels of concrete or plastic, these systems to filter water through sand and certain biological agents removed 95 to 99 percent of bacteria, viruses, worms and particles in the water. A layer of microorganisms in the top of the sand bed consume organic pollutants and some other pollutants, while the sand at the bottom removes contaminants that cause turbidity and odor.

BSF system (which is as they are called to the systems of this type) can produce several tens of liters of clean water in an hour. But it can easily exceed one hundred kilograms of weight and cost up to $ 30, an expense that some families in the developing countries can not afford.

Kristen Jellison researcher at Lehigh University and his colleagues are trying to build a BSF that is smaller than standard models, but equally effective.

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“People with intellectual disabilities and people with mental illness who are within the penal system, prison, show that the socio-health intervention has been inadequate, although there as a resource,” says researcher Ramos Feijoo.

The UA study addresses the problem of people with intellectual disabilities in the criminal prison and analyzes the characteristics of this population through the study of the processes of exclusion and integration (personal, familial and social).

“One way to prevent people with intellectual disabilities integrate the prisons is directly related to adequate detection of risk situations in which they find people in these groups. Missing, or are not sufficiently exploited the social and medical devices that help effective social integration of people with intellectual disabilities can present conflicting profiles, “says study

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Josh James has had a car accident half past one after seeing the film in 3D Alice in Wonderland. He is convinced that these two events are not unrelated. This technology is so dangerous is that? Certainly, Avatar has created excitement, but it has also caused discomfort in some people. Many had to remove their glasses and leave the cinema, and it took them several hours to recover from their three-dimensional experience.

Headaches, burning eyes and itchy eyes, loss of orientation, headache, nausea, and even, at worst, epilepsy or heart attacks: all these can result from watching movies in three dimensions by people sensitive or predisposed. Josef Syka [1], Institute of Experimental Medicine in Prague [2] says that the main problem comes from the brain: “The spatial vision is based primarily on the fact that each eye sees our space a little differently “.

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In the study, the team of Amy L. Nadine R. Anderson Sahyoun, both the Department of Nutrition and Food Science at the University of Maryland, along with colleagues from five other institutions, have shown that diets which promote healthier food consumption are associated with a significantly reduced mortality when compared with Diets high in sugar and fat. In the study, analyzed the associations of dietary patterns with mortality rates, through the study of eating patterns of 2,500 adults aged between 70 and 79, for a period of 10 years.

The results of this study suggest that elderly people following current dietary recommendations to consume relatively high amounts of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, dairy products, skim or low-fat, meat, poultry and fish, are more likely to enjoy a better nutritional status, better quality of life and a higher survival than those who do not follow these guidelines.

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