Highlights from the upcoming series:
The Health Check team look at how the lives of people with Alzheimer’s Disease are improving. From Kent to India, explore how people are working and training in dementia care.
Adolescents have particular health issues, and in many parts of the world they are not given the attention they need. The Health Check team look at projects which attempt to delay the marriage of girls, and inform them about sexual health. The team also explores the pressures on adolescents, and schemes to prevent mental illness in this age group.
As mortality from infectious diseases declines, more people are living longer and developing cancer. In this programme the Health Check team explores the different survival rates in different parts of the world, including the prevention, diagnosis and treatments.
The Health Check team travels to far flung places to witness where the public health system has successfully improved the outcomes for the population.
The programmes
Life expectancy in Costa Rica
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Why does Costa Rica have such a good life expectancy? Read more : Life expectancy in Costa Rica
Child marriage in Ethiopia
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Claudia Hammond reports from Ethiopia where she finds out more about the practice of child marriage Read more : Child marriage in Ethiopia
Mental illness in Hong Kong
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This week Health Check explores the deep-rooted stigma of mental illness in Hong Kong Read more : Mental illness in Hong Kong
How teenage health affects adult life
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Programme five looks at teenage health and the implications for health in later life Read more : How teenage health affects adult life
Health education and training in Ethiopia
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Programme four takes a closer look at efforts to improve health education and training in Ethiopia Read more : Health education and training in Ethiopia
Medical migration
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Programme three asks why are doctors leaving and what is the government doing to keep medics in Ethiopia? Read more : Medical migration
Childhood cancer
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Health Check looks at projects that have been set up by World Child Cancer to develop children's cancer services Read more : Childhood cancer
Alzheimer’s Disease: Is it all bad news?
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Programme one explores research into the ways that people with Alzheimer’s Disease and their families can be helped Read more : Alzheimer’s Disease: Is it all bad news?
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