/library/oar/handle/123456789/10775 Tue, 11 Nov 2025 09:48:20 GMT 2025-11-11T09:48:20Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/56805 Title: Report on survey on women's health Abstract: In a recent event (3 March 1999) held at the United Nations, the director general of the World Health Organisation, addressed key women during a seminar on the issue of Health/or All Women in the 21st Century (Flowers, M.K, 1999). In her speech, Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland remarked that the 20th century has been a century of remarkable progress for the rights of women, namely, progress in political rights, progress in the right to take responsibility for their own lives and progress in the right to lead a healthy life. However this progress is not even globally or nationally in any region of the world. Unfortunately women are more vulnerable to ill-health since too many do not control their own lives, do not have the means of empowerment and decision making in their lives and in those of their children. Globally this is resulting in more than a third of all women suffering nutritional anaemia. Malnutrition has a cumulative effect during an individual's lifetime with adverse effects on the health of the next generation. World Health Organisation has clearly stated that investing in women's health leads directly to women making personal choices they could not otherwise make and it helps them to be more effective, whatever the roles they choose to play, whatever the tasks they undertake. The trends today create health gaps between the rich and poor which are widening and creating severe health risks for women and similarly for their children. National economic growth is not a guarantee for better health or higher status for women, as long as the benefits are not equally distributed. Fri, 01 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/56805 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/51331 Title: Food and nutrition policy and action plan for Malta : 2015 - 2020 Abstract: The Maltese Government and in particular the Parliamentary Secretariat for Health, is committed to continuously improving the health and wellbeing of the Maltese population The global burden from unhealthy diets is a major issue that is reflected in high morbidity and mortality. The effects of unhealthy diets range from chronic under nutrition to overweight and obesity. Policies to tackle this disease burden have been developed globally and at the European level, including the Vienna Declaration on Nutrition and Noncommunicable Diseass in the context of Health 2020 (2013), the European Charter on Counteracting Obesity (2006), the Action Plan for the Implementation of the European Strategy for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Disease 2012 - 2016, the Health 2020 framework (2012) and the EU Action Plan on Childhood Obesity 2014-2020. The World Health Organisation has developed an updated European Food and Nutrition Action Plan 2015-2020 which proposes a number of measures developed through a consultative process within the WHO European Region. [excerpt from the Foreword by Hon Mr Christopher Fearne] Mon, 01 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/51331 2014-09-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/33367 Title: Gestational diabetes Abstract: There are two distinct situations where complications from diabetes during pregnancy may occur. The first situation is when diabetes already exists prior to pregnancy. This type of diabetes amongst Maltese women of childbearing age occurs in about 1 per 300 women. As usually advised, consultation with the doctor during the pre-conception period is particularly important for these women to ensure good control of their blood sugar levels in addition to other health advice such as supplementation of folic acid and immunization against rubella. Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/33367 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/33194 Title: Cancer in the Maltese Islands 1998-2000 Abstract: Cancer incidence is defined as the occurrence of new cancers in a defined population during a specified time period. This report includes all cancers notified to the registry that were first diagnosed between 1st January 1998 and 31st December 2000 in residents of the Maltese Islands. These tumours were coded with the International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, Second Edition (ICD-O-2)1 for both their morphology (histology) and topography (site). In this report, cancers are grouped by ICD-l02 as described in Table 1 (pg. 7-9). Thu, 01 Aug 2002 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/33194 2002-08-01T00:00:00Z