Jan 13, 2025 · Diverse scientific and healthcare workforces promote advancement in human health, fostering innovation and equitable access to quality care. Yet efforts to enhance diverse perspectives overlook how intersecting identities and contextual factors shape individual experiences and opportunities.

5 days ago · Prompted by the 20th anniversary of the 1993 World Development Report, a Lancet Commission revisited the case for investment in health and developed a new framework to achieve dramatic health gains by 2035.Published in 2013, the report laid out opportunities for national governments and the international community.

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2 days ago · 5 years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 moving to endemicity and new threats such as H5N1 influenza, mpox, and Marburg virus spilling into human populations, the world continues to face ecological, sociotechnical, and infectious disease threats that are rising in urgency and complexity. Yet, from local communities to national governments and global coalitions, there ...

The development of adaptive immunity to SARS-CoV-2 (in the shape of antibody, B, and T cells) is associated with protection against infection and severe disease, regardless of whether this is induced by infection, vaccination, or a combination of both.1 It is also established that immunocompromised people have a greater risk than others of SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe disease2,3 and exhibit ...

Jul 31, 2024 · Post-COVID-19 condition (also known as long COVID) is generally defined as symptoms persisting for 3 months or more after acute COVID-19. Long COVID can affect multiple organ systems and lead to severe and protracted impairment of function as a result of organ damage. The burden of this disease, both on the individual and on health systems and national economies, is high.

May 18, 2024 · In The Lancet, we have published the findings of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021 in a series of six Articles.1–6 GBD began in 1991 and has continued over the past three decades to provide a comprehensive empirical assessment of health around the world.7 With each iteration GBD has become more detailed, including more causes, risks, and locations ...