Articles Impacts of climate change on Egyptian population and the role of public health to mitigate its hazards December 16, 2022 by GPH Conference In October 2020 the World Bank approved a 200 million dollars project for Egypt to improve air quality, combat climate change and reduce emissions of air pollutants and global warming. Population will be protected from climate change by essential package of public health interventions. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) report (2018) explores Egypt’s current development trajectory to 2030 across areas of human and economic development. It then presents five alternative scenarios designed to help explore the […] Read more »
Articles Utility of Acanthosis Nigricans and Skin Tags as a screening tool for risk of developing NCDs: A cross sectional study at a tertiary care health facility in Lucknow December 16, 2022 by GPH Conference There has been a sudden increase in the burden of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and a decreasing trend of communicable diseases (epidemiological transition) in India in last three decades. Identifying the individuals with NCDs (or) at risk of developing NCDs would help to curtail the probabilities of worse outcomes in future by urgent promotive, preventive or curative actions taken in time. Cutaneous markers like Acanthosis Nigricans (AN) and Skin Tags (ST) may be supportive evidence in […] Read more »
Articles Perceptions of school management on the relationship between school nutrition and development of non-communicable dis-eases in a rural South African district: A qualitative study December 16, 2022 by GPH Conference Globally, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) were responsible for 41 million deaths in 2016, with the majority of these occurring in low and middle-income countries. These diseases were on the rise as a result of unhealthy, low-quality, and unbalanced diets, which resulted in overweight and obesity. The National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) was created to regulate the foods sold to schoolchildren. The aim of the study was to ascertain school management teams’ perspectives on the relationship between […] Read more »
Articles Embodying Transgender: Narratives of Trans Women in Online Forums December 16, 2022 by GPH Conference In this paper, I will discuss the way that trans women embody their transgender identity, focusing on identity questioning, gender dysphoria, clinical gatekeeping, and medicalized narratives. Situated within the hermeneutics methodological approach, I adopted the unobtrusive research as a research method, where data was derived from online forums where trans women posted content about their perspectives and experiences of gender and gender transitioning. The thematic analysis method was used for data analysis. Findings suggest that […] Read more »
Articles Climate Change: Perspectives for Global Mental Health December 16, 2022 by GPH Conference Climate change is the most important global health challenge today. It’s greater than Covid-19 and that has been a massive challenge. The impact of climate change is on everyone, young, older, rich, poor, urban and rural. The high income through to lower income countries. None are immune. The reason why it is, in my opinion, the most important global health challenge today – there is no vaccine for it and never will be. Climate change […] Read more »
