in this comment, i build on shiffman’s call for the global health community to more deeply investigate structural and productive power. i highlight two challenges we must grapple with as social scientists carrying out the types of investigation that shiffman proposes: the politics of  challenging the powerful; and the need to investigate types of expertise that have traditionally been thought o...

a pedestrian is every person who is walking, especially along or the width of a street or other place used by cars. growth, development and industrialization of societies, threatens the safety of pedestrians. increase and acceleration of vehicles and traffic, lack of road and street standards, weakness of laws or inappropriate executive guarantees, causing to insecurity and incidence of physica...

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To achieve compliance with the revised World Health Organization International Health Regulations (IHR 2005), countries must be able to rapidly prevent, detect, and respond to public health threats. Most nations, however, remain unprepared to manage and control complex health emergencies, whether due to natural disasters, emerging infectious disease outbreaks, or the inadvertent or intentional ...

The global health agenda has been dominating the current global health policy debate. Furthermore, it has compelled countries to embrace strategies for tackling health inequalities in a wide range of public health areas. The article by Robert and colleagues highlights that although globalization has increased opportunities to share and spread ideas, there is still great asymmetry of power accor...

1806 www.thelancet.com Vol 385 May 9, 2015 bleak. The papers we publish this week aim to show why withdrawing from multilateralism would be the wrong response to Ebola. It is perfectly understandable why many nations view threats to their citizens and sovereignty as reasons to act alone, on the basis of a narrow concept of strengthened state security. But human beings have many affi liations an...