Hospital detention practices: statement of a global taskforce

Global Problem of Hospital Detention Practices

Although an official definition by the World Health Organization (WHO) or any other authority is currently lacking, hospital detention practices (HDP) can be described as: “refusing release of either living patients after medical discharge is clinically indicated or refusing release of bodies of deceased patients if families are unable to pay their hospital bills.” Reports of HDP are very scarc...

Sustainable Development Goals and the Future of Cardiovascular Health: A Statement From the Global Cardiovascular Disease Taskforce

Writing Committee: William A. Zoghbi, MD (Chair); Tony Duncan, MBA (Chair); Elliott Antman, MD; Marcia Barbosa, MD, PhD; Beatriz Champagne, PhD; Deborah Chen, SRN, MPH; Habib Gamra, MD; John G. Harold, MD; Staffan Josephson, PhD; Michel Komajda, MD; Susanne Logstrup, Cand Jur, MBA; Bongani M. Mayosi, MBChB, DPhil; Jeremiah Mwangi, MA; Johanna Ralston, MA, MSc; Ralph L. Sacco, MD, MS; K. H. Sim,...

Moving from political declaration to action on reducing the global burden of cardiovascular diseases: a statement from the Global Cardiovascular Disease Taskforce.

Educational Multimedia Taskforce SCHEMA

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Position statement - hospital mortality rates_briefing_statement_transport

The Faculty of Public Health (FPH) is committed to ensuring that hospital care is safe, effective and provides the highest possible standard of clinical care. The first attempt to categorise hospitals by their mortality rates and make imputations about the quality of care delivered in them based on how many patients die, dates back to the seminal work of Florence Nightingale (best known for dra...