Health policy implications of corporate social responsibility provisions in international investment agreements
CONCLUSION: This analysis indicates that international investment agreements increasingly incorporate a high level of detail on expectations regarding investors' corporate social responsibility. Such provisions offer a potential tool to increase government guidance and accountability of global corporations, including with respect to governments' public health objectives.PMID:38313154 | PMC:PMC10835630 | DOI:10.2471/BLT.23.290419 (Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization)
Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization - February 5, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Takwa Tissaoui Teresa Davis Helen Trevena Anne Marie Thow Source Type: research

Mirai Chatterjee: community action for women's health equity
Bull World Health Organ. 2024 Feb 1;102(2):92-93. doi: 10.2471/BLT.24.030224.ABSTRACTMirai Chatterjee talks to Fid Thompson about overcoming inequity and tackling the social determinants of health impacting female informal sector workers through collective action.PMID:38313155 | PMC:PMC10835632 | DOI:10.2471/BLT.24.030224 (Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization)
Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization - February 5, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Developing an agenda for the decolonization of global health
We present a three-part agenda for action that can be taken to decolonize global health. The first part relates to the power asymmetries that exist between global health actors from high-income and historically privileged countries and their counterparts in low-income and marginalized settings. The second part concerns the colonization of the structures and systems of global health governance itself. The third part addresses how colonialism occurs through the global health system. Addressing all forms of colonialism calls for a political and economic anticolonialism as well as social decolonization aimed at ensuring greate...
Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization - February 5, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David McCoy Anuj Kapilashrami Ramya Kumar Emma Rhule Rajat Khosla Source Type: research

Climate risks in urban areas
Bull World Health Organ. 2024 Feb 1;102(2):90-91. doi: 10.2471/BLT.24.020224.ABSTRACTEngaging with communities in informal settlements presents opportunities to mitigate the health impacts of climate change, but government investment is also needed. Gary Humphreys reports.PMID:38313157 | PMC:PMC10835636 | DOI:10.2471/BLT.24.020224 (Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization)
Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization - February 5, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

How economic implications of gender gaps in employment affect global health equity
Bull World Health Organ. 2024 Feb 1;102(2):87-87A. doi: 10.2471/BLT.23.291271.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38313143 | PMC:PMC10835639 | DOI:10.2471/BLT.23.291271 (Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization)
Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization - February 5, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Michelle McIsaac Felicia Marie Knaul Source Type: research

Research needed on urban Indigenous health inequalities
Bull World Health Organ. 2024 Feb 1;102(2):146-148. doi: 10.2471/BLT.23.290868. Epub 2023 Dec 29.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38313144 | PMC:PMC10835635 | DOI:10.2471/BLT.23.290868 (Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization)
Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization - February 5, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Abdullah A Mamun Edmund Wedam Kanmiki Stuart Leske Janet Stajic James Ward Source Type: research

Tracking migration and health inequities
Bull World Health Organ. 2024 Feb 1;102(2):143-145. doi: 10.2471/BLT.23.290776. Epub 2023 Dec 14.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38313145 | PMC:PMC10835634 | DOI:10.2471/BLT.23.290776 (Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization)
Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization - February 5, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Elisa Mosler Vidal Kolitha Prabash Wickramage Source Type: research

Health workforce data needed to minimize inequities associated with health-worker migration
Bull World Health Organ. 2024 Feb 1;102(2):117-122. doi: 10.2471/BLT.23.290028. Epub 2023 Nov 21.ABSTRACTA persistent challenge with health-worker migration is the inequities it creates. To minimize these inequities, systems of global governance of health-worker migration have arisen which include various global codes of practice, agreements and reporting requirements. Reporting that is rigorous, open and transparent, and subject to scrutiny from the public, researchers, civil society organizations and other interested stakeholders, is important. One element of these codes and agreements with perhaps the greatest potential...
Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization - February 5, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Margaret Walton-Roberts Ivy L Bourgeault Source Type: research

Forum shifting in global health security
Bull World Health Organ. 2024 Feb 1;102(2):123-129. doi: 10.2471/BLT.23.290480. Epub 2023 Oct 31.ABSTRACTGlobal health security is an increasingly complex regime. The failures of global governance and norms of cooperation during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the re-entrenchment to nationalist policy-making have created impetus for new governance arrangements, institutions and policy development. These changes include amendments to the International health regulations (IHR), development of a pandemic convention or accord, convening of the High-Level Meeting on Pandemic Preparedness and Response, estab...
Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization - February 5, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Clare Wenham Source Type: research

Global health inequities: more challenges, some solutions
Bull World Health Organ. 2024 Feb 1;102(2):86-86A. doi: 10.2471/BLT.24.291326.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38313148 | PMC:PMC10835631 | DOI:10.2471/BLT.24.291326 (Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization)
Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization - February 5, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Viroj Tangcharoensathien Angkana Lekagul Yik-Ying Teo Source Type: research

Public health round-up
Bull World Health Organ. 2024 Feb 1;102(2):88-89. doi: 10.2471/BLT.24.010224.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38313149 | PMC:PMC10835637 | DOI:10.2471/BLT.24.010224 (Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization)
Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization - February 5, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Self-care interventions and universal health coverage
Bull World Health Organ. 2024 Feb 1;102(2):140-142. doi: 10.2471/BLT.23.290927. Epub 2023 Dec 8.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38313150 | PMC:PMC10835638 | DOI:10.2471/BLT.23.290927 (Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization)
Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization - February 5, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Manjulaa Narasimhan Priya Karna Olumuyiwa Ojo Dhammika Perera Kate Gilmore Source Type: research

A composite index; socioeconomic deprivation and coverage of reproductive and maternal health interventions
CONCLUSION: The findings highlight persistent disparities in the coverage of reproductive and maternal health interventions, requiring efforts to reduce those disparities and improve coverage, particularly for skilled attendant at delivery.PMID:38313151 | PMC:PMC10835641 | DOI:10.2471/BLT.23.290866 (Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization)
Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization - February 5, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Leonardo Z Ferreira Fernando C Wehrmeister Jakob Dirksen Luis Paulo Vidaletti Monica Pinilla-Roncancio Katherine Kirkby Luiza Ic Ricardo Aluisio Jd Barros Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor Source Type: research

Evaluating global health initiatives to improve health equity
Bull World Health Organ. 2024 Feb 1;102(2):137-139. doi: 10.2471/BLT.23.290531. Epub 2023 Oct 31.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38313152 | PMC:PMC10835640 | DOI:10.2471/BLT.23.290531 (Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization)
Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization - February 5, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Shams El Arifeen John Grove Peter M Hansen James R Hargreaves Hope L Johnson Mira Johri Esther Saville Source Type: research

Health policy implications of corporate social responsibility provisions in international investment agreements
CONCLUSION: This analysis indicates that international investment agreements increasingly incorporate a high level of detail on expectations regarding investors' corporate social responsibility. Such provisions offer a potential tool to increase government guidance and accountability of global corporations, including with respect to governments' public health objectives.PMID:38313154 | PMC:PMC10835630 | DOI:10.2471/BLT.23.290419 (Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization)
Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization - February 5, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Takwa Tissaoui Teresa Davis Helen Trevena Anne Marie Thow Source Type: research