Global and Humanitarian Medicine
New WHO/ILO guide urges greater safeguards to protect health workers.
10 Mar, 2022 | 10:42h | UTCNew WHO/ILO guide urges greater safeguards to protect health workers – World Health Organization
Executive Summary: Caring for those who care: Guide for the development and implementation of occupational health and safety programmes for health workers – World Health Organization
Global burden of heart failure: a comprehensive and updated review of epidemiology.
8 Mar, 2022 | 08:11h | UTC
Commentary on Twitter
Seeing the big picture🖼️
Assessing the global🌍burden of #HeartFailure❤️, from prevalence to cost & the #inequities faced by developing countries https://t.co/1klLCTMLTL@CVR_TomaszGuzik @DrMikeDrozd @glenpyle #epidemiology #PublicHealth #HF #CardiovascularResearch pic.twitter.com/XX9iV0C8Mj
— European Society of Cardiology Journals (@ESC_Journals) March 4, 2022
The Lancet Series: Ageing with HIV.
7 Mar, 2022 | 00:35h | UTCHomepage: Ageing with HIV
Editorials:
Series:
Delayed presentation of HIV among older individuals: a growing problem
How health systems can adapt to a population ageing with HIV and comorbid disease
Biological ageing with HIV infection: evaluating the geroscience hypothesis
Over 1 billion people projected to live with obesity by 2030, warns new World Obesity Atlas.
7 Mar, 2022 | 00:12h | UTCReport: Obesity Atlas 2022 – Global Obesity Observatory
National, regional, and global causes of mortality in 5–19-year-olds from 2000 to 2019: a systematic analysis.
3 Mar, 2022 | 08:51h | UTCInvited commentary: Child and adolescent deaths: a call for strengthening mortality surveillance systems – The Lancet Global Health
Prevalence trends of site-specific osteoarthritis from 1990 to 2019: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.
3 Mar, 2022 | 08:27h | UTCNews Release: Study reveals a persistently high burden of osteoarthritis across the globe – Wiley
4 lessons from the life of global health visionary Paul Farmer.
27 Feb, 2022 | 22:42h | UTC4 lessons from the life of global health visionary Paul Farmer – Vox
See also:
What I learned from Paul Farmer: Treat the systems around the patient, not just the disease – STAT
‘He showed us that the moral high ground can win’ – The Harvard Gazette
A Personal Tribute to Dr. Paul Farmer — Who Made Everyone Feel Important – HIV and ID Observations
Global health champion Dr. Paul Farmer has died – NPR
Health care advocate Paul Farmer was ‘a once-in-a-lifetime person,’ says Dr. Fauci – CBC
Opinion: How Paul Farmer helped save the lives of millions of people – The Washington Post
Dr. Sanjay Gupta: The man who inspired me to be more selfless – CNN
What I want people to know about Paul Farmer – wbur
At least 5 million children have lost a parent or caregiver due to COVID-19 since March 2020, updated figures suggest.
25 Feb, 2022 | 11:32h | UTCCommentaries:
Related:
More than 1.5 million children lost a primary or secondary caregiver due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Covid-19 Has Created Thousands Of Newly Single Parents And Orphans
Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)
At least 5 million children have lost a parent or caregiver due to #COVID19 since March 2020, updated figures suggest.
Authors urge actions to prioritise affected children, incl. economic strengthening, enhanced community & family support, & education. https://t.co/1slpFhjDJd pic.twitter.com/AvEncg4Yx1
— The Lancet (@TheLancet) February 24, 2022
Ambient air pollution and cardiovascular diseases: An umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
25 Feb, 2022 | 10:25h | UTC
Mortality from congenital Zika Syndrome — nationwide cohort study in Brazil.
24 Feb, 2022 | 10:18h | UTC
WHO/UNICEF: More than half of parents and pregnant women exposed to aggressive formula milk marketing.
23 Feb, 2022 | 10:42h | UTCCommentary: Aggressive’ marketing of formula milk flouts code, warns WHO as it urges curbs – The Guardian
Commentary on Twitter
"We have been targeted with marketing from formula milk companies."
Over half of parents & pregnant women exposed to formula milk marketing, violating international standards and harming child health
-🆕 WHO, @UNICEF survey➡️ https://t.co/86Bf69PSeK#EndExploitativeMarketing pic.twitter.com/BuhQPgM3OX
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) February 22, 2022
WHO: Here are the 16 ‘best buys’ to tackle non-communicable diseases.
23 Feb, 2022 | 10:19h | UTCWHO: Here Are The 16 ‘Best Buys’ To Tackle Non-Communicable Diseases – Forbes
Original Report: WHO Report | Saving lives, spending less: the case for investing in noncommunicable diseases.
Global, regional, and national prevalence estimates of physical or sexual, or both, intimate partner violence against women.
18 Feb, 2022 | 08:44h | UTCNews release: More than a quarter of women have experienced intimate partner violence in their lifetimes, finds new study – The Lancet
Commentary: Intimate partner violence against women: a persistent and urgent challenge – The Lancet
Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)
NEW—Over 1 in 4 women have experienced intimate partner violence in their lifetimes, study finds.
Authors highlight urgent need to strengthen the public health response in post-COVID-19 reconstruction efforts. https://t.co/yZ61fqIZlV pic.twitter.com/AeMSicRUY0
— The Lancet (@TheLancet) February 17, 2022
Bioterrorism: An analysis of biological agents used in terrorist events.
18 Feb, 2022 | 08:32h | UTC
Dengue infection: Global importance, immunopathology and management.
18 Feb, 2022 | 08:14h | UTCDengue infection: Global importance, immunopathology and management – Clinical Medicine Journal
Guidance for systematic integration of undernutrition in attributing cause of death in children.
17 Feb, 2022 | 08:46h | UTC
Time for united action on depression: a Lancet–World Psychiatric Association Commission.
16 Feb, 2022 | 10:18h | UTCHomepage: Time for united action on depression: a Lancet–World Psychiatric Association Commission – The Lancet
Editorial: Ensuring care for people with depression (free registration required)
Commission: Time for united action on depression: a Lancet–World Psychiatric Association Commission (free registration required)
News Release: Overlooked and underfunded—experts call for united action to reduce the global burden of depression – The Lancet
Commentary on Twitter
Depression is overlooked & underfunded.
New Lancet-@WPA_Psychiatry Commission calls for whole-of-society approach to alleviate one of the world's leading causes of avoidable suffering & premature deaths. #UniteAgainstDepression
➡️ https://t.co/0NxPbhGAlY pic.twitter.com/b4nG9YvbaH
— The Lancet (@TheLancet) February 15, 2022
WHO guideline on control and elimination of human schistosomiasis.
16 Feb, 2022 | 10:11h | UTCWHO guideline on control and elimination of human schistosomiasis – World Health Organization
Seminar: Measles.
16 Feb, 2022 | 10:15h | UTCMeasles – The Lancet (free registration required)
See also: Measles Infographics
Commentary on Twitter
Measles: highly contagious, potentially fatal, vaccine-preventable.
Judith M Hübschen & colleagues provide an up-to-date Seminar.
🔗 https://t.co/LwzPvqjW1x pic.twitter.com/Io6Eghn5zK
— The Lancet (@TheLancet) February 14, 2022
Data Review: How many people die from air pollution?
15 Feb, 2022 | 08:37h | UTCData Review: How many people die from air pollution? – Our World in Data
Related:
New WHO Global Air Quality Guidelines aim to save millions of lives from air pollution.
1.8 million excess deaths attributable to urban air pollution in 2019, modelling study suggests.
Air Pollution Associated with New Causes of Hospital Admissions
Ambient Particulate Air Pollution and Daily Mortality in 652 Cities
Air Pollution and Estimated Life Expectancy Loss
Review: Global accessibility of therapeutics for diabetes mellitus.
13 Feb, 2022 | 21:51h | UTCGlobal accessibility of therapeutics for diabetes mellitus – Nature Reviews Endocrinology (if the link is paywalled, try this one)
Related:
Editorial | Insulin for all: a hope yet to be realized.
One hundred years of insulin therapy.
Community control strategies for scabies: A cluster randomized trial showed one dose of Ivermectin was noninferior to two doses (7 to 14 days apart) to reduce the prevalence of the disease at 12 months.
11 Feb, 2022 | 08:38h | UTCCommunity control strategies for scabies: A cluster randomised noninferiority trial – PLOS Medicine
News Release: One dose of anti-parasite drug just as effective as two at reducing scabies – Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
Cluster-Randomized Trial: A multicomponent diagnostic strategy (on-site molecular testing for tuberculosis, guided restructuring of clinic workflows, and monthly feedback of quality metrics) significantly improved the rates of a confirmed diagnosis of tuberculosis within 14 days after presentation.
8 Feb, 2022 | 08:43h | UTCMulticomponent Strategy with Decentralized Molecular Testing for Tuberculosis – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary on Twitter
A cluster-randomized trial in 20 Ugandan health centers compared a multicomponent TB strategy with routine care. The intervention led to greater numbers of patients being tested for, receiving a diagnosis of, and being treated for confirmed TB. https://t.co/PcJDC1I0CY pic.twitter.com/AT99QVOn2S
— NEJM (@NEJM) December 28, 2021
Cohort Study: In high-transmission settings, the use of malaria-preventing mosquito nets in early childhood was associated with increased survival decades later.
3 Feb, 2022 | 08:56h | UTCCommentaries:
Malaria-preventing bed nets save children’s lives—with impacts that can last for decades – Science
Mosquito nets in young children save lives into adulthood – University of Basel
Impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on pediatric oncology providers globally: A mixed‐methods study.
27 Jan, 2022 | 09:46h | UTCNews Release: How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted clinicians who care for children with cancer? – Wiley