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Healthcare In Serbia
Healthcare in Serbia is delivered by means of a universal health care system. History 1930–1991 The general reorientation of health services towards social and preventive medicine and primary health care was officially accepted in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia after the Second World War. It built on some fundamental principles introduced in the 1930s by Dr Andrija Štampar. Primary health care (at that time called basic care) in the Yugoslav health system held a priority position for more than 40 years. However, from the beginning of the 1960s, preserving primary health care as the "center of the system" faced serious challenges, including a centralized and vertically programmed approach to preventive medicine, inadequate skills and competencies of health professionals in health promotion, and a relatively low economic and social status of health professionals in primary health care. Between the 1960s and 1980s, little effort was made to improve the status and per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Short Description
Short may refer to: Places * Short (crater), a lunar impact crater on the near side of the Moon * Short, Mississippi, an unincorporated community * Short, Oklahoma, a census-designated place People * Short (surname) * List of people known as the Short Companies * Short Brothers, a British aerospace company * Short Brothers of Sunderland, a former English shipbuilder Computing and technology * Short circuit, an accidental connection between two nodes of an electrical circuit * Short integer, a computer datatype Other uses * Short film, a cinema format, also called a short * Short (finance), stock-trading position * Short (cricket), fielding positions closer to the batsman * SHORT syndrome, a medical condition in which affected individuals have multiple birth defects * Short vowel, a vowel sound of short perceived duration * Holly Short, a fictional character in the ''Artemis Fowl'' series See also * Short time, a situation in which a civilian employee works reduced hours ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Corruption In Serbia
Corruption in Serbia describes the prevention and occurrence of corruption in Serbia. Corruption levels are perceived to be high by surveyed residents of Serbia, and public trust in key institutions remains low. Dynamics Public procurement, public administration recruitment processes, mining and rail operations are sectors with a serious problem of conflict of interest. The European Commission has raised concerns over Serbia's judiciary, police, health and education sectors that are particularly vulnerable to corruption. Corruption is considered the most problematic factor for doing business in Serbia, followed by inefficient government bureaucracy. Anti-corruption efforts Even though Serbia has made progress in the investigation of high-level corruption cases, the implementation of anti-corruption laws is weak. According to Global Corruption Barometer 2016, 22% of Serbian citizens who had contact with public institutions included in research (traffic police, public health, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
List Of Hospitals In Serbia
This is a list of hospitals in Serbia. Organization As of January 2016, there were 306 public healthcare institutions in Serbia, operated by the Ministry of Health of Serbia. The ministry classifies hospitals into five categories: * Healthcare center () – 151 healthcare centers, providing primary healthcare to most of the municipalities and cities; * General Hospital () or Health Center () – 42 general hospitals, providing secondary healthcare to the districts; a total of 15,917 beds available as of 2017; * Clinical Hospital Center () – 6 clinical hospital centers, providing secondary and tertiary healthcare, two based in Kosovo and Metohija and four based in the capital city of Belgrade; a total of 5,357 beds available; * Clinical Center () – 4 major medical centers, based in four largest university centers; a total of 7,218 beds available; * Specialized Institutions – 7 specialized clinics, 61 institutes (of which 23 specialized for public health), 33 special hospi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Health In Serbia
Serbia ranked 65th in the world in life expectancy in 2018 with 73.3 years for men and 78.5 years for women. As of 2018, it had a low infant mortality rate (4.86 per 1,000 live births). As of 2017, it had 2.96 practicing physicians (not including Kosovo) per 1,000 people. With 14.55 deaths per 1,000 persons, Serbia is among the world's ten countries with the highest mortality rate. The Human Rights Measurement Initiative finds that Serbia is fulfilling 71.3% of what it should be fulfilling for the right to health based on its level of income. When looking at the right to health with respect to children, Serbia achieves 99.4% of what is expected based on its current income. In regards to the right to health amongst the adult population, the country achieves 91.8% of what is expected based on the nation's level of income. Serbia falls into the "very bad" category when evaluating the right to reproductive health because the nation is fulfilling only 22.7% of what the nation is expec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Diet (nutrition)
In nutrition, diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism. The word diet often implies the use of specific intake of nutrition for #Health, health or #Weight management, weight-management reasons (with the two often being related). Although humans are omnivores, each culture and each person holds some food preferences or some food taboos. This may be due to personal tastes or ethical reasons. Individual dietary choices may be more or less healthy. Complete nutrition requires ingestion and absorption of vitamins, Dietary mineral, minerals, essential amino acids from protein and essential fatty acids from fat-containing food, also food energy in the form of carbohydrate, protein, and fat. Dietary habits and choices play a significant role in the quality of life, health and longevity. Health A healthy diet can improve and maintain health, which can include aspects of mental and physical health. Specific diets, such as the DASH diet, can be used in treatment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Vitamin
Vitamins are Organic compound, organic molecules (or a set of closely related molecules called vitamer, vitamers) that are essential to an organism in small quantities for proper metabolism, metabolic function. Nutrient#Essential nutrients, Essential nutrients cannot be biosynthesis, synthesized in the organism in sufficient quantities for survival, and therefore must be obtained through the Diet (nutrition), diet. For example, vitamin C can be synthesized by some species but not by others; it is not considered a vitamin in the first instance but is in the second. Most vitamins are not single molecules, but groups of related molecules called vitamers. For example, there are eight vitamers of vitamin E: four tocopherols and four tocotrienols. The term ''vitamin'' does not include the three other groups of essential nutrients: mineral (nutrient), minerals, essential fatty acids, and essential amino acids. Major health organizations list thirteen vitamins: * Vitamin A (all-' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Folk Medicine
Traditional medicine (also known as indigenous medicine or folk medicine) refers to the knowledge, skills, and practices rooted in the cultural beliefs of various societies, especially Indigenous groups, used for maintaining health and treating illness. In some Asian and African countries, up to 80% of people rely on traditional medicine for primary health care. Traditional medicine includes systems like Ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine, and Unani. The World Health Organization supports their integration, but warns of potential risks and calls for more research on their safety and effectiveness. The use of medicinal herbs spans over 5,000 years, beginning with ancient civilizations like the Sumerians, Egyptians, Indians, and Chinese, evolving through Greek, Roman, Islamic, and medieval European traditions, and continuing into colonial America, with beliefs passed down, translated, and expanded across cultures and centuries. Indigenous folk medicine is traditio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Self Care
Self-care has been defined as the process of establishing behaviors to ensure holistic well-being of oneself, to promote health, and actively manage illness when it occurs. Individuals engage in some form of self-care daily with food choices, exercise, sleep, and hygiene. Self-care is not only a solo activity, as the community—a group that supports the person performing self-care—overall plays a role in access to, implementation of, and success of self-care activities. Routine self-care is important when someone is not experiencing any symptoms of illness, but self-care becomes essential when illness occurs. General benefits of routine self-care include Preventive healthcare, prevention of illness, improved mental health, and comparatively better quality of life. Self-care practices vary from individual to individual. Self-care is seen as a partial solution to the global rise in health care costs that is placed on governments worldwide. A lack of self-care in terms of pers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and Grant (money), grants to the governments of Least developed countries, low- and Developing country, middle-income countries for the purposes of economic development. The World Bank is the collective name for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and International Development Association (IDA), two of five international organizations owned by the World Bank Group. It was established along with the International Monetary Fund at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference. After a slow start, its first loan was to France in 1947. In its early years, it primarily focused on rebuilding Europe. Over time, it focused on providing loans to developing world countries. In the 1970s, the World Bank re-conceptualized its mission of facilitating development as being oriented around poverty reduction. For the last 30 years, it has included NGOs and environmental groups in its loan portfolio. Its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Government Of Serbia
The government of Serbia ( sr-cyrl, Влада Србије, Vlada Srbije), formally the Government of the Republic of Serbia ( sr-cyrl, Влада Републике Србије, Vlada Republike Srbije), commonly abbreviated to Serbian Government ( sr-cyrl, Српска Влада, Srpska Vlada), is the executive branch of government in Serbia. The affairs of government are decided by the Cabinet of Ministers, which is led by the prime minister. The government is housed in the Government Building in Belgrade. Jurisdiction According to the Constitution of Serbia, the Government: * Determines and guides policy * Executes laws and other general acts of the National Assembly * Adopts regulations and other general acts for the purpose of enforcing laws * Proposes to the National Assembly the laws and other general acts and gives an opinion on them when submitted by another proposer * Directs and coordinates the work of public administration bodies and supervises their work * Perf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
USAID
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an agency of the United States government that has been responsible for administering civilian United States foreign aid, foreign aid and development assistance. Established in 1961 and reorganized in 1998, USAID has implemented programs in global health, disaster relief, socioeconomic development, education, environmental protection, and democratic governance. With average annual disbursements of about $23 billion since 2001, USAID has been one of the world's List of development aid country donors, largest aid agencies and accounts for most U.S. foreign assistance — the highest in the world in absolute dollar terms — with missions in over 100 countries, primarily in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. The Trump administration is attempting to fully close the agency, pending several court cases. In early March, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that 83% of USAID programs wou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
KCS 1
KCS may refer to: Schools * Kanawha County Schools, West Virginia * Kennet School, a state school in south east England * Kihei Charter School, in Kihei, Maui, Hawaii * King's College School, an independent day school in south west London, England * King's College School, a day school in Madrid, Spain operated by King's Group * Kingsford Community School, an east London secondary school Science and technology * Keratoconjunctivitis sicca * Killed carbon steel * kilocycles per second, another name for kilohertz * Kansas City standard, a standard for encoding binary data on tape used by many early microcomputers * Knowledge-centered support, a service delivery method * Keyboard Controller Style, an interface often used in the Intelligent Platform Management Interface architecture * Korean Chemical Society * Very-long-chain 3-oxoacyl-CoA synthase, an enzyme Other * Czechoslovak koruna, a unit of currency abbreviated Kcs * Clinical Centre of Serbia, a medical center in Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
