Contributed by Nebojsa Nikolic The Joint International Labour Organization/International Maritime Organization (ILO/IMO) Tripartite Working Groupto identify and address seafarers’ issues and the human element will convene in the first and last quarter of 2024. Dateand place still to be confirmed.Also, in the first quarter in Geneva: Meeting of Experts to produce joint ILO/IMO Guidelines for […]
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Contributed by Klaus Seidenstücker For all maritime health care professionals, it is essential to keep abreast of epidemiological/infectious disease developments. The World Health Organization offers at regular intervals webinars. See for more information and registration/subscription: www.who.int/teams/epi-win/epi-win-webinars.
Contributed by Nebojsa Nikolic (Non-Governmental Organizations [NGO’s]) Globally, as of 12:20pm CEST, 30 August 2023, there have been 770,085,713 confirmed cases of coronavirus disease2019 (COVID-19), including 6,956,173 deaths, reported to the World Health Organization (WHO). As of 20 August 2023,a total of 13,499,865,692 vaccine doses have been administered.On WHO press conference on global health issues
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Contributed by Nebojsa Nikolic The World Health Organization (WHO) online repository of evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) tools (https://evidence-impact.org/) is the first of its kind to highlight WHO tools and external tools utilized by WHO to facilitate knowledgetranslation and partner organizations involved in planning, managing, monitoring, and evaluating the process of evidenceuse and implementation. This tool will
Listen, the one about “weed” (text in last issue) was good, but I immediately lit up out of boredom. Weed is allowed, but smoking is not. It’s getting harder and harder for us smokers, I thought at least on the ship I would be free from terror, but I’m stuck on the “Norwegian” and they
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Travelling is part of your life, no doubt about it. Everyone loves to travel, there is no doubt about that. But is it exactly the same to travel as a sailor and to travel as, for example, your neighbours (tourist package, cruiser, etc.)? Well, let’s solve this dilemma right away in the introduction – it’s
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Doctor, this one is positive for weed, what should we do? says my sister Mare discreetly in my ear. Over the past ten years, this question has been asked so often that we have begun to wonder whether people need to be tested for marijuana at all. Of course, the procedure requires a discussion with
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The summer holidays are over and those of us on the mainland have returned to our desks with renewed vigour. Of course, the summer holidays helped us to be with our families, friends or, like one of my friends, at beach parties – to do the crazy thing we’ve been waiting to do all year.
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