About 20,000 people with severe mental disorders (schizophrenia) in Indonesia live in the stocks

About 20,000 people with severe mental disorders (schizophrenia) in Indonesia live in the stocks. Ignorance about mental illness, economic constraints, as well as access to health care is expensive and causes far only a few people with severe mental disorders who receive treatment.
"The attitude of aggressive, emotional, paranoid, and hostile to others who demonstrated severe mental disorders, some communities memasung their families suffering from mental disorders. In fact, it is a symptom of disease, "said Director of Mental Health, Ministry of Health, Irmansyah, in Jakarta, Friday (7 / 10).
Society still considers severe mental disorder is not a medical issue, but as a "disease" caused by demons or possessed by a curse. This makes the efforts of medical conditions that do actually get a rejection from family.
Health Research Association 2007 Kemkes shows, people with severe mental disorders in Indonesia reached 0.46 percent, or about 1 million people. The highest prevalence in Jakarta (2.03 percent), Aceh (1.9 percent), and West Sumatra (1.6 percent).
In addition to the deprivation, mental health disorders cause a variety of social issues, ranging from divorce, suicide, fights, domestic violence, use of narcotic and addictive substances, to unemployment and poverty.
Mental health facilities are very limited. According to the Directorate General of Health Efforts Secretary, Ministry of Health, Adi Kuntjoro Purjanto, currently there are 48 mental hospitals with 7716 beds. The role of private sector is still small.
However, many psychiatric hospitals proposed change of status into a public hospital. As for paying less attention to the general hospital mental health services.
Mental health workers is very limited. Standard World Health Organization (WHO) said the ideal ratio of mental health specialist (psychiatrist) with the population is 1: 30,000. However, in Indonesia, the ratio of psychiatrists and 0.22 reach a new population: 100,000.
"Currently there are only about 600 psychiatrists," said Irmansyah.
Health Minister reminded Sedyaningsih Endang Rahayu, mental health experts to prepare a management plan with a mature mental health. Looking ahead, the potential for mental disorders will increase as economic growth. "If it's too late to anticipate, it takes a huge cost to care for and treat it," he said.

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Circumcision provides special benefits for you and your partner

At first, circumcision is performed as part of the tradition. But over time, circumcision is also performed for cleanliness and health of the penis. Even so, there are still many men who for some reason have not undergone circumcision in adulthood. Circumcised or uncircumcised conditions proved to affect the sex lives of men, and of course mate.
According to Dr. Patti Britton, PhD, director of the Sexuality Certificate Track in the Chicago School of Professional Psychology / Westwood, circumcision provides special benefits for you and your partner. First, the he did not have to bother anymore to clean the skin covering the head of his penis (the prepuce, or better known as the foreskin). Practicality is not owned by a man who is not circumcised, because it takes extra effort to pull the skin and clean the previously closed.
Clean the area of ​​the head of the penis (the foreskin closed) is necessary to avoid the odor or scent of a more serious effect of the accumulation of material released by the gland (smegma). By itself, fewer bacteria or germs that can move into your body and affect your health.

Second, some women choose men who are circumcised because of the penetration that occurs will reduce the friction that is less comfortable in the vagina. Once penetration occurs, head of the circumcised penis is easier to get in and out to create a sense of comfort for you and your partner.
Whereas if you have a spouse who is not circumcised, safer sex should be emphasized. Men with foreskin of the penis is still covered sometimes have trouble finding condoms that fit, or ensure that condoms are kept in place during penetration occurs. This can create its own concern for women, and consequently disrupt the sexual activity.
Uncircumcised penises are also have a smell or taste different. The smell in the genital area is normal, but if too strong, most likely less intact penis clean. Poor hygiene can also cause infection under the foreskin, whose symptoms can include irritation, redness, pleasant aroma, and other abnormal symptoms. 

Even so, if kept clean, which have not been circumcised penis also provides its own sensation. A thin layer of the prepuce is very sensitive. When an erection, the skin itself attracted to its axis, exposing the head of the penis so it looks the same as that already circumcised penis. During intercourse, oral sex and masturbation, which attracted the skin can act as a lubricant. When the penis is pushed in, it will create extra friction that could lead to its own pleasure for women who like it.
In the end, there is no better or worse during sex with circumcised men circumcised or not. Everything is back to the individual taste of women. Women who have a spouse that is not circumcised can enjoy.

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Scientists say : Coffee may prevent depression

It is not clear why it might have this effect, but the authors believe caffeine in coffee may alter the brain's chemistry. Decaffeinated coffee did not have the same effect.

The findings, published in Archives of Internal Medicine, come from a study of more than 50,000 US female nurses.

The experts are now recommending more work to better understand the link.

And they say it is certainly too soon to start recommending that women should drink more coffee to boost mood. 

Caffeine lift

The Harvard Medical School team tracked the health of the women over a decade from 1996 to 2006 and relied on questionnaires to record their coffee consumption.

Just over 2,600 of the women developed depression over this time period.

More of these women tended to be non- or low-coffee drinkers rather than frequent coffee consumers. Compared with women who drank one cup of caffeinated coffee or less per week, those who consumed two to three cups per day had a 15% decreased risk of developing depression.

Those who drank four or more cups a day cut their risk by 20%.

Regular coffee drinkers were more likely to smoke and drink alcohol and were less likely to be involved in church, volunteer or community groups. They were also less likely to be overweight and have high blood pressure or diabetes. Even after controlling for all of these variables, the trend of increasing coffee consumption and lower depression remained.

 

 

Mounting evidence

The researchers say their findings add weight to the work of others which found lower suicide rates among coffee drinkers. 

They suspect caffeine is the key player - it is known to enhance feelings of wellbeing and energy. 

And it has a physical effect on brain function and transmission by blocking certain chemical receptors, like adenosine. But more research is needed to show if this might mean it is useful for warding off depression.

Alternatively, it might be that people with low moods chose not to drink coffee because it contained caffeine, point out the researchers. One of the common symptoms of depression is disturbed sleep, and caffeine can exacerbate this because it is a stimulant. 

Too much caffeine can also increase feelings of anxiety.

Prof Bertil Fredholm, an expert in pharmacology and physiology at Sweden's Karolinska Institute, said the findings were reassuring for coffee-lovers. 

"This fits nicely with a lot of the previous work and what we know about caffeine and the brain. It blocks adenosine, which produces a similar effect to increasing dopamine production. And it's becoming increasingly clear that the dopamine-rich areas of the brain are much more important in depression that previously thought.

"Despite valiant efforts to show how dangerous coffee is for us, it is not proving so.

"This removes yet another anxiety regarding caffeine use. Drunk in moderation, the evidence is strong that it is not one of the things we do that is going to damage your health."

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Why Dominant Wife at Home More Rare Sex

The husband may not be too confused with the household stuff, but the wife is the boss turns out to have sex less frequently. This is confirmed by the discovery to be published in the Journal of Sex Research.
Researchers from the School of Public Health Johns Hopkins Bloomberg examines the relationship between married women's autonomy and regularity of sexual relations. They found that women are better positioned to make decisions much less frequent sexual intercourse.
Researcher Professor Michelle Hindin said there was a very consistent pattern in the observations of the six countries surveyed.
"More and more decisions taken by the women themselves than decisions taken together, the less likely he is to have sex and the longer since he last had sexual intercourse," said Professor Hindin as reported by The Telegraph, Monday (09/26/2011) .
The researchers analyzed survey data in Ghana, Malawi, Mali, Rwanda, Uganda and Zimbabwe are asking the survey participants indicate the day, week, month and year the last time they had sexual intercourse
Survey participants are also asked to indicate who in the household who usually decide the following matters as health care, purchase the majority of household equipment, purchase of daily necessities and household visits to family and friends.
Researchers also examined the factors of socio-demographic that may be associated such as age, wealth, position of husband and wife, husband's residence, and duration of marriage.
The study explains that the majority of women who participated in the survey last sexual intercourse in the last month. As for men, make their own decisions not related to the period of sex.
"The position of women in the household affects their sexual activity and can be an important part in protecting the sexual rights of women and help them achieve a safe sexual life and fun," said study co-author Carie Muntifering.

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In the Philippines the sex workers have a certificate of virginity

Although prostitution is actually illegal in the Philippines, several government-run clinics secretly conduct health checks on sex workers. In fact, who have never had sex will be given a certificate of virginity.
This fact was revealed in a confidential letter sent by a U.S. diplomat, Kristie Kenney for an embassy in his country. More recently, documents were coded 09-MANILA-1827 was leaked on the internet through the site WikiLeaks.
Kenney one of the statements in the letter is, government-owned health clinic Angeles City provide a certificate of virginity and sexual health status of workers at a nightclub. These activities are conducted in secret, because prostitution is actually illegal in the entire Philippines.
"Reports from the embassy in Manila's immigration report, several bars, hotels and private clinics to cooperate with the government clinic to facilitate prostitution," Kenney wrote in the document, as quoted from CBNnews, Monday (09/23/2011).
The clinics are run activities secret in order to control the transmission of genital infections. By doing a routine check, the clinics will be easy to monitor the spread of infection among sex workers.
Not only check the status of virginity and sexual health, health clinics run by the government is also providing special training. Material about safe sex, including how to pair condoms discreetly so as not to get caught by the customer.
The use of condoms, both male condom or female condom is believed to be quite effective in preventing transmission of genital infections including Human Imunnodeficiency Virus (HIV). However, customers are asked to use condoms is often difficult, because it feels pleasure will be reduced.
This finding is more horrendous because some time ago, U.S. Ambassador Harry Thomas said that 40 percent of foreign men who visit the Philippines is to have sex. In fact, according to Thomas, some Philippine officials involved illegal sex trade.   Source: detikhealth.com

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