There are lessons for other African countries in how Ethiopia built its health emergency response teams.
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Ten-year NHS transformation hinges on funding and staff support.
More private hospitals will face similar financial troubles and some will be forced to close. Here’s what this means for patients, the public system and the budget.
When people with lived experience contribute to the design and delivery of health care and research, it means services are used more and fairer outcomes achieved.
Australians are waiting longer and longer for their first psychiatry appointment, especially outside major cities.
Implementing health reforms is complex – unpredictable forces make the outcomes difficult to control or foresee.
The Palestinian enclave faces an interconnected series of crises that will amplify the human costs of conflict even when the bombing ends.
It’s all too common for health professionals and departments to slip into silo mentalities.
Argentinians will vote in a new president on Oct. 22, 2023. But the front-runner’s plans to slash health funding might find resistance.
Further research is needed in order to quantify the costs of extreme heat so we can reduce its damaging effects now and in the future.
Primary health care systems must become more resilient as the effects of climate change worsen.
The vulnerability of migrants was highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic when restrictions affected people’s ability to travel to access treatment.
COVID-19 and responses to the pandemic have increased our attention on how individuals and systems cope with stress-inducing shocks.
The HealthcareLCA database is an interactive tool for exploring health care’s significant environmental impact. It can inform changes in health policy and practice, and identify areas for research.
Here’s what needs to happen next for our health systems to cope with the latest COVID wave.
Since the war broke out, some healthcare workers have lost their jobs, others have been displaced, wounded, threatened or killed.
To attain a new health order, African governments need to bolster investment in research and development, innovation and manufacturing of health tools.
The challenges presented by the pandemic are an opportunity for African health systems to move beyond their current limitations.
More cases of long COVID can put strain on our health system. So we need to think about where and how we offer care.
Budgets on their own don’t solve structural issues. But they do provide some insight into government plans for addressing its broader developmental priorities.
Top contributors
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Professor of Health Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Distinguished Professor, Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Stellenbosch University
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Health Policy and Health Economics researcher and a Honorary Researcher at the Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent
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Adjunct Faculty, Department of Surgery (Neurosurgery), Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University
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Senior Technical Adviser, Tony BIair Institute; Honorary Senior Public Health Adviser to the Director Africa CDC and Associate Fellow, Global Health Programme, Chatham House
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Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow, Centre for Social Impact Swinburne, Swinburne University of Technology
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Emeritus Professor, School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape
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Associate Professor in Public Health and Social Justice, University of Canterbury
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Extraordinary Professor, Global Health, Stellenbosch University
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Associate Lecturer in Climate Change and Health, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow, Stellenbosch University
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Senior Researcher, University of Cape Town
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Adjunct Clinical Professor, Monash University
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Professor in Global Health Infection and Immunity. and co-Director of the Global Health Academy, University of Edinburgh
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Associate Professor of Strategy & IB, University of Bath
