The chances of ten consecutive reels or posts to communicate a similar feeling are extremely minimal. This means ten differently themed posts can take us across ten different ranges of emotional response, such as joy, surprise, fear, worry, anger, agitation, anticipation, disappointment, disgust, assurance, doubts, confusion, etc. the list is endless and unpredictable too, just as human emotional reactions are.
Speaking of use of single-use plastics, we need policies that strictly forbid entry of unnecessary plastics, especially in packagings.
We need to more and more invest in biodegradable packaging, especially for consumables like foods and drinks. About 40 per cent of plastic waste has a connection with food and drinks.
Maternal health is the cornerstone of early childhood development, which begins at conception. Families and communities must prioritize the care of pregnant women through early antenatal consultations, adequate nutrition, prevention of gender-based violence, and protection of their physical and emotional wellbeing.
Globally there has been progress in reduction of maternal deaths from 339/100000 deaths to 227/100000 deaths from 2000 to 2015 respectively. Despite the marked decline, progress has been minimal from 2015 to 2020, where the maternal mortality rate is 227/100000 live births. What can be done?
Organ donation is a charitable thing, but should be done within the precincts and demands of acceptable laws and medico-social ethics. It should not be a trade with blindfolds and middlemen handling cash transactions.
This area can mostly be controlled through serious monitoring by the government and its intelligence system, especially in hospitals owned by foreigners or where most patients are foreigners. Trends of this illegal trade show that priority is given to foreign patients because they pay more.
With the widespread use of computer mediated communication devices and these emojis, it is worth exploring how much, or rather in what ways, our emotional communication is influenced by emojis. Most emotion related emojis and emoticons (emotional icons) communicate these emotions only in a general sense and cannot really touch the unexplored territories of dynamic human emotions and feelings.
Globally, women have higher life expectancy than men. That is to say, most men die earlier than their women counterparts.
It is also an undeniable fact that all over the world men tend to take up more difficult as well as dangerous tasks as compared to women. Many adjustments are needed in the overall approach to life on the part of men, especially in picturing oneself as healthy beyond now.
he digital space conditions us to work at its own speed, which is considerably faster as compared to the normal human thought and task processing speed. While we are able to process tasks more deeply with our mental strengths, we are not left undamaged when we switch our attention every 40 seconds (the said global average) to different, and oftentimes unrelated tasks.
The WHO data establish that globally, dogs are the main source of rabies transmission to humans. 95% of rabies deaths occur in the continents of Asia and Africa. People die in tens of thousands every year. According to the Rabies Control Report in Tanzania has resulted in over 1,500 deaths in the year 2021, and even higher figures in the past years.
For over 20 years, the annual World Sight Day, marked on 12th October this year, has been a tool for raising awareness of the wider nature of visual impairment, and prevention of sight problems. This advocacy is crucial as 90% of vision loss is avoidable and correctable if attended early enough.