Improving patient safety through behavioral change is something that all healthcare providers strive to achieve. Supported by a three year grant, we are involved in a new way of doing […]
Month: November 2016
John J Park and Rifat Atun: Will global health be Trumped?
Donald Trump’s election as the 45th President of the United States (US) has left many in the global health community startled. What lies ahead for the future of global health […]
Lorraine Atkinson: Preventing prison suicides
2016 will be remembered for many reasons. I will remember it as the worst year on record for the number of prisoners who have taken their own lives in prisons […]
Tiago Villanueva: Primary care in Brazil’s largest favela
Walking through Rio de Janeiro’s largest slum, Favela da Rocinha, in the pouring rain is probably not the wisest thing for a foreign visitor to do. But on a recent trip to […]
Harry HX Wang and Sian M Griffiths: A primary care oriented approach to pursue population health in China
From Healthy China 2020 to Healthy China 2030 Seven decades ago, China’s healthcare was characterised by barefoot doctors who demonstrated the contribution of primary care to improved population health. Subsequent […]
Delan Devakumar et al: Politicians need to first do no harm
It’s been a monumental year. The UK’s decision to leave the European Union and the Chilcot report on the Iraq war prompt us to wonder why these self-inflicted problems ever […]
Aser García Rada: Living in limbo in Greece’s refugee camps
From late March to late August I worked in two Greek camps for refugees as part of a joint Spanish-French Red Cross deployment to support the Hellenic Red Cross. Providing […]
Valentina Lichtner: Incorrect patient record selection
Recently the Wall Street Journal alerted its readers to a report by the ECRI Institute in the US on the common problem of patient misidentification. [1,2] The study found 7613 “wrong patient” […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—28 November 2016
NEJM 24 Nov 2016 Vol 375 AAA in UK & USA It grieves me to say it, but there are certain things that American medicine does better than British medicine. […]
Chris Simms: Path dependency—Trump, Brexit, and the future Europe
Barbara Tuchman begins her seminal work The March of Folly by observing that a “phenomenon noticeable through history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies […]