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Latest information on the state of the world’s health released by WHO
In mid-May, WHO released World Health Statistics 2018: Monitoring health for the SDGs (WHS2018). This WHO flagship publication compiles data from the organization’s 194 Member States on 36 health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) indicators, providing a snapshot of both gains … Continue reading
Disease Control Priorities, Edition 3
The third edition of Disease Control Priorities was launched by the WHO Director General, Dr Tedros Adhanom, in London earlier this month. These nine volumes provide up-to-date evidence on priorities that countries should consider in order to reach Universal Health … Continue reading
Universal health coverage
A WHO report monitoring progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) was released yesterday. It reports the proportion of the population that can access essential health services, and the proportion that are pushed into poverty by healthcare expenses, for 183 countries. … Continue reading
Child mortality continues to decline, but large disparities remain
The United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN-IGME) released new data last week showing that the world has made substantial progress in reducing child mortality in the last several decades. The total number of child deaths has dropped … Continue reading
Tenfold increase in childhood and adolescent obesity in four decades
The number of obese children and adolescents (aged five to 19 years) worldwide has risen tenfold in the past four decades. If current trends continue, more children and adolescents will be obese than moderately or severely underweight by 2022, according … Continue reading
Monitoring trends in causes of death – India and the Million Death Study
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 include around 15 targets for mortality-related indicators. The “gold” standard method for monitoring mortality and causes of death is a well-functioning civil registration system in which every death certificate has a medically … Continue reading
Sex and gender in reporting health indicators
I am writing a chapter for a US publication, which has tables of statistics for males and females (which I refer to as “sex”). The editor contacted me to ask whether I should be calling this “gender”. This reminded me … Continue reading
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