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A personal perspective from the medical care frontlines
Image courtesy Patricio Marquez Despite health-promotion and disease-prevention efforts, we are all at risk of catastrophic health events, which can strike at any moment, in the form of a traffic...
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Climate change and malnutrition must be tackled together
As climate change challenge continues to worsen, its impacts extend far beyond the extensive damage to the environment—it also has a direct effect on global health, including obesity and...
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Confronting tobacco illicit trade: a global review of country experiences
Illicit trade in tobacco products undermines global tobacco prevention and control interventions, particularly with respect to tobacco tax policy. From a public health perspective, illicit trade...
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Ethiopia’s new tobacco control law: a step forward that needs to be...
Recently, Ethiopia’s parliament unanimously approved one of Africa’s strongest anti-tobacco laws. Ethiopia’s new tobacco control law is comprehensive as it requires 100 percent smoke-free public and...
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Community involvement is key to eradicating ebola
16 January 2019 - Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo. Health workers monitors the health of a patient through the quarantine transparent cube, that allows health workers and family to see the patient...
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Building national civil registration systems that ensure effective service...
Ensuring that each individual at birth has a unique identification, and that such civil registration is then linked with better and easier access to critical public services such as education, health,...
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Lutte contre ebola : impliquer la communauté représente la clé du succès
16 Janvier 2019 - Beni, République Démocratique du Congo. Vincent Tremeau / World Bank 2019 Depuis plusieurs années, Ebola frappe de manière disproportionnée notre continent, et plus particulièrement...
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Her burden to bear – women, aging, and depression
An elderly woman sits outside a health clinic in rural Nepal. Photo © Aisha Faquir/World Bank
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In Papua New Guinea, a modern fight against an old disease: tuberculosis
The World Bank has joined the fight to kick TB out of Papua New Guinea. (World Bank / Tom Perry) My last surviving grandparent, my Nanna, passed away peacefully late last year. And the end of a loved...
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Paradigm Shift: Peru leading the way in reforming mental health services
We recently participated in an event held in Lima by Peru’s Ministry of Health and the Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University for the launching of a new report that assesses the initial results at the...
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Gender inequality is a major stumbling block to human capital—global health...
Today is World Health Day, celebrated this year under the theme of Universal Health Coverage for everyone, everywhere. Gender equality—from eliminating the gender pay gap in health workforces to...
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El Salvador: small country, giant steps to control tobacco use
In a recent visit to El Salvador, the smallest, yet beautiful most densely populated country in Central America, I attended an international event organized by the Secretariat of the Framework...
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Accelerating progress towards universal healthcare coverage by 2030: CSOs...
The 2019 World Bank Spring Meetings, as always, featured stimulating, constructive, and, sometimes avantgarde discussions and conversations. One of such productive sessions was a lunch meeting...
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Joint Learning Network: Mobilizing domestic resources for health
The Domestic Resource Mobilization (DRM) collaborative cohosted its recent meeting with the Efficiency Collaborative on February 27-28 in New Delhi, India. This was the third in-person meeting of the...
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Joint Learning Network: How to improve efficiency through systematic priority...
On March 1-2 the Joint Learning Network Efficiency Collaborative (EC) co- located with the domestic resource mobilization collaborative in Delhi, India. This fourth in-person EC meeting focused on two...
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