Nairobi summit opens with call for action for landmine survivors

Call for action: caring for the United States' aging cancer survivors.

The United States is undergoing significant societal shifts that will have profound implications for the professional practice of oncology nurses, including the aging of the nation's baby boomers and an anticipated increase in cancer survivors. Understanding of the confluence of those factors and their impact on survivors' physical and psychological outcomes remains limited. Nurses may be aware...

Childhood injury: call for action.

We aim to raise awareness of the burden of avoidable death and disability attributable to childhood injury in Europe in general and Croatia in particular. As formerly common causes of childhood death have declined, injuries have become the most important single cause of death in childhood in European countries. Yet, there are large differences between countries, and especially between the easte...

The partnership with patients: a call to action for leaders.

On June 16, 2011, leaders of many of our greatest health care membership organizations were assembled inWashington, DC, for the Partnership for Patients kickoff meeting. What was different was that a pleasant woman at the back of the room was quietly brushing strokes onto a beautiful painting that evolved while speakers delivered their messages. No one realized she was a focal point of the meet...

Road safety: A call for action

The Global Burden of Disease study, undertaken by the World Health Organization (WHO), Harvard University and the World Bank, showed that in 1990, traffic crashes were assessed to be the world's ninth most important health problem. The study forecasts that, by the year 2020, road crashes would move up to third place in the table of leading causes of death and disability facing the world communi...

Patient safety: a(nother) call for action.