rjoshimgims, Author at Health and Medicine in Postal Stamps

COVID pandemic: A turbulent cove on a straight coastline

By rjoshimgims November 27, 2024Medical Diseases14 Comments

Index Home The COVID years, 2020-2022 were unprecedented, not only for healthcare, livelihoods, but also for philately. Many country of the world issued COVID postage stamp, in a short span of…

Indian Special cover gallery: From Flu to Covid

By rjoshimgims November 23, 2024Medical Diseases1 Comment

Index Home Indian Post issues special postal covers. These are specially designed commemorative envelopes, that are mark an occurrence, place, event or an institution. While same is true of postage stamps,…

A midwife on Pitcairn, an Island of just 35 people

By rjoshimgims November 17, 2024Health Professionals

Index Home Today, when I was shuffling through my cache of postage stamps, I found a window to a remote land in the Pacific. This was Pitcairn Islands, and the set…

When money was no longer there….

By rjoshimgims November 9, 2024Misc

Index Home This blog is not about medicine, but about finance. It is still about health, but financial one. Money has a notional value, and in Indian culture, it is often…

GOBI: When simple measures in childcare went global

By rjoshimgims November 8, 2024Health care delivery1 Comment

Index Home UNICEF (the United Nations Children's Fund) launched GOBI initiative in the year 1982. This was a notable global health strategies aimed at reducing child mortality and improving child health.…

Family planning: Have we completed a full circle ?

By rjoshimgims November 2, 2024Health care delivery19 Comments

Index Home Family planning and birth control share a bond with one another. On one hand, phrase "to plan a family" is participatory, thought provoking, and sounds like a management exercise.…

Development milestones from six months to one year of life

By rjoshimgims October 22, 2024Health concepts1 Comment

Index Home Our journey from sixth month onwards, is one of curiosity and mobility. Now babies can see near as well as far, and their tiny eyes are grasping the world…

Milestones from birth upto first six months of infant life

By rjoshimgims October 20, 2024Health concepts2 Comments

Index Home Many developments take place from birth, to first six months of life. In the first one month, newborn is a neonate. Subsequently, the period upto one year of life,…

Braille: Just six elevated dots, to see the unseen

By rjoshimgims October 14, 2024Health concepts1 Comment

Index Home Louis Braille was born on January 4, 1809. When he was three, he accidentally injured one of his eyes. Over next two years, injured eye got infected, and let…

Legacy of “Foresight prevents blindness” campaign

By rjoshimgims October 6, 2024Health care delivery, Health concepts, Tools in Health

Index Home 1976 is a landmark year for Global Blindness Prevention. After years of apathy, blindness prevention and control was on World Health Organisation (WHO) agenda. Only a year ago in…