Comment 1138 www. thelancet. com Vol 401 April 8, 2023 companies and other actors with
vested commercial interests deliberately undermine public health policies, including WHO …

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed faults in the way we assess preparedness and
response capacities for public health emergencies. Existing frameworks are limited in scope …

April 7 marks WHO's annual World Health Day, which this year has the theme “Our planet,
our health”. The future health of the planet and human health are inextricably linked. An …

Lifecourse epidemiology is a conceptual model of epidemiological thinking that emerged in
the 1990s and is now a mainstream paradigm in social epidemiology; 1 it focuses on long …

Background The objective of this study is to investigate the trends of exposure and burden
attributable to the four main metabolic risk factors, including high systolic blood pressure …

At the 27th Climate Change Conference of the Parties, António Guterres, the Secretary-
General of the UN, declared that “we are on a highway to climate hell with our foot on the …

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 …

Although strengthening health-care systems is receiving increased attention, strengthening
public health systems and institutions could save far more lives at lower cost. Public health …

Around 2008, I asked demography colleagues:“Surely we could better forecast future
mortality rates if we first forecast future risk factor trends—like smoking rates?” Their answer …

Background Following the economic crisis in Greece in 2010, the country's ongoing austerity
measures include a substantial contraction of health-care expenditure, with reports of …