This Health Policy paper supports SDG 3 and 10 by discussing the situation of Indigenous peoples of Canada in the context of "opt out" organ donation in Novia Scotia, the first area in North America to pass such legislation. The paper explores the potential impacts and issues of such legislation on Indigenous peoples, and makes a series of recommendations which would help to respect the rights and interests of these communities.
This Personal View supports SDG 3 and 10 by discussing the ethical issues surrounding the use of psychedelic pharmacotherapies in Western medicine; as some of these agents are used in traditional medicines by Indigenous people. The authors make a series of recommendations on how these issues can be addressed.
According to this review, life expectancy is reduced for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in comparison to other residents of Australia. This paper calls for indigenous researchers to be involved in implementing relevant health design with local communities in order to bridge the gap.
The article speaks to action points to improving the diagnosis of breast cancer in black women within the UK to achieve greater equity.
Sources used when seeking reproductive health information in the UK are not necessarily the most trusted, with accessibility being an important factor. Ensuring better fertility and reproductive health information during school education may offset the impact of unreliable sources.
On Rare Disease day, Elsevier has launched a new scientific journal called Rare. Open research in rare diseases. Elsevier dedicates a peer-reviewed publication specifically to these lesser known or unknown disorders, with the aim of having a clinical impact on the lives of patients and their families.
This paper tries to model the expenditure that will be required to attain full UHC in India.
This Article supports SDG 3 by assessing whether access to free health prenatal health care affects adverse outcomes in newborns in Switzerland. The findings suggest that the health-care policy impacted some, but not all, outcomes.
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The Thinking Healthcare System: Artificial Intelligence and Human Equity, 2023, Pages 99-129
This chapter advances the UN SDG Goal 3: Good Health and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by introducing the AI transformation of public health (PubHealth) uniting healthcare systems with the central terms, concepts, and history of PubHealth from ancient quarantines to modern vaccines including milestone developments as successful responses to chronic and infectious diseases, sanitation, workplace safety, poverty, and wars.
For Rare Disease Day 2023, RELX's Global Head of Corporate Responsibility, Márcia Balisciano, speaks to Shiv Gaglani, CEO & Co-Founder of Osmosis.
