Improving global governance: making global institutions fit-for-purpose in the 21st century

Global health in the 21st century

INTRODUCTION Since the end of the 1990s, globalization has become a common term, facilitated by the social media of today and the growing public awareness of life-threatening problems common to all people, such as global warming, global security and global divides. REVIEW For the main parameters of health like the burden of disease, life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, extreme discrep...

Making general practice fit for the 21st century.

Preparing the 21st century global healthcare workforce.

Chronic conditions currently account for more than half of the global disease burden and are a primary challenge for 21st century healthcare systems. This is a dramatic shift from the health concerns of the 20th century, when acute infectious diseases were the primary focus in every country. While the world is experiencing a rapid transition from acute diseases to chronic health problems, train...

Governance in the 21st Century

As we move into the 21st century, the turbulent transformation of economy and society looks set to continue. Growing integration of markets, radical new technologies, the increasing knowledge intensity of human activity, all point to the emergence of an immensely complex world. But how will it be managed? And by whom? What forms of organisation and decision-making will be required at local, nat...

World health law: toward a new conception of global health governance for the 21st century.