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Do Overseas Recruitment Schemes Fuel Health Inequalities?
Schemes to recruit doctors from developing countries risk damaging their fragile health systems, warns a senior doctor in this week's BMJ. Overseas recruitment schemes are marketed primarily as an opportunity for doctors to experience one of the world's best healthcare systems. Yet a new NHS scheme is taking highly experienced specialists,... view more... (2003-10-15)
Calling The Pharmaceutical Industry To Account (p 1682)
The final article in THE LANCET's series about the relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and medicine is published this week-the author concluding that there is still some way to go before industry can truly be deemed accountable to global public-health needs. Graham Dukes, an independent medico-legal author attached to the University... view more... (2002-11-20)
Global Fund must fund salaries of health workers to deliver HIV, TB and malaria treatments
In this week's PLoS Medicine, a team of international health experts issue a bold call to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria: fund the salaries of health workers or else risk a situation in which medicines for these three diseases are made available in poor countries but there are no health professionals to deliver them. view more (2007-04-17)
Urgent need for investment in human resources to respond to global health crises (p 1469)
Authors of a Public Health article in this week's issue of THE LANCET highlight how the global failure to develop the necessary human resources to deliver health-care improvements in less-developed countries requires urgent attention if the millennium goals for global health are to be achieved. Vasant Narasimhan from Harvard University, USA, and... view more... (2004-04-28)
WHO's vision for the future (pp 2033; 2083)
In the week that WHO releases its 2003 World Health report (Shaping the Future), Jung-Wook Lee, WHO Director-general, outlines his vision of how WHO will address the global health-care priorities of the coming years. Lee's article comments: 'A world torn by gross health inequalities is in serious trouble. The global health community can do much to... view more... (2003-12-17)
Fei-Chang or Pepsi Cola? What makes consumers choose local brands over global ones?
Why do some consumers prefer local products and others gravitate toward global brands? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research examines why some people might choose a local brand instead of a recognizable global brand like Coke or Pepsi. view more (2009-04-01)
Countries Need Greater Support And Less Stringent Conditions If Global Fund Goals Are To Be Met
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) will today publish interim findings relating to how the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is being implemented in four African countries. The Fund was established in 2002 as a mechanism to get additional resources to affected countries to control these devastating... view more... (2004-06-30)
Alarming new data shows TB-HIV co-infection a bigger threat
The World Health Organization released staggering new data about the threat of tuberculosis and the toll it takes on people with HIV/AIDS today, in recognition of World TB Day. view more (2009-03-25)
Alaskans feel the heat of global warming
A new study finds that most Alaskans believe global warming is happening and is a serious threat to the state. view more (2006-10-05)
A New Vision For Human Security (p 1665)
This week's editorial discusses the implications for global health on a recently published report by the Commission on Human Security-which defines security in terms of human development, human rights, and democracy-and highlights WHO's vital future role in ensuring the report is implemented. The report states that "poverty-related health... view more... (2003-05-14)
Pharmaceutical Interests Versus AIDS In Africa (p 89)
The appointment of Randall Tobias as the US Government's global AIDS co-ordinator is analysed in this week's editorial. Tobias will head up a $15 billion programme to tackle AIDS in the African and Caribbean countries most devastated by the pandemic, although sceptics point out that his lack of knowledge about Africa and his pharmaceutical... view more... (2003-07-09)
Causes of global death and disease in the next 25 years
In 1993, the World Bank sponsored the 1990 Global Burden of Disease study carried out by researchers at Harvard University and the World Health Organization (WHO). This study provided the first comprehensive global estimates of death and illness by age, sex, and region. view more (2006-11-28)
A new measure of global warming from carbon emissions
Damon Matthews, a professor in Concordia University's Department of Geography, Planning and the Environment has found a direct relationship between carbon dioxide emissions and global warming. view more (2009-06-11)
Toward the design of greener consumer products
So you're a manufacturer about to introduce a new consumer product to the marketplace. Will that product or the manufacture of the product contribute to global warming through the greenhouse effect? view more (2009-09-17)
Accord on core competency, standards and quality assurance in health promotion and education
In response to the global health crisis, 26 leading authorities in competency-based and accreditation movements in global health promotion, health education, and public health reached an accord last week on what should comprise the domains of core competency in health promotion and health education. view more (2008-07-07)
Television Has Less Effect on Education about Climate Change than Other Forms of Media
Worried about climate change and want to learn more? You probably aren't watching television then. A new study by George Mason University Communication Professor Xiaoquan Zhao suggests that watching television has no significant impact on viewers' knowledge about the issue of climate change. Reading newspapers and using the web, however, seem to... view more... (2009-10-19)
Yellow fever threatens to make a come back
Yellow fever has been written off in the past as a global threat. Yet the failure to eradicate this disease has left the door open for new, large, outbreaks as vaccination of travellers and tropical populations declines, according to an article in the February issue of Microbiology Today magazine from the Society for General Microbiology. "Yellow... view more... (2002-02-11)
Global health experts release new guidance on malaria elimination
Countries and policy leaders gain new guidance today on how and when to eliminate malaria, paving the way for the potential global eradication of the deadly disease. view more (2009-04-24)
Ecology Drives The Worldwide Distribution Of Human Diseases
Mounting evidence suggests that ecological and climatic conditions influence the emergence, spread, and recurrence of infectious diseases. Global climate change is likely to aggravate climate-sensitive diseases in unpredictable ways. Increasingly, public health programs aimed at preventing and controlling disease outbreaks are considering aspects... view more... (2004-06-09)
Hope For South Africa - At Last (p 501)
This week's editorial urges the South African Government to implement new recommendations to provide antiretroviral treatment to tackle the country's grave HIV/AIDS epidemic. Three recent developments are detailed that offer some hope to the nearly 5 million South Africans living with HIV/AIDS: the authority of a South African drug company to... view more... (2003-08-13)
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