Distribution by Region

Distribution by Organisation Type, Document Type, Region and Year

Care occurs mostly in documents published in Europe, followed by North America, Asia and Africa. Overall, the top five contributors in terms of occurrences are NGO, NGO_Fed, RC, IGO and RE organisations.

Firstly, NGO documents provide most occurrences, primarily from activity reports published in Asia, North America and Europe. Secondly, occurrences from NGO_Fed are the second most important in number. Likewise, they were predominantly found in activity reports published in Europe, with minor contributions from North America, Oceania and Asia.

Thirdly, documents from RC are generally activity reports, mostly published in Europe. Fourthly, IGO provides a substantial portion of occurrences from general documents issued predominantly in Europe and North America. Finally, RE generates a considerable number of occurrences from European activity reports documents, albeit rather minor compared to top contributors.

Comprehensive care entails responding to the most prevalent needs of a population through context-specific strategies adapted to their sociocultural reality. Comprehensive: considering the patient not according to his/her illness but as a whole human being with specific and inter-related needs , and being able to respond to the most prevalent needs of a population by integrating the necessary services within a health structure/ network .

The WHO defined palliative care as "an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical , psychosocial , and spiritual."

At the same time, however, kinship networks have proved resilient in providing at least a minimum level of care and socialisation for children orphaned by AIDS.

Health facilities are categorised by level of care according to their size and the services provided.

Sputum smear microscopy is standard of care, but has poor sensitivity especially in patients with HIV.

Emphasis on ongoing staff training and development has meant that the Centre is able to offer an extremely high standard of care that is having a transformative impact in neighbouring countries as well.

When acting as a subject, assistance and care appear with key verbs such as help, improve, reach and respond with relatively balanced scores. Please note that some of the detected verbs are false positives. These include need, work and programme, which are in fact nouns in this case (i.e assistance needs, assistance work, care work, care programmes). As objects, assistance and care also share key verbs such as provide, receive, deliver, seek and offer.

Assistance and care are also found to share modifiers (i.e. modifying nouns or adjectives), but to a lesser extent compared to verbs. Common modifiers such as emergency, food, medical and health were detected. The first two are sightly more frequent with assistance, while the last two are more frequent with care. Interestingly, emergency assistance and emergency care do not appear to be synonyms. The former may actually be a parent concept of the latter. Conversely, when modified my medical, both medical assistance and medical care appear to be synonymous.

As modifiers of other nouns, programme shows a balanced distribution between assistance and care. Other shared modified nouns include provider, service, unit, facility and centre, but they are more frequent with care. Here is where nouns detected as verbs should be included.

Support and care act a subjects of improve with even distributions. They also share key verbs like include and help, but frequencies lean towards support. Many verbs taking support and care as objects (provide, offer, receive, seek, access) coincide with the previous case.

When taking modifiers, support and care overlap with psychosocial and psychological. However, they occur slightly more frequently with support. In this case, psychosocial support and psychological support are synonymous with psychosocial care and psychological care.

As modifiers, both collocate with service, unit, centre, staff, worker and facility. As with assistance, some false positives were detected as verbs and they should be included here, e.g. need, programme and work.

Protection and care only appear to share remain when acting as subjects. Need, work and programme were again erroneously detected as verbs. Similarly, protection and care share key verbs when acting as objects as with assistance and support. Key verbs include provide, receive, ensure, access, offer and seek.

As modifiers of other nouns, they both collocate with system to form protection system and care system. They were found to share social and child as modifiers. Again, need, work and programme should be included here too. It could be argued that social protection and social care are near-synonyms. Additionally, as for child protection and child care, the former may perhaps be considered a parent concept of the latter.

The chart below represents the distribution of care between 2005 and 2019 in terms of the number of occurrences and relative frequency of occurrences It also allows you to view the distribution across Regions, Organisations and Document types.

The study report on Unpaid Care Work (UCW) was featured in almost every news outlet, which contributed in mainstreaming the debate and highlighting the importance of recognising Unpaid Care Work in the GDP.

This opened up community debate around unpaid care work, and in the region where the event took place, 30% of men saw, for the first time, the need to support their wives' unpaid care work.

ActionAid India also took an innovative approach to unpaid care work - working with women and youth at community level, it questioned men on the subject and sensitised them on sharing care work.

The public/private mix debate in health care .

The relative roles of the public and private (for-profit or not-for-profit) sectors in health-care provision have evolved over time and have continued to engender strong debate on ideological grounds.

When the scale of the disaster became clear, it led to significant public outcry and debate about the way France handles its elderly care .

In February, our annual report into the Health and Care of Older People in England reported that 1.2 million older people are now living with an unmet need for care – a fact which has been widely quoted in Parliamentary and public debates .

As debates on ageing and health and care increase, we will continue with our Age Demands Action campaigns during World Health Day to advocate governments and the WHO to act on supporting healthy ageing and service provision for NCDs.

For example, a look to Afghanistan shows a high mother-child mortality rate. Behind the misery of women and children there is a social problem. Thus the deficit of medical care mainly in rural areas is to a large extent due to the questionable role of women in the community. As long as women are bound in their traditional role and are excluded from working life, they are missing in the health care system as professionals.

A number of Arab governments have attempted to improve the basic health care services offered to the public. However, these attempts are incomplete in most Arab countries and are subordinated to the existing care health system and third-rate hospitals. Public sector health care is widely criticised for its low quality and inefficiency, its unresponsiveness to patients' needs, and the frequent referral of patients to the private sector.

The devastating effects of institutional care on a child's development are well documented. Current debates about de-institutionalisation (DI) are a welcome sign that governments and society are finally acknowledging their responsibility to fulfil every child's right to quality care.

In 1949, the year SOS Children's Villages was founded, the organisation's concept of offering orphaned and abandoned children an alternative form of long-term care was pioneering in its nature and opposed to traditional institutional care facilities.

Our Care in Crisis reports spearheaded the national debate about the scale of the funding challenge facing social care and the inadequacy of the Government's response so far.

Age UK has been at the forefront of debate around our social care system, calling for an end to the crisis in social care.

The absence of tailored and community-based care, especially long-term care and accessible transport and health care for the elderly, is a major contributor to social exclusion, which is exacerbated by declining family support networks.

Alongside the Australian Medical Association, the ANMF has actively protested this 'gag' law, arguing that it goes against their professional and ethical responsibilities to ensure duty of care for their patients. In response to the legislation, ANMF Federal Secretary Lee Thomas said: "We're horrified the government is using this new law to prevent the Australian public from knowing what really goes on inside detention centres by trying to silence nurses and other health professionals who work there.

Amid the debate over health care reform–before and after the law's enactment–Health Affairs published a wide array of articles on many aspects of the reform, from the effects of expanding insurance coverage on children's health, to the likely impact of the controversial individual mandate on health insurance.

While communities did in some cases appear to play vital roles as interlocutors with armed groups, this was largely limited to areas where community members were either trusted by the group, or the group was not predisposed to limit access. Even so, significant risks were involved. While some degree of risk sharing is unavoidable, the ethics of approaches that rely on community members risking their lives in order to enable access – particularly in the absence of well-planned strategies and support – raise serious questions about risk transfer and duty of care .

Switzerland must respect children's rights Switzerland fails to respect the rights of children and youth in the asylum field, despite having ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In a position paper, Caritas criticises the lack of suitable accommodation and care for under-age asylum seekers. It demands access to schooling and the re-introduction of embassy applications, to avoid the most dangerous refugee routes.

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