The paper looks at the developments on some poorly performing districts on SDGs in India to take stock of how far the country is from their national targets.
Evaluating the bias and fairness of ML models has drawn much attention in the machine learning and statistics community. Researchers have proposed methods to assess and mitigate the bias for various applications that could adversely affect underrepresented groups, like recidivism prediction, credit risk prediction, and income prediction.
Noise and air pollution coexist in many urban/industrial environments, and therefore should be studied using co-exposure models. This study indicates that by investigating one individual stressor at a time, we may significantly underestimate the health risks since noise and air pollution have apparent additive health effects on the cardiovascular system and the brain. The study findings are strongly suggestive of additive/synergistic adverse cardiovascular health effects by environmental stressors that typically co-occur in large cities and urban/industrial settings, with a significant contribution to the disease burden and health care costs that may even exceed the most pessimistic scenarios.
This Article supports SDG 3 by assessing the incidence of HCV infection among people with HIV, during different periods statified by level of access to direct-acting antiviral therapy for HCV. Broader access to this treatment was associated, through a "treatment as prevention" effect, with lower incidence of HCV infection - approximately 50% lower in the period of broad access to the treatment compared with the period before access to the treatment.
This Viewpoint supprts SDG 3 by focusing on the health and wellbeing of people with disabilities in Europe and discussing inclusive health sectors, which could aid the protection of the human rights of people with disabilities and the promotion of their health.
This Article supports SDGs 3 and 10 by evaluating whether provision of a cash transfer to children and adolescents would improve their access to health and education resources, by removing financial barriers to these resources. The programme was successful in this regard; eg, beneficiaries were twice as likely as non-beneficiaries to use rehabilitation services and attend school.
Health for All must include representation of people with lived experience in the research underlying health care: this paper describes a first-person experience of this in mental health.
This Health Policy paper supports SDG 3 by analysing the current national action plans for antimicrobial resistance adopted by UN member states at the 2015 World Health Assembly; the authors identify gaps in key domains and highlight opportunities to facilitate sustainable delivery and operationalisation of national action plans.
This review discusses the role of the endocannabinoid system in pain management, particularly in the context of chronic pain co-morbid with Alzheimer's disease (AD), highlighting the prevalence of chronic pain among AD patients, the limitations of current treatments, and the need for further research and future directions.
This case report discusses the comparison of circulating levels of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and platelets between Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients and healthy older adults, revealing lower VEGF levels and a trend towards reduced platelet numbers in AD patients, indicating potential modifications in angiogenic factors associated with the disease.
