We read with great enthusiasm Alarcos Cieza and colleagues’1Cieza A Causey K Kamenov Hanson SW Chatterji S Vos T Global estimates of the need for rehabilitation based on Burden Disease study 2019: a systematic analysis Study 2019.Lancet. 2020; 396: 2006-2017Summary Full Text PDF Scopus (57) Google Scholar data from Diseases, Injuries, Risk Factors (GBD) 2019 to estimate that 2·41 billion people...

Abstract Background Imbalances in the distribution of health as well global interconnectedness led to consideration a public good. Health is placed therefor at center goal-based movement for sustainability by United Nations (UN). System Strengthening (HSS) an approach align and harmonize all stakeholders sustainable planning health. Methods Frameworks published nation states, multilateral insti...

There has been slow progress with finding practical solutions to health systems corruption, a topic that has long languished in policy-makers “too difficult tray.” Efforts to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) provide a new imperative for addressing the long-standing problem of corruption in health systems making fighting corruption at all levels and in all its for...

Faced with the challenges of healthcare reform, skills and new capabilities are needed to support the reform and it is of crucial importance in Africa where shortages affects the health system resilience. Edwards et al provides a good example of the challenge of implementing a mentoring program in one province in a sub-Saharan country. From this example, various aspects of strengthening the cap...

medical toxicology is somehow a neglected field of medicine. support for this discipline is necessary as there are many competing interests within a nation's public health priorities (1). in the previous issue of the asia pacific journal of medical toxicology, the essentials of the empowerment of medical toxicology in the asia pacific region have been discussed (2). perhaps, there is now an urg...