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Health System Reform in China

tlghn — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:22:00 +0000

Alma-Ata: Rebirth and Revision

tlghn — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:27:51 +0000

Neglected Tropical Diseases

tlghn — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:15:22 +0000

Neglected tropical diseases, including lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis, and soil-transmitted helminthiasis, represent a serious burden to public health. Unlike many public-health risks, such as malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV, the burden of human suffering caused by neglected tropical diseases remains poorly recognised by the global public-health community. This Series reviews elimination and control programmes for these diseases, and describes the effect, governance arrangements, and financing mechanisms of selected international control initiatives.

Trade and Health

tlghn — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:06:26 +0000

Many health professionals perceive trade as complex or unrelated to their practice. The Series on trade and health provides timely analysis of the key challenges to achieving an appropriate balance between trade and health across a diverse range of issues. This six-part Series examines differences in structures of the World Trade Organization and the World Health Organization that promote wealth before health. Issues of global trade governance, effects of trade practices on health of workers and the implications of intellectual property rights for access to live-saving medicines are all explored.

Positive Synergies

tlghn — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:03:39 +0000

This issue of The Lancet focuses on health-policy discussions around the impact of major global health initiatives and their interactions with country health systems. This issue not only celebrates the achievements of global health initiatives, but also draws attention to important unanticipated adverse effects. The World Health Organization Maximizing Positive Synergies Collaborative Group have compiled the published and emerging evidence so far, and report on ways in which global health initiatives and health systems can interact to mutually reinforce their effects.

Indigenous Health

tlghn — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:00:33 +0000

In 2006, The Lancet published a Series highlighting the poor health status of indigenous populations worldwide. Two reviews provide an update on many of the issues concerning indigenous health, including the perspectives of an author from an indigenous population in North America. While the health of indigenous peoples remains too low down the health policy and political agendas, there are some hopes that the health of indigenous populations are starting to become more understood by the wider global-health community.

Health in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

tlghn — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:56:07 +0000

This Series on the health status of 3·8 million people living in the occupied Palestinian territory details one of the most important flashpoints not only in Middle East politics, but for global security. The Lancet report examines aspects of the Palestinian health predicament: health services; maternal and child health; cardiovascular diseases; diabetes and cancer; health and human security; and the future of the healthcare system. The report has been written by a team of health scientists in the occupied Palestinian territory, together with international colleagues from WHO, associated UN agencies, and academic institutions in the USA, UK, Norway, and France.

Health in South Africa

tlghn — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:52:04 +0000

A collaboration between The Lancet and academic centres in South Africa to assess the health status in one of the most diverse regions of the world. HIV/AIDS dominate South Africa’s health environment, but this Series also highlights many other under-recognised health issues at a time when a new South African administration has a unique opportunity to implement key health policies to shape South Africa’s future.

Health and Climate Change

tlghn — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:48:41 +0000

Climate change already affects human health, and, if no action is taken, problems such as malnutrition, deaths and injury due to extreme weather conditions, and change in geographical distribution of disease vectors will worsen. This Series is the result of an international collaboration of scientists supported by a consortium of funding bodies coordinated by the Wellcome Trust, UK. The Comments and Articles make a strong case for linking climate and health goals, and provide a quantitative underpinning for this important health message.

Disability

tlghn — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:42:45 +0000

Disability is complex, multifactorial, and common: at least 10% of the world’s population has some form of disability. This special issue defines disability, includes research on the contributing factors, and discusses how health professionals in particular can do more to help people with disabilities; for example, better training in, and better research on, disability.

This special issue also includes a web feature with narratives from people with all types of disability from around the world.