Showing posts with label Health articles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health articles. Show all posts
Tuesday 26 November 2013
Friday 22 November 2013
Thursday 21 November 2013
Apps for Health
Also See, Best Apps for Health
Nike Training Club
How it works: Choose your fitness level and goal and then let Nike Training Club suggests from over 100 workouts to get you on the fast track to fit - without the costly personal training sessions.
This app offers 15, 30 and 45-minute workouts attributing audio guidance and video demos from top Nike trainers and athletes. Bonus: Most workouts require minimal equipment.
Availability: Free for iOS and Android.
MyFitnessPal
How it works: MyFitnessPal is one of the prime names in the health app store. With a catalogue of more two million food items, the app makes it simple for users to be in track of calories and much more.
That list can be used with all diets, whether you are going low-carb, high-protein, or just demanding to eat healthier.
Availability: Free for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry.
How it works: Choose your fitness level and goal and then let Nike Training Club suggests from over 100 workouts to get you on the fast track to fit - without the costly personal training sessions.
This app offers 15, 30 and 45-minute workouts attributing audio guidance and video demos from top Nike trainers and athletes. Bonus: Most workouts require minimal equipment.
Availability: Free for iOS and Android.
MyFitnessPal
How it works: MyFitnessPal is one of the prime names in the health app store. With a catalogue of more two million food items, the app makes it simple for users to be in track of calories and much more.
That list can be used with all diets, whether you are going low-carb, high-protein, or just demanding to eat healthier.
Availability: Free for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry.
Everest
How it works: This app is once again about setting goals and getting over hurdles. Whether you want to drop a few pounds, learn a new language, travel the world, or start saving more each month, the gradually little by little tips and encouragement from other users will help instigate you to accomplish your individual 'summit.' Use the app to set reminders, put in order smaller mini-goals, and connect with other people on the same lane.
Also take photos, share comments on Facebook and Twitter, and network with other Everest users - even if your journey is a private one, the app makes it easy to get hold from friends and other goal-setters.
Availability: Free for iOS.
Epicurious
How it works: It helps you to search through more than 30,000 professionally-created recipes, save your favorites recipes, and create shopping lists require with this essential kitchen app.
On top of the basic recipes and shopping lists, the app offers bit by bit directions to help even trainee cooks navigate more complicated recipes.
Availability: Free for iOS and Android.
Zipongo
How it works: Zipongo is all about eating healthier. The app recommends concessions for healthy items, encloses a meal planning program, and a healthy reward system backed by employers and insurance companies that incentivizes better choices.
Now healthy food will not remain costly and complicated. Zipongo helps lower the cost and offer planning for healthier meals and improved grocery lists. The rewards system helps circle in employers.
Availability: Free for iOS and coming soon for Android.
Lumosity Brain Trainer or Brain Trainer Special
How it works: Both apps consist of exercises that aim to help with memory, attention and processing speed. The platform promises to improve memory, attention span, processing speed and mental flexibility, with personalized brain challenges designed to help with practical problems.
Availability: Lumosity Brain Trainer Free for iOS.
Brain Trainer Special Free for Android
Khan Academy
How it works: This app has lots of educational stuff loaded in it. Khan Academy features hundreds of video classes on each subject with a blink of eye, easy quality and supportive visual aids. It also helps teachers for the academic in their class room.
Why it's Friendly: This app makes that entire lesson handy with options to download specific videos and track your learning progress. Brain health is a vital piece of overall health and Khan Academy is paving a trail.
Availability: Free for iOS and Windows Phone.
How it works: This app is once again about setting goals and getting over hurdles. Whether you want to drop a few pounds, learn a new language, travel the world, or start saving more each month, the gradually little by little tips and encouragement from other users will help instigate you to accomplish your individual 'summit.' Use the app to set reminders, put in order smaller mini-goals, and connect with other people on the same lane.
Also take photos, share comments on Facebook and Twitter, and network with other Everest users - even if your journey is a private one, the app makes it easy to get hold from friends and other goal-setters.
Availability: Free for iOS.
Epicurious
How it works: It helps you to search through more than 30,000 professionally-created recipes, save your favorites recipes, and create shopping lists require with this essential kitchen app.
On top of the basic recipes and shopping lists, the app offers bit by bit directions to help even trainee cooks navigate more complicated recipes.
Availability: Free for iOS and Android.
Zipongo
How it works: Zipongo is all about eating healthier. The app recommends concessions for healthy items, encloses a meal planning program, and a healthy reward system backed by employers and insurance companies that incentivizes better choices.
Now healthy food will not remain costly and complicated. Zipongo helps lower the cost and offer planning for healthier meals and improved grocery lists. The rewards system helps circle in employers.
Availability: Free for iOS and coming soon for Android.
Lumosity Brain Trainer or Brain Trainer Special
How it works: Both apps consist of exercises that aim to help with memory, attention and processing speed. The platform promises to improve memory, attention span, processing speed and mental flexibility, with personalized brain challenges designed to help with practical problems.
Availability: Lumosity Brain Trainer Free for iOS.
Brain Trainer Special Free for Android
Khan Academy
How it works: This app has lots of educational stuff loaded in it. Khan Academy features hundreds of video classes on each subject with a blink of eye, easy quality and supportive visual aids. It also helps teachers for the academic in their class room.
Why it's Friendly: This app makes that entire lesson handy with options to download specific videos and track your learning progress. Brain health is a vital piece of overall health and Khan Academy is paving a trail.
Availability: Free for iOS and Windows Phone.
Pic Source :www.maketick.com
InfoSource: Hinduja Hospital
Tuesday 19 November 2013
Hand Washing, Work and Hygiene
Hand Washing
Whether at work or home, good hand washing is one of the most effective ways to help stop the spread of infection. Hands should be washed:
Before
• Eating or preparing food
• Giving medication or first aid
After
• Using the toilet
• Handling any animals
• Contact with bodily fluids
• Coughing, sneezing, or blowing your nose
• Contact with any potentially contaminated site e.g. office communal kitchen
Before and after
• Handling raw food
• Tending to someone who is ill And whenever...
• Hands appear dirt
source:http://www.hygienecouncil.org/
Friday 9 August 2013
Medical Insurance Policy for HIV Positive Patients
HIV Estimations 2012 based on HIV Sentinel Surveillance data up to 2010-11 highlighted that the estimated number of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) in India was 20.89 lakh in 2011; State-wise break-up is annexed. As per HIV Estimations 2012, 86.34% of PLHIV were in the age group of 15-49 years in 2011 in India. HIV prevalence among pregnant women is considered proxy for HIV infections in general population. As per HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2010-11, pregnant women in rural areas have HIV prevalence of 0.37%, compared to 0.44% among those in urban areas. Ministry of Labour & Employment is implementing RashtriyaSwasthyaBimaYojana( RSBY) since 2008. From 2009 onwards, HIV/AIDS has been removed from the exclusion and therefore, PLHIV can get treated for hospitalisation within RSBY. At present 3.56 crore families in 28 States and Union Territories are covered under RSBY Pic Source:insuranceaim.com |
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Saturday 3 August 2013
Cloud Computing and Health Care
In due process of making ,all the viewers of this blog, aware about the new wave in technology, i,e "CloudComputing" its usage and benefits it provides across healthcare vertical in particular. I have collected and been collecting valuable videos of cloud computing on "Health care" industry.
On this platform I urge all the health care professionals who are directly or indirectly associated with IT usage in their professional life to experience the significance of Cloud computing and do let world know the success on implementation of it.
Here are the two more videos of cloud computing on healthcare industry.
You may like these too: Click Here ; Few more videos on Cloud computing
Thursday 1 August 2013
Tuesday 16 July 2013
Nutrition, an essential ingrediant for beauty !!!
Nutrition is the pre-requisite of beauty. There is
peaceful co-existence of Allopathy with Ayurveda, Yoga, Siddha and
Sowa-Rigpa in our country.Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare,
ShriGhulamNabi Azad said this in New Delhi today.
Addressing the 12thConvocation of the VLCC Institute of Beauty and
Nutrition,Shri Azad said we havepluralistic healthcare delivery system
where the Government provides opportunity to every recognized medical
system to develop and be practiced with a view to provide integrated and
holistic healthcare services. We are open to patronizing best practices
and proven standards for the benefit of the people. That is why
Naturopathy is also a recognized system in India. State Governments like
Gujarat, Rajasthan, Bihar, U.P., Maharashtra, Kerala, Tamil Nadu,
Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh have recognized the Naturopathy system.Five
State Governments such as Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Madhya
Pradesh and Chhattisgarh have established Naturopathy Development
Boards to impart registration to Naturopathy practitioners. There are
six Government Naturopathy Hospitals; two in Kerala, two in Karnataka,
one in Andhra Pradesh and one in Tamil Nadu and more than 100
Naturopathy doctors are working in Government under the NRHM scheme in
different States.Besides these, 20 Naturopathy Hospitals having more
than 100 beds and more than 100 having 50 to 100 beds are providing
treatment facilities on private initiative. More than 200 Naturopathy
Clinics are providing day care naturopathy health facilities to the
patients.All these medical systems are being utilized in the national
healthcare delivery system, each to its potential and availability in
different parts of the country.
Shri Azad said India incorporated traditional medicine services in the
public health delivery system since 1960s when AYUSH facilities were set
up under one roof in the Central Government Health Scheme dispensaries.
This process of mainstreaming has been augmented under the National
Rural Health Mission, with co-location of traditional medicine and
homeopathy facilities in the primary health network and capacity
building of AYUSH practitioners in the national programmes of
Reproductive & Child Health, Safe Child Birth, School Health,
Anaemia control and Malaria eradication. For mainstreaming of AYUSH
under the National Rural Health Mission, grants-in-aid amounting to more
than Rs 550 crores have been given to the State and UT Governments for
establishment of new AYUSH facilities in 803 Primary Health Centres, 113
Community Health Centres, 24 District Hospitals and for upgradation of
379 Exclusive AYUSH hospitals and 415 Dispensaries. There are 504 AYUSH
educational institutions including 111 postgraduate colleges, where
about 27,000 students are admitted annually in our country. These
include 16 colleges providing degree level education in Naturopathy and
Yogic Sciences. India has the largest number of traditional and
alternative medicine teaching institutions in the world.
Talking about the VLCC Institute of Beauty and Nutrition,Shri Azad said
this institution was established with a commitment to ensure a better
quality of life for everyone by making health, beauty and fitness
accessible to all sections of the society, boosting people’s confidence
and following ethical and socially relevant business practices.The
success in achieving this vision is clearly apparent now with 49
institutes in 35 cities, making VLCC the largest network of beauty and
nutrition institutes in South Asia. Over 50,000 students nation-wide
have received holistic training, both in terms of technical knowledge
and practical hand-on training in diverse fields, such as Hair
Designing, Media and Professional Make-up, Dietetics, Health and
Nutrition, Clinical Nutrition, Sports and Fitness Nutrition, Child Care
Nutrition, Cosmetology and Spa Therapies. VLCC is now recognized as a
world class training institution which equips its students to meet
global challenges and succeed in a globally competitive environment. The
social initiatives of VLCC for training of the visually impaired
members of the Blind Relief Association, collaborating with the Ministry
of Women and Child Development for training of destitute and homeless
women or supporting the education of challenged children are highly
commendable.
Pic Credit:http://www.slmhealth.com.au
Thursday 9 May 2013
Babys Day out !!!!!
The rooms have no numbers — just the couple’s name,
there are no visiting hours, and you deliver your baby and get driven
back home in a luxurious car, like a Mercedes!
That is the promise the Birthplace, a “birthing centre” in Hyderabad’s upmarket Banjara Hills, makes to expectant moms.
From planning a child to the actual delivery, a birthing
centre provides medical support services, but in a more friendly
ambience than a typical hospital or nursing home. The idea is to allay
the anxiety and fear associated with a delivery and to pamper the mother
without compromising on the safety of the delivery, says 28-year-old
Tarun Siripurapu, an engineer-turned-promoter of the proposed network.
Birthing centres, baby-shields and cord blood banking —
an array of baby-centred healthcare
services is on offer, as parents
pull out all stops for their children.
The birthing centre concept took shape some years ago,
with Apollo Hospital’s ‘The Cradle’. Fortis hospital group’s La Femme
and privately-owned Cloudnine followed.
More :Click Here
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Saturday 30 March 2013
Are Good Germs do make healthy buildings
Our bodies and homes are covered in microbes -- some good for us, some
bad for us, and some just along for the ride.
As we learn more about the
germs and microbes who share our living spaces, TED Fellow Jessica
Green asks: Can we design buildings that encourage happy, healthy
microbial environments?
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Thursday 28 March 2013
All about SPINE
"You are only as old as your spine is flexible" (Bob Harper: the trainer who is world famous from the reality show "The Biggest Loser")
The health of the spine is in relation with the health of your organs, and of course exercise.
Every one should be able to bend over and to touch the ground with the palms of his/hers hands.
Just try it and if you cannot do it, just try it every day a bit deeper, in a few months you will have restored the health of your spine.
A flexible body will give you a flexible mind.
Full Credit:CLick Here
Pic Source:www.basingstokechiropractor.co.uk
Tuesday 26 March 2013
Reforms in Health Sector 2013
The Eleventh Plan highlighted various
health issues in the country, which inter-alia included high Maternal Mortality
Ratio (MMR), Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) and Total Fertility Rate (TFR) and called for initiatives for improving health care
indicators. Various initiatives taken by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
in partnership with States/UTs have resulted in improvement of health care
indicators in the country. MMR in India declined from 254 per one lakh live
births for the period 2004-06 to 212 per one lakh live births during the period
2007-09. IMR registered a decline of 14 points from 58 per 1000 live births in
2005 to 44 per 1000 live births in 2011. TFR declined from 2.6 in 2008 to 2.5
in 2010.
Government
has taken several steps during the Eleventh Plan which inter alia, included the following :
(1) Effective implementation of
National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) to provide primary and secondary
healthcare. The main focus areas of NRHM include improvement in heath
infrastructure, providing adequate human resources to man health facilities and
to provide quality health care service.
(2)Effective planning and
implementation of Reproductive Child Health (RCH) related intervention which
inter-alia include development of Community Health Centres (CHCs) as First
Referral Units (FRUs), Upgradation of Primary Health Centres (PHCs) as 24x7
PHCs, implementation of JananiSurakshaYojana (JSY) and JananiShishuSurakshaKaryakaram
(JSSK), Life Saving Anesthetics Skills (LSAS) and Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC) training of
doctors, improved ante-natal, intra-natal and post natal care, development of Special Newborn Care Units
(SNCUs), Newborn Care Units (NBCUs) and Newborn Care Corners (NBCCs), Home
based newborn care, distribution of contraceptives through Accredited Social
Health Activists (ASHAs), improving access to spacing and terminal methods etc.
(3) Making available
tertiaryhealth care services through
strengthening of hospitals and establishment of AIIMS like institutions in the
country.
(4) Up-gradation of existing Government
medical colleges across the country.
(5)Effective Implementation of programmes for control of communicable and
non-communicable diseases.
(6) Mainstreaming of Indian System of
Medicine and Homeopathy.
(7) Increased public allocation for
health programmes.
Moreover,
the Twelfth Plan strategy is to strengthen initiatives taken in the Eleventh
Plan to further expand the reach of health care with focus on vulnerable and
marginalized sections of population. The Plan envisages substantial expansion
and strengthening of the public health systems and provision of robust primary
health care.
As per the 12th Five Year
Plan document, total public funding by the Centre and States, plan and
non-plan, on core health is envisaged to increase to 1.87 per cent of GDP by
the end of the Twelfth Plan. When viewed in the perspective of the broader
health sector, the total Government expenditure as a proportion of GDP is
envisaged to increase to 3.04 per cent by the end of the Twelfth Plan. The
allocation of 12th Five Year Plan for Ministry of Health and Family
Welfare has been substantially increased to Rs. 300018 crore.
Pic Source:the hindu.com
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