Artificial intelligence (AI) has already started to disrupt the traditional medical model. While a new medical model is being incubated, there is still long way to go for it to […]
Public health often defines the impact of diseases in terms of the number of people affected over time and space. An epidemic has been defined as “the occurrence of more […]
Before a formal process for a pandemic treaty begins, Haik Nikogosian and Ilona Kickbusch, consider how this will tie in with existing regulations Discussions on a proposed pandemic treaty are […]
At the World Government Summit in Dubai in February 2018, Dr Tedros, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) gave an alarming caution that the world was unprepared for […]
The story of inequalities in health has been a long one, beginning, in the NHS era, with the Black report and progressing through the Health Divide, the Acheson report, to […]
Biomedical words recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) as having newly appeared during 1970–2020 have become scarcer and scarcer with the passing years (Figure 1). For 1970 I found […]
In software design, involving end users in design and decision-making processes, so called participatory design, is sometimes referred to as “the Scandinavian approach.” This is because back in the 1970s, […]
On Monday 10 May Boris Johnson, the UK prime minister, gave an optimistic appraisal of the state of the UK’s covid pandemic and announced that the next step in easing […]
A new WHO report on improving quality of care for maternal, newborn, and child health argues that it takes time to bring about changes in quality of care In 2017, […]
Ann Robinson reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
