Qian Li, West China Centre for Rural Health Research & Development, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. While we young researchers come from diverse backgrounds and careers, we share a common […]
Month: November 2012
Desmond O’Neill: Shaken and stirred
A key challenge of teaching gerontology in health sciences is to liberate ageing from the confines of later life and to view it as a continuous process across the life […]
Robin Gorna: Is an HIV free generation an achievable aim?
Tomorrow is World AIDS Day and this year all the talk is of tipping points and “ending AIDS.” On both sides of the Atlantic lobby groups are calling on their […]
Gitau Mburu: How communities have helped transform the global HIV response
As World AIDS Day approaches, let’s pause for a second to pay tribute to the tremendous efforts around the globe which have resulted in more than eight million people having […]
Paul Glasziou: How many journals do you need to read?
Do you regularly read Chronobiology International? No, me neither. But that was the source journal for the article we read at a recent GP journal club I attended in Perth […]
Grania Brigden: Children with TB—global interest at last
At last, tackling tuberculosis (TB) in children is on the international agenda. This year, for the first time, an estimate of the extent of TB in children was included in […]
Desmond O’Neill: The age friendly university
All innovation is characterised by many false starts, but occasionally an event feels like the real deal, a sure sense of a phase shift in our world. This was the […]
Muir Gray: Defining the pathway for population systems of care
Read the rest of this series of blogs about designing and planning population based systems of care here. Step 7: Defining the pathway The pathway is the route the patient […]
David Nicholl: Bodies revealed but with consent for what?
The Human Tissue Act (HTA) arose out of the Alder Hey scandal when hundreds of deceased children’s organs were retained without seeking consent from their relatives between 1988-1996 in Liverpool. […]
Jacky Davis on the National Health Action party
On a recent rainy Saturday in November an estimated 15,000 people marched through the centre of Lewisham in response to a call to protect their local hospital whose A&E department, […]