World Health Day 2024

The right to IVF and access to care are covered by SDG 3.

Highlights the 21st century's fundamental “global health” reformulation of PubHealth and anticolonial resistance (to a perceived cultural imperialism of the West including in PubHealth) supporting SDG 3.

The growth of predictive data analytics and the simultaneous growth in the availability of interoperable AI-enabled devices offer opportunities to mitigate healthcare disparities currently endemic in indigent, underrepresented, and underserved communities supporting SDG3.

With a pressing climate emergency and increasing interconnectedness, the need for action on health at a global level is greater than ever. Achieving Universal Health Coverage with a strong base in primary healthcare is essential. This must be accompanied by policies to address the socioeconomic and environmental determinants of ill health, supporting SDG3.

For anybody interested in the relevance of global health governance to tropical diseases, whether they work in vaccine development or emergency outbreak response, it is essential to remember that these debates are indeed ongoing, and that global health interventions and outcomes remain beset with inequalities. The campaign against tropical disease is not just an aetiological one, but also very much a governance and policy challenge supporting SDG 3.

A patient survey identified unmet global needs in CLL and can guide patient education targets for clinicians, advocates, and policymakers.

The study highlights the necessity of a sanitation plan for Bukavu urban rivers to mitigate contamination risks, safeguard water quality, and enhance access to clean water and sanitation for the population.

This interview-based study investigated the perceptions of safety and acceptability of the water supply in rural Greenlandic households.

The research supports Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 3) by identifying factors affecting public health, such as indoor airflow patterns and outdoor temperatures, and providing recommendations for epidemic prevention and control measures.

The research on enveloped viruses' response to environmental factors supports SDG 3 by informing effective disinfection strategies, crucial for preventing disease spread and promoting public health.

The study highlights the importance of monitoring VOC levels in indoor air associated with residential interior finishes to mitigate potential health risks, particularly regarding excess cancer risk among interior finishers in China, contributing to Sustainable Development Goal 3 (Good Health and Well-being).

The study underscores the importance of understanding VOC emissions from flame retardant industrial parks to address potential carcinogenic risks and formulate effective reduction strategies, contributing to both Sustainable Development Goal 3 (Good Health and Well-being) and SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities).

The study underscores the significance of indoor PM2.5-10 pollution from coal combustion as an environmental risk factor for the prognosis of COPD patients, emphasizing the need for targeted prevention and control strategies during the heating season to protect cardiopulmonary health and promote progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3 (Good Health and Well-being).

The study suggests that exposure to PFAS may disrupt energy balance and body composition in adolescents, underscoring the importance of further research to confirm the association and mitigate potential health impacts, thus contributing to Sustainable Development Goal 3 (Good Health and Well-being).

The study concludes that power outages disproportionately impact urbanized areas and highlights the intersectionality of health risks and urban resilience, pertinent to both Sustainable Development Goal 3 (Good Health and Well-being) and SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities).

The study offers insights into the relationship between eye-level greenspace and hypertension, revealing a negative association among Chinese females, especially in socioeconomically disadvantaged groups.

It is important to have scientifically analyzed data to support the policy direction for children's schools, as they are a vulnerable group when it comes to emerging infectious diseases. [hotspot – schools]

The research highlights the health rights of indigenous adolescent girls in Bangladesh by examining the challenges they face in maintaining proper menstrual hygiene due to seasonal water scarcity, underscoring the need for targeted interventions to support their right to healthful living conditions. [indigenous population]

This research underscores the health rights of firefighters by investigating the potential impact of occupational exposure to PFAS and PAHs on liver function and serum lipids, which could contribute to work-related adverse health outcomes. [occupational exposure]

This research addresses the right to health by identifying the health risks associated with improper disposal of disposable diapers in informal settlements and emphasizing the need for better access to hygienic waste management practices. [low- and middle-income country]

This Article supports SDG 3 by presenting a conceptual framework and a method to estimate cost-effectiveness thresholds for 174 countries, using public and widely available data on country-specific health expenditures and health outcomes; these findings can inform policy makers on the thresholds to consider when deciding on the allocation of health resources.

This Viewpoint article supports SDG 3 by providing critical reflections on the concept and application of resilience in health system thinking, including a review of the main debates and priorities following the COVID-19 pandemic and in the face of new shocks and crises.

This Health Policy paper supports SDG 3 by calling for greater coordination and coherence using a UHC+ lens to suggest new approaches to funding that can extend beyond biomedical health services to include the cross-cutting determinants of health.

This Article supports SDG 3 by providing robust evidence of health-care financing policies deployed by 15 countries representing all WHO regions and offering an overview and illustrative examples of the modifications made to these policies for countries to rapidly mobilise fiscal resources for health.

This Series paper supports SDG 3 by documenting the nature of user interactions with primary care in a large, 14-country sample; the authors find significant diversity in how citizens access usual care within and across countries.

This Series paper supports SDG 3 by providing an overview of the current state of health insurance in some African and Asian countries, focusing on how coverage varies across and within countries, and the association between insurance status and use of key preventive health-care services and health system competence.

This Series paper supports SDG 3 by describing several measures of health system quality, which are potential drivers of confidence, including quality of the health system and primary care, government responsiveness to public input, and COVID-19 management; the authors also discuss the policy and research implications.

This Series paper supports SDGs 3 and 10 by describing health-care coverage and quality across the four countries, quantifying inequalities in these outcomes by socioeconomic status within country, and assessing the contribution of government, social security, and private health sectors to observed inequality.

This Article supports SDGs 3 and 10 by assessing predictors for COVID-19 vaccine uptake among older Syrian refugees in Lebanon and highlighting the need to target hard to reach populations to improve access and uptake.

This Personal View supports SDGs 3 and 10 by reviewing a pilot project aimed at increasing quity of access to urban green spaces and tree coverage and thereby improving community health.

This Personal View supprts SDGs 3 and 10 by discussing the multifaceted approach and the various stakeholder involvement needed for the expansion of access to new antibiotics while balancing with the prevention of excessive use

This Article supports SDGs 3 and 10 by evaluating home telemonitoring of women with complicated pregnancies, finding that it might be a safe alternative to hospital admission. If implemented, it is possible that this alternative could reduce costs and increase patient access to care and monitoring

This Series paper supports SDGs 3 and 10 by summarising the state of knowledge on inequalities in care delivery and outcomes for patients with cardiovascular disease in the UK

This Article supports SDGs 3 and 10 by showing that in Austria, Greece, Spain, and the UK, there is a dearth of targeted, tailored cancer prevention programmes for people experiencing homelessness, and concern from health professionals that cancer is not being spotted at early stages in this population.

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.

Environmental pollution has negative health effects and biomonitoring is necessary to identify the regions, local sources, and temporal distribution of air pollution. The aim of this study was the estimation of cell viability, oxidative stress, DNA damage, cell cycle alterations and activation of histone H2A.X. Evidence is shown that γH2A.X may serve as a marker for monitoring the risk of air pollutant exposure.

The data presented in this study indicate air pollution (AP) induces an epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition-like phenotype of BEAS-2B cells in 3D spheroid cultures. This opens new avenues for drug development for the treatment of lung diseases induced by AP. The 3D spheroid cell culture is a novel, innovative and physiologically relevant model for culturing a variety of cells. It is a versatile tool for both high-throughput studies and for identifying molecular mechanisms involved in bronchial epithelial cell (patho)physiology.

In the context of applying machine learning to solve problems for risk prediction, disease detection, and treatment evaluation, EHR pose many challenges– they do not have a consistent, standardized format across institutions particularly in US, can contain human errors and introduce collection biases. In addition, some institutions or geographic regions do not have access to the technology or financial resources necessary to implement EHR, thus resulting in vulnerable and disadvantaged communities not being electronically visible.

The study aims to investigate whether machine learning-based predictive models for cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment show equivalent performance across demographic groups (such as race and gender) and if bias mitigation methods can reduce any bias present in the models. This is important as systematic bias may be introduced when collecting and preprocessing health data, which could affect the performance of the models on certain demographic sub-cohorts.

Digital health programs are urgently needed to accelerate the adoption of Artificial Intelligence and Clinical Decision Support Systems (AI-CDSS) in clinical settings. However, such programs are still lacking for undergraduate medical students, and new approaches are required to prepare them for the arrival of new and unknown technologies.

This review suggests digital health literacy is dependent on sociodemographic, economic, and cultural factors, which may require tailored interventions that consider these nuances.

Efforts to reduce maternal mortality have historically overemphasized clinical approaches while failing to listen to mothers and pregnant people, threatening patient autonomy, and contributing to persistent racial disparities and high levels of preventable maternal mortality.

This article shows that hospital-based newborn SCD screening and follow-up programs would be feasible in Haiti.

The concept of a seawater hub signifies a substantial stride toward sustainable and environmentally conscious seawater desalination solutions. It holds the potential to transform seawater treatment and ensure a consistent freshwater supply for communities globally.

To understand how best to help patients and improve health during an epidemic it is necessary to have good modelling techniques and protocols.

Standard methodology to detect antimicrobiological resistance genes can help in monitroing and hopefully preventing antimicrobial resistance and improving health.

To understand how best to help patients and improve health during an epidemic it is necessary to have good modelling techniques and protocols.

A reminder that some effective preventatives for the spreading of disease are relatively simple such as good hygiene and efficient washing.

Food-related illnesses are very common and this study reminds us of the importance of maintaining food hygiene standards to improve human health.

Understanding the health of the mother can improve the health of the child.

Although patient-centered care does not always entail meeting all of the patients' expectations, the mere understanding of their preferences in decision-making can lead to complete patient satisfaction.

The present study aims to identify key healthcare quality attributes from primary care professionals' (PCPs’) perspective, to validate an instrument that measures PCPs’ experiences of healthcare quality multidimensionally and to define hospital quality priorities based on PCPs’ experiences.

There are undeniable historic and contemporary hardships faced by Indigenous Peoples regarding access to medical treatments, research opportunities, clinical trial participation, and careers. The goal of the PNOC/CBTN DEI working group is to bring such inequities to our pediatric neuro-oncology community and beyond and start to develop and collaborate towards solutions.

This paper highlights increased awareness of the need for countries to increase financing for universal health coverage in Low and middle-income countries.

This paper assess parental and guardian perceptions of dental health service accessibility among primary school students Saudi Arabia.

This study proposes that the choice of strategy should depend on the nature of the hazard, the existing national food control system, and the availability of the relevant international standard.

A paper that explores how interventions can help reduce the waiting times in an epilepsy outpatient clinic.

This paper explores the assess to antiretroviral therapy and its associated factors among patients accessing treatment at Health centers in Ethiopia.

This Viewpoint supports SDGs 3 and 10 by examining how structural ableism denies disabled people equitable access to health care, and discussing the principles by which it could be reduced.

This Comment supports SGDs 3 and 10 by discussing how the use of cashless payment systems in India can help to promote equitable access to health care and improve patient experiences, and well as examining some barriers to adoption.

This Viewpoint supports SDGs 3 and 10 by examining, in view of the potential termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme in the USA, the implications for government funding of health care for immigrant populations such as undocumented migrants, and the importance of ensuring equitable access to health care for all population groups.

This Article supports SDGs 3 and 10 by showing, across a range of indicators, that in the north of England, primary health care delivered in prisons is generally worse than that delivered in the community. There have been some areas of improvement and some areas of worsening, but overall there is substantial scope for improvement.

This study supports SDGs 3 and 5 with the right to abortion and access to care.

This suports SDGs 1, 3 and 5 by supporting access to care and contraception.

THis supports SGDs 3 and 5 by supporting access to care and contraception.

Mitochondria regulates the Cell Danger Response (CDR) by monitoring and responding to the physical, chemical, and microbial conditions within and around the cell. In this way, mitochondria connect cellular health to environmental health. This Perspective discusses the links between mitochondria and health in the context of negative human activities and highlights a call for a new constitutional amendment to invest each citizen with a new right: the right to be born and live in an environment that does not cause chronic disease. Readers can learn more at http://naviauxlab.ucsd.edu/the-28th-amendment-project/.

Supports SDG 3 in describing problems associated with delayed pregnancies and a lack of access to care.

This supports SDGs 3 and 5 by supporting access to care and contraception.

Access to care and contraception are both rights supported by SDG 3.

Large language models (LLMs) are positioned to become another destination for those seeking medical information. Consequently, the readability of these materials becomes an important factor in ensuring their effectiveness in promoting health literacy, given that the average American reads at the eighth-grade level. Supports SDGs 3 and 10.

A roadmap for health care leaders to execute intrinsic agency toward equity, supporting SDGs 3 and 10.

The article emphasizes the importance of providing training and supporting resources alongside open science initiatives to enhance accessibility and reduce barriers in the field. It suggests that these educational resources should be customized to cater to diverse user profiles, including neuroscientists, computational scientists, and educators.

The article emphasizes the importance of providing training and supporting resources alongside open science initiatives to enhance accessibility and reduce barriers in the field. It suggests that these educational resources should be customized to cater to diverse user profiles, including neuroscientists, computational scientists, and educators.

The identified thematic gaps in Kenyan school books, particularly regarding sanitation, hygiene, and menstrual hygiene education, align with global WASH priorities and require urgent attention, especially in light of COVID-19. Addressing disconnects between educational content, WASH interventions, policies, and implementation highlights the necessity for improved integration to foster sustainable behavior change, emphasizing the importance of leveraging local educational materials and knowledge to engage teachers and school managers effectively and enhance WASH practices in schools. [low-income country and hotspot school]

Access to hygiene services is a pressing challenge, particularly in low-income countries, and has become even more critical during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program monitors global access to hygiene services, there's a need for alternative measures of inequality, such as a ternary diagram, to provide more accurate interpretations of the data, revealing spatial disparities and informing evidence-based public policies. [hotspot on urban/rural population in LMIC]

Health care providers and technology companies may consider forming health equity advisory algorithmic stewardship committees that can provide oversight and evaluate the design and implementation of real-world AI/ML solutions.

Right to abortion and access to care support SDG 3.

Cancer disproportionately impacts Black patients in incidence and mortality. Accordingly, optimal anticancer pharmacotherapy is critical to improving outcomes in this population, however, Black patients are less likely to receive anticancer pharmacotherapy.

This study investigates how sustainable transport infrastructure affects access to healthcare.

Good access to care and contraception support SDG 3.

In support of SDG 3, the authors present a student mental health support system, based on artificial intelligence and big data analysis. The system designed through the research aims to provide a personalized mental health support and guidance resource for students, who face increasing psychological pressure in today's society. The system also provides effective mental health monitoring and support tools for ongoing mental health promotion activities in educational settings.

Augmentation approaches warrant further consideration as part of water agencies' regional water supply portfolios. Although the ocean water augmentation approaches discussed in this paper are based on a case study in California, the approach can be applied to similar scenarios around the world.

This systematic literature review on on-site sanitation fecal sludge management practices directly informs Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6) by identifying best practices for safe sanitation, reducing pollution, and protecting water resources.