Doctors experience stigma at personal, professional, and institutional levels which prevents them from seeking and receiving appropriate help […]
Month: October 2019
Fostering academic-retail partnerships to evaluate nutrition policies
Joshua Petimar and Jason P. Block Most nutrition policies that are enacted to enhance diet quality (e.g. nutrition labelling, or beverage taxes) aim to change consumer behaviour in the food […]
Paul Simpson: We need an army of academic zombie hunters
A public health approach is needed to defeat the undead in the literature […]
Urgent call for human rights guidance on diets and food systems
Earlier this year, the Lancet Commission on Obesity called for “a radical rethink of business models, food systems, civil society involvement, and national and international governance” to address the interlinked […]
Dainius Pūras: Empowering primary care is only way to achieve universal health coverage
Medical education needs a drastic overhaul if we are serious about meeting the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals to achieve universal health coverage and health for all. It is now 41 […]
Emma Sutton: The problem of too many hats—involving clinician-patients in PPI
Patients who are also researchers and clinicians have an important part to play in quality improvement, says Emma Sutton […]
Kieran Walsh: WHO recommendations on digital clinical decision support for health system strengthening
The WHO has recently published recommendations on the use of digital clinical decision support for health system strengthening. Clinical decision support is a recognised tool to improve the performance of […]
Jack Brindley: Critical conversations
New books Critical and Seven Signs of Life are worthy additions to the growing collection of doctor memoires, says Jack Brindley […]
For healthy people, we need a healthy planet
Mandeep Dhaliwal and Josh Karliner With every passing day, people around the world are increasingly feeling the devastating effects of our changing climate. Last week, Typhoon Hagibis swept through Japan, […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Drug shortages—harms and errors
Last week, I reported my analysis of over 800 reports of drug shortages, published since the first report of shortages of quinine and mepacrine in India in 1942. In surveying […]