OBJECTIVES Assess the longitudinal association between polypharmacy and falls and examine the differences in this association by different thresholds for polypharmacy definitions in a nationally representative sample of adults aged over 60 years from England. DESIGN Longitudinal cohort study. SETTING The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing waves 6 and 7. PARTICIPANTS 5213 adults aged 60 ...

After 6 years of conflict, the war in Syria is currently the largest humanitarian and refugee crisis. Over 250 000 Syrians have been killed, millions are displaced or living in besieged areas, and 5 million have become refugees. In his first statement on becoming the UN Secretary General, António Guterres seemed to have this situation in mind in his plea for peace: “How can we help the millions...

BACKGROUND Patients' satisfaction with provided healthcare services is one of the factors to measure the overall quality of the delivered health care. Main objective of our study was to determine the common predictors associated with patients 'satisfaction in three Balkan countries. METHODS We conducted web based survey among population in Macedonia, Serbia and Bulgaria using paid campaign ov...

Addressing high rates of unwanted pregnancy Nobody working in reproductive health doubts that the UK has a problem – or rather, several problems. We have the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Western Europe, with levels twice those of Germany, three times those of France and six times those of Holland.1 In real terms, this translates into 90 000 conceptions a year to teenagers in the UK, of who...

The already inadequate health systems of Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa, have been badly damaged by the migration of their health professionals. There are 57 countries with a critical shortage of healthcare workers, a deficit of 2.4 million doctors and nurses. Africa has 2.3 healthcare workers per 1000 population, compared with the Americas, which have 24.8 healthcare workers per 1000 po...

PURPOSE OF THE REVIEW This review was performed to create a repository of information on One Health research and training in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). The review sought to determine 1) how many training activities there are in ANZ, 2) how much research on zoonotic diseases is undertaken by multidisciplinary teams, and 3) how collaborative and integrated they are. RECENT FINDINGS There ...