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Public Health
“Health care matters to all of us some of the time,
Public health matters to all of us all of the time”.
C. Everett Koop
Public health focuses on the community and its people. The CFMS facilitates the development and continued improvement of grassroots initiatives.
Projects:
Youth Education Network Collaboration
In the summer of 2005 the CFMS sent a student to Kenya to work with the Youth Education Network. This student’s role was to complete a needs assessment on the community and determine the sustainability of a project with the Youth Education Network. The student had a one month community health experience and a one month clinical medicine experience.
The results of this pilot project will be presented at the CFMS Annual General Meeting in September.
Contact your local International Health Liaison in the fall for more details and visit this site for updates.
Malaria and TB awareness Campaign
The theme for malaria week was “Malaria: Children Dying Needlessly.” Malaria is the number one killer of children in Africa, killing a child every 30seconds. Malaria and poverty are intimately connected, poor families can spend 25% of their annual income on malaria and prevention. Click here to download our Malaria Awareness Campaign outline.
In 2002 there were 52 deaths in Canada from Tuberculosis. Overall, one third of the world’s population is infected with TB bacillus. The theme of TB day was “Every Breath Counts”. The day focused on awareness of the local incidence of TB and the fact that TB is a curable disease. Click here for our World TB Day Outline.
CFMS Tsunami Action Campaign
December 26 th, 2004 the earthquake and tsunami in South-east Asia caused the death of over 250,000 people and the destructions of even more people’s homes. Canadian medical students showed remarkable compassion raising over $16,000 for the relief effort. These funds were doubled by the federal government and donated to Save the Children Canada, who was already active in Southeast Asia prior to the earthquake. The CFMS has also been working with the grassroots NGO CanRelief (www.canrelief.org). We have contributed to CanRelief’s Play Therapy Project and are working on further collaboration establishing a medical library for the new local medical school. Click here to download our CFMS Tsunami Action Campaign outline.
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