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Richmond Community and Family Health Care could almost field their own Canucks team


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VCH’s Community and Family Health staff in Richmond plus a few friends show their team spirit.

USACE Europe District hosts Health Fair to promote healthy lifestyles


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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District hosted a three-day Health Fair April 20 – 22 at its headquarters building in Wiesbaden, Germany. The fair offered a wide variety of activities to promote healthy lifestyles to employees, including nutrition counseling given by a licensed dietician and a scavenger hunt designed to get participants walking. Employees were able to receive free massages, take a Zumba aerobics class and race in a 5K fun run. Health assessments were also given, which measured body mass index, height and weight, and blood pressure. Other events included smoking cessation classes, CPR/First Aid classes, a healthy lunch demonstration and a self defense demonstration. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Carol E. Davis)

USACE Europe District hosts Health Fair to promote healthy lifestyles


Image by USACE Europe District
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District hosted a three-day Health Fair April 20 – 22 at its headquarters building in Wiesbaden, Germany. The fair offered a wide variety of activities to promote healthy lifestyles to employees, including nutrition counseling given by a licensed dietician and a scavenger hunt designed to get participants walking. Employees were able to receive free massages, take a Zumba aerobics class and race in a 5K fun run. Health assessments were also given, which measured body mass index, height and weight, and blood pressure. Other events included smoking cessation classes, CPR/First Aid classes, a healthy lunch demonstration and a self defense demonstration. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Carol E. Davis)

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Children pose outside a UKaid-funded health clinic in Danishmand, Afghanistan


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Children pose outside a UKaid-funded health clinic in Danishmand, Afghanistan

Image credit: Sam French / Development Pictures

Whither health care for me!


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An old man waits for consultation at a remote health centre in Northern Karnataka in South India

Pioneer Health Centre 1935: London modernism


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This is the flat entrance to the roof top, rather hobbit like. Visited as part of Open House 2009.

In 1935, two doctors opened the Pioneer Health Centre to house the ‘Peckham Experiment’, a unique attempt to improve public health through education, community care and preventative medicine.

Drs Scott Williamson and Innes Pearse, the founders, were responding to worryingly low levels of health and fitness among low-income inner-city families. The husband and wife team believed that social and physical environment could have a direct affect on health and sought to prove it.

Nine hundred and fifty families signed up, paying one shilling a week to relax in a club-like atmosphere where physical exercise, games and workshops were all encouraged. Among the original facilities were a nursery, gymnasium, cafeteria and kitchens (serving food grown at the Centre’s farm near Bromley) and swimming pool.

The families were constantly observed by Williamson and Pearse’s team of doctors and attended thorough annual medical examinations with the emphasis on a preventative, rather than a curative approach to health.

To reflect the pioneering approach to healthcare, the building was designed as an equally bold example of 20th century Modernist architecture.