Just a few weeks ago, the world’s leaders gathered for the first United Nations High Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC), issuing a forceful call to place the Sustainable ...
In its recently published Mental health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) operations manual, the World Health Organization stressed the enormous global disease burden that mental, neurological and substance use (MNS) conditions ...
The epidemic of diabetes is sweeping across the world with an estimated 425 million people affected; this number is projected to increase to 629 million by 2045. Of great concern ...
Obesity, a risk factor for multiple non-communicable diseases, is rapidly increasing in prevalence in many low- and middle-income countries, including those in sub-Saharan Africa (1). Findings from recent research suggest ...
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder with a prevalence of around 1-2% worldwide. Despite the fact that 90% of individuals with ASD live in low- and middle-income countries ...
This blog post was written by Mauricio Toyama, Francisco Diez-Canseco and J. Jaime Miranda. Mental illness is one of the leading causes of ill-health worldwide, with one in four people ...
In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) more people die of cancer than malaria or tuberculosis each year.(1) The World Health Organization estimates that cancer deaths in the region will increase by 85% ...
The global prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) is increasing rapidly . T2D in ethnic minority groups in Europe is of particular interest as they have experienced rapidly changing environments ...
This blog post was written by Nathaly Aya Pastrana, Maria Kathia Cárdenas, María Amalia Pesantes, L. Suzanne Suggs, Silvana Pérez León, for the COHESION Project The global burden of both ...
The Middle East, North Africa and Europe currently host millions of Syrian refugees who have fled violence and destruction. Many have lost their loved ones, homes and belongings and their ...