Article
10 Mar 2024
There is a lack of contemporary data describing global variations in vascular access for hemodialysis (HD). We used the third iteration of the International Society of Nephrology Global Kidney Health Atlas (ISN-GKHA) to highlight differences in fundi...
Report
10 Mar 2024
The annual report released for World Obesity Day 2024, by the World Obesity Federation. This report depicts obesity and its consequences. Rising obesity rates across the world reveal massive gaps in healthcare and nutrition, with poorest populat...
Publication
10 Mar 2024
HelpAge's Caregiver Manual - HelpAge International is a basic guide for families and volunteers providing care and support for older people. It includes: An overview of who this guide is for Section 1: Guide for the organisers, manage...
Publication
08 Mar 2024
Mental health and well-being are fundamental to our collective and individual ability as humans to think, emote, interact with each other, earn a living and enjoy life. Yet currently the formation of individual and collective mental capital – espec...
Report
07 Mar 2024
The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) report, "Palliative Care: How Can We Respond to 10 Years of Limited Progress," highlights the slow advancement in global palliative care despite the 2014 World Health Assembly Resolution 67.19, which call...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
07 Mar 2024
With mental health at the forefront of the conversation in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the opportunity for once-in-a-generation change is being presented. The integration of mental health into universal health coverage (UHC) reforms during the...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
07 Mar 2024
Key facts Every infant and child has the right to good nutrition according to the "Convention on the Rights of the Child". Undernutrition is associated with 45% of child deaths. Globally in 2022, 149 million children under 5 were estimated...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
07 Mar 2024
Key facts Around 2.3 billion people worldwide (around a third of the global population) cook using open fires or inefficient stoves fuelled by kerosene, biomass (wood, animal dung and crop waste) and coal, which generates harmful household air...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
07 Mar 2024
Key facts Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the name of a group of 200 known viruses. They do not cause concerns in most people, but infection with some high-risk types is common and can cause genital warts or cancer. In 90% of people the body co...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
07 Mar 2024
Key facts Commercial determinants of health are the private sector activities that affect people’s health, directly or indirectly, positively or negatively. The private sector influences the social, physical and cultural environments throug...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
07 Mar 2024
Key facts Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third leading cause of death worldwide, causing 3.23 million deaths in 2019. Nearly 90% of COPD deaths in those under 70 years of age occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMI...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
07 Mar 2024
Key facts Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women globally with around 660 000 new cases and around 350 000 deaths in 2022. The highest rates of cervical cancer incidence and mortality are in low- and middle-income countries...
