One determinant of peace is the role of women in society. Some studies suggest that a young age structure, also known as a “youth bulge” can facilitate conflict. Population growth and age structure are factors amenable to change in a human rights context. We propose that policies which favor voluntary family planning and the education of women can ameliorate the global burden of disease associa...

BACKGROUND The state of the world is one with scarce medical resources where longevity is not equally distributed. Given such facts, setting priorities in health entails making difficult yet unavoidable decisions about which lives to save. The business of saving lives works on the assumption that longevity is valuable and that an early death is worse than a late death. There is a vast literatur...

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Background The growing prevalence metabolic diseases is a major concern. We sought to examine the global trends and mortality using estimates from Global Burden Diseases, Injuries Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019. Methods prevalence, deaths, disability-adjusted life year (DALYs) 2000-2019 were examined for (type 2 diabetes mellitus [...

内山正史:放 射線医学総合研究所環境衛生研究部,千 葉市穴川4-9-1〒280 Caesium-137/Biological Half-Life/Japanese The biological half-life of 137Cs in the total body of human subjects was determined in 23 individuals of Japanese male adult in their normal works by measuring amount of 137Cs in both their total body and daily urine in the same period. For the group, the value was determined by averaging the half-lives for indiv...

Impressive progress has been made in global surgery in the past 10 years, and now serious and evidence-based national strategies are being developed for scaling-up surgical services in sub-Saharan Africa. Key to achieving this goal requires developing a realistic country-based estimate of burden of surgical disease, developing an accurate estimate of existing need, deve...