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Mashup Score: 45Fighting infectious diseases: The connection to climate change - 3 year(s) ago
Four reasons the battle against infectious diseases and pandemics is also about the fight against climate change.
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Mashup Score: 114Hugs and databases: in memory of Hans Rosling - 3 year(s) ago
For millions of us, Swedish Professor and self-described “Edutainer” Hans Rosling opened our eyes to a world we live in, but had never seen before.
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Hans Rosling had a positive impact on the world in many ways. One very lasting one is that he cured the providers of international statistics from what he called DBHD – or “Database Hugging Disorder”. Here is @tkb's brief history of how he did it https://t.co/CNhu9PmSxB
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Mashup Score: 5
Primary health care has been the weakest link in the pandemic response despite its importance in “flattening the curve” through such measures as surveillance, testing and contact tracing, and in keeping hospitals from overflowing with critically ill patients.
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RT @muhammadpate: Primary health care needs to be fit for the post COVID world – how do we do that? https://t.co/3B0gQG6xNg via @WorldBank…
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Mashup Score: 0Catastrophic expenditure for health: from antiquity to today - 4 year(s) ago
Two thousand years ago, the story goes, an itinerant carpenter-prophet in Palestine met a woman who had suffered with a bleeding condition for twelve years. She had gone to see this man because she had already “suffered a great deal…
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Catastrophic expenditure for health: from antiquity to today https://t.co/Um7hNoVEOq
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Mashup Score: 1World Bank and Access Accelerated China Collaboration Promotes Knowledge Sharing About Health Care Reform - 4 year(s) ago
As part of its own health reform process in recent years, China has sought to transition its health care delivery system toward one that is more people-centered, high quality and integrated with other tiers of the country’s overall health network.
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World Bank and Access Accelerated China Collaboration Promotes Knowledge Sharing About Health Care Reform https://t.co/pEWE0gaFSh via @WorldBank
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Mashup Score: 18Strong health care systems are key to deliver COVID-19 vaccines - 4 year(s) ago
During the World Bank’s 2020 Annual Meetings last month, we had our focus firmly on the coronavirus pandemic and how it’s affecting lives and economies around the world.
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RT @muhammadpate: Strong health care systems are key to deliver COVID-19 vaccines https://t.co/9FozwTdyPn via @WorldBank
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Mashup Score: 16
How to Improve Human Capital? The Need for Cost-Effective Education Investments
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How to improve education? @angrist_noam and colleagues summarise their new paper in which they find that some interventions are vastly more cost-effective than others. It’s important that we know which ones these are. https://t.co/EFsaNRQxLi
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Mashup Score: 0Obesity and COVID-19: A renewed call to address a growing crisis - 4 year(s) ago
Being obese, defined as having a body mass index of over 30, increases the risk of premature death by almost 50%. It also doubles the risk of hospitalization from COVID-19 and could reduce the effectiveness of a COVID-19 vaccine.
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"The study [...] found that obesity increases the risk of death from the virus by 48%, the risk of hospitalization by 113%, and of needing intensive care by 74%" New blog via @WorldBank '#Obesity and #COVID19: A renewed call to address a growing crisis'. https://t.co/Uj0BpGN9oq
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Mashup Score: 70New child and youth mortality estimates show dramatic reductions, but progress is threatened by impact of COVID-19 - 4 year(s) ago
There have been dramatic reductions in child and youth mortality over the last 30 years. Globally, under-five mortality has dropped by 59% since 1990— from 93 deaths per 1,000 live births then to 38 deaths in 2019.
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The new child mortality data is out. It remains one of the largest global problems, but the world continued to make rapid progress against child deaths. The share of children who died before the age of 5 declined to 3.77% last year. From 9.3% in 1990. → https://t.co/2JVtgk3U2Q https://t.co/v6237RCwSv
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Mashup Score: 7Taxes on tobacco, alcohol, and sugar-sweetened beverages reduce health risks and expand fiscal space for Universal Health Coverage post-COVID 19 - 4 year(s) ago
Tobacco use, alcohol abuse, and consumption of unhealthy foods (such as sugar sweetened beverages) are three leading risk factors for the development of these chronic health conditions.
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Taxes on tobacco, alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages reduce #health risks and expand fiscal space for #Health4All post-COVID19. These effective policies remain underutilized. https://t.co/aElyqvJte6 https://t.co/oBy9YQY9Bv
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And it’s all connected. As our environment changes, so do patterns of infectious diseases: How rainfalls change, how animals & insects behave/move & ultimately how we live and come into contact with new & known infections. https://t.co/KwDiC56vcm https://t.co/fRvBb1Loyd