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Commentary

Reversing the decline of health in the USA: a call to action

A series of five new papers starkly describes the current health state of the US: growing disparity across socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic groupings that manifests in diverging health outcomes both within the country and relative to all other high-income and middle-income countries.

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The last mile of nutrition

Introducing a new way to measure the health impacts of community-based food programs and farmers markets.

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Africa's health financing gap

Donor health funding is declining in sub-Saharan Africa, and domestic spending is not rising to cover the gaps.

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Findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

In GBD 2021, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, through myriad mechanisms, is a central theme, but GBD reminds us that other macro trends have continued even as the world has gone through a major health shock.

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How gender and sex shape disease

New research exposes why health systems should tailor responses to the needs of men and women starting at a young age.