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Global challenges today, Tuesday 4 April at the 15th World Congress on Public Health
Researchers available for interview, contact Niall Byrne on 0417 131 977 or niall@scienceinpublic.com.au [Read more…] about Global challenges – World Congress on Public Health Day 2
Adolescence can be the best years of your life—exploring your freedom to think, party, travel. But it can also be the worst—accidental injuries, street crime, depression, stress, and putting on unwanted weight.
Melburnian George Patton explored these issues for the 2016 Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing.
Wednesday evening George will join a panel of teen health experts for the Melbourne Conversations event The light and dark sides of adolescence for the World Public Health Congress in Melbourne on 5 April.
George is available for interview on how we can help our own children and our city’s children, survive and thrive through adolescence.
Other stories from the World Congress on Public Health include
Researchers available for interview, contact Niall Byrne on 0417 131 977 or niall@scienceinpublic.com.au [Read more…] about Surviving the dark side of adolescence
Media Release from the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth)
Monday 3 April 2017
Media Contact: Rachel Murphy Senior Media Advisor, 03 9667 1319 /0435 761 732, rmurphy@vichealth.vic.gov.au
VicHealth CEO Jerril Rechter announced the funding during the first plenary session of the 15th World Congress on Public Health 3–7 April. The Congress brings together leading international public health experts in Melbourne to share learnings from around the world.
Ms Rechter said VicHealth welcomed the opportunity to facilitate partnerships between leading global experts to tackle critical public health issues such as obesity, gender equality and mental wellbeing. [Read more…] about Collaboration key to tackling public health issues
Associate Professor Suzanne Belton says, ‘Telehealth abortions with tablets are a safe and effective way for Australian women to seek a termination of pregnancy.’
‘It is a low-risk procedure. Very few women needed extra support at a hospital for assistance with bleeding or additional pain relief.’
‘Women can use a telephone medical abortion service to speak with doctors and nurses to get information, tests and medications. So far more than 1000 women have used the service which is very affordable, since September 2015.’ [Read more…] about Providing abortion by telehealth: The first 1000 medical abortions safe and effective
More at www.wcph2017.com/media.php and @wcph2017 on Twitter.
Contact Niall on 0417-131-977, niall@scienceinpublic.com.au or Tanya on 0404-083-863 for interviews [Read more…] about Public Health Congress: Monday daily wrap up
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Tuberculosis (TB) is treatable and preventable. So why does it still kill more than 4,000 people each day? And what do we need to do to end the epidemic by 2030? We need to talk about solutions on World TB Day, Friday 24 March 2017.
Tuberculosis was the leading cause of death in Australian 130 years ago. Rates have plummeted since then, from 1,200 per million to four per million for males and from 900 to two per million for females, thanks to better living conditions, antibiotics, TB sanatoriums, immunisation and better screening.
Globally, we’re gaining ground in the fight to end TB:
The global average life expectancy for a girl born today is about 74 years. That’s 20 years more than women born in 1960.
An Australian girl born today can expect to live to 84 years. She’s gained a decade since 1960. Life expectancy for our Nepalese sisters has doubled from 35 to 71 years.
Around the world there’s been a remarkable transformation in the human condition. It’s come from a host of public achievements, including the following:
[Read more…] about Celebrating longer, healthier lives on International Women’s Day
The biggest powder bed 3D printed metal aerospace component is on display at the Melbourne International Airshow at Avalon.
Monash University has commissioned the world’s largest metal printer, and has used it to print a large door hinge from a Chinese jet airliner. The aluminium hinge weighs 11 kg and is 40 by 80 by 39 cm in size. It is the largest powder bed 3D printed metal aerospace component printed to date.
The $3.5 million Xline 2000R printer acquired by Monash University is one of five made to date by German manufacturer Concept Laser. It’s the only one outside America and Europe, the only one based in a university and the only one in the Southern Hemisphere available for contract manufacturing.
[Read more…] about Melbourne hosts the world’s largest 3D printer—and it’s open for business