[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Korea Human Resource Development Institute for Health and Welfare, KOHI (President; Lee Sangyong) successfully concluded ‘Health Finance and Insurance System’ cooperated with Korea and Vietnam Ministry of Health. 14 officials who are in charge of finance and insurance from national and local Ministry of Health in Vietnam participated in this program from November 12 to 22, 2012, supported by World Bank Project. The program was designed to focus on health finance management and insurance system. Quality lectures were given to the participants by lecturers from Seoul Nation
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]New estimates released by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) today to mark World Diabetes Day 2012 show that 371 million people have diabetes and 187 million are still to be diagnosed. The high number of undiagnosed diabetes cases means that millions of people are at risk of costly and debilitating diabetes complications, including nerve and kidney disease. Previous estimates from the IDF Diabetes Atlas in 2011 put the number of people with diabetes at 366 million and number of deaths at 4 million. The 2012 figures show that the upward trend will continue. By the
[By NBC-1TV E. H Kim]Korea Human Resource Development Institute for Health and Welfare, KOHI (President; Lee Sangyong) successfully concluded ‘Training Program on Performance of National Health Care System in Asia’ cooperated with Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Korea Policy Centre (OECD KOREA) and Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service (HIRA). Policy makers and experts of the healthcare sectors from 5 countries(China, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, and Vietnam) attended the program from 21nd to 27th, October in 2012. The main purpose of the program is to share in
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Korea Human Resource Development Institute for Health and Welfare, KOHI (President; Lee Sangyong) successfully concluded ‘National Health Insurance System, Child and Maternal Policy for Peru’ cooperated with KOICA. 15 directors and coordinators who are in charge of maternal & child health policy and system of Peru, participated in this program from October 11 to 27, 2012. The program was designated to contribute to the maternal and child health of Peru and help the decrease of Maternal Mortality Rate(MMR) and Infant Mortality Rate(IMR) to achieve the Millenium Development
[NBC-1TV 이석아 기자]제7회 경주코리아오픈 국제태권도대회가 열리고 있는 경주실내체육관 야외에 마련된 경주시보건소 건강증진 홍보 부스가 국내외 참가단을 대상으로 '간접흡연에 의한 건강피해' 예방과 '치아 건강' 캠페인 활동을 펼치고 있다. 자원봉사 활동을 펼치고 있는 김주령 학생(뒷줄 왼쪽 첫번째)이 보건소 관계자들(앞줄 왼쪽부터 김태련, 서강, 이춘하 선생)과 기념촬영을 하고 있다.
[NBC-1TV 김은혜 기자]방한중인 코스타리카의 라우라 친치야 미란다(Laura Chinchilla Miranda) 대통령이 21일 오전 서울대병원 암병동을 방문해 단기입원실을 둘러보고 있다.
[NBC-1TV 김은혜 기자]방한중인 코스타리카의 라우라 친치야 미란다(Laura Chinchilla Miranda) 대통령이 21일 오전 서울대병원 암병동 단기입원실을 방문해 병원 관계자로 부터 입원실 용도에 대한 설명을 듣고 있다.
[By NBC-1TV E. H Kim]BIOTRONIK, a leading manufacturer of innovative medical technology, announced today that the first patient in the United States has been implanted with the company's Lumax 740 dual-chamber implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). “Patients on anti-arrhythmic medication may have slower ventricular tachycardias, which can influence a patient‘s hemodynamics and directly affect a device’s ability to discriminate arrhythmias and successfully restore a normal rhythm,” said Larry A. Chinitz, M.D, Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology, Invasive Cardiology at the NYU Heart Rhyth