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January 29, 2015

Health System ABC(E)s: Start with physical infrastructure
Solutions Journalism Network

If you’re a health worker in Uganda, what do you need in order to provide the best possible care for your patients – people who could be suffering from anything from HIV to broken limbs? You need a range of medicines and other medical supplies, like stethoscopes or blood pressure cuffs. And of course enough medical personnel.

January 22, 2015

The #1 reason fewer people are dying, country-by-country
Solutions Journalism Network

For the global health field, 2015 is a year with a lot riding on it. The deadline for reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) looms, and deliberations continue about the post-MDG world should approach sustainable development (and what that should even mean). We’re celebrating improved survival in much of the world, yet we’re still struggling to contain Ebola in West Africa and less traditional “public health” problems, such as violence, are on rise in many places.

January 21, 2015

Visualizing Haiti’s new and improving health landscape
Humanosphere

Five years after a massive earthquake devastated Port-au-Prince, the crowded capital of Haiti, killing between 160,000 and 200,000 people and displacing more than 1.5 million people to tent camps, there are signs of improvement.

January 16, 2015

Deaths from falling are rising
Humanosphere

We’ve learned that falls are the leading cause of death for elderly Americans, and that this is due in part to the shrinkage of people’s brains as they age – leading to extra risk of “jostling” from falls. In the US, fall prevention has become a major priority for nursing homes nationwide, and the National Institute on Aging has recently embarked on a $30 million dollar study on reducing fall injuries.

January 2, 2015

The complexity of resource allocation for health
The Lancet

In The Lancet Global Health, Stephen Resch and colleagues’ study benchmarks 12 countries’ government expenditure on HIV/AIDS. This important research emphasizes that many governments are not meeting spending goals, and in many countries the financing gaps are so great that, even if they met the spending goals, expenditure would still fall short of what is needed (expenditure would cover only 64% of estimated future funding requirements, leaving a gap of around a third of the total US$7.9 billion needed).

Visualizing the rise of chronic kidney disease worldwide
Humanosphere

Non-communicable diseases today account for nearly 70 percent of all deaths globally, according to the latest results from the Global Burden of Disease study, an ongoing project to measure the impact of disabling and deadly conditions across the world.

December 19, 2014

Cirrhosis: It’s not just for heavy drinkers anymore
Humanosphere

The GBD researchers, who this year focused on mortality trends between 1990 and 2013, discovered that cirrhosis as a cause of death – which has seldom received much attention as a leading killer – is on the increase even as global interventions targeting infectious diseases have produced major reductions in mortality from some of the more high-profile deadly diseases such as AIDS, malaria or TB.

December 18, 2014

Kicking butts: Declines in lung cancer deaths follow Uruguay’s strong tobacco control policies
Solutions Journalism Network

Literally millions of stories can be found in this new body of results (or explored online with IHME’s data visualization suite). Today, we’re taking a deeper dive into a public health success story where the link between policy efforts and improved health outcomes is only tightening: tobacco control, and in particular, Uruguay’s efforts to take on its tobacco epidemic.

Cause-of-death study shows progress – albeit unequal – and big red flags
Humanosphere

A massive cause-of-death study finds that we are living about six years longer than we did in 1990, that child deaths have plummeted thanks to greatly expanded immunizations, among other things, and that non-communicable diseases like diabetes are gaining prominence as top killers largely because of big gains made against infectious diseases.

December 5, 2014

The emerging crisis: Non-communicable diseases
Council on Foreign Relations

The gravest health threats facing low- and middle-income countries are not the plagues, parasites, and blights that dominate the news cycle and international relief efforts. They are the everyday diseases the international community understands and could address, but fails to take action against. Once thought to be challenges for affluent countries alone, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) have emerged as the leading cause of death and disability in developing countries.

December 3, 2014

Tiny country, huge gains: How the Maldives is improving health for women and girls
Solutions Journalism Network

In 1990, life expectancy for female Maldivians was 64.8 years, three years shorter than the global average. By 2010, female life expectancy exceeded the global average by over seven years.

December 1, 2014

Maximizing antiretroviral therapy in developing countries: the dual challenge of efficiency and quality
JAMA

The rapid scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been one of the great achievements of global health in the last decade. But the efficiency and quality of ART programs in developing countries must improve to have maximum benefit for those in need.

November 25, 2014

Visualizing the most neglected disease: Mental illness
Humanosphere

While many communicable diseases have been shrinking in terms of the number of people they affect over the last two decades, the global burden of mental illness has largely remained the same. All forms of mental illness – including depression, anxiety and schizophrenia – account for nearly a quarter of all disability worldwide, and cause the most disability for those in the most productive age demographic, from 15 to 39 years old.

November 20, 2014

Explaining pneumonia’s big global decline on a tiny budget
Humanosphere

There appears to be a disconnect between the global burden of pneumonia and how much money is spent on attempting to reduce this burden, which Humanosphere recently summed up as: Pneumonia leads in killing children, but not in global health financing.

November 13, 2014

Pneumonia leads in killing children, but not in global health financing
Humanosphere

Pneumonia may be the leading killer of children, but that doesn’t mean it is a priority for global health spending. Only 2 percent of the $30.6 billion in international assistance spent on health care was directed to the disease. The impact is clear, progress against pneumonia deaths is not keeping up with other lesser child killers.

How Bangladesh reduced child pneumonia deaths by 80% in 20 years
Solutions Journalism Network

What causes more deaths than HIV, malaria, and measles—combined? Bet you didn’t guess pneumonia.

Despite the fact that in 2013, a child died from pneumonia every 35 seconds, minimal funding has gone to addressing this serious public health issue.

November 12, 2014

Visualizing zero malaria, whatever zero might be
Humanosphere

“We should declare the goal of eradicating malaria because we can eradicate malaria,” Gates said, to some consternation among the malaria experts. He challenged the audience to wipe out malaria for good, as the world did with smallpox in 1980, rather than continuing to simply contain the disease.

November 7, 2014

Rwanda Accelerates Toward Zero Malaria
Solutions Journalism Network

The rallying cry at this year’s meeting for the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (ASTMH), which ended yesterday, was “Accelerating to Zero,” the Gates Foundation’s vision to eradicate malaria. Many places are nearly there: China is closing in on zero malaria and Saudi Arabia is within a few cases of ending malaria for good.

October 29, 2014

Visualizing maternal morbidity
Humanosphere

Maternal mortality is a popular subject in global health, but what about the many women who suffer disability as a result of pregnancy and childbirth?

It takes a village (or several countries) to stop infectious disease
Solutions Journalism Network

Amid the fierce debate and public outcry over American cities quarantining health workers returning from West Africa, at least one difficult question has also emerged: what are the other optimal measures, perhaps more balanced across legal rights and public health needs, we should use against a deadly infectious disease that doesn’t carry a passport?

October 17, 2014

Making progress contagious: lessons from the DRC
Solutions Journalism Network

Measles is another infectious disease that can very rapidly upend and ravage any place where people lack exposure or protection against the virus.

October 14, 2014

El problema de la inseguridad tiene solución
Clarin

En 1992 fui elegido alcalde de Cali, una ciudad de Colombia con 2.3 millones de habitantes. Soy epidemiólogo por formación, pero me siento atraído a ayudar a las personas, y Cali necesitaba ayuda. La tasa de homicidios era alarmante, más de 100 por cada 100.000 (las estadísticas del FBI del mismo año indican que esta tasa en Nueva York era de 27.1 por 100.000), y los homicidios eran la principal causa de fallecimiento en la ciudad.

October 13, 2014

Visualizing how Syria’s war undermines health
Humanosphere

Before the civil war started the spring of 2011, Syria was among the most impressive health success stories in the Arab world. Out of all the countries in this region, Syria ranked third for gains in female life expectancy and fourth for gains in male life expectancy between 1990 and 2010.

October 8, 2014

Lesson for world leaders: Dig into the data
Op-ed

My advice to leaders: Skip the pronouncements and dig into the data.

October 3, 2014

Here’s how Ebola erodes overall health in West Africa
Humanosphere

The health systems in these poor countries are overwhelmed by this outbreak and the progress that’s been made in fighting these diseases, or in improving services like maternal and child care, is under threat. High-quality, timely data are urgently needed to understand how the Ebola epidemic is affecting other health issues in these three nations.

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