Roma health is global ill health

How much global ill health is attributable to environmental factors?

Over the years, estimates have been made of the portions of human mortality and morbidity that can be attributed to environmental factors. Frustratingly, however, even for a single category of disease such as cancer, these estimates have often varied widely. Here we attempt to explain why such efforts have come to such different results in the past and to provide guidance for doing such estimat...

Is global health really global?

It accompanies a set of papers which were also presented at the conference. So far, these papers describe a range of global health issues, from the health status of the United Arab Emirates (1) through to social determinants of health in India (2). Two papers from Rwanda (3) and India (4) consider specific aspects of oral public health, which was a major sub-theme of the conference. An evolutio...

What is global health?

lobal health' is coming of age, at least as measured by the increasing number of academic centres, especially in North America, which use this title to describe their interests (1). Most global health centres are in high-income countries although several have strong links with low-and middle-income countries. A task force is establishing a mechanism to coordinate European Academic Global Health...

Global health is (local) public health.

Mental Health and Ill-Health

The words "stress" and "strain" in association with ill-health have in the past few years become commonplace, not only in the vocabulary of medical men, but in everyday speech. The man in the street talks of a friend getting ill or having a nervous breakdown under the strain of overwork ; the doctor talks of a stress condition, and includes under this heading a lengthening list of clinical diso...