Development operations in mental health delivery systems. An urgent need.

[Cultural Competence in health: an urgent need for health workers].

efectivas para el logro de la competencia cultural. a PhD. b Enfermero, Mg.(C). c Enfermera, Magíster en Psicología de la Salud.

Female condoms, an urgent need.

Genetic discrimination and health insurance: an urgent need for reform.

The accelerated pace of gene discovery and molecular medicine portend a future in which information about a plethora of disease genes can be readily obtained. As at-risk populations are identified, research can be done to determine effective prevention and treatment strategies that will lower the personal, social and perhaps the financial costs of disease in the future. We all carry genes that ...

Accelerating the development of a group A Streptococcus vaccine: an urgent public health need

Group A Streptococcus (GAS) infections cause substantial worldwide morbidity and mortality, mostly associated with suppurative complications such as pharyngitis, impetigo, and non-suppurative immune syndromes such as acute rheumatic fever, rheumatic heart disease, and acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis. Deaths occur mostly in children, adolescents, and young adults in particular pregna...

We Need to Talk About Corruption in Health Systems

The health sector consistently appears prominently in surveys of perceived corruption, with considerable evidence that this has serious adverse consequences for patients. Yet this issue is far from prominent in the international health policy discourse. We identify five reasons why the health policy community has been reluctant to talk about it. These are the problem of defining corruption, the...