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Public health education

In underdeveloped and developing Countries were there are high rates of extreme poverty there are high rates of illness and disease. This applies also in Romania, The Republic of Moldova and Republic of Serbia alike where there is a direct link to severe illness through often-unhygienic living conditions and poor hygiene practices alike in many areas. The opening up to the west of these Countries has also brought additional problems like narcotic abuse and sexual related crimes and diseases associated with these types of problems often.

Romania has the highest incidences of Tuberculosis within the EU. The republic of Moldova also has a massive ongoing problem to resolve with increasing numbers of TB cases including multi drug resistant forms of TB. Tuberculosis is a significant public health concern therefore both in Romania and Moldova. TB incidence is higher in Iasi and Balti than the national averages in both Countries.

Serbia has less TB cases but has many amongst its minority populations. Rates of Aids and HIV virus are high in these countries also as is the number of people who suffer from diabetes, cancer, hepatitis and pulmonary diseases like pneumonia, chronic asthma coronary heat disease.

To complicate matters these countries have underdeveloped and under funded healthcare systems which makes it all that harder to achieve best standards in medical care to overcome a serious medical problem with success. Many young medical professionals also leave to take higher paid salaries in foreign countries.

Prevention is better than cure and this we teach.

In all of the above with often a little education and understanding disease and serious illness can be prevented by taking a few well planned actions either within the family home, school or workplace and we place a great amount of our time in public health education as a means of prevention via education.

Our well designed and approved programs teach about basic Hygiene, Tuberculosis, AIDS/HIV virus, Hepatitis, healthy lifestyles and health eating, no smoking and alcohol abuse, the dangers of narcotics, The importance of regular medical checks and many more subjects that can aid a person to a healthier life. We have our own designed educational material including a animated children’s basic hygiene book and an interactive TB board game that makes learning fun for children and removes the stigma attached to TB as well as many pamphlets and posters all animated and in simple text so that all levels of society can understand with ease. We also educate in schools and Universities about public health issues to help bring awareness at an early age.

 

 

 

 

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