California aims to direct global health

Federal panel aims to improve health care.

Innovative Use of the Law to Address Complex Global Health Problems; Comment on “The Legal Strength of International Health Instruments - What It Brings to Global Health Governance?”

Addressing the increasingly globalised determinants of many important problems affecting human health is a complex task requiring collective action. We suggest that part of the solution to addressing intractable global health issues indeed lies with the role of new legal instruments in the form of globally binding treaties, as described in the recent article of Nikogosian and Kickbusch. However...

Advice on maternal nutrition aims to cut health inequalities.

49 p49 UPDATE informs you of changes in clinical practice. This week: maternal nutrition p52 sysTEms of lifE offers information on anatomy. This week: overview of the lymphatic system p54 gUiDED lEArNiNg includes online CPD. This week: coping with disfigurement p56 DEVEloPmENT shows how nurses are developing practice. This week: consistent epilepsy care p58 rEsEArCH presents research papers. Th...

University of Global Health Equity’s Contribution to the Reduction of Education and Health Services Rationing

The inadequate supply of health workers and demand-side barriers due to clinical practice that heeds too little attention to cultural context are serious obstacles to achieving universal health coverage and the fulfillment of the human rights to health, especially for the poor and vulnerable living in remote rural areas. A number of strategies have been deployed to increase both the supply of h...

The Legal Strength of International Health Instruments - What It Brings to Global Health Governance?

Public health instruments have been under constant development and renewal for decades. International legal instruments, with their binding character and strength, have a special place in this development. The start of the 21st century saw, in particular, the birth of the first World Health Organization (WHO)-era health treaties – the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) and i...