Need for economists to set global priorities

Global Surgery Priorities: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Priorities and Need Assessment Study in Mashhad Medical students

Introduction: University students are of those valuable classes of society whom care for their needs on campus is of great importance. This study is aimed to investigate and prioritize several needs of medical students in variety of fields such as education, socio-political, cultural, religious, Literary, artistic and guild.Method: To achieve the goals of the study, a survey was conducted and q...

Global health priorities – priorities of the wealthy?

Health has gained importance on the global agenda. It has become recognized in forums where it was once not addressed. In this article three issues are considered: global health policy actors, global health priorities and the means of addressing the identified health priorities. I argue that the arenas for global health policy-making have shifted from the public spheres towards arenas that incl...

Global biodiversity conservation priorities.

The location of and threats to biodiversity are distributed unevenly, so prioritization is essential to minimize biodiversity loss. To address this need, biodiversity conservation organizations have proposed nine templates of global priorities over the past decade. Here, we review the concepts, methods, results, impacts, and challenges of these prioritizations of conservation practice within th...

Priorities of Global Justice

One-third of all human deaths are due to poverty-related causes, to malnutrition and to diseases that can be prevented or cured cheaply. Yet our politicians, academics, and mass media show little concern for how such poverty might be reduced. They are more interested in possible military interventions to stop human rights violations in developing countries, even though such interventions – at b...