Despite the increasing 'globalization' of health, the responsibility for it remains primarily national, generating a potential mismatch between global health problems and current institutions and mechanisms to deal with them. The 'Global Public Good' (GPG) concept has been suggested as a framework to address this mismatch in different areas of public policy. This paper considers the application...

The control of communicable diseases is a core function of government, which must be achieved through collaboration with clinicians, laboratory scientists, affected communities, and other government and community-based agencies. Changes in environmental and social conditions, and the development of new prevention technologies, influence the incidence of communicable diseases and the community’s...

Non-communicable Diseases (NCD) principally includes four common diseases, viz. diabetes, cardiovascular diseases (CVD), cancers and chronic respiratory diseases, which caused 63% of global deaths in 2008.1 CVD alone accounts for nearly 30% of all deaths worldwide and 27% in low-income and middle-income countries. About 366 million people were reported to have diabetes in 2011 worldwide.2 In lo...

Effective communicable disease control relies on effective response systems and effective response systems rely on effective disease surveillance. A functional surveillance system is essential in providing information for action on priority communicable diseases; it is a crucial instrument for public health decision-making in all countries. Surveillance data provide information, which can be us...

Introduction: The elderly represent a significant proportion of the populace and their mortality index is of public health significance. With dearth of vital registration, in-hospital based studies remains a desirable alternative. This study hopes to determine the epidemiologic pattern of elderly mortality with respect to sex, age, date and cause of death.  Methods: This is descriptive retrosp...

Communicable diseases spread quickly among people and animals by an infectious medium, including bacteria, viruses, etc. Recently, the world has witnessed biggest outbreak of century due to novel coronavirus (COVID-19) disease. The immaculate amalgamation sensor technology helps deal with such diseases. This led motivation amongst researchers employ smart technologies detect, prevent, control l...

since the mid-19 th century, human activities have increased greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide in the earth's atmosphere that resulted in increased average temperature. the effects of rising temperature include soil degradation, loss of productivity of agricultural land, desertification, loss of biodiversity, degradation of ecosystems, reduced fresh-water resou...