Environment

Pollution kills nine
million people each year and sickens many more, mostly in poorer nations. The global health effects
of climate change are not well quantified today and are likely to increase in the future, with lower-income
countries again bearing the brunt of greater food insecurity, increased rates of chronic respiratory
illnesses, and shifts in vector-borne diseases. This section explores the global health nexus between climate
change and pollution and the possibilities for a more coherent policy approach to these issues.
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Data in Global Health

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45 percent

Chinese factories supply 70 percent of active ingredients for India’s generic drug manufacturers, which supply the world

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$19 per $1

$19 return for economic growth and health for every $1 invested in the Global Fund

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2006

The year alcohol use in Russia peaked was 2006, after which it fell as the government tightened alcohol policies

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What to do About Type 2

by Katherine Leach-Kemon - February 4, 2020

Aging, obesity, and poor diet are driving the diabetes epidemic worldwide—and so is air pollution

How to Save the Lives of Women and Girls in Africa

by Edinah Masiyiwa

African governments must follow through on their lofty declarations and allocate national budgets to save women’s lives

Human Development is the Best Contraceptive—Why India Does Not Need a Two-Child Norm

by Poonam Muttreja

Key to harnessing potential of India is enhancing capabilities of young people and expanding freedoms of girls and women

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The New Republic

The Plague Years

by Robert F. Service

Universities across the country remain closed; access to labs is restricted, projects mothballed, fieldwork interrupted, and travel severely curtailed

Science

‘The disruption is enormous.’ Coronavirus epidemic snarls science worldwide

by Maryn McKenna

How a rise in nationalist politics is causing countries to turn inward, harden borders, distrust outsiders, and may be jeopardizing the world's health

Foreign Affairsc

The Epidemic of Despair / Will America’s Mortality Crisis Spread to the Rest of the World?

by Anne Case and Angus Deaton

Since the mid-1990s, the U.S. has been suffering from an epidemic of “deaths of despair”—caused by drug overdose, alcoholic liver disease, or suicide

New York Times

Sugary Drink Consumption Plunges in Chile After New Food Law

by Andrew Jacobs

Four years after Chile embraced the world’s most sweeping measures to combat mounting obesity, a partial verdict on their effectiveness is in…