Mental health is key to the life of the society. It is a prerequisite for physical health. Left untreated, mental health disorders and problems hinder people from relating meaningfully and retards their abilities for productive work as it hampers creativity and concentration in the work.
All patients, regardless of age, status, gender, illness, or physical fitness, are vulnerable. In view of reducing the possibility of wounding patients through prescriptions, misdiagnosis, compromise of boundaries, negligence, infrastructures, etc. patient protection policies are implemented in all healthcare settings globally.
Doctors and paediatric physical therapists recommend that children should not be made to carry heavy weights exceeding 15 per cent of their body weight. The average weight for a 12-year-old child (both boys and girls) is about 40 kilos. 15 per cent of 40 kilos is 6 kilos. Do we see this as a problem to be addressed, especially in Tanzania?
The fact that we have not experienced these catastrophic situations for years does not guarantee that we will not experience them. It is much better to be safe than sorry.
It is a positive thing to teach children from when they are young what beauty is in their cultural setting before they learn different things from the streets of the internet. This way we will help to minimize the harm caused by unattainable impressions of beauty.
We should reach a point where dangerous driving will no longer be solved ‘as usual’ by the roadside. More stringent measures can be put in place and maintained.
According to experts, overwhelming feelings of loneliness, painful memories, traumatic experiences, negative life events, stresses and anxiety can result in self-harm.
It is common in many societies to find parents and guardians addressing their children with tags, names and metaphors that suggest depravity, incapability, deficiency and diminution. In this article, we examine the effects of these negative attributions, especially about animal characters.
Shimbo Pastory This article was published in The Citizen Newspaper on 12th October, 2021. As the world markets ‘solutions to problems,’ several ways have been devised to make people customers as they develop a feeling that they dearly need such solutions. While those who experience problems are in the daily struggle to get them solved, … Read more
On the 11th of September every year the world celebrates the International First Aid day. This day allows a chance to examine the international and local uptake, growth and prospects in the field of Emergency Care and First aid. Though the concept ‘first aid’ is a familiar one, its content is indubitably not sufficiently known.