Health concepts Archives

Compassion in healthcare and its imagery in postage stamps

By rjoshimgims February 11, 2024Health concepts10 Comments

Index Home Empathy and compassion are integral to healthcare. Most patients seek care when they have discomfort, infirmity or incapacitation. Compassion is a concern for another person's discomfort. It is not…

Why we think & do, what we think & do ?

By rjoshimgims January 23, 2024Health concepts, Medical Diseases9 Comments

Index Home Our behaviour is shaped by our thoughts and actions. Each of us has a different behaviour, even when external situations are similar. Psychology is the science that analyses our…

Our transition from food & hunger to health & nutrition

By rjoshimgims January 14, 2024Health concepts, Medical Diseases6 Comments

Index Home To the world of postage stamps, sixties was a time of global omnibuses. First such occasion was the year 1960 itself, when many countries of the world issued postage…

Count, analyze and interpret: Data for health

By rjoshimgims November 26, 2023Health concepts, Misc5 Comments

Index Home Latin word datum means 'to give'. In english this word means a 'single piece of information'. As information grows from singular to pleural, it becomes 'data'. We subconsciously collect…

“Hospital on a train” & its postage stamps

By rjoshimgims November 24, 2023Health care facilities, Health care organizations, Health concepts, Misc12 Comments

Index Home We have all heard the story of James Watt, who probably inspired by a fluttering lid of a kettle, invented steam engine in 1769. About 35 years later, Richard…

Telecom and health in 1980 and origins of Telemedicine

By rjoshimgims November 9, 2023Health concepts, Tools in Health10 Comments

Index Home About four decades ago, in 1980 there was no public internet (or World Wide Web). While idea of internet (or connected computers) did exist, it started taking shape only…

Refugee health: distraught and displaced

By rjoshimgims October 29, 2023Health care organizations, Health concepts, Misc10 Comments

Index Home Refuge is to seek protection. Thus, a refugees is an individual who looses protection in their country, and is forced to flee. This loss of protection is usually a…

Founders of healing: from ancient to the early medieval times

By rjoshimgims September 24, 2023Health concepts6 Comments

Index Home Healing is an art, and no one knows it better than the healers themselves. A system of healing is in place, since the beginning of mankind, much before…

Empowering people with a disability

By rjoshimgims August 20, 2023Health concepts, Health system9 Comments

Index Home Valentin Hauy (1745-1822), a linguist and an interpreter in the Royal court, established world's first school for the blind, in Paris. This was in 1785, when families either kept…

Coming out of the disability closet

By rjoshimgims August 13, 2023Health concepts, Tools in Health7 Comments

Index Home It took global community, more than thirty-five years just to come out of their disability closet. Thirty-five years is a gross understatement, as we shift our start-line to 1945,…