Indian govt to focus on ’2020:
Vision for Healthcare in India’
The Health Minister also unfurled
the ‘Swasth India’ portal which, apart from showcasing medical advancement and
recommending panacea for the benefit of Indians, would facilitate online
permission for Indian American doctors to serve in the areas of their choice in
India. ‘Swasth India’ would make it possible for any US-based Indian doctor to
select the areas they wish to serve in India, seek and receive formal approval
from Medical Council of India (MCI) on their qualifications, and address all
other government issues within 15 days.
‘Before leaving on this trip, I had written to MCI that existing bottlenecks should be eased and if permission is held up beyond 15 days, then it should be deemed automatically granted,’ Harsh Vardhan said. The president of MCI, Jayashreeben Mehta, was present on the occasion. Harsh Vardhan?s theme, ’2020: Vision for Healthcare in India’ drew warm appreciation from the audience. He stressed that under Modi’s overarching leadership, health policy making and its implementation will not be the monopoly of the government but would be guided by the lived experience of hundreds of experts who will be urged to bring local solutions to local problems.
‘For the first time we have a Prime
Minister who is committed to serving every mother and child, every Indian young
and old, with free and clean hospitals, generic medicines, rational drug
policy, healthy lifestyles and, most importantly, enough doctors. I urge the
Indian Diaspora to avail this historic opportunity to contribute to realising
this dream,’ the Health Minister said. The Minister admitted that in the areas of
telemedicine, seminal research, surveillance and early warning systems and,
most importantly, medical insurance, he could do with the proven expertise of
Indian American doctors.
Source: www.thehealthsite.com
30.06.2014
Music, dancing may help your baby
develop social skills
Researchers at McMaster University
in Ontario, Canada have found that bouncing to a musical beat in time with
others could instill helpfulness in babies.
While it has already been proven
that people who move in time together in activities ranging from dancing to
rowing a boat are likely to bond and work together, the McMaster study is
believed to be the first to study the effects on babies.
‘Moving in sync with others is an
important part of musical activities,’ says lead author and doctoral student
Laura Cirelli. ‘These effects show that movement is a fundamental part of music
that affects social behavior from a very young age.’
Researchers worked in pairs to
bounce each baby in the study, which tested a total of 68 babies.
When the music started playing, one
researcher bounced the baby in a forward facing carrier, while the other
researcher stood facing the baby and the person holding him.
The pairs of researchers bounced
either in sync or at a different tempo, depending upon whether they were in the
test or control group.
When the music stopped, subjects
were given a classical test of child altruism in which the researcher who had
been facing him would pretend to accidentally drop an object to see if the baby
would help him.
The babies who had been bounced in
sync with the researcher across from them were 20 percent more likely to help
than those bounced offbeat.
Cirelli believes her findings are
significant towards building a more cooperative social climate and that
singing, clapping and dancing in time to music should be an essential part of
developmental learning.
Moving forward, Cirelli is now
working on a project to determine whether the babies’ bouncing-inspired
helpfulness extends to others, or if it is geared solely towards his bouncing
partner.
The study will be published in an
upcoming issue of Developmental Science.
Source: www.thehealthsite.com
30.06.2014
Don’t raise your voice …Improve your argument
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