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EUGENE, Oregon: Shericka Jackson says redemption is on her mind going into the women’s 200m final on Thursday, the seventh day of action at the World Athletics Championships at Hayward Field.

Jackson, the Olympic 400m bronze medalist from Rio 2016, stepped down in distance since last year’s Tokyo Olympic Games and she has so far shown that this was not a mistake.

But after rounding off a 1-2-3 Jamaica sweep by taking bronze in the women’s 100m behind the illustrious duo of Elaine Thompson-Herah and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, disappointment struck in the 200m.

A miscalculation in the heats was costly. Jackson eased up at the finish line, consequently missing the semifinal by 0.004.

Don’t expect Jackson to make such a tactical mistake again.

“Last year was probably one of the most disappointing times of my career and I never want to make the same mistake again,” said Jackson following two rounds of the 200m.

The Jamaican champion clocked a very fast 21.67 in the first heat of the semifinals on Tuesday, the quickest time going into the final.

Jackson’s 21.67 is close to the championship record of 21.63, set by Dafne Schippers in 2015.

Fraser-Pryce, the five-time world 100m champion sporting lavender-coloured hair, posted a season’s best of 21.82, the second-fastest qualifying time.

Tamara Clark of the US had the third best time of 21.95 while Abby Steiner, running her 54th race of the year following a stellar collegiate season, ran 22.15 behind Fraser-Pryce to qualify for her first global final.

Defending champion Dina Asher-Smith of Great Britain ran a season’s best of 21.96, while the third Jamaican, Elaine Thompson-Herah, the five-time Olympic champion, also ran a season’s best of 21.97, the sixth fastest time.

“I just wanted to run the curve as hard as possible, I did that today and am feeling pretty good,” said Jackson who on Sunday took 100m silver medal in another Jamaican medal sweep.

She described her miscalculation in Tokyo as a “wake-up call for me”.

Jackson said, “I had one of the fastest 200m times last year and not to advance from the heats and it was a really, really heartbreaking moment for me.”

No Jamaican has won the 200m since Fraser-Pryce in 2013. Jackson is the big favourite to land gold and justifiably stake a claim to being the most talented, all-round sprinter of the Jamaican big three, having become the first Jamaican woman to run under 11 seconds for 100m, under 22 seconds for 200m, and under 50 seconds for 400m.

She is only the 10th athlete ever to achieve all three landmark times in the women’s sprints, and only the third since 2000, following in the hallowed spike marks of Olympic gold medallists Allyson Felix and Shaunae Miller-Uibo.

Jackson’s best over 400m came at the 2019 World Championships in Doha where 49.47 earned her bronze, and this year she slashed her 100m best to 10.73 in the 100m final on Sunday and her 200m best to 21.55 at the Jamaican trials in June.

The 21.55 is the third-fastest time in history behind only Thompson-Herah’s 21.53 at the Tokyo Olympics and world record-holder Florence Griffith Joyner’s 21.34 from 1988.

Jackson welcomes the one-day break before the 200m final. She is very confident about being fresh for the medal round.

“Over management team recovery system is very good and I can’t complain about that and after every round, the management team ensured that I recover properly,” she said. “It’s been five hard days of competition. I now have a day to rest and reflect.”

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There has been a slight increase in the number of traffic accidents recorded for the first half of 2022 when compared to the same period last year, says Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Rodney Ellis, Head of the Traffic Department. CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHATSAPP GROUP FOR NEWS UPDATES.

However, he says the incidence of accidents can be reduced once motorists and pedestrians pay attention to the road.

According to ASP Ellis, most of the accidents that have occurred are rear-enders – that is, hitting another vehicle from behind.

Meanwhile, the Traffic Head is advising the public that there will be heightened traffic patrols in and around the city as Carnival draws near.

He says the Police will be on hand at every event to assist persons who are intoxicated and to prevent them from getting behind the wheel and later being involved in a traffic accident.

In the meantime, at least three young people have been hospitalized on account of traffic collisions over the past few days.

A Hispanic youth, who was involved in an accident on Market Street, is still nursing his injuries at the hospital and is said to be stable but serious.

He was driving at a high speed, lost control of his vehicle, and ended up in a ditch on Tanner Street. The accident was captured on closed-circuit camera and the video has gone into wide circulation.

There was also a Valley Road collision involving another young man on Tuesday, July 19. Ellis describes it as another speeding incident and a single-vehicle collision.

That youth, too, was driving at a high speed, which resulted in him losing control of his vehicle and colliding with a utility pole.

Both he and his passenger had to be transported to the hospital with serious injuries. They both are reportedly stable.

The Police are also investigating a Jonas Road accident that involved two pick-up trucks, although the circumstances surrounding this impact are still not known.

Once all the information is gathered, Ellis says, charges will be laid against these persons, since, according to him, the evidence would suggest that speeding was involved. — REAL News

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Around the world, millions of refugees and migrants in vulnerable situations, such as low-skilled migrant workers, face poorer health outcomes than their host communities, especially where living and working conditions are sub-standard, according to the first WHO World report on the health of refugees and migrants.

This has dire consequences for the probability that the world will not achieve the health-related Sustainable Development Goals for these populations.

“Today there are some one billion migrants globally, about one in eight people. The experience of migration is a key determinant of health and wellbeing, and refugees and migrants remain among the most vulnerable and neglected members of many societies,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General.

“This report is the first to offer a global review of refugee and migrant health; it calls for urgent and collective action to ensure they can access health care services that are sensitive to their needs. It also illustrates the pressing need to address the root causes of ill health and to radically reorient health systems to respond to a world increasingly in motion.”

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According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Northern America was the destination for 59 million international migrants in 2020. In Latin America and the Caribbean, the number of international migrants more than doubled since 2005 to 15 million in 2021, making it the region with the highest growth.

Based on an extensive review of literature from around the world, the report demonstrates that refugees and migrants are not inherently less healthy than host populations.

It is, rather, the impact of the various suboptimal health determinants, such as education, income, housing, access to services, compounded by linguistic, cultural, legal and other barriers and the interaction of these during the life course, that are behind poor health outcomes.

The report reiterates that the experience of migration and displacement is a key factor in a person’s health and wellbeing, especially when combined with other determinants.

For example, a recent meta-analysis of more than 17 million participants from 16 countries across five WHO regions found that, compared with non-migrant workers, migrant workers were less likely to use health services and more likely to have an occupational injury.

Evidence also showed that a significant number of the 169 million migrant workers globally are engaged in dirty, dangerous, and demanding jobs and are at greater risk of occupational accidents, injuries, and work-related health problems than their non-migrant counterparts, conditions exacerbated by their often limited or restricted access to and use of health services.

The Report demonstrated critical gaps in data and health information systems regarding the health of refugees and migrants – while data and evidence are plentiful, they are fragmented and not comparable across countries and over time.

Although these mobile populations are sometimes identifiable in global datasets used for SDG monitoring, health data are often missing from migration statistics and migratory status variables are often missing from health statistics. This makes it difficult to determine and track progress for refugees and migrants towards the health-related SDGs.

“It is imperative that we do more on refugees and migrants’ health but if we want to change the status quo, we need urgent investments to improve the quality, relevance and completeness of health data on refugees and migrants. We need sound data collection and monitoring systems that truly represent the diversity of the world population and the experience that refugees and migrants face the world over and that can guide more effective policies and interventions,” said Dr Zsuzsanna Jakab, WHO’s Deputy Director-General.

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO is implementing a project in coordination with national authorities in ten Central- and South American countries to protect the health of migrants and ensure their access to health services. Information gaps, however, are a challenge that still needs to be addressed in order to strengthen and develop national policies and regulatory frameworks to include this population.

Earlier this year, and in alignment with global efforts, PAHO launched an information platform to address the lack of regional data on migration and health. The platform includes interactive dashboards on policy, legal, and regulatory frameworks, as well as scientific literature on health and migration, and is aimed at all stakeholders involved in developing health and migration policies, laws, and programs.

While lack of comparable data on the health of refugees and migrants across countries and over time often impedes good policy development towards health equity, policies and frameworks do exist that address and respond to the health needs of refugees and migrants. However, disparities in health outcomes remain and the report shows that they are mainly due to a lack of meaningful and effective implementation of policies.

“Health does not begin or end at a country’s border. Migratory status should therefore not be a discriminatory factor but a policy driver on which to build and strengthen healthcare and social and financial protection. We must reorient existing health systems into integrated and inclusive health services for refugees and migrants, in line with the principles of primary health care and universal health coverage,” said Dr Santino Severoni, Director of WHO’s Health and Migration Programme.

Refugees and migrants can introduce innovative ideas that drive economic and social transformation.

The Report highlights the extraordinary contributions of refugee and migrant healthcare workers to the COVID-19 frontline response.

One of the most notable was the contributions of migrants in several countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which were particularly significant when in some countries as many as half of doctors or nurses are foreign born.

Implementing inclusive health systems that conform to the principle of right to health for all and universal health coverage would permit individuals in need of health services to be identified and supported early, before many problems become acute. Health systems are only as strong as their weakest link.

The inclusion of refugees and migrants is a worthwhile investment for the development and wellbeing of societies around the world.

Source: Pan American Health Organization/ SLT. Headline photo: Stock image

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