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Healthy People 2030: Moving toward equitable health and well …

Globally recognized as a roadmap for charting a healthier future, the Healthy People initiative delineates achievable objectives with 10-year targets to guide multi-sectoral …

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Looking back and moving forward: Addressing health inequities …

We will likely look back on 2020 as a turning point. The pandemic put a spotlight on existing societal issues, accelerated the pace of change in others, and created some new …

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What we need to talk about when we talk about health

The USA is, by far, the leader in worldwide health spending, partly from decades of increasing health investment, which leapt from US$74·6 billion in 1970 to $1·4 trillion in 2000, to $3·5 …

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Healthier societies for healthy populations

The COVID-19 pandemic makes the importance of health and wellbeing clear. The pandemic's implications for societies are far reaching. Yet the response to this pandemic and …

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What is sexual wellbeing and why does it matter for public health

Sexual health has provided a guiding framework for addressing sexuality in public health for several decades. Although the WHO definition of sexual health is revolutionary in …

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Pollution and health: a progress update

The Lancet Commission on pollution and health reported that pollution was responsible for 9 million premature deaths in 2015, making it the world's largest environmental risk factor for …

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Education: a neglected social determinant of health

Education and health and wellbeing are intrinsically linked. The evidence behind the importance of education as a determinant of health is amongst the most compelling. Education is strongly …

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Tocilizumab among patients with COVID-19 in the intensive care …

Between March 1 and April 22, 2020, 764 patients with COVID-19 required support in the ICU, of whom 210 (27%) received tocilizumab. Factors associated with …

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The World Health Network: a global citizens' initiative

The WHN is a citizens’ initiative, bringing together like-minded experts and passionate advocates of public health. It is independent from any political body or …

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A new definition of brain health

In 1948, WHO defined health as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”. Brain health must be the key to health, as …

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The 2022 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and …

The Lancet Countdown in Europe is a collaboration of 44 leading researchers, established to monitor the links between health and climate change in Europe and to support …

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Big data and health

The digital health revolution is here. Innovations include not only the collection and analysis of electronic health records and personal genomes, but also diverse …

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Addressing challenges in health care and research for people with …

Individuals with Down syndrome have seen improvements in quality of life and life expectancy in recent decades due to health-care and research advancements, along with …

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Health and health care in Israel: an introduction

Starting well before Independence in 1948, and over the ensuing six decades, Israel has built a robust, relatively efficient public system of health care, resulting in good …

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What we need is a sustainable politics of life

What is needed is a sustainable politics of life that produces surplus health for all rather than excess all-cause mortality for some, often the most vulner-able. Horton’s call is one that turns …

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Strengthening public health in China

This 2020 special issue of The Lancet Public Health highlights important areas for public health in China in the coming years: an ageing population, an unaddressed mental health burden, …

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Cost and value of cancer medicines in a single-payer public health

Costs of cancer medicines to the Canadian health system are increasing rapidly. Most funded indications met thresholds for substantial clinical benefit and two-thirds of the expenditure …

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Creating healthy and sustainable cities: what gets measured, gets …

Since the first Lancet Series on urban design, transport, and health (Series 1) was published in 2016, the urgency to make the transition to healthy and sustainable cities worldwide has …

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Healthy cities initiative in China: Progress, challenges, and the way

China implemented the first phase of its National Healthy Cities pilot program from 2016-20. Along with related urban health governmental initiatives, the program has helped put …

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Brazil’s unified health system: 35 years and future challenges

2023 marks the 35th anniversary of Brazil’s current Constitution (1988), where health was defined as a universal right and a State responsibility. Since the mid-1970s, the …

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Foresight—a generative pretrained transformer for

Foresight is a general-purpose model for biomedical concept modelling that can be used for real-world risk forecasting, virtual trials, and clinical research to study the progression of disorders, …

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Health care in crisis amid Haiti violence

The collapse of Haiti's Government amid widespread gang violence is exacerbating a health crisis in the country. By Joe Parkin Daniels. The ongoing offensive by …

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The toll of violence on health care in Pakistan: a collective

The issue at hand is the alarmingly high prevalence of workplace violence, which is just one of many difficulties the health-care industry is facing, but it is also one of the most …

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Protecting health-care workers in Nepal: an urgent call for action

Deliberate violence against health workers and health-care institutions worldwide is deplorable and needs to be terminated immediately. Such incidents are ubiquitous, …

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Germany's new asylum legislation poses a threat to refugees' health

In January, 2024, Germany's centre-left Government tightened asylum policies to facilitate deportations. The new law entails different measures, including longer detention …

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Research focus: Mario Negri Institute

When Silvio Garattini founded the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research (IMN) in 1961, he had a single idea in mind—to create a foundation that would serve …

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Sublingual therapy for cobalamin deficiency as an alternative …

Sublingual therapy for cobalamin deficiency as an alternative to oral and parenteral cobalamin supplementation. Effectiveness of sublingual cobalamin-replacement therapy was studied in …

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A Series of Catastrophes and Miracles

4 However, A Series of Catastrophes and Miracles. Mary Elizabeth Williams National Geographic, 2016 Pp 304. ISBN 978-2-4262-1633-6. diagnosis, she is off ered the chance to participate in …

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UK Public Health Science 2024: a call for abstracts

We are delighted to invite abstract submissions for UK Public Health Science: A National Conference Dedicated to New Research in UK Public Health that will be held in …

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