Don’t forget to invest 30 mins of your time!

There is good evidence that 30 minutes of moderate exercise each day will reduces risk of chronic diseases. Master or Doctoral degree is your future, but do not forget doing exercise half hour per day is also part of your future. Regular physical activity can:

• improves the strength of heart which makes the heart to work more efficiently during exercise and at rest. The more activity people do, the greater is their capacity for exercise and the stronger is the heart which keeps away any heart problem. This leads to reducing of high blood pressure, controlling blood cholesterol levels, controlling diabetes by improving the body’s ability to metabolize glucose.
• helps weight reduction by mobilizing excess fat from the body.
• indirectly encourages people to quit smoking for maintaining proper health and fitness.
• improves flexibility and builds muscle.
• decreases total and LDL cholesterol (“bad cholesterol”)
• raises HDL cholesterol (“good cholesterol”)
• increases energy store in the body
• increases tolerance to anxiety, stress and depression
• controls / prevents the development of diabetes
• decreases risk of orthopedic injury by improving flexibility
• helps building healthy bones, muscles and joints.
• reduces the risk of colon cancer

Many scientific evidence have shown that physical inactivity as a significant contributing factor causing premature death and also contribute to overall morbidity. These risks can be reduced simply by doing regular exercise.

If you are really busy person, you might do not have time even for 30 minutes to be away from your desk or computer, then do an alternative type of exercise such as climbing the stairs for about 15 minutes . If the stairs in your office is not high enough, then choose another type of sports that suit you. See the the option in the following figure. Let’s do now!

MEMBURU BEASISWA

Memburu Beasiswa, Upaya Merubah Nasib

“Anak petani yang ingin sekolah tinggi”

Masih teringat dengan jelas pesan orang tuaku, waktu itu aku masih duduk di bangku sekolah dasar. Katanya, “Kalau mau ubah nasib, Nak, kamu harus sekolah yang tinggi. Kalau tidak, yaa, kamu akan jadi petani seperti bapakmu ini nantinya.”
Saya kira, tidak ada hal yang istimewa dengan kata-kata itu bagi kebanyakan orang, namun bagi saya hal itu cukup mengusik pikiran. Artinya, kalau saya tidak sekolah sampai ke perguruan tinggi, nasib saya tidak akan berubah: akan jadi petani meneruskan profesi leluhur, banting tulang di tengah sawah di bawah sengatan matahari dan cucuran keringat dengan hasil panen tidak seberapa bila dihitung dengan cost dan pengorbanan yang harus dikeluarkan.

Berminggu-minggu kata-kata tersebut tidak hilang dalam benak.’Sekolah yang tinggi’, ‘perguruan tinggi’, ‘jadi petani’, ‘ubah nasib’, itulah beberapa ‘keywords’ yang terus menghantuiku saat itu. Beberapa deretan pertanyaan lain juga bermunculan, berdialog dengan jiwa sendiri terjadi begitu sering. “OK, OK, siapa sih yang ngak mau merubah nasib, siapa yang mau jadi petani terus, siapa yang ngak mau sekolah sampai ke perguruan tinggi. Tapi bagaimana caranya? Apakah punya duit untuk menyekolahkan aku?” Kalau dihitung dari hasil panen selama ini, ditambah job sampingan orang tuaku lainnya, paling banter aku hanya mampu bersekolah sampai SMA, tidak lebih dari itu!

Banyak bukti sudah. Selama ini yang tamat dari SMA saja (di kampungku nun jauh di Aceh) bisa dihitung dengan jari, apalagi tamatan perguruan tinggi. “Kalau hanya tamatan SMA, lebih baik tidak sekolah saja,” keluh aku pada waktu itu. Bagiku, itu hanya menambah citra negatif tentang anak sekolah: tiga tahun umur habis di SMP dan tiga tahun lagi habis di SMA, paling bisa cuma …, dan tidak ada skill khusus yang membuat berbeda dengan anak yang tidak sekolah. Sangat kontras, kalau enam tahun dihabiskan di pesantren, perubahannya begitu nyata. Mereka mampu jadi imam, memberi khotbah, membaca kitab-kitab berbahasa Arab “gundul”, menguasai tata bahasa Arab dengan baik dan mampu menafsirkan ayat-ayat Al-Quran dengan begitu baik…

Memang, kampungku pada saat itu punya tradisi pesantren yang kuat. Secara rata-rata, anak-anak cerdas kebanggaan dan kesayangan orang tua dikirim ke pesantren, menuntut ilmu akhirat. Sangat jarang yang dikirim ke sekolah. Pada saat itu belum ada satupun “tukang insinyur”. Sekolah bagi sebagian orang itu tidak hanya identik dengan keduniawian dan dunia sekular, tapi juga identik dengan duit dan mahal. Tidak banyak orang tua yang sanggup menyekolahkan anaknya.
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Leukaemia: A very costly disease and needs a very long treatment phases (Personal Experience)

Part I (Draft)

Background
In the second week of Ramadhan 2006, my youngest daughter seems different, not so active, easily tired and quite often had a high fever. My wife did not bring her to hospital or clinic because she assumed that Gina will be fine by taking Paracetamol. Indeed, she was getting better after taking drug but the fever just relapses for one or two days. My wife called me to inform this situation for a number of times. At that time, I was in Jakarta attending AusAID scholarship predeparture program.

Resource Allocation Phenomenon in a Decentralized Environment

Submitted to APACPH Newsletter February 2008, vol.1.
by Asnawi Abdullah

Many countries in the Asia Pacific region have implemented decentralized health services to region or district level. The degree of decentralization might be different from one country to another. However, it seems there are similarities in how budgets are allocated to different programmes and services. In theory, under a decentralized health system, with local government having a range of options in planning, financing and service delivery, resource allocation becomes better in terms of both technical and allocative efficiency. Under decentralization, district level has more discretion to allocate the budget as their own priority without any obligations to follow rigid guidelines from a central government.