Partnership between public health and the police – needed more than ever

Replication: Needed Now More Than Ever.

[Generalists are needed more than ever].

15 If today you want to keep up with basic and clin‐ ical research, you need to concentrate on a very small field and reach tremendous depths in this very field. And, actually, life is too short to also accumulate the knowledge necessary to do mean‐ ingful scientific work even on closely related top‐ ics. Hence, specialization is inevitable not only in research; it was a prerequisite for the de...

Health care reform in the United States: radical surgery needed now more than ever.

It is often claimed that American health care provides good medical care, but the system through which that care is financed is falling apart. In 1994, Joseph A. Califano, Jr., former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare reported that the American health care system was in such turmoil, that it needed radical surgery. Health care in the United States is different from other countries. Hea...

Life Expectancy Changes for Each Subway Station: Taking Social Determinants of Health Seriously More Than Ever

Life Expectancy Changes for Each Subway Station: Taking Social Determinants of Health Seriously More Than Ever Reza Esmaeili 1* 1Assistance Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, School of Medicine, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Iran Abstract Nowadays, health inequalities are emerging at short geographic distances, even ...

An Urgent Call for the Renaissance of the World Health Organization: Needed Now More than Ever Before

The World Health Organization (WHO) remains the most authoritative actor in global health in the world's history. However, its roles and prestige have reduced over time, and the trend, though dangerous to global health, might not change if practical and radical changes are not put in place. The deficiencies to properly contain and manage the recent Ebola and Zika virus epidemics are fresh and g...