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Saturday, September 02, 2023
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#Dra. Valderês Antonietta Robinson Achutti(*13/06/1931+15/06/2021) com minha irmã,
Dra. Maria Helena Cechella Achutti (*03/09/1930). (foto de 2008)
Desde que minha querida companheira durante 70 anos faleceu, está morando comigo, e neste 03 de setembro, de aniversário. Festejo com meus AMICOR, sua companhia, saúde e felicidade.
#RE-Publicando textos meus: Investindo em saúde
1993
EDUCAÇÃO, SAÚDE E DESENVOLVIMENTO Aloyzio Achutti. Médico e professor universitário. (Artigo enviado para ZH em 1993)
O Banco Mundial acaba de publicar (6 de julho 1993) o "Relatório Mundial de Desenvolvimento, 1993", cujo tema básico é: "Investindo em saúde", concatenado com os últimos três anos: meio ambiente, pobreza e estratégias para o desenvolvimento.
Quatro contribuições de nosso Estado foram incluídas neste documento e algumas apresentadas como ilustração (figuras 2, 5 e 3). Uma delas é nossa, correlacionando a frequência de fatores de risco para doenças frequentes e o nível educacional na população adulta de Porto Alegre em 1987, demonstrando que hipertensão arterial, obesidade, hábito de fumar, uso diário de álcool e falta de exercício no lazer estão em razão inversa com o gráu de instrução. A outra é de autoria da socióloga Tânia Barcellos e seus colaboradores da FEEE, demonstrando, a partir de dados de mortalidade de Porto Alegre de 1980, que tanto a mortalidade infantil como a mortalidade em adultos de meia idade, em ambos os sexos, também se distribui desigualmente com desvantagem para os mais pobres. Outras duas são da área materno-infantil, de investigadores de Pelotas: dos Drs Cesar Victora e Fernando Barros.
Embora seja óbvio que é preciso investir em saúde para enfrentar o sub-desenvolvimento, nossa prática tem sido bem diversa, também no que se refere à educação. E, não se pode culpar apenas o governo, pois tem faltado vontade e pressão por parte da população em geral, não valorizando suficientemente estes dois setores.
Há muitos anos assistimos uma depreciação progressiva do magistério, evidente pelo simples exame da política salarial da categoria Mais recentemente a mesma tendência pode se observar nas profissões relacionadas com a saúde.
Investir significa priorizar um determinado setor, não apenas no discurso, mas aplicando adequadamente recursos, geralmente contrariando a tendência natural de sua distribuição.
A fome (tão na moda) levando à desnutrição causa doença, mas em nosso caso não faltam alimentos, é a pobreza e sua fiel companheira do terreno mental, a ignorância, que dificultam o acesso à comida e ao desenvolvimento intelectual, para grande parte de nossa população.
Assim como a riqueza e o poder nos seduzem, ninguém gosta da miséria o que cada vez mais discrimina grande parte de nossa população. Se a pobreza e a ignorância trazem a fome e a doença, é uma doença social que produz a distribuição desigual da riqueza; e somente uma política global, voltada para o desenvolvimento, não apenas do produto, mas também da mão de obra, priorizando a recuperação dos desfavorecidos, é que poderá mudar nossa triste situação no contexto mundial.
Investindo em saúde e em educação, estaríamos demonstrando uma vontade de mudar e de curar não somente indivíduos doentes, mas estaríamos prevenindo doenças, promovendo a saúde, sanando nossa grave ferida social e assegurando um desenvolvimento real para o futuro.
Sacha Baron Cohen is a three-time Academy Award nominee, the recipient of the Anti-Defamation League’s International Leadership Award, an actor, writer and anti-racist advocate. His undergraduate thesis, which was researched at the Martin Luther King Center in Atlanta, focused on cooperation between Black and Jewish communities during the civil rights movement. He is a founding member of Stop Hate for Profit.
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We always have a choice. Today, as others spread lies, we choose truth. As others stoke conspiracies, we choose facts. As others fuel hate and division, we choose the empathy and the unity that allows us to make progress together, for equality, for decency, and for democracy, especially here in U, S, and A.
July 2023 appears to have been the hottest month globally since we’ve recorded data. Climate scientist Peter Kalmus warned: “This will be, on average, the coolest summer with the least climate chaos for the rest of your life.” This is a disturbing statement which speaks to the exponential rise of the planet's temperature and the inevitable effects it will have on population health.
IHME Director Dr. Chris Murray discussed the role of data in understanding and forecasting Global Burden of Disease research and its relationship with climate change. Geography and country income will be major factors in future health crises. Mortality trends from drowning and mosquito-borne diseases will likely increase.
“We do understand that the harm from increased temperature will be greatest in the low-income settings where temperature is expected to go up the most. And that’s parts of India, as well as many parts of the Sahel or near-Sahel regions,” said Dr. Murray.
Brain-reading devices allow paralyzed people to talk using their thoughts » Two studies report considerable improvements in technologies designed to help people with facial paralysis to communicate. (Nature)
Column: Scientists used to love Twitter. Thanks to Elon Musk, they’re giving up on it » The slow, inevitable decline of X (formerly known as Twitter) is causing the scientific community to find another online home. (Los Angeles Times)
To face the question of what makes us who we are with courage, lucidity, and fulness of feeling is to face, with all the restlessness and helplessness this stirs in the meaning-hungry soul, the elemental fact of our choicelessness in the conditions that lead to our existence.
That is what the Nobel-winning founding father of quantum mechanics Erwin Schrödinger (August 12, 1887–January 4, 1961) addresses in some exquisite passages from My View of the World (public library) — the slender, daring deathbed book containing two long essays penned on either side of his Nobel Prize, thirty-five years apart yet united by the unbroken thread of his uncommon mind unafraid of its own capacity for feeling, that vital capacity for living fully into the grandest open questions of existence./.../
#Faculdade de Medicina/UFRGS
Me formei 10 anos depois de nossa Faculdade ter completado 50 anos. Embora já aposentado, colaborei com o livro do centenário. Agora tive o prazer de receber com uma dedicatória da atual diretora, Professora Lucia Kliemann, o livro comemorativo dos 125 anos da sua fundação.
The human population may have lingered at about 1,300 for more than 100,000 years, and that population bottleneck could have fueled the divergence between modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans.
Hormones & Aging: An Endocrine Society Scientific Statment Anne R. Cappola; Richard J. Auchus; et al.
J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2023;108(8):1835-1874.
Abstract
Multiple changes occur across various endocrine systems as an individual ages. The understanding of the factors that cause age-related changes and how they should be managed clinically is evolving. This statement reviews the current state of research in the growth hormone, adrenal, ovarian, testicular, and thyroid axes, as well as in osteoporosis, vitamin D deficiency, type 2 diabetes, and water metabolism, with a specific focus on older individuals. Each section describes the natural history and observational data in older individuals, available therapies, clinical trial data on efficacy and safety in older individuals, key points, and scientific gaps. The goal of this statement is to inform future research that refines prevention and treatment strategies in age-associated endocrine conditions, with the goal of improving the health of older individuals.
Astronomers are scouring the cosmos for fingerprints of the invisible — tiny clumps of pure dark matter that might solve a long-standing cosmic mystery.
Global Microbiome Study Gives New View of Shared Health Risks
Article by YASEMIN SAPLAKOGLU; Podcast hosted by SUSAN VALOT
The most comprehensive survey of how we share our microbiomes suggests a new way of thinking about the risks of developing some diseases that aren’t usually considered contagious.
A Cloudy Quantum Forecast Atoms are often pictured as clusters of electrons whizzing through empty space around a dense nucleus. But that picture is not quantum enough, writes Mario Barbatti for Aeon. In reality, matter is made of “continuous quantum clouds.” Inside the nucleus are protons and neutrons — the interior of which Barbatti calls “the most complex place in the universe.” Dive into this complicated core with a graphical exploration of the center of a proton by Charlie Wood and Merrill Sherman of Quanta.
Developing Vaccines Quickly For the last 40 years, the Mexican virologist Susana López Charretón has been piecing together precisely how rotaviruses invade human cells. Her work has led to life-saving vaccines, writes Inés Gutiérrez Jaber in a Science News profile of López Charretón. López Charretón sequenced the Covid-19 strains circulating in Mexico at the pandemic’s height. Such efforts to determine the genetic sequences of strains around the world were crucial to deploying vaccines quickly, Anna Durbin told Steven Strogatz on Quanta’s The Joy of Whypodcast in April.
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Upcoming events
UNGA High-Level Week 2023
19-23 and 26 September
The 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly marks a crucial milestone in the journey towards achieving the 2030 Agenda and the urgent need to put the 17 Sustainable Development Goals back on track. Learn more here.
FH Awareness Day
Sunday, 24 September
Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH) Awareness Day, 24 September, was initiated by the FH Foundation as part of their mission to raise awareness of FH. Learn more about the campaign here.
World Heart Day
Friday, 29 September
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