Ship-mediated Marine Bioinvasions: Need for a Comprehensive Global Action Plan

Hawaiian Marine Bioinvasions: A Preliminary Assessment1

Through the Hawaii Biological Survey at Bishop Museum, a count of the total numbers of species in the Hawaiian Archipelago has been accumulated, with the latest listing (1999) totalling 23,150, of which 5047 are nonindigenous species (Eldredge 2000). For the nonindigenous marine and estuarine species, we have been accumulating information from the literature, museum specimens, and through field...

Chronic kidney disease: need for a national action plan.

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a devastating disease with clinical, economic and ethical dimensions and is emerging as a major public health problem globally. The renal replacement therapy (RRT), the mainstay of the management of CKD is beyond the reach of a large number of CKD patients in many developing countries, including India. With incidence of end stage renal disease (ESRD) showing an a...

Comprehensive mental health action plan 2013-2020.

Twenty years ago, a book was published entitled World mental health: problems and priorities in low-income countries (1). A few years later in 2001, the World Health Organization (WHO) devoted its World Health Report to Mental health: new understanding, new hope (2), and the Institute of Medicine in the United States of America brought out Neurological, psychiatric, and developmental disorders:...

Need for global action for cancer control.

When the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) [1] were being developed, priority was given to the problems of the poorest billion people in the world. In terms of health, this was translated into a set of targets of indicators in health that give visibility to maternal and child health, (under) nutrition, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), malaria, and tuberculosis, and a vague catch-all...

The World Health Organization Global Action Plan for antimicrobial resistance.