Health for All must include representation of people with lived experience in the research underlying health care: this paper describes a first-person experience of this in mental health.
The frequencies of immune receptors on T lymphocytes varies among African, East Asian, South Asian and European populations.
The rich potential of legal rights in advancing planetary health is no longer untapped.1 In July, 2022, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution A/76/L.75, which recognised “the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a human right”, by a landslide of 161 votes. This historic resolution stands on the shoulders of a long line of UN initiatives, such as the Human Rights Council's Resolution 48/13, which was enacted in October, 2021, and recognised the right to a healthy environment as “important for the enjoyment of human rights”. This occurred 6 months after UN Environment, WHO, and 13 other UN entities issued a statement that described the failure to recognise the right to a healthy environment as detrimental to the attainment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Earlier, the Stockholm Declaration on the Human Environment 1972 affirmed that humans have “the fundamental right to freedom, equality and adequate conditions of life, in an environment of a quality that permits a life of dignity and well-being”. Two decades later, the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development 1992 demanded that states “conserve, protect and restore the health and integrity of the Earth's ecosystem”.
This Article supports SDGs 3 and 10 by assessing the socioeconomic inequalities in cancer across countries and over time in Europe.
For monitoring viral load (VL) or Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) of HIV-1, real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) is used to perform on plasma or Dried Blood Spot (DBS) sample. The qPCR method is expensive and requires sophisticated equipment. Therefore, there is a requirement for newer and cheaper technology for VL measurement or EID.
This falls along the themes of financial burden for cancer patients and discusses innovations and strategies for health care providers.
This article looks at changes in stress levels and study habits during the COVID-19 pandemic across students at HBCUs.
This content advances goals 4, 5 and 10 by highlighting diversity, equity and inclusion for women in the world of hand surgery.
This review article advances goals 3, 5, and 10 by addressing inequity in care among pregnant women with asthma in underserved communities and examining potential interventions that may help improve health outcomes and standard of care.
This piece highlights the importance of a culturally-sensitive approach to the management of infectious diseases and wellness for Indigenous people that take into account the rich and specific cultural milieu of the different populations to make decisions together.
