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Rehabilitation Is a Global Health Priority [PDF]
American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, 2020 Abstract Optimizing functioning at all ages is a major global public health goal. Rehabilitation is unique in its contribution to this public health agenda because of its focus on optimizing function. In this editorial, the editors of leading rehabilitation journals make the case for fully integrating rehabilitation into a nation’s ...
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Global Public Health Surveillance using Media Reports: Redesigning GPHIN [PDF]
, 2020 Global public health surveillance relies on reporting structures and transmission of trustworthy health reports. But in practice, these processes may not always be fast enough, or are hindered by procedural, technical, or political barriers. GPHIN, the Global Public Health Intelligence Network, was designed in the late 1990s to scour mainstream news ...
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Globalization and health [PDF]
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2007 Globalization has captured the imagination of politicians and policy-makers alike, and has become the most widely used label to make sense of the profound economic, political and social changes taking place in today’s world. Publication of this book is to be welcomed because it provides a very wide-ranging survey of many of the most important trends ...
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If global health is local health, then where is the south in “global health”?
Annals of Global Health, 2014 Background: “Global health” is an emerging concept that continues to be redefined, but much of that process is not adequately including voices from the south. This has repercussions on programs and global policies, creating a pattern of northern hegemony in research and practice.
E. Dumit +5 more
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Vaccines and global health [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2011 Vaccines have made a major contribution to global health in recent decades but they could do much more. In November 2011, a Royal Society discussion meeting, ‘New vaccines for global health’, was held in London to discuss the past contribution of vaccines to global health and to consider what more could be expected in the future.
Greenwood, B, Salisbury, D, Hill, A
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Temporal Mental Health Dynamics on Social Media [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 We describe a set of experiments for building a temporal mental health dynamics system. We utilise a pre-existing methodology for distant-supervision of mental health data mining from social media platforms and deploy the system during the global COVID-19 pandemic as a case study.
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Global Health Action, 2010 Global 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. Most global health centres are in high-income countries although several have strong links with low- and middleincome countries.
Ruth Bonita, Robert Beaglehole
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Understanding and Mitigating Mental Health Misinformation on Video Sharing Platforms [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Despite the ever-strong demand for mental health care globally, access to traditional mental health services remains severely limited expensive, and stifled by stigma and systemic barriers. Thus, over the last few years, young people are increasingly turning to content on video-sharing platforms (VSPs) like TikTok and YouTube to help them navigate ...
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Global health science leverages established collaboration network to fight COVID-19 [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 How has the science system reacted to the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic? Here we compare the (growing) international network for coronavirus research with the broader international health science network. Our findings show that, before the outbreak, coronavirus research realized a relatively small and rather peculiar niche within the global ...
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Global health and global justice [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2014 Most people are concerned about international health inequalities and find them unjust. At the same time, we lack global institutions that can effectively act to reduce these health inequalities, which have various sources. Accordingly, the concern about health inequalities does not by itself support some one of the competing theories of global justice.
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