In this insightful World Health Day episode of the “World We Want” podcast series, Samy Ahmar, the Head of Global Health in Save the Children UK speaks to Márcia Balisciano about universal challenges facing children, inclusive and accessible healthcare, and the role of government and NGOs. Samy also explores the highly complex factors influencing childhood health, including climate change, the over prescription of antibiotics and antimalarial drugs, infection disease and more.
This podcast, relating to SDG 3, Health and Wellbeing, is part of the Elsevier celebration of the World Health Organization’s World Health Day whose aim is to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable – so everyone, everywhere can attain the highest level of health and well-being. April 7th 2023 marks the WHO’s 75th anniversary of World Health Day, with a focus of improving public health for all.
World Health Day is April 7th, and this year’s theme is Health For All. Please see our publicly available special issue, featuring book chapters and journal articles highlighting world health advances and solutions.
This article relates to SDG 3. This resource, created together by Osmosis and the National Organization for Rare Diseases (NORD), aims to increase the knowledge and awareness about Pierre-Robin Sequence, a rare congenital condition characterized by physical anomalies that result in making the newborn's breathing difficult.
This article relates to SDG 3. This resource, created together by Osmosis and the National Organization for Rare Diseases (NORD), aims to increase the knowledge and awareness about Turner Syndrome, a condition characterized by a partial or complete loss of one of the two X chromosomes in females. The manifestations of this can be quite variable, resulting in infertility and/or distinctive physical features such as a short stature, webbed neck, or a “shield chest”.
This article relates to SDG 3. This resource, created together by Osmosis and the National Organization for Rare Diseases (NORD), aims to increase the knowledge and awareness about retroperitoneal fibrosis, an inflammatory condition in which fiber-like tissue accumulates behind the peritoneum and causes lower back pain.
This article related to SDG 3. This resource, created together by Osmosis and the National Organization for Rare Diseases (NORD), aims to increase the knowledge and awareness about Tetralogy of Fallot, the single most common form of congenital heart disease that causes cyanosis (bluish discoloration from lack of oxygen).
For Rare Disease Day 2023, RELX's Global Head of Corporate Responsibility, Márcia Balisciano, speaks to Shiv Gaglani, CEO & Co-Founder of Osmosis.
This article related to SDG 3. This resource, created together by Osmosis and the National Organization for Rare Diseases (NORD), aims to increase the knowledge and awareness about precocious puberty, a condition that causes children to start puberty early, affecting one in five thousand children.
This article relates to SDG 3. This resource, created together by Osmosis and the National Organization for Rare Diseases (NORD), aims to increase the knowledge and awareness about pernicious anemia, a disease in which the body produces auto-antibodies against a stomach protein called Intrinsic Factor, causing B12 deficiency that cannot be resolved efficiently through oral intake.
