Global & Public Health (all articles)
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) 10th anniversary
25 Jun, 2017 | 16:48h | UTCVideo: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) 10th anniversary
See also: IHME’s work
“If we want to improve global health – we need a map!” Short video summary of @IHME_UW achievements and vision (see Tweet)
Snakebites Make The List Of ‘Neglected Tropical Diseases’
25 Jun, 2017 | 16:24h | UTCSnakebites Make The List Of ‘Neglected Tropical Diseases’ – NPR Goats and Soda (free)
Obesity now kills more people worldwide than car crashes, terror attacks, and Alzheimer’s combined
25 Jun, 2017 | 16:20h | UTCSee original study on the Global Burden of Obesity and related commentaries in our June 13th issue (see #1)
“Five takeaways from a giant study on an epidemic governments can’t ignore”.
What’s the best way for children to lose weight?
23 Jun, 2017 | 13:46h | UTCNews release: Latest health evidence shows that making changes to diet, physical activity and behaviour may reduce obesity in children and adolescents – Cochrane Library (free)
Review 1: Diet, physical activity and behavioural interventions for the treatment of overweight or obese children from the age of 6 to 11 years (link to summary – $ for full-text)
Review 2: Diet, physical activity and behavioural interventions for the treatment of overweight or obese adolescents aged 12 to 17 years (link to summary – $ for full-text)
Commentary: What’s the best way for children to lose weight? Here’s what the research says – The Conversation (free)
Women and Heart Disease: New Data Reaffirm Lack of Awareness By Women and Physicians
23 Jun, 2017 | 14:37h | UTCKnowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs Regarding Cardiovascular Disease in Women: The Women’s Heart Alliance – Journal of the American College of Cardiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Women and Heart Disease: New Data Reaffirm Lack of Awareness By Women and Physicians – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free) AND Women’s CV Risk Underestimated, Underassessed – MedPage Today (free registration required) AND Greater emphasis on preventing, treating heart disease in women needed – American College of Cardiology, via EurekAlert (free)
Related guidelines: Preventing and Experiencing Ischemic Heart Disease as a Woman: State of the Science: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association (free) AND Acute Myocardial Infarction in Women: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association (free)
Women continue to underestimate their risk of cardiovascular disease.
Humanitarian Aid Is ‘Broken’
23 Jun, 2017 | 13:36h | UTCHumanitarian Aid Is ‘Broken,’ Says Former U.N. Official – NPR Goats and Soda (free)
Improving Awareness of and Screening for Health Risks Among Sex Workers
23 Jun, 2017 | 01:39h | UTCNews release: Ob-Gyn Awareness of Sex Workers’ Health Risks During Routine Visits is Essential
Commentary: Group Offers Guidance on Screening for Female Sex Workers – Physician’s First Watch (free)
What is people-centered care? And why does it matter?
23 Jun, 2017 | 01:05h | UTCWHO Framework on integrated people-centered health services (free resources)
Video: WHO – What is people-centered care? And why does it matter? Our new video explains! (free) (RT @WHO see Tweet)
“Integrated people-centered health services means putting the comprehensive needs of people and communities, not only diseases, at the center of health systems, and empowering people to have a more active role in their own health”.
Why We Overrate the Lifesaving Power of Cancer Tests
23 Jun, 2017 | 01:01h | UTCWhy We Overrate the Lifesaving Power of Cancer Tests – Scientific American (free) (RT @EricTopol see Tweet)
Continuous positive airway pressure for children with undifferentiated respiratory distress
23 Jun, 2017 | 01:00h | UTCInvited commentary: Every breath you take… (free)
Commentary: CPAP improves respiratory and survival rates in children in Ghana – Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, via EurekAlert (free)
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation – 30:2 or just keep going?
22 Jun, 2017 | 15:30h | UTCCardiopulmonary resuscitation – 30:2 or just keep going? – by Scott Munro, in Evidently Cochrane (free) (RT @NIHR_DC see Tweet)
“Untrained bystander CPR had better outcomes when given telephone advice from EMS services to perform continuous CPR, rather than interrupted CPR with rescue breaths”. For trained EMS professionals, “it is possible that there is little or no difference between the two approaches”.
Public Health in Humanitarian Crises
22 Jun, 2017 | 15:57h | UTCJust started! Public Health in Humanitarian Crises – Free Online Course from the Johns Hopkins University and Coursera
“This course introduces a set of public health problems experienced by people affected by natural disasters and/or conflict. It discusses the many changes in people’s lives when they are uprooted by a disaster, ranging from changes in disease patterns, access to health care, livelihoods, shelter, sanitary conditions, nutritional status, etc”.
Infection-related microcephaly after the 2015 and 2016 Zika virus outbreaks in Brazil
22 Jun, 2017 | 15:12h | UTCInfection-related microcephaly after the 2015 and 2016 Zika virus outbreaks in Brazil: a surveillance-based analysis – The Lancet (free registration required)
Invited commentary: Risk of Zika-related microcephaly: stable or variable? (free registration required)
Commentary: Study: First Zika microcephaly wave in Brazil was outlier – CIDRAP (free)
See also a Research Letter from the same authors and related commentaries in our March 31st issue (see #4).
“Zika spread rapidly in Latin America. We braced ourselves for a vast international epidemic of Zika-related microcephaly; but when it did not happen we asked ourselves why.” (from invited commentary)
Making the Case for Midwifery
22 Jun, 2017 | 16:19h | UTCOpinion: If we want to save children’s lives, this is what we need to do – World Economic Forum (free)
Related infographic: Making the Case for Midwifery (free)
See also WHO’s Every Newborn Action Plan and related commentaries in our June 22 issue (see #1)
According to the text, investing in midwifes could prevent up to 2/3 of global maternal and newborn deaths and yield a 16-fold return on investment
Host and viral traits predict zoonotic spillover from mammals
22 Jun, 2017 | 15:14h | UTCHost and viral traits predict zoonotic spillover from mammals – Nature (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Spillover Beasts: Which Animals Pose The Biggest Viral Risk? – NPR Goats and Soda (free) (RT @NPRGoatsandSoda see Tweet with interesting illustration) AND Bats Are the Number-One Carriers of Disease – TIME Health (free) AND Where in the world will the next emerging disease appear? – CNN (free text and video) AND Bats really do harbor more dangerous viruses than other species – Science (free) AND Whence new plagues? – The Economist (a few articles per month are free)
“The majority of human emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic, with viruses that originate in wild mammals of particular concern”
WHO bids goodbye to Dr Chan and celebrates her achievements
22 Jun, 2017 | 00:53h | UTCWHO bids goodbye to Dr Chan and celebrates her achievements – World Health Organization (Source: WHO Newsletter)
Report 1: Ten years of transformation: Making WHO fit for purpose in the 21st century (free)
Report 2: Ten years in public health 2007-2017 (free)
Report 3: Healthier, fairer, safer: the global health journey 2007–2017 (free)
Related: My decade leading the WHO: dirty fights and steps toward universal coverage – by By Margaret Chan, Via STAT News (free)
“As Dr Margaret Chan’s term as Director-General of WHO comes to an end, we’d like to share some of the successes, setbacks and enduring challenges of the past decade in global public health.”
Every Newborn Action Plan – World Health Organization
22 Jun, 2017 | 01:55h | UTCEvery Newborn Action Plan – World Health Organization (free) (RT @WHO see Tweet with infographic)
Related report from UK: Each Baby Counts – Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (free PDF) Each Baby Counts Homepage (free resources) AND Reducing baby deaths and brain injuries during childbirth – BBC News (free)
Every year, 2.7 million babies die in the first 28 days of life. 75% of these deaths are preventable.
An update on Zika virus infection
22 Jun, 2017 | 15:20h | UTCAn update on Zika virus infection – The Lancet (free registration required)
“Update on Zika virus infection (2017): review focuses on important updates & gaps in the knowledge” (RT @TheLancet see Tweet)
WHO toolkit for the care and support of people affected by complications associated with Zika virus
21 Jun, 2017 | 18:28h | UTC
Artificial tanning devices: public health interventions to manage sunbeds
21 Jun, 2017 | 18:28h | UTCNews release: More can be done to restrict sunbeds to prevent increasing rates of skin cancer
The Challenge of Polypharmacy
21 Jun, 2017 | 15:10h | UTCA medicine review is about stopping medicine as much as it is about prescribing – Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (free) (RT @MaryanneDemasi see Tweet)
Original report: The Challenge of Polypharmacy: From Rhetoric to Reality – Royal Pharmaceutical Society and Royal College of General Practitioners Partnership (free PDF)
Related: Current and future perspectives on the management of polypharmacy – BMC Family Practice (free)
Screening for Obesity in Children and Adolescents
21 Jun, 2017 | 02:19h | UTCEditorial 1: Putting the US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation for Childhood Obesity Screening in Context (free)
Editorial 2: Practical Considerations for the US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations on Obesity in Children and Adolescents (free)
Author interview: USPSTF Recommendation: Screening for Obesity in Children and Adolescents (free audio)
The JAMA Network – for the media: Screening for Obesity in Children and Adolescents Recommended (free)
Commentary: USPSTF Recommends Screening For Obesity in Children and Adolescents – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free)
“The USPSTF recommends that clinicians screen for obesity in children and adolescents 6 years and older and offer or refer them to comprehensive, intensive behavioral interventions to promote improvements in weight status”
Taxing sugary drinks would boost productivity, not just health
21 Jun, 2017 | 02:15h | UTCTaxing sugary drinks would boost productivity, not just health – The Conversation (free)
Original article: The impact on productivity of a hypothetical tax on sugar-sweetened beverages – Health Policy (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
See more on the potential benefits of sugar taxes in our June 8th issue (see #4) and in our April 20th issue (see #1)
Can Zika infection attack the brains of newborns?
21 Jun, 2017 | 02:10h | UTCCan Zika infection attack the brains of newborns? Scientists head to field for answers – STAT News (free)
Related: Is Zika Dangerous For Kids? It Probably Depends On The Age – NPR Goats and Soda (free)
My decade leading the WHO – by By Margaret Chan
21 Jun, 2017 | 02:05h | UTC