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03 Mar 2025
World Obesity Day 2025: Let’s put a spotlight on the systemsFor too long, responses to the obesity crisis have been focused on individuals. It’s time we turn our attention to the systems that are failing us. Health systems, government systems, food systems, the media, and the environments we work and live in – are all contributing to the increasing rates of obesity around the world...
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18 Feb 2025
1 in 5 people are diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. Nearly every family around the world is affected by cancer, either directly or as caregivers of someone who has had cancer. A cancer diagnosis can have a profound effect on the health and well-being of all those involved.In 2022, WHO launched a global campaign to amplify the voices of those affected by cancer, ...
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18 Feb 2025
In a groundbreaking conference, international leaders in type 1 diabetes care exchanged knowledge, strategies, and visions for the future. Here are key takeaways from the discussions that are set to reshape type 1 diabetes (T1D) care and patient empowerment. While facing a rising tide of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), type 1 diabetes (T1D) represents a special challenge particularly in low...
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10 Feb 2025
The article discusses venous thromboembolism (VTE), which includes deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, noting that it is common and associated with significant morbidity and mortality. It explains that VTE symptoms are nonspecific, but established diagnostic strategies combining clinical probability scores and D-dimer testing can help identify low-risk patients where VTE can be safely exc...
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01 Feb 2025
This systematic review and meta-analysis examines the acceptability and perceptions of personalised risk-based screening (PRBS) for breast, cervical, colorectal, lung, and prostate cancer among the general public and health-care professionals.The study synthesises data from 63 research articles published between 2010 and 2024, with findings indicating that PRBS is generally acceptable to both the...
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01 Jan 2025
The report assesses global palliative care using 14 WHO indicators to identify health system strengths and weaknesses at the country level. Pilot projects in Benin, Morocco, and Uruguay and a’Do-it-yourself’ approach offer valuable insights and applicable lessons for global palliative care development that can be replicated in other countries.
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19 Dec 2024
In this episode of Let’s Talk Cancer, discover a series of short, 5mn branded films produced for UICC by BBC StoryWorks Commercial Productions, entitled 'Rewriting Cancer'. This initiative highlights people’s experiences with cancer around the world: patients, their loved ones, caregivers, medical professionals, volunteers. While the 'Rewriting Cancer' series is anchored in people’s ex...
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17 Dec 2024
In this episode, we’re looking ahead to UHC Day, on 12 December. The 2024 theme is Health: it’s on the government! UHC of course stands for Universal Health Coverage, and today we’re talking about financing for UHC and its relationship to NCDs financing. Our guest is Professor David Watkins, of the departments of Medicine and Global Health at the University of Washington. We will delve...
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10 Dec 2024
Rare kidney diseases (RKDs) place a substantial economic burden on patients and health systems, the extent of which is unknown and may be systematically underestimated by health economic techniques. We aimed to investigate the economic burden and cost-effectiveness evidence base for RKDs.
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01 Dec 2024
Diabetes can be detected at the primary health-care level, and effective treatments lower the risk of complications. There are insufficient data on the coverage of treatment for diabetes and how it has changed. We estimated trends from 1990 to 2022 in diabetes prevalence and treatment for 200 countries and territories.
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27 Nov 2024
Concept note about the IUHPE 2025 Conference, published in IUHPE's quarterly journal, Global Health Promotion. Also available in French and Spanish.
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27 Nov 2024
In this episode we’re talking about oral health and noncommunicable diseases, or NCDs, with Dr Greg Chadwick, President of FDI World Dental Federation, and Dr Dympna Kavanagh, Chief Dental Officer for the Republic of Ireland. What they both stress in today’s chat is how the adoption in 2021 of a World Health Assembly resolution flipped the way that most people thought of oral health—primaril...
