Urgent care centers are an important part of the healthcare system, offering accessible and immediate care for non-life-threatening conditions. These facilities operate beyond regular office hours, including evenings and weekends, providing an alternative to emergency rooms for minor injuries and illnesses. Having an urgent care center in your community brings many benefits to both individuals and the community. This article will explore how urgent care centers improve access to quality healthcare for everyone.
Convenient and Accessible Care
Having an urgent care center in your community provides convenient and accessible medical care for individuals who may not be able to visit their primary care physician during regular office hours. This is especially bene…
There are several advantages to using QR codes in marketing and business. There are QR codes wherever you turn, including restaurant menus, product packaging, and tickets. If you’re still asking why this is occurring, you clearly don’t understand the advantages of QR codes and this technology.
Perhaps you didn’t try them, or you haven’t had a chance to test them out. In any case, by not using them, you are wasting a great deal of potential. Being a business owner is when you waste your greatest potential. You will want to use QR codes as an asset for marketing and company enhancements.
Tracking Progress
Monitoring your development Metrics collection, aggregation, and computation enables you to ga…
As a first-time parent with a busy job, you might be thinking about ways to bond with your child. Having a loving and meaningful relationship with one’s child can be one of the happiest things to enjoy. Not only will you enjoy parenthood but also make your child feel secure and supported.
Here are some simple ways to achieve this.
Play with Your Kids
Numerous research has proven that kids who play with their parents or other children enjoy loads of lifelong benefits:
- Develop attention span
- Develop social skills
- Develop intellectual abilities
- Develop the ability to process emotions
Children who see their parents as playmates also see them as allies instead of op…
In an era where technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace, it is more crucial than ever to encourage young women to pursue careers in this dynamic field. FutureTechGirls is an organization dedicated to inspiring and equipping young women with the knowledge and confidence needed to succeed in technology-related industries. This article explores the many facets of FutureTechGirls and provides practical advice for young women aspiring to excel in the tech sector.
The Mission of FutureTechGirls
FutureTechGirls Kickass Tips is a comprehensive program with a mission to inspire young women to pursue careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). The organization aims to dismantle the barriers that often deter women from enteri…
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BANGKOK, Aug 22 2007 (IPS) – When Indonesian women and children tuck into cups of Indomie , a popular brand of instant noodles, they are assured a tasty staple healthier than most other brands sold across South-east Asia.
Indomie, say public health experts, is made from flour that is fortified with vitamins and minerals that are essential for a child s growth, both physically and mentally.
This effort is winning praise for Indonesian food processing companies like PT Indofood Sukses Makmur from international bodies such as the United Nations Children s Fund (UNICEF). Even the Flour Fortification Initiative (FFI), a global network of groups campaigning to strengthen flour with micronutrients, has a good word for the Jakarta-based corporation that s…
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MANAGUA, Apr 21 2010 (IPS) – Non-governmental organisations in Nicaragua are questioning data on the maternal mortality rate released by the government, which is claiming a historic decline in the indicator, and they warn that the reduction target that the country has committed itself to by 2015 is still out of reach.
Miriam Chávez, the Health Ministry s head of nursing, reported that Nicaragua had achieved a reduction of the maternal mortality rate to 90 per 100,000 live births in 2009, by means of a campaign sending health brigades to work among the poor.
Health Ministry statistics indicate that in 2007, the first year of the administration of leftwing President Daniel Ortega who took office that January, there were 107 maternal deaths per 100,000…
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 19 2012 (IPS) – The proportion of abortions deemed unsafe rose from 44 percent in 1995 to almost half (49 percent) in 2008, according to a new study released Thursday.
Launched in London, : Incidence and Trends Worldwide from 1995 to 2008 by the and World Health Organisation (WHO) notes that in 2008, the global abortion rate was 28 per 1,000, virtually unchanged since 2003.
However, in hard numbers, there were 2.2 million more abortions in 2008 (43.8 million) compared with 2003 (41.6 million) due to the growing global population. Since 2003, the number of abortions fell by 0.6 million in the developed world, but increased by 2.8 million in developing countries.
According to a WHO report from March 2011, unsafe abortion is one of the three leadin…
Philippe Cori, director of the United Nations Children’s Fund’s (UNICEF) European Union Partnership Office in Brussels, says over the last decades, development assistance from partners like the EU and its member states has been critical to expanding and improving the quality of basic social services, especially for the poorest and most marginalised children.
UNICEF says in many parts of the African continent children are living beyond their fifth birthday, more children are going to school and more children are better equipped for the challenges of the 21st century. Pictured here are students at Motshane Primary School, Mbabane, Swaziland. Credit: Mantoe Phakathi/I…
The writer is Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.
A woman is vaccinated against COVID-19 in the indigenous community of Concordia, Colombia. Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres repeated his call for the G20 to establish a Task Force “able to deal with the pharmaceutical companies and other key stakeholders”, which would address equitable vaccine distribution through the global initiative. Credit: WHO/Nadege Mazars
GENEVA, May 27 2021 (IPS) – In this time of intersecting crises – the Covid crisis, the HIV crisis, the inequality crisis, and more – progress on all these crises is being blocked by anothe…
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BANGKOK, Thailand, Dec 8 2023 (IPS) – As the world commemorates the 75th anniversary of the , ( on Human Rights Day December 10), we turn the spotlight on a glaring contradiction the world is experiencing from a harmful industry. Despite causing 8 million annual deaths and a myriad of diseases, the tobacco industry has enjoyed six decades of the legal right to manufacture and sell its harmful products.
This travesty to human rights remains unaddressed with no admission of liability, compensation for victims, or withdrawal of the product.
Instead, the tobacco industry has thwarted and undermined government efforts to protect public …