Agnès Leotsakos has a Ph.D. in Biomedicine and Biochemistry, and over 25 years’ experience in global public health. Agnès is an external consultant for WHO and Strasys UK. She is an expert on Patient Safety and Quality Improvement. She was team leader of Global Capacity Building and Education in Safety and Quality of Health Services, at WHO. Since her appointment at WHO Headquarters, in Geneva, in 1998 she has led projects within several WHO programmes including communicable diseases and macroeconomics and health.
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The ageing population faces increasing patient safety risks due to complex care needs, multimorbidities, reduced physiological reserve and often cognitive decline, all managed within fragmented health systems. Common issues such as delirium, falls, pressure ulcers, malnutrition, dehydration, healthcare-associated infection and medication-related harm are often preventable. Ensuring safer, coord1
READ MOREEffective regulatory systems are an essential component of health system strengthening and contribute to better public health outcomes, even more so in the age of medical devices that are enabled by machine learning. Key Points Without medical devices, many critical healthcare procedures would not be possible. WHO provides guidance to its Member States on how to regulate medical d1
READ MORERe-examining approaches for dementia management. The potential of applying integrated pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments for the care of people living with dementia. Dementia is a mental state used to denote severe cognitive impairment which impacts daily activities and life. Alzheimer’s disease is one of the most common forms of dementia, vascular dementia being the o1
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