Health for all? Dream on!

Health for all? Dream on!

The dream of health information for all

In 2004, an influential report in The Lancet suggested that open health information for all could be achieved by 2015. Unfortunately, this goal has not yet been accomplished. Despite progress in obtaining quality scientific articles in Latin America, it remains difficult to reliably access new and cutting-edge research. As graduating Peruvian medical students, we have confronted many obstacles ...

Happiness for All : Living the Dream ?

Sukhov went off to sleep, and he was completely content. Fate had been kind in many ways that day; he hadn’t been put in the cells, the gang had not been sent to the Socialist Community Center, he’d fiddled himself an extra bowl of porridge for dinner. . . . The day had gone by without a single cloud— almost a happy day. There were three thousand six hundred and fiftythree days like that in his...

Gold Medal for Finnish Health in All Policies Book

This article is a review of the book “Health in All Policies: Seizing opportunities, implementing policies” edited by Kimmo Leppo, Eeva Ollila, Sebastián Peña, Matthias Wismar, and Sarah Cook. This book (printed and online publication) was published by the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland in 2013 (1). The book is freely available at http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pd...

Safe anaesthesia for all Indians: A distant dream?

© 2017 Indian Journal of Anaesthesia | Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Surgery is performed to save lives and improve the quality of life of patients. However, unsafe surgical care can lead to significant harm. The crude mortality rate after major surgery varies from 0.5% to 5%.[1] In the European Surgical Outcomes Study, an international, 7-day cohort study, 1855 out of the 46,539 adult pa...