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India's Diseases Ranked

India's Call for Action on Noncommunicable Diseases

by Allison Krugman

Noncommunicable diseases cause the majority of deaths in India, but public health responses fall short

Governance
A man wearing a protective mask is seen among people at a crowded market amid the spread of COVID-19.

Inside the Global Burden of Disease Study

IHME Director Christopher Murray recounts the study's role in shaping global policy and how collaborators overcame COVID

Women walk past a COVID-19 themed mural on the street.
Gender

How Gender and Sex Shape Disease

by Allison Krugman

New research exposes why health systems should tailor responses to the needs of men and women starting at a young age

A nurse takes care of a newborn baby after the birth at a hospital in Kishanganj district, Bihar, India, March 20, 2023. India's fertility rate, fell to 2.0 in 2019-2021, but state health officials estimate Kishanganj's fertility rate at 4.8 or 4.9, creating population growth that the state is trying to curb with the distribution of condoms and birth control pills. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis
Gender

Global Fertility Rate Continues To Fall: How Governments Could Prepare

by Tara Haelle

The global fertility rate will decline from now through 2100, according to new projections in The Lancet

A man walks in a snow covered park in Sofia, Bulgaria, January 23, 2024. Bulgaria witnessed higher excess mortality rates during the pandemic, according to a new study of global life expectancy.
Aging

Global Life Expectancy Declines for First Time in 30 Years

by Carrie Arnold

Overall life expectancy is struggling, according to a highly anticipated update to the Global Burden of Disease study

Students wear face masks during a health-care action rally dedicated to COVID-19 in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia on February 3, 2020
Governance

Tackling the World’s Most Vexing Diseases Through Data

by Lauren A. Do, Patricia G. Synnott, Siyu Ma, Daniel A. Ollendorf

A call to re-shape the way policymakers make health decisions by getting the most cost-effective priorities straight

A health technician analyses blood samples for tuberculosis testing in a high-tech TB laboratory in Carabayllo, an area in Lima, Peru on May 19, 2016. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo
Poverty

Diabetes and TB—A Complicating Combo

by Kirsten Wiens

Though they are entirely different types of diseases TB and diabetes exacerbate each other in surprising—and costly—ways

An elderly demonstrator poses for the camera as he makes a V-sign during ongoing anti-government protests, in Baghdad, Iraq, December 10, 2019. He has a black-and-white checkered scarf tied on his head and a red and white sash with green accents, around his neck. He has a very long white beard and friendly eyes. REUTERS/Alaa al-MarjaniSELECT
Aging

Age Ain’t Nothing but a Number—Except When it Comes to Health

by Matt Doxey

In some parts of the world, forty is the new seventy

Children play in water pipes at a construction site on the banks of the Yamuna River on July 26, 2010in the northern Indian city of Allahabad. Picture shows several rows of large, concrete sewer pipes stacked on top of each other with their fat openings facing the camera. Each is large enough to fit one child huddled at the opening. About ten children can be seen climbing about on the feature. REUTERS/Jitendra Prakash
Poverty

How to Prevent a Million Children’s Deaths

by Abraham D. Flaxman, Rohina Joshi

Closing gap on child mortality for UN Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 in ten years may take baby steps, not giant leaps