Global Health is More Important in a Smaller World

Public health is more important than health care.

PUBLIC health practitioners seem to be suffering an identity crisis. Perhaps they have felt ignored and under-funded for so long that they are eager to latch onto anything that includes the word "health." Or perhaps some public health practitioners understand that health care receives 94% of the health services dollars with only 3 % going to public health, so they mistakenly think they should b...

A Narrative Review of Norovirus Gastroenteritis: More Global Attention Is Needed

Noroviruses (NoVs), an important pathogenic agent of foodborne illness, lead to acute and chronic gastroenteritis in humans of all ages and to travelers’ diarrhea. Many genotypes exist in nature; GII.4 is widely known as the most predominant. Outbreaks mostly occur in semi-closed settings. Although the disease is self-limited to person, many cases have resulted in death, which has raised more c...

A Grand Convergence in Mortality is Possible: Comment on Global Health 2035

The grand challenge in global health is the inequality in mortality and life expectancy between countries and within countries. According to Global Health 2035, the Lancet Commission celebrating the 20th anniversary of the World Development Report (WDR) of 1993, the world now has the unique opportunity to achieve a grand convergence in global mortality within a generation. This article comments...

Education and income: which is more important for mental health?

STUDY OBJECTIVE To assess which indicators of socioeconomic status are associated with an increased prevalence of common mental disorders. DESIGN Cross sectional household survey. SETTING Santiago, Chile. PARTICIPANTS Random sample of adults aged 16-65 residing in private households. MAIN RESULTS Less education (odds ratio 2.44, 95% confidence intervals 1.50 to 3.97), a recent income de...

A Imagination is more important than knowledge