World Health Day

world health day

World Health Day is celebrated every 7 April to commemorate the anniversary of the founding of World Health Organization (WHO) in 1948. One different topic is selected every year to highlight the priority and concern of WHO. World Health Day is a global campaign to make health challenge in certain emerging health issues and inviting every people, health policy makers in all countries to make action to improve people's health and well-being.

In 2012, World Health Day focuses on "Active Aging" with the theme: "Good health adds life to years". It has a message that good health throughout life can help older men and women lead full and productive lives and be a resources for their circumstances. Ageing is something that will happen on everyone, whether male or female, rich or poor, town or village, etc.

Population ageing is a global phenomenon that is both inevitable and predictable. it will change society at many levels and in complex ways, creating both challenges and opportunities. on the one hand, older people already make a significant contribution to society, whether it is through the formal workforce, through informal work and volunteering or within the family. We can foster this contribution by helping them maintain good health and by breaking down the many barriers that prevent their ongoing participation in society. on the other hand, towards the end of life, many older people will face health problems and challenges to their ability to remain independent. We need to address these too, and do it in a way that is affordable and sustainable for families
and society.

There is a policy framework document from WHO. It contains existing health data and draws on some exciting new work to help us understand what older people need and identify any actions we can take. There are some sections: key points, the demographic of ageing, the epidemiology of ageing, taking action on ageing and health and some recommendations of ageing. For download the document please click here

Source: 

WHO Official Website (http://www.who.int)

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Certified Nursing Assistant Duties And Responsibilities

Certified Nursing Assistant Duties And Responsibilities

Certified Nursing Assistant or CNA
Health industries have grown rapidly. Many people lost their jobs and fight to survive in this hard economic climate. Health providers must compete each other too, according to high demand of good quality healthcare. They should hire medical and nursing staff who have good capability.

Certified Nursing Assistant Duties And Responsibilities. Certified Nursing Assistants CNA, are nurses who are responsible for the more ordinary and basics of patient care. Compared to the ordinary nurses, they have different duties, according to their experiences and the facility of healthcare they work for. Here are some examples of duties they are responsible to handle: feeding patients who are unable to feed themselves, helping patients doing their daily activity life like dressing, moving about, preventing ulcus decubitus (bedsores), controlling patients' vital signs periodically, taking care about fluid and food intake, making beds, observing the physical and mental status of unstable patients, and all above will be reported to the nursing or medical staff.

Certified Nursing Assistant Duties And Responsibilities are most often work in home nursing, as the primary caregivers. It is likely for them to work overtime: at evenings, weekends, and holidays. Their salaries are widely variable, the average of  annual CNA salary  is about $20,500, but different from place to place. The increasing of life expectancy has been good for the outlook of this job. Many old ill patients need skilled care.

For estimation, there will be 19,800 jobs created for Certified Nursing Assistants in 2008-2009. Are you interested to become CNA? You must have at least 100 hours of clinical practice and 50 hours of classroom compulsory instruction. Department of Health Services will give you a certification with the following competensions: health screening and tuberculosis (TB) tests, completion of 150 hours of training in special program hold by Department of Health Services (certified nursing assistant programs), passing the criminal background checklist, and completion the competency CNA exams and nurse assistant certification. The license will last periodically (2 years) so you have to renew it by completing 48 hours of in-service training and college studies.

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