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Health Innovation for All

WEBHealth Innovation for All. Dec 9, 2021 Mariana Mazzucato and Jayati Ghosh. In addition to prolonging the COVID-19 pandemic and threatening the economic …

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Climate Change Is a Health Crisis

WEBYet climate change is harming human health right now. During the 2020 monsoon season in Bangladesh, for example, water flooded a quarter of the country. …

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Global Health Is the Best Investment We Can Make

WEBCOVID-19 has demonstrated that health is central to development, prosperity, and national security. The pandemic’s disruption of health services has resulted in spikes in HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, …

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Delivering the Pandemic Accord the World Needs by Helen Clark, …

WEBIt was with this in mind that the World Health Organization’s 194 member countries decided in December 2021 to negotiate a convention, agreement, or other …

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Investing in Health for All

WEBAchieving “good health and well-being for all” requires common purpose and broad collaborative efforts by people and organizations across countries and sectors – both …

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Water Management Is Health Management

WEBWater Management Is Health Management. Some 2.1 billion people worldwide lack access to safe, readily available water at home, severely undermining health outcomes. With a growing share of the …

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Overcoming the COVID-19 Disruption to Essential Health Services

WEBOct 8, 2020 Anatole Manzi. It is clear that COVID-19 will persist much longer than anticipated. If countries do not take action soon to ensure the continuity of essential …

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How South Korea Built a Health System to Beat COVID-19

WEBAug 4, 2020 Lee Jong-Wha. Although South Korea faced one of the world’s largest initial COVID-19 outbreaks outside China, it managed to contain the virus quickly, without …

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The Two Best Ways to Reduce Infant Mortality

WEBGiven the magnitude of the challenge, huge investments will be needed in health-care infrastructure and planning. Perhaps the most effective way to reduce infant …

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What Corporations Need to Know About Public Health

WEBNAIROBI – Corporations are increasingly moving into the public-health domain. Companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are being “pulled” by market …

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The Virus Is Still Winning by William A. Haseltine

WEBThe Virus Is Still Winning. Jun 10, 2022 William A. Haseltine. Despite the rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments to reduce mortality, the …

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South Korea’s Health-Centered Development Model

WEBSouth Korea’s Health-Centered Development Model. Jun 29, 2021 Lee Jong-Wha. The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented challenge that underscores …

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Sustainable Medicine by Daniel Callahan

WEBSustainable Medicine. Jan 20, 2004 Daniel Callahan. There is hardly a developed country where health care reform has not become a kind of chronic disease of modern …

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How Wide Are Latin America’s Health Inequalities

WEBMar 14, 2024 Dolores de la Mata. New research shows that the disease burden in Latin America and the Caribbean is disproportionately borne by the most disadvantaged, …

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The Lifesaving Power of Sex Education

WEBThe Lifesaving Power of Sex Education. A quarter-century ago, at the International Conference on Population and Development, 179 governments pledged to …

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An interview with Agnes Binagwaho

WEBAgnes Binagwaho: Rwanda’s resilient health system was designed to serve all citizens equitably, with a particular focus on the most vulnerable.To break …

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The Economic Benefits of Family Planning

WEBThe Economic Benefits of Family Planning. Jul 25, 2018 Natalia Kanem. The ability to decide when or whether to have children is not only a basic human right; it is …

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What If Our Economy Valued What Matters

WEBThe World Health Organization’s all-woman Council on the Economics of Health for All was established to lead this paradigm shift. We believe that this year’s …

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How Developing Countries Can Achieve Universal Health Coverage

WEBZURICH – Virtually every country worldwide has committed to achieving universal health coverage (UHC) by 2030, as part of the United Nations Sustainable …

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Public Health versus Private Freedom

WEBPublic Health versus Private Freedom? Sep 6, 2012 Peter Singer. There is widespread agreement that governments ought to prohibit the sale of at least some …

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Saving the Developing World from COVID-19

WEBThe region’s already-weak health-care systems could thus quickly become overwhelmed by an outbreak, especially in a high-density area. Africa has long suffered …

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