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Climate change is reshaping disease dynamics, altering when and where disease strike. Let’s unite to understand and combat these shifts for global health. 🌎🦠 #ClimateAndHealth

Floods have a huge impact on people’s health that lasts far beyond the event itself. From the spread of diseases like cholera and dengue, to the mental health effects and disruption to ongoing healthcare, find out more in our new explainer ⤵️ https://t.co/KiikIow76O

Climate change can have serious impacts on health, such as increased heat-related illnesses, worsened air quality leading to respiratory problems, and the spread of infectious diseases. 🌍 #ClimateChange #Health #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #Awareness

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A Personal Encounter with Neglected Tropical Disease 🌍🦠 In the quiet corners of our world, there exists a hidden struggle, often unnoticed and forgotten. Today, on World Neglected Tropical Disease Day, I find myself reflecting on a journey that unfolded unexpectedly, shedding light on a reality that many may not be aware of. 🗓️ Pretty much a year ago, in the tropical regions of Costa Rica, I got infected with an unexpected illness – Leishmaniasis. A name unfamiliar to many, this neglected tropical disease thrust me into a journey of healing that was as uncharted as it was eye-opening. 💊 Long and numerous treatments with cremes and antibiotics (which were of no use), dozens of visits at the doctor`s office and clinics, shocked colleagues, continious discomfort, and the gradual process of recovery – my experience with Leishmaniasis was a reminder of the silent battles fought by individuals in overlooked corners of the world. Though less dramatic than a Hollywood plotline, the reality was a stark testament to the challenges faced by those affected by these diseases. 💪 As I navigated my way through treatments and recovery, I couldn't help but ponder the stories of countless others facing similar battles. Neglected Tropical Diseases persist in the shadows, affecting communities that often lack the resources and attention needed for effective healthcare. 🌐🏥 🔍 World Neglected Tropical Disease Day serves as a gentle nudge for us to acknowledge these often-overlooked health challenges. My personal encounter highlighted the need for increased awareness, research, and accessible treatments to ensure that no one faces such battles alone. 📣 Let this day be a call to action, not just for me but for everyone within my network. By sharing my story, I hope to contribute to a growing awareness that will pave the way for a healthier, more equitable world. 🤝💙 #WorldNTDDay #HealthForAll #GlobalHealth #EndNTDs #RaiseAwareness

What is better to face infectious disease, inflation and division? external riches in the hands of a few or carefully cultivated inner resilience of 1. resilience building practices 2. Mind shifts 3.Social systems 4.personal growth.come explore with me

Ten words is insufficient to describe a migraine episode. It does not give justice to the extent of what patients endure, nor context to independent experiences. Mostly, migraineurs are abandoned by the medical world and oblivious to outsiders. I know my own episodes take a few weeks for me to fully recover from and return to 'normal'. Alas, should migraineurs be brave enough to share their vulnerabilities and experiences associated with this debilitating illness then perhaps, yes, readers may begin to appreciate and surely be thankful they do not have to endure and live with. One of the positive side effects for myself is, that it helps me put life stresses, and the unreasonable inflexible expectations of others including groups, impractical rules, organisations and policies, into perspective. Especially made easy when your quality of life is in the balance, you are debilitated, drained of life force, fighting to reach the end, know you have no other choice but to ride it out, alone. Thankful, knowing that for it to be worse you have to be dead. Besides being humbled, migraineurs truly appreciate quality of life and know the difference between what is and is not important. This is not a one time deal. Once you become a migraineur, we live with this, year in year out til we die. The weathering, the pain, despair and solitary journey is taxing, while also freeing. Then there's the aftermath of muscle tightening, rapid weight loss, stomach soreness, appetite reduction, taste loss, imbalance, light sensitivity be it sunlight or electronics, smell sensitivity, fatigue, brain fog, intermittent dissociation depersonalization, piles until you grow out of that through sheer number of attacks, inability to drive until medication and dizziness disappear, impact on work, study, income, interruption to and missing life events, constipation which follows diarrhoea through an episode. Here, let's reflect on how during an attack, while fighting to not throw up, move or feel movement, to ease the dizziness and the pain linked between your head and gut, you are simultaneously fighting diarrhoea and the dread of attempting to somehow get to the toilet before having an accident while blindly (eyes shielded from light) hunched violently vomiting barely able to stand to find a wall or floor to crawl to the toilet where you'd rather stay once you make it there, laying on cold tiles between repeated temperature bursts, throwing up, chills and shivers. You soon lose concern for what someone else thinks is important when all you are capable of is breathing and praying. Yes, we know humility. My philosophy; migraneurs internalize, are mostly empaths. #migraines #migraineurs #stress #trauma #neurologicaldisorders #chronicillnesses #health #wellbeing #qualityoflife #research #mentalhealth #comprehensivehealthcare #worldmigrainesummit #disability #worklifebalance #inclusion #individualism #emotionalwellbeing #lifestyle #policy #socialwelfare #discrimination

The Hidden Link Between Organ Fat and Covid Catastrophe I have said since the beginning of the Covid debacle that poor metabolic health is the #1 risk factor for all Covid-related outcomes. Despite literal mounds of evidence supporting this, people like to look at the one guy out of 500 who had a bad outcome with Covid and point out that even the "healthy" are at risk. But most people's definition of "healthy" doesn't really qualify as healthy. One marker that is talked about often is obesity. But obesity is generally measured as BMI, but BMI is not a good marker for a variety of reasons. It CAN be a marker of poor health, but there are a lot of people with a "healthy" BMI that are not, in fact healthy. In fact, in this study, that included 41% of the group studied. Yes--WHERE fat sits is massively important. Some areas are far more dangerous than others. Find out where the most dangerous fat sits in the video. https://lnkd.in/gKupRZFn

Pandemic Global Disaster - 28.5 Million dead (about 6 million more than World War 1, also in 4 years) No, Jair Bolsonaro is multiply discredited - not 'a little flu'. Health authorities discredited- not 'another respiratory infection' (despite airborne transmission, often ignored by OCD old themers, 'wash your hands'). Death Toll Global. It is a Pandemic. The Economist updated their tracker of excess deaths attributable to the #Covid_19 pandemic. Their cumulative total now 28.5 million, and >700,000 excess deaths over the past 3 months. (SA: My source here - only X. Link to come.) Note World War 1 Legacies - 'gammy legs' and 'shell shock' (PTSD) Covid 19 Legacies - Long Covid fatigue, brain damage, CV events, plus plus