Purpose: Cancer is a key influence on psychosocial and emotional distress among patients.
This paper briefly reviews different debates about approaches for paths out of poverty, considering several views, from the analysis of specific policies to more general or systemic considerations.
It reviews the international experience to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.
To mark World Health Day 2021, RELX’s Global Head of Corporate Responsibility, Dr Márcia Balisciano, talks to Dr Richard McCallum and Dr Erika Claud about the need for a fairer and healthier world for all.
Nexis Newsdesk™ has created graphics on the SDGs and the Global Media Landscape, offering charts & insights into global media coverage of the Sustainable Development Goals. View findings for Global Goal 1.
Nexis Newsdesk™ has created reports on the Sustainable Development Goals and the Global Media Landscape, offering charts & insights into global media coverage of the Global Goals.
The current COVID-19 pandemic represents an acute threat to the health of adults and children across the globe.
A Research Paper on food insecurity in the UK, in the context of SDGs 1, 2, and 3, focusing specifically on the association between the implementation of austerity policies in 2010 and the increase in foodbank use and food insecurity over the following decade.
This Lancet Global Health Commission advances addresses SDG 3 directly, and SDGs 1, 2, 4, 5, 8 and 10 indirectly, by comprehensively demonstrating how improving eye health by treating and preventing vision impairment and vision loss can not only advance SDG 3—improving health and wellbeing for all—but also contribute to poverty reduction, zero hunger, quality education, gender equality, and decent work and economic growth. The findings of this report frame eye health as a development issue and highlight that, with a growing ageing population globally, urgent and concerted action is needed to meet unmet eye health needs globally, including incorporating equitable eye care into countries’ universal health coverage plans.
Elsevier,
Barefoot Global Health Diplomacy, Field Experiences in International Relations, Security, and Epidemics, 2021, Pages 27-49
Adaptability to politics, economics, and to the wealth and poverty of the world: health programs, in emergencies or over the longer term, need to be aware of local incomes and costs of services—and how they can be paid for. Programs and projects and interventions should thus evolve to make sure the treatment, the testing, the assistance they are promoting is available and affordable—both when the internationals are there, and after they leave
