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Building Healthy Cities and Establishing the Foundation for a Sustainable Environment

With the changes in global environment, various countries encountering problems relate to drop in birth rates, rising in adult death rate, increase in non-communicable disease, and aging society. The key to lay a solid foundation for the country's sustainable development is the plan to create “Healthy Cities”. Given Taiwan’s diverse environment, experts and scholars from various fields gathered in the "2019 Global Health and Sustainable Development Forum" to share the secrets of development of “Healthy Cities”.

Taiwan is One Answer to Drug Shortage

Drug shortage is a challenge beyond regional borders. It has become a global issue since 2011. Based on the facts of high quality talents, relatively lower labor costs and modern automated factories, Taiwan can provide higher quality generic drugs when the drugs are in short supply. Of all the drugs that are used in the National Health Insurance scheme, 75% are supplied by local manufacturers. More than half of Taiwan pharmaceuticals can swim the tide. It proves that Taiwan pharmaceuticals can do their part for supplying high quality drugs and make changes to the drug shortage issues.

From Pap Smear Test to HPV Vaccine, Taiwan Government Spares No Efforts to Safeguard Women’s Health

Based on a WHO report, cervical cancer is worldwide the second most frequent cancer in women. The incidence of cervical cancer is the highest in Taiwan so it can be said as an invisible killer to woman health. It is most frequently diagnosed in women between the ages of 25-45. Death rate from cervical cancer is the fourth most lethal in female cancer representing 4% of all cancer deaths which trails lung cancer, liver cancer and colon cancer. Taiwan government launched pap smear screening program in 1995. After more than 20 years now, cervical cancer cases have dropped significantly.

Optimize Iodine Supply and Improve Iodine Status of Pregnant Women and Children

Iodine is an important nutrient and essential to make thyroid hormone. Thyroid hormone plays a vital role in regulating all the body cells’ metabolism. It supports carbohydrate metabolism, cell growth, brain development, regulating hormone release and many other body functions. Iodine is even critical to women and infants. Salt iodization is recommended by WHO to prevent and correct iodine deficiency.

This is How Taiwan Combat Droplet Spreading

Diseases like influenza and tuberculosis are transmitted through droplet viruses and have grave impacts upon Taiwan as we have cities with high population densities. Based on statistics from Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 18,533 people were killed by tuberculosis in 1947, 89 children died because of poliomyelitis in 1982, 78 children died from enterovirus 71 in 1998 and 81 lives taken away by SARS in 2003. Even up until recently, influenza killed 55 people from 2018 October to 2019 February. These terrible numbers tell us that we need to confront the diseases head-on, linking up our medicine knowledge and research techniques with the world.

Cease the Spread of Hepatitis B and AIDS

To free our next generation from the threats of hepatitis B and AIDS, we Taiwanese have made great efforts to reduce mortality rate of hepatitis diseases and reverse younger generation’s view towards AIDS. Hepatitis B is transmitted in some of the same ways as AIDS, which include blood transfusion, sharing needles, tattooing, sex, etc. Based on the understandings towards such similar transmissions, combining predecessors’ efforts and legacy, Taiwan has thus made great contributions on disseminating information, transmission control and surgery performance.

Mosquito Control Programs in Taiwan Adopt Scientific Approaches

Weather plays an important role in mosquito activities, which lead to mosquito-borne diseases caused by viruses transmitted by mosquitos. Mosquito weather is naturally found in Taiwan and some mosquito-borne illnesses once swept this island. We should look back these outbreaks and think how we can make a difference.

Realizing Primary Care through Treatment on Telemedicine

FarHugs is a remote health eco-system tool meeting HIPAA Compliance on AWS. It is suitable for telehealth services as they are conducted through communication software. Medical adherence and accessibility are aw well promoted. Currently the platform provides services like inquiries, examinations, medical advices, prescription adjustment and instruction, and health education. Among which, health education is not limited to medical institutions, but can be conducted by any individual healthcare provider.

Acusense Biomedical Proposes Solutions to Leakage

In response to the growing needs in patient safety and risk management, Acusense Biomedical decided to enter the intradialytic blood leakage alarm market. This alarm is equipped with medical wearable technology, multi-bed monitoring care system and AI prediction program. It aims to solve problems like needle fall-off and blood leakage in hemodialysis catheter, critical care catheterization, chemotherapy catheter and general types. Through leakage prediction and monitoring, patient safety and healthcare quality can be improved.

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