The aims of the reform is to secure equal and high-quality social and health services to all Finns, improve the availability and reachability of the services, to reduce the differences in wellbeing and health, to secure the availability of professionally qualified labor to social and health services, to respond to the challenges caused by aging (population) and declining birthrate and to restrict the growth of costs. … [Read more...] about Finnish gov’t pledges to tackle unequal access in health care
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Post Putin’s announcement on constitutional reforms, Russian PM steps down
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76 health department staff not paid for three months, left running from pillar to post
2019-2020 annual budget allocates only Rs 80 lakh, PMC officials say they do not have enough money to pay the salaries As many as 76 staffers of the Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) programme of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) are left running from pillar to post to get their salaries. The civic body has apparently failed to make adequate provisions for the wages in the annual budget, which has led to the mess. While RHC employees have not received a single penny since the past three months, officials now claim that there is no budget to accommodate the same. In the 76-strong staff RCH unit, most have been employed since the inception of the programme in 2015. The RCH staff take care of various national and state-run programmes — maternal health, vaccination, child health etc. and work on positions ranging from pharmacists, nurses, and clerks to data entry operator and ANM nurses hired by PMC on contractual basis. salary of the staffers amounts to Rs 20 lakh in total, PMC … [Read more...] about 76 health department staff not paid for three months, left running from pillar to post
India should focus on structural reforms, bank clean-up and labour reforms: IMF Chief Economist Gita Gopinath
With economic growth slowing to a six-year low, IMF Chief Economist Gita Gopinath says the government should undertake structural reforms such as bank clean-up and labour reforms to address the slowdown in domestic demand. Gopinath, 48, who is travelling to India this week, rooted for government policies focusing on managing a slowdown in domestic demand, and on boosting productivity growth and supporting employment creation in the medium term. "Given the cyclical position and the structural challenges of the Indian economy at this point, we recommend that policies focus on managing the slowdown in domestic demand, and on boosting productivity growth and supporting employment creation in the medium term," she told PTI in an interview. Recommending a series of key policy priorities for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government, she said, "Politically, the time -- early in the government's second term -- is right for a structural reform push." GDP growth slowed for the sixth … [Read more...] about India should focus on structural reforms, bank clean-up and labour reforms: IMF Chief Economist Gita Gopinath
Fine dust damages both physical and mental health
The year 2020, a Year of the Rat, has come. The biggest environmental concern perceived by the Korean people over the past year was fine dust. According a survey by the Asian Center for Environment & Health, 59 percent of the respondents picked fine dust as the biggest environmental issue. The government also labeled fine dust as the biggest social disaster, and launched the presidential National Climate and Environment Council, as it is scrambling to find measures to address the issue. Likewise, every one of us knows the risk of fine dust and we are collectively agonizing to resolve the fine dust problem, but we have one important fact that we have thus far not recognized: Fine dust damages the invisible heart and mind of people, which is invisible just like fine dust itself.The British science journal “Reviews of Environmental Health” published a study result that investigated the relations between harmful air including fine dust and depression and suicide last year. … [Read more...] about Fine dust damages both physical and mental health
