The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) (http://www.iadb.org/en/inter-american-developmentbank,2837.html) is the regional, multilateral development bank for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The largest source of external development financing for the region, the IDB support efforts by LAC countries to reduce poverty and inequality with the aim of bringing about development in a sustaina...

Introduction During the past few decades, the developed world experienced an epidemiologic and demographic transition in which the mortality rates for most chronic diseases decreased dramatically, coupled with sustained increases in life expectancy and quality of life, and drastic decreases in fertility rates, as well as in child and maternal mortality. While the overall burden of chronic disea...

Background: More than 80% of sewage generated by human activities is discharged into rivers and oceans without any treatment, which results in environmental pollution more 50 diseases. diseases 50% child deaths worldwide are related to poor water quality. Methods: This paper selected 85 relevant papers finally based on the keywords pollution, quality, health, cancer, so on. Results: The impact ...

Globally, chronic diseases have a high burden and are significant factor affecting society, such as through economic productivity deepening social inequality. Deaths from in Korea accounted for 79.6% of all deaths 2021, medical expenses 85.0% national 2020. Since the 1970s, disease management has focused on projects acute infectious diseases, maternal child health, family planning by region, sp...

Address: 1Rheumatology Department, Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath, UK, 2Rheumatology Unit, Institute of Child Health, London, UK, 3School for Health, University of Bath, Bath, UK, 4Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, 5Rheumatic Diseases Centre, Hope Hospital, Salford, UK, 6Rheumatology Department, Bristol Royal Hospital...

1Department of Virology, Division of Medical Science, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan; 2Department of Molecular Virology, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan; 3AIDS Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan; 4Department of Infectious Diseases, National Research Institute for Child Health an...

The global health landscape looks more promising than ever, although progress has been uneven. Here, we describe the current global burden of disease throughout the life cycle, highlighting regional differences in the unfinished agenda of communicable diseases and reproductive, maternal, and child health and the additive burden of emerging noncommunicable diseases and injuries. Understanding th...

As per the recently released Pneumonia and Diarrhea Report 2014 [1], every 20 seconds a young child under the age of five years succumbs to either of the two major but preventable diseases – pneumonia and diarrhea. Pneumonia contributed to 15% and diarrhea to 9% of the 6.3 million under-five mortality globally in 2013 [1]. Unfortunately, India has the maximum burden of these two diseases in the...

Dermatitis herpetiformis and coeliac disease are gluten-sensitive diseases that share immunopathological mechanisms. Neurological disorders are reported in both diseases, being more frequent in coeliac disease. Dermatitis herpetiformis is rare in paediatric populations and only sporadic cases with neurological dysfunction are reported. Uncertainty exists as to whether early treatment may stop o...