My article, “Facing the challenge of climate change in health issues” has been published in Agora, L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science website

My article, “Facing the challenge of climate change in health issues” has been published in Agora, L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science website.

Below is a short excerpt of the article,

“During my training as a medical student with overnight shifts in the wards of a government hospital, new patients admitted with severe leptospirosis or dengue fever means that there may be another long night without sleep. Infectious diseases wards are often overcrowded and a new patient can be admitted only when a patient is discharged. As medical students with clinical responsibilities at the hospital, we rarely have the chance to think beyond the hospital walls: about why the diseases these patients come in with had happened in the first place.

Climate change as a major cause of infectious diseases in Indonesia

In Indonesia, infectious diseases are still the main health problem. Diarrhoeal diseases, dengue haemorrhagic fever, typhoid fever, malaria, tuberculosis and respiratory infections are the most common infectious diseases (World Health Organization, 2010). Most of these are vector-borne and water-borne diseases which have been known to be influenced by climate change. The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has concluded that “climate change is projected to increase threat to human health, particularly in lower income populations, predominantly within tropical/subtropical countries.” Climate change has affected the incidence and pattern of infectious diseases through environmental change, increased flooding, drought, changes in weather patterns and increasing incidence of natural disasters (IPCC, 2001)…” Read the rest of the article in Agora, L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science website

Filed under: Uncategorized, Agora L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science, health policy, infectious disease, publication, women, writing

Letter: Insomnia complaints (The Jakarta Post)

My letter on tranquilizer addiction news (previously published in The Jakarta Post, 7 September 2010)

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/09/07/letter-insomnia-complaints.html

Filed under: Uncategorized, health policy, Letter, primary health care, The Jakarta Post

“The Thinker: Science of Equality”, a column in The Jakarta Globe newspaper by Rahajeng N. Tunjungputri

Dear friends,

Today my writing about women in science is published in Jakarta Globe, a Jakarta-based English newspaper. I spent quite some time doing the research and editing for this piece. So indeed, I’m very pleased that the piece is finally published on paper.

The first time I read Jakarta Globe on holiday in Bali, I just thought, “Wouldn’t it be cool if I can have my writings in this newspaper…”.

It turned out to be cool indeed.

http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/columns/the-thinker-science-of-equality/394239

Best regards,

Rahajeng

Filed under: miscelaneous, health policy, publication, women, writing

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If smoking is bad, why do people still smoke? What does it take to successfully overcome the tobacco epidemic in Indonesia? Indonesia has been in the spotlight for not signing The World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), but is it really just a matter of not having a political commitment and a failure of implementing health policy on tobacco?

Read more about “The Cure of Tobacco Epidemic” on my latest writing at http://doc2doc.bmj.com (or click here)

Filed under: miscelaneous, doc2doc.bmj.com, Faculty of Medicine Diponegoro University, health policy, miscelaneous, public health, writing