Filling the need for trusted information on national health issues
Filling the need for trusted information on national health issues
World Health Organization: 8 ways WHO supports health in Syria This post highlights eight “things to know about how WHO works in Syria to save lives and support health despite immense challenges: 1. Detecting and responding to disease outbreaks … 2. Delivering medical supplies despite insecurity, damaged roads, bureaucratic obstacles,…
The Lancet: Countdown Global Mental Health 2030 Shekhar Saxena, professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and colleagues “…[W]e announce the establishment of Countdown Global Mental Health, an independent, multistakeholder monitoring and accountability collaboration for mental health, within an initial timeframe of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals…
Agence France-Presse: 5,000 cases of tropical parasite in Libya: ministry (2/27). Devex: The midwives at the forefront of the birthing crisis in Cox’s Bazar (Kumar, 2/28). Inside Philanthropy: Who is Tackling the World’s Biggest Overlooked Health Crisis? (Dickow, 2/25). Inter Press Service: U.N. Accused of Failing to Move Aggressively Against…
Agence France-Presse: Suicide rate falls by a third globally, data shows “Suicides have fallen globally by more than a third since 1990, according to a far-reaching analysis released Thursday that highlighted profound differences in the number of men and women taking their own lives…” (2/7). CNN: Global rates of suicide…
Al Jazeera: Distrust of polio vaccine plagues Afghanistan (Birtley, 2/3). Bloomberg Quint: Malaysia Asks WHO to Pull ‘Biased’ Report on Palm Oil Industry (Raghu, 2/3). Devex: Traffic fatalities in Southeast Asia, Africa higher than reports say (Ravindran, 2/4). Devex: Solar power sales help women avoid food insecurity in Yemen (Welsh,…
WHO: Bulletin of the World Health Organization The February 2019 WHO Bulletin focuses on prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and features articles on the challenges and threats to NCD control, actions needed to prevent NCDs and improve mental health, and research on implementing national NCD action plans in…
The Lancet Psychiatry: A partnership for transforming mental health globally Daniel V. Vigo, assistant professor for the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University, and colleagues “The large and increasing burden of mental and substance use disorders, its association with social disadvantage and decreased economic output, and the substantial…
The BMJ: Solutions for non-communicable disease prevention and control “Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) constitute a major global health challenge, hampering nations’ economic growth and sustainable development. … This new collection issue brings together a wide and diverse author group, to focus on key issues and suggest scalable solutions to accelerate the…
Al Jazeera: In South Sudan, stigma and underfunding plague mental health care “…South Sudan suffered two civil wars before it won independence from Sudan in 2011, and is only now regaining its footing from its own civil war that lasted from 2013 until 2018. The country’s three practicing psychiatrists and…
New York Times: In Davos, Prince William Calls for Action on Mental Health “Prince William, who has long spoken publicly about his emotional struggles, has taken his campaign for mental health awareness to Davos, Switzerland, urging global leaders to help break the stigma…” (Karasz, 1/24).
