Hypertension is the world’s leading cause of premature death, ahead even of tobacco and obesity, and most of those deaths occur in poor countries. Yet the health system in most of those countries is unable to help people with hypertension. Tazeen Jafar, a nephrologist and professor of health services and systems research at Duke-NUS Medical […]
As health gets more political, the work of the WHO becomes more important […]
Deregulation is benefiting the few while harming the many by putting profits over public health and safety, says Chris Simms […]
South East Asia now has the fastest rising NCD rates of anywhere in the world […]
We need sustained political commitment and strategic investments in cervical cancer prevention […]
Dr Tedros set out his priorities on SDGs […]
In the impoverished community in rural central India where my colleagues and I run a comprehensive primary health care programme, half of the population live below the poverty line [spend less than USD 0.5 per day] and undernutrition is rampant (median Body Mass Index 18.9 in men and 18.4 in women). With such impoverishment, it […]
The cholera epidemic in Yemen is raging in the midst of one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises […]
A new series looks at the World Bank’s expanding role in global health […]
It may be easier to topple monuments and memorials than erase the memories they evoke or the policies that sustain them. Canada’s experience is not the Confederates’ in Charlottesville, yet it’s also in the process of renaming buildings and removing monuments across the country that evoke its colonial past and the abrogation of Aboriginal people’s […]