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GHF2012 – Plenary session PL01
Wednesday, April 18 2012, 09:00-10:30, Room 2 Chronic Disease Burden: Balancing Prevention and Care Chair: Fred Paccaud, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland, Louis Loutan,…
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Mental Health and Young People: International Perspectives on Growing Challenges
Posted on November 21, 2011 | No CommentsThere is urgent need of innovative and multisectoral interventions to adress mental health issues in young people. Lack of trained professionnals or adapted services, impact of socioeconomic factors on mental health are some of the challenges faced by many countries around the world. Interprofessional collaboration, community programs, international partnerships and web-based interventions can maximize the use and exchange of expertise among professionals, young people and their families. -
New Educational Programme for Patients with Epilepsy at Geneva University Hospital: Switzerland
Posted on November 21, 2011 | No CommentsEven in countries with easy access to medication, patients with epilepsy continue to suffer from psycho-social difficulties often underestimated by health caregivers. This project describes a new educational programme for patients with epilepsy at Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland that aims to explore patient's knowledge, perceptions and beliefs of their illness. -
Steep Ramp Test: An Efficient Tool to Develop a Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program in the Absence of a Cardio Pulmonary Exercise Test
Posted on November 21, 2011 | No CommentsThe Cardio Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) is a gold standard for the prescription of exercise in a pulmonary rehabilitation program for COPD patients. However, this test is expensive and time consuming. This study aims at assessing the Steep Ramp Test, an alternative low cost tool to evaluate exercise intensity in the absence of CPET. -
Geographic epidemiology of death from cardiovascular disease in cities of Kerman province, Iran
Posted on November 21, 2011 | No CommentsThe prevalence of cardiovascular diseases, especially coronary heart disease, is increasing in Iran. The purpose of this study is to provide geographic distribution maps of death rate of cardiovascular disease in the cities of Kerman province for the year 2003-2004. -
School Based Intervention to Prevent and Manage Obesity: Tunisia
Posted on November 21, 2011 | No CommentsThis paper presents the results of a pre assessment aiming at studying the prevalence of obesity and overweight among two randomized samples of schoolchildren aged 11 to 16 years old, enrolled in a school based intervention to prevent and manage obesity in the region of Sousse, Tunisia.