Lancet Commission on Global Surgery - A Public Health Initiative

Surgery and global health: a Lancet Commission.

Delivery of surgical care—defi ned here as surgery, anaesthesia, nursing, and work by allied health pro fessionals, including managers—plays a fundamental part in prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and palliation of a broad range of medical disorders (fi gure), and is a crucial component of a properly functioning health-care system and a prerequisite for universal health coverage. Today, an esti...

The Lancet Commission on pollution and health.

Philip J Landrigan, Richard Fuller, Nereus J R Acosta, Olusoji Adeyi, Robert Arnold, Niladri (Nil) Basu, Abdoulaye Bibi Baldé, Roberto Bertollini, Stephan Bose-O’Reilly, Jo Ivey Boufford, Patrick N Breysse, Thomas Chiles, Chulabhorn Mahidol, Awa M Coll-Seck, Maureen L Cropper, Julius Fobil, Valentin Fuster, Michael Greenstone, Andy Haines, David Hanrahan, David Hunter, Mukesh Khare, Alan Krupni...

The Lancet-University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for Health, in collaboration with the Harvard Global Health Institute.

Managing the health effects of climate change: Lancet and University College London Institute for Global Health Commission.

www.thelancet.com Vol 373 May 16, 2009 1693 Anthony Costello, Mustafa Abbas, Adriana Allen, Sarah Ball, Sarah Bell, Richard Bellamy, Sharon Friel, Nora Groce, Anne Johnson, Maria Kett, Maria Lee, Caren Levy, Mark Maslin, David McCoy, Bill McGuire, Hugh Montgomery, David Napier, Christina Pagel, Jinesh Patel, Jose Antonio Puppim de Oliveira, Nanneke Redclift, Hannah Rees, Daniel Rogger, Joanne S...

The WPA-Lancet Psychiatry Commission on the Future of Psychiatry.

Department of Health Services and Population Research (Prof D Bhugra CBE), Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Science (S Smith FRCPsych, T Exworthy FRCPsych), and Service User Research Enterprise (Prof D Rose PhD), Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (Prof T Wykes DBE), King’s College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK; World Psychiat...