A Comment in support of SDGs 3 and 5, highlighting that comprehensive abortion care is an integral component of sexual and reproductive health that that saves women's lives and safeguards their dignity and bodily autonomy.
A viewpoint, in support of SDGs 3 and 10, discussing the general neglect within global health scholarship of the intersection between health inequities and LGBT+ populations in low-income and middle-income countries in Africa.
Background: Community participation has the potential to improve the effects of interventions and reduce inequalities in child growth.
This Article supports SDGs 3 and 16 by quantifying mortality risk after a dementia diagnosis, focusing specifically on differences across race and ethnicity. The authors discuss the implications for financial and health services planning, as well as quality of life.
The authors conclude improved water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH activities) were successful in contributing to improved dietary diversity in women. Interventions aimed at enhancing the diet and nutritional status of women during and after pregnancy should include relevant WASH components as essential elements in multisector nutrition programming.
Nutrient-sensitive approach for sustainability assessment of different dietary patterns in Australia
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Volume 115, 1 April 2022
The study presents a new approach to analyzing the relations between sustainability indicators, foods, and macronutrients and establishes that proteins, irrespective of the source of protein, are driving dietary environmental and economic impacts.
An Article in support of SDGs 3 and 13, investigating the effect of climate change on malaria transmission across different geographical regions
This paper concludes that the LC (Learning Circle) approach is an inclusive and respectful way of engaging community and promoting local and traditional foods, knowledge, and practices among Indigenous youth in rural and remote locations.
The results in this paper have implications for consumers and policy makers, as well as other food system actors. Consumers following individual strategies can make important contributions towards more sustainable food systems. To facilitate this shift, changes in food environments are needed and a coordinated action plan with coherent policies that targets a thorough redesign of the food system, including several of the proposed strategies, is needed to achieve large systemic effects. This could encompass suitable education measures, incentives, as well as rules for production, processing, retail, gastronomy, transport, and consumption.
The treatment of achalasia is continuously improved for the development of technology, but each treatment has its own advantages and disadvantages. After a network meta-analysis of different treatment for achalasia, this study found that application of anterior peroral endoscopic myotomy was the best treatment to improve achalasia symptoms in a 12-month follow up but had high risk of gastroesophageal reflux disease. This study supports SDG 3 Good health and wellbeing.
