Search Tag: awareness initiatives

ICU Management

13th-september-world-wide-sepsis-webinar

2015 13 Sep

Sepsis is common and often deadly. It remains the primary cause of death from infection, despite advances in modern medicine like vaccines, antibiotics, and intensive care. World Sepsis Day, 13 September, is an initiative of the Global Sepsis Alliance and its founding members, all of whom are non-profit organizations.  The Global Sepsis Alliance...Read more

Executive Health Management

Health-awareness-days-are-they-really-effective

2015 21 Apr

According to a peer-reviewed commentary published online in the American Journal of Public Health , health awareness days have not been appropriately scrutinised given the scale at which they have been embraced. Jonathan Purtle, DrPH, Assistant Professor at the Drexel University School of Public Health and Leah Roman, MPH, a public health consultant,...Read more