Today’s promoted HEW posts feature work on focusing relief efforts around need, and for assessment and research in the face of humanitarian crises. Learn more about Evidence Aid and Humanitarian Aid Week here. Webinar: Evidence reviews and field data collection to strengthen disaster preparedness and response at the Red Cross. This webinar will run from […]
Category: Global Health
Humanitarian Evidence Week, Nov 20
Today’s promoted HEW posts feature work on focusing relief efforts around need, and for assessment and research in the face of humanitarian crises. Learn more about Evidence Aid and Humanitarian Aid Week here. Blog: “Because rolling dice, asking for divine intervention and taking wild stabs at the problem don’t work”: The use of evidence in […]
Humanitarian Evidence Week, Nov 19
We continue our promotion of Humanitarian Evidence Week with a selection of blog texts, and a reminder about the webinar. Blog: Clinical evidence from humanitarian settings: The case report and its importance Written by Marta Balinska, MSF Switzerland, Joanna Ventikos, Oxford University Press and Iveta Simera, Global Health Network. Clinical case reports – or descriptions […]
Humanitarian Evidence Week! Nov 19-25
We at MEDICAL HUMANITIES welcome our readers to take part in Humanitarian Evidence Week 2018. What is Humanitarian Evidence Aid? Evidence Aid was established as a charity in 2015. When disaster strikes, from fire to epidemics to famine, the difficulty isn’t just providing aid, it’s knowing how to provide aid effectively. It does no good […]
Global Health Humanities: A New Avenue For Medical Students
This blog post is from Mariam Ahmed and Farhiya Omar, both medical students at St George’s, University of London. Rewind a few years, to life before medical school. Our intentions for being doctors were first and foremost to benefit and help fellow humans in their times of most need by being compassionate souls and embracing […]
Pilgrims’ Progress: Need for a Humanitarian Mass-Gathering Policy
In this blog, Kesavan Rajasekharan Nayar and his colleagues discuss the need for an international, multi-dimensional mass-gathering policy, using the case study of a mass-gathering phenomenon for religious purposes in Kerala, India which draws about 45 million people annually. Mass-gathering in such huge numbers poses considerable challenges in terms of communicable and non-communicable disease surveillance, […]
Eat, Drink, Be NOT Merry and Die Too: Public Health Implications of Alcohol Consumption
In this blog post, Kesavan Rajasekharan Nayar and his colleagues discuss the public health implications of excessive alcohol consumption on the people of Kerala, India. Alcoholism has a major share in the morbidity profile of the Kerala society; apart from serious emotional, familial and economic crises, it also leads to higher rates of suicides. This is […]
Crafting Resistance: Mental Health and Well-Being Among Refugee Groups
Today’s guest blog post comes from Dr. Jasmine Gideon, who is a senior lecturer in Development Studies at the Department of Geography at Birkbeck, University of London. Approaches to understanding trauma among refugee populations There has been a growing consensus within academic and policy debates on the limitations of bio-medical approaches to understanding trauma and mental health among […]
Wuthering Wastes and the Withering State of Kerala, India
This week’s blog post comes from Kesavan Rajasekharan Nayar from the Global Institute of Public Health in Thiruvananthapuram and his co-workers. The blog succinctly presents the case of waste accumulation and its public health implications in Kerala, which is one of the most developed states of India. They point out that the public health implications […]
Talk to Her: Arab Women Unveil Taboos
In this podcast, three film industry women talk mental health and violence with our film and media correspondent, Khalid Ali. ‘Mamsous: Deranged’ is a short film about mental health and wellbeing through the story of three people, who share their experiences with clinical depression and panic attacks. It was directed by Shatha Masoud, an Emarati […]