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World Health Day is a global health awareness day celebrated every year on 7 April. This year’s theme "'My health, my right’ was chosen to champion the right of everyone, everywhere to have access to quality health services, education, and information, as well as safe drinking water, clean air, good nutrition, quality housing, decent working and environmental conditions, and freedom from discrimination.
To mark World Health Day 2024, Elsevier has curated a free special collection of journal articles and book chapters. Explore the latest global research relating to access to health for all, including The path to universal health coverage in five African and Asian countries: examining the association between insurance status and health-care use, Access to cancer preventive care and program considerations for people experiencing homelessness across four European countries: an exploratory qualitative study and Predictors and barriers to vaccination among older Syrian refugees in Lebanon: a cross-sectional analysis of a multi-wave longitudinal study.
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The Thinking Healthcare System
Artificial Intelligence and Human Equity
2023, Pages 99-129
Highlights the 21st century's fundamental “global health” reformulation of PubHealth and anticolonial resistance (to a perceived cultural imperialism of the West including in PubHealth) supporting SDG 3.
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AI Assurance, Towards Trustworthy, Explainable, Safe, and Ethical AI, 2023, Pages 429-451
The growth of predictive data analytics and the simultaneous growth in the availability of interoperable AI-enabled devices offer opportunities to mitigate healthcare disparities currently endemic in indigent, underrepresented, and underserved communities supporting SDG3.
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Manson's Tropical Diseases (Twentyfourth Edition), 2024, Pages 11-19
With a pressing climate emergency and increasing interconnectedness, the need for action on health at a global level is greater than ever. Achieving Universal Health Coverage with a strong base in primary healthcare is essential. This must be accompanied by policies to address the socioeconomic and environmental determinants of ill health, supporting SDG3.
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Manson's Tropical Diseases (Twentyfourth Edition), 2024, Pages 57-63
For anybody interested in the relevance of global health governance to tropical diseases, whether they work in vaccine development or emergency outbreak response, it is essential to remember that these debates are indeed ongoing, and that global health interventions and outcomes remain beset with inequalities. The campaign against tropical disease is not just an aetiological one, but also very much a governance and policy challenge supporting SDG 3.
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Hygiene and Environmental Health Advances, Volume 3, September 2022
The research supports Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 3) by identifying factors affecting public health, such as indoor airflow patterns and outdoor temperatures, and providing recommendations for epidemic prevention and control measures.
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Hygiene and Environmental Health Advances, Volume 9, March 2024
The study highlights the importance of monitoring VOC levels in indoor air associated with residential interior finishes to mitigate potential health risks, particularly regarding excess cancer risk among interior finishers in China, contributing to Sustainable Development Goal 3 (Good Health and Well-being).
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Hygiene and Environmental Health Advances, Volume 8, December 2023
The study underscores the importance of understanding VOC emissions from flame retardant industrial parks to address potential carcinogenic risks and formulate effective reduction strategies, contributing to both Sustainable Development Goal 3 (Good Health and Well-being) and SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities).
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Hygiene and Environmental Health Advances, Volume 3, September 2022
The study underscores the significance of indoor PM2.5-10 pollution from coal combustion as an environmental risk factor for the prognosis of COPD patients, emphasizing the need for targeted prevention and control strategies during the heating season to protect cardiopulmonary health and promote progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3 (Good Health and Well-being).
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Hygiene and Environmental Health Advances, Volume 3, September 2022
The study suggests that exposure to PFAS may disrupt energy balance and body composition in adolescents, underscoring the importance of further research to confirm the association and mitigate potential health impacts, thus contributing to Sustainable Development Goal 3 (Good Health and Well-being).
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Hygiene and Environmental Health Advances, Volume 4, December 2022
The study concludes that power outages disproportionately impact urbanized areas and highlights the intersectionality of health risks and urban resilience, pertinent to both Sustainable Development Goal 3 (Good Health and Well-being) and SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities).
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International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, Volume 257, April 2024
It is important to have scientifically analyzed data to support the policy direction for children's schools, as they are a vulnerable group when it comes to emerging infectious diseases. [hotspot – schools]
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International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, Volume 254, September 2023
The research highlights the health rights of indigenous adolescent girls in Bangladesh by examining the challenges they face in maintaining proper menstrual hygiene due to seasonal water scarcity, underscoring the need for targeted interventions to support their right to healthful living conditions. [indigenous population]
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International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, Volume 252, July 2023
This research underscores the health rights of firefighters by investigating the potential impact of occupational exposure to PFAS and PAHs on liver function and serum lipids, which could contribute to work-related adverse health outcomes. [occupational exposure]
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International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, Volume 250, May 2023
This research addresses the right to health by identifying the health risks associated with improper disposal of disposable diapers in informal settlements and emphasizing the need for better access to hygienic waste management practices. [low- and middle-income country]
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The Lancet Global Health, Volume 11, June 2023
This Article supports SDG 3 by presenting a conceptual framework and a method to estimate cost-effectiveness thresholds for 174 countries, using public and widely available data on country-specific health expenditures and health outcomes; these findings can inform policy makers on the thresholds to consider when deciding on the allocation of health resources.
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The Lancet Global Health, Volume 11, September 2023
This Viewpoint article supports SDG 3 by providing critical reflections on the concept and application of resilience in health system thinking, including a review of the main debates and priorities following the COVID-19 pandemic and in the face of new shocks and crises.
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The Lancet Global Health, Volume 11, December 2023
This Health Policy paper supports SDG 3 by calling for greater coordination and coherence using a UHC+ lens to suggest new approaches to funding that can extend beyond biomedical health services to include the cross-cutting determinants of health.
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The Lancet Global Health, Volume 11, December 2023
This Article supports SDG 3 by providing robust evidence of health-care financing policies deployed by 15 countries representing all WHO regions and offering an overview and illustrative examples of the modifications made to these policies for countries to rapidly mobilise fiscal resources for health.
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The Lancet Global Health, Volume 12, January 2024
This Series paper supports SDG 3 by providing an overview of the current state of health insurance in some African and Asian countries, focusing on how coverage varies across and within countries, and the association between insurance status and use of key preventive health-care services and health system competence.
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The Lancet Global Health, Volume 12, January 2024
This Series paper supports SDG 3 by describing several measures of health system quality, which are potential drivers of confidence, including quality of the health system and primary care, government responsiveness to public input, and COVID-19 management; the authors also discuss the policy and research implications.
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The Lancet Global Health, Volume 12, January 2024
This Series paper supports SDGs 3 and 10 by describing health-care coverage and quality across the four countries, quantifying inequalities in these outcomes by socioeconomic status within country, and assessing the contribution of government, social security, and private health sectors to observed inequality.
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The Lancet Digital Health, Volume 5, March 2023
This Article supports SDGs 3 and 10 by evaluating home telemonitoring of women with complicated pregnancies, finding that it might be a safe alternative to hospital admission. If implemented, it is possible that this alternative could reduce costs and increase patient access to care and monitoring
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eClinicalMedicine, Volume 62, August 2023
This Article supports SDGs 3 and 10 by showing that in Austria, Greece, Spain, and the UK, there is a dearth of targeted, tailored cancer prevention programmes for people experiencing homelessness, and concern from health professionals that cancer is not being spotted at early stages in this population.
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Redox Biology, Volume 59, February 2023
Noise and air pollution coexist in many urban/industrial environments, and therefore should be studied using co-exposure models. This study indicates that by investigating one individual stressor at a time, we may significantly underestimate the health risks since noise and air pollution have apparent additive health effects on the cardiovascular system and the brain. The study findings are strongly suggestive of additive/synergistic adverse cardiovascular health effects by environmental stressors that typically co-occur in large cities and urban/industrial settings, with a significant contribution to the disease burden and health care costs that may even exceed the most pessimistic scenarios.
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Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology, Volume 316, October 2023
Environmental pollution has negative health effects and biomonitoring is necessary to identify the regions, local sources, and temporal distribution of air pollution. The aim of this study was the estimation of cell viability, oxidative stress, DNA damage, cell cycle alterations and activation of histone H2A.X. Evidence is shown that γH2A.X may serve as a marker for monitoring the risk of air pollutant exposure.
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SLAS Discovery, Volume 27, April 2022
The data presented in this study indicate air pollution (AP) induces an epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition-like phenotype of BEAS-2B cells in 3D spheroid cultures. This opens new avenues for drug development for the treatment of lung diseases induced by AP. The 3D spheroid cell culture is a novel, innovative and physiologically relevant model for culturing a variety of cells. It is a versatile tool for both high-throughput studies and for identifying molecular mechanisms involved in bronchial epithelial cell (patho)physiology.
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Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Volume 139, March 2023
In the context of applying machine learning to solve problems for risk prediction, disease detection, and treatment evaluation, EHR pose many challenges– they do not have a consistent, standardized format across institutions particularly in US, can contain human errors and introduce collection biases. In addition, some institutions or geographic regions do not have access to the technology or financial resources necessary to implement EHR, thus resulting in vulnerable and disadvantaged communities not being electronically visible.
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Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Volume 138, February 2023
Evaluating the bias and fairness of ML models has drawn much attention in the machine learning and statistics community. Researchers have proposed methods to assess and mitigate the bias for various applications that could adversely affect underrepresented groups, like recidivism prediction, credit risk prediction, and income prediction.
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International Journal of Medical Informatics, Volume 171, March 2023
Digital health programs are urgently needed to accelerate the adoption of Artificial Intelligence and Clinical Decision Support Systems (AI-CDSS) in clinical settings. However, such programs are still lacking for undergraduate medical students, and new approaches are required to prepare them for the arrival of new and unknown technologies.
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American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Volume 228, May 2023
Efforts to reduce maternal mortality have historically overemphasized clinical approaches while failing to listen to mothers and pregnant people, threatening patient autonomy, and contributing to persistent racial disparities and high levels of preventable maternal mortality.
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Desalination, Volume 571, 1 February 2024
The concept of a seawater hub signifies a substantial stride toward sustainable and environmentally conscious seawater desalination solutions. It holds the potential to transform seawater treatment and ensure a consistent freshwater supply for communities globally.
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Journal of Healthcare Quality Research, Volume 39, March 2024
The present study aims to identify key healthcare quality attributes from primary care professionals' (PCPs’) perspective, to validate an instrument that measures PCPs’ experiences of healthcare quality multidimensionally and to define hospital quality priorities based on PCPs’ experiences.
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Neoplasia (United States), Volume 37, March 2023
There are undeniable historic and contemporary hardships faced by Indigenous Peoples regarding access to medical treatments, research opportunities, clinical trial participation, and careers. The goal of the PNOC/CBTN DEI working group is to bring such inequities to our pediatric neuro-oncology community and beyond and start to develop and collaborate towards solutions.
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The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia, Volume 23, April 2024
This Comment supports SGDs 3 and 10 by discussing how the use of cashless payment systems in India can help to promote equitable access to health care and improve patient experiences, and well as examining some barriers to adoption.
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Lancet Regional Health - Americas, Volume 21, May 2023
This Viewpoint supports SDGs 3 and 10 by examining, in view of the potential termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme in the USA, the implications for government funding of health care for immigrant populations such as undocumented migrants, and the importance of ensuring equitable access to health care for all population groups.
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eClinicalMedicine, Volume 63, September 2023
This Article supports SDGs 3 and 10 by showing, across a range of indicators, that in the north of England, primary health care delivered in prisons is generally worse than that delivered in the community. There have been some areas of improvement and some areas of worsening, but overall there is substantial scope for improvement.
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Mitochondrion, Volume 51, March 2020
Mitochondria regulates the Cell Danger Response (CDR) by monitoring and responding to the physical, chemical, and microbial conditions within and around the cell. In this way, mitochondria connect cellular health to environmental health. This Perspective discusses the links between mitochondria and health in the context of negative human activities and highlights a call for a new constitutional amendment to invest each citizen with a new right: the right to be born and live in an environment that does not cause chronic disease. Readers can learn more at http://naviauxlab.ucsd.edu/the-28th-amendment-project/.
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Healthcare, Volume 12, March 2024
Large language models (LLMs) are positioned to become another destination for those seeking medical information. Consequently, the readability of these materials becomes an important factor in ensuring their effectiveness in promoting health literacy, given that the average American reads at the eighth-grade level. Supports SDGs 3 and 10.
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Neuroscience, Volume 525, 10 August 2023
The article emphasizes the importance of providing training and supporting resources alongside open science initiatives to enhance accessibility and reduce barriers in the field. It suggests that these educational resources should be customized to cater to diverse user profiles, including neuroscientists, computational scientists, and educators.
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International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, Volume 257, April 2024
The article emphasizes the importance of providing training and supporting resources alongside open science initiatives to enhance accessibility and reduce barriers in the field. It suggests that these educational resources should be customized to cater to diverse user profiles, including neuroscientists, computational scientists, and educators.
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International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, Volume 235, June 2021
The identified thematic gaps in Kenyan school books, particularly regarding sanitation, hygiene, and menstrual hygiene education, align with global WASH priorities and require urgent attention, especially in light of COVID-19. Addressing disconnects between educational content, WASH interventions, policies, and implementation highlights the necessity for improved integration to foster sustainable behavior change, emphasizing the importance of leveraging local educational materials and knowledge to engage teachers and school managers effectively and enhance WASH practices in schools. [low-income country and hotspot school]
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International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, Volume 239, January 2022
Access to hygiene services is a pressing challenge, particularly in low-income countries, and has become even more critical during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program monitors global access to hygiene services, there's a need for alternative measures of inequality, such as a ternary diagram, to provide more accurate interpretations of the data, revealing spatial disparities and informing evidence-based public policies. [hotspot on urban/rural population in LMIC]
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Cancer Letters, Volume 586, 1 April 2024
Cancer disproportionately impacts Black patients in incidence and mortality. Accordingly, optimal anticancer pharmacotherapy is critical to improving outcomes in this population, however, Black patients are less likely to receive anticancer pharmacotherapy.
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Measurement: Sensors, Volume 32, April 2024, 101056
In support of SDG 3, the authors present a student mental health support system, based on artificial intelligence and big data analysis. The system designed through the research aims to provide a personalized mental health support and guidance resource for students, who face increasing psychological pressure in today's society. The system also provides effective mental health monitoring and support tools for ongoing mental health promotion activities in educational settings.
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Desalination, Volume 569, 1 January 2024
Augmentation approaches warrant further consideration as part of water agencies' regional water supply portfolios. Although the ocean water augmentation approaches discussed in this paper are based on a case study in California, the approach can be applied to similar scenarios around the world.
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Hygiene and Environmental Health Advances, Volume 6, June 2023
This systematic literature review on on-site sanitation fecal sludge management practices directly informs Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6) by identifying best practices for safe sanitation, reducing pollution, and protecting water resources.
