Impressive improvements have occurred in global health status in the past century.
Unfortunately, these improvements have not been shared equally and health in equalities …

Summary Background As Indonesia moves to provide health coverage for all citizens,
understanding patterns of morbidity and mortality is important to allocate resources and …

Although astounding improvements have been made to human wellbeing over the past 40
years—increased lifespan, reduced under-5 mortality, maternal deaths, and extreme …

With less than 5 months until the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention
on Climate Change is held in Paris, France, the world has a unique but fast-closing window …

The world is off track to achieve the health-related targets of the Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs) by 2015. 1 Maternal mortality has stagnated for two decades, 2 child mortality …

Goal 3 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aims to “ensure healthy lives and
promote well-being for all at all ages” by 2030. 1 The goal includes targets related to …

Background A comprehensive understanding of temporal trends in the disease burden in
Australia is lacking, and these trends are required to inform health service planning and …

With 193 member states to serve, the UN system can hardly be simple. Witness the 17
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which, after more than 2 years of negotiations, the …

People are living longer, but with more disease and disability: an unprecedented transition
from a world with communicable diseases to one with chronic disease and disability, with …

Background 18% of the world's population lives in India, and many states of India have
populations similar to those of large countries. Action to effectively improve population …