The Lancet Digest July 12-18 2008
This week in The Lancet:
The editorial looks at the prospect of increasing numbers of European patients travelling to receive health care within the EU, and its implications for practice.
A landmark paper on the estimation of the global volume of surgery. Also, see the accompanying comment which links it to the WHO’s safe-surgery initiative and says that ‘the safe-surgery intitative must be integrated into a global strategy for improving surgical care’.
A comment by Rhona and Richard Horton on the Toyako Framework for Action and Global Health prepared for the G8. The commitment to support the Global Polio Eradication Initiative and scale up control of neglected tropical disease is welcomed. But there are concerns about the lack of resources to address the problems of maternal, newborn and child survival and access to water and sanitation.
A comment on the many uses of global health policies as foreign policy strategy, as security, as charity, as investment and as public health.
A world report on the situation in southern Sudan, the difficulties of conducting humanitarian efforts in the region and the threat posed by the proliferation of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Northern Uganda.
(It was reported this morning that Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the special prosecutor for the International Criminal Court will seek an arrest warrant for the President of Sudan, charging him with genocide and other war crimes. International agencies fear this may have a destabilising effect on the peace process in the South, and may cause a backlash against international workers.)
An article on the effect of preventive treatment of malaria on health and education in schoolchildren in western Kenya. The authors founds that intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) for malaria lowers anaemia prevalence in and improves the attention span of schoolchildren in Africa.
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