[IBPnetworkGlobalConnect] 🎉 It's live: the investment case for pleasure-based sexual health

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Dear pleasure champions,

Our new research, The Investment Case for Pleasure-Based Sexual Health, is officially published in BMJ Global Health.

Read it here: https://gh.bmj.com/content/11/8/e024479

Read the One Pager here: https://thepleasureproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/PleasurePays-2.pdf

Headline finding: making sexual health services pleasure-inclusive for young people returns $23 for every $1 invested, across 99 countries. Full details, plus everything you need to help spread the word — captions, hashtags, visuals for you to use, the works — are in our media pack: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FSrXz5XO1qYiZX9NoExBvvc51nCpmT-H?usp=drive_link 

We'd love it if you shared it with your communities and whomever you think needs to read it; this is exactly the kind of moment we built this toolkit for. Instructions inside!

Thank you for being part of this movement with us, reach out to me at any time if you have questions.

Warmly,

Elena and The Pleasure Project Team

Elena Ascione (lei/she/her) 

Strategic Communication Lead

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n.b.My source as indicated. When I first read this, I did a double-take, but all good in the end! PJ

WPA/IACAPAP Global Curriculum Survey

Dear Neil et al.,

Would it be possible to recirculate this invitation to complete this ~5minute survey.

We recevied a good response (~200 with 72% expressing interest to join future steps) from the last round but we could have had more representation from Oceana, the Carribean, the Mediteranean, Central Asia, Russia, and perhaps more from any areas as emphasized in line 3 below.

Thank you in advance for your consideration, David
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Dear Colleagues, Families, Relatives, Young Adults, Adults, and Friends!

Anyone affected or who knows someone who is affect by a mental health problem.

We need your help, especially from those living in remote urban or rural areas, or otherwise underserved regions anywhere in this wide world!

HELP US DESIGN A GLOBAL CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH, PSYCHIATRY AND ALLIED PROFESSIONS TRAINING CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK IN SUPPORT OF LOCALLY INTEGRATED COMMUNITY AND FAMILY-CENTERED EDUCATION AND ACTION.

The International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP)

and

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My source: HIFA.

c/o HIFA "Help Shape Global Guidance for Rural & Remote Health"

Guidance on Evidence-Based Healthcare Strategies 
to Serve Rural & Remote Communities

Rural and remote communities are not peripheral — they are central to the fabric of our societies.

Through the Communities of Practice for Remote and Rural Health, in collaboration with Rural Wonca, The National Center for Rural Health Professions, Rural Coordination Centre of British Columbia, and Rural Doctors Network, we have developed a draft Guidance on Evidence-Based Healthcare Strategies to Serve Rural and Remote Communities.

Now, we are inviting the wider TUFH Network to help strengthen it.

This draft Guidance: 

• Brings a rural lens to global health systems 
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• Proposes actionable, adaptable strategies grounded in evidence and expert consensus

Importantly, the paper intentionally shifts away from a deficit narrative toward one that recognizes rural strengths, resilience, and community-driven solutions.

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We are seeking feedback that helps us ensure this Guidance is: 

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Through the consultation survey, we are specifically inviting your reflections on: 

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Why This Matters

Health disparities in rural and remote communities are rarely about incidence alone. They are about access, equity, and systems design.

This Guidance aims to support: 

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• Global partners advancing Universal Health Coverage

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Webinar “From Global to Local: Enhancing the UK Healthcare System with Lessons from CEI in LMICs” 10 February, 3–4PM (GMT)

The NIHR Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) team are pleased to invite you to our fourth webinar in the PPIE/CEI Bidirectional Learning Series “From Global to Local: Enhancing the UK Healthcare System with Lessons from CEI in LMICs”.

Date: 10th February 2026

Time: 3.00–4.00 PM GMT, London UK (Online via zoom)

Join us to explore how Community Engagement and Involvement (CEI) approaches developed in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) are actively shaping health research and service delivery in the UK. This session will demonstrate how global CEI principles —collaboration, equity, and shared learning - can be translated into local action to build trust and create more responsive healthcare systems.

What you will hear about:

- Global to local CEI strategies: Insights into how CEI strategies from LMICs can be used to strengthen community relationships and healthcare practice in the UK. 
- Driving Innovation through Reciprocity: Discover how a "virtuous circle of learning" between global and local systems enriches inclusion and equity. 
- Translate Insight into Action: Practical examples and expert perspectives on turning global health CEI approaches into practical, equitable healthcare solutions within the NHS.

Speakers include: - Farrah Lunat (Research Operations Manager at Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust and Joint Lead Author of the NIHR ROSHNI-2 study) - Professor Nusrat Husain (Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Global Health at the University of Manchester and NIHR Senior Investigator) - Dr. Matthew Harris (Clinical Senior Lecturer in Public Health at Imperial College London and Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine)

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My source: HIFA

WCCS26: Abstract 'Presenting a Universal and Simple Conceptual Workbench to Situate and Encompass Complexity'

ABSTRACT

Background

In health and social care there is, as yet, no universally recognised model, or framework applied and taught across all academia, fields of practice, professional disciplines and apprenticeships. At a time when ‘truth’ is challenged by information disorder, AI, and curricula are overload, this is both a stark and hidden problem. Medicine was quick to embrace complexity as an additional scientific tool. Complexity extends our understanding of epidemiology, demographic trends, the birth of modern bio-genomics, pharmacokinetics, public health, workflows, patient safety and more. The medical and bio-medical models are subject to critique, especially in psychiatry in terms of their conceptual scope and holistic bandwidth. Consider for example, the representation of patient and public engagement, human rights, climate change, poverty, refugees and natural disasters? The field of psychiatry extended these models to the bio-psycho-social model.

Methods

Despite this ‘progress-ion’, profound legacy issues remain: 

• The dualities of INDIVIDUAL-GROUP and HUMANISTIC-MECHANISTIC
• Sustainable services and systems, change to emphasize prevention and education (not just cure)
• A lack of parity of esteem between mental illness and physical illness
• A complicated relationship between psychiatry and psychology

The 21st century demands we also factor in economics, technology, social media - especially AI, education and literacies, geopolitics, security and more. This paper argues that we need a bio-psycho-socio-political model stat! This paper introduces and demonstrate the generic conceptual framework known as Hodges’ model.

To date, Hodges’ model has been explained and studied by guided discovery through lectures, workshops, posters, show and tell, and discussion groups; plus descriptive means of case study, and in practice patient care assessments and case formulation. Journal papers include conceptual analysis and synthesis, concept mapping of issues, e.g. nutrition and the sustainable development goals, plus oral health and policy frameworks (in-process). This paper ‘workbench’ encourages and facilitates reflective practice and critical thinking on an individual and collective basis. The derivation of the structure and content of Hodges’ model through guided discovery will be shared.

Results & Discussion

The background to Hodges’ model and its creation is introduced. In health care delivery, evidence-based interventions are of course paramount to patient, and public safety. Work to ‘see’ Hodges’ model as a mathematical object has begun. Help and collaboration is welcome; especially with supervisors of early career researchers and scholars in LMICs. Examples of complexity will be mapped to the knowledge (care) domains of Hodges’ model, which can itself be embedded within the spiritual. This paper responds directly to WCCS26’s main theme; and the need to listen to the lessons of history and isolate, weigh, refine and seek to preserve the often hard-won values that sustain humanity, humanistic care and qualities at a time when these are under assault, e.g. assisted dying – a right to die, or a duty? A small but growing bibliography, a template, plus illustrations of Hodges’ model are provided. Background on Hodges’ model can be found in the blog ‘Welcome to the QUAD’ - https://hodges-model.blogspot.com

Keywords: Healthcare, Nursing, Hodges’ model, Humanities, Global health

Topic: Complexity in Health and Medicine

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News of acceptance was received on 29th November: brilliant! The deadline for submission of full-papers is 25th December. Try as I might, I can't meet this date. 

Helpfully, a presentation based on abstract alone is acceptable. I am hoping to network and learn too. The draft notes on Hodges'model as a mathematical object (6k words) are helpful in framing thoughts about the presentation and a future paper as a writing project. All in, a marvellous end to 2025 and prospect for 2026.

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NIHR Global Health Research - collecting diversity data

NIHR invites you to help shape their approach to diversity and inclusivity within NIHR Global Health Research (GHR) funding.

NIHR wants to make sure that their approach to collecting diversity data from applicants, award holders, and committee members is effective, appropriate, and reflects the settings where global health research takes place.

Please complete NIHR’s survey on the collection of diversity data in Global Health Research to be part of informing our approach. The value of your insights and your time are greatly appreciated.

Please note: this survey is not about collecting data from research participants (research volunteers or subjects). Please answer the questions thinking about collecting data from those who apply or receive research funding and those who take part in our committees. 

More details & background from survey page:

Diversity data of global health stakeholders

The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion and addressing inequalities. One key theme of our Research Inclusion strategy is to develop an evidence-led approach to our equalities and inclusion work.

One of the most important ways to make progress in this work is to collect diversity data and evidence. Only by collecting and analysing our diversity data can we identify the bias and under representation in our systems, and set priorities for future work. 

Diversity means being reflective of the wider community. Having a diverse community, with people from a broad range of backgrounds represented in all areas and at all levels. Diversity data is data collected directly from individuals that allows them to self describe aspects of their identity. 

Understanding of the concepts of equality, diversity and inclusion may differ between the UK and other countries. We want to improve the way we ask our applicants, award holders, and committee members about their diversity data.

Please note: this survey is not about collecting data from research participants (research volunteers or subjects). Please answer the questions thinking about collecting data from those who apply or receive research funding and those who take part in our committees. [Repeated above PJ].

This is your chance to shape what data we collect about you and how we categorise it.  

Please complete by the 30th April 2025.

A note on language:
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Thomas Beare  He/Him Research Manager, Global Health Research | NIHR Coordinating Centre

 e. thomas.beare AT nihr.ac.uk
 a. National Institute for Health and Care Research
Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre, Alpha House, Enterprise Road, Chilworth, Southampton SO16 7NS

My source: HIFA

C/o FT 'Inside the rise of the mental-health volunteer movement'

INDIVIDUAL

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   INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES              

humanistic ------------------------------- mechanistic

 SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL   

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GROUP

'Amid a surge in demand for psychological support that has been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, Blue is one of many people without formal psychiatric qualifications — including volunteers and health workers — who are stepping in to deliver interventions.' 'Sangath became one of the first projects to run a randomised control trial (RCT) of task-sharing in mental health in 2007. “It’s not a compromise,” said Nadkarni, “it’s an idea backed by solid research evidence.”' [FT]

'Known as task-shifting or task-sharing, the trend has grown across healthcare as services grapple with a stark mismatch between resources and demand. The World Health Organization estimates that there is a global average of 13 mental health workers per 100,000 people, but in low-income countries this can fall to fewer than two. But a number of studies suggest that simple interventions, such as benches where people can sit with a sympathetic listener, can be at least as powerful as expensive clinical approaches, easing the burden on specialist workers.' [FT]

'About us - Sangath: Our vision is a world where every person has access to quality and affordable mental health care. Our signature principles are to leverage community and health system resources to deliver psychosocial interventions for the prevention and care of mental health problems. We address a wide range of mental health concerns across the life course, from cognitive development in childhood to self-harm and depression in youth, to drinking problems, psychoses and dementia in adults.  ... Our name: ‘Sangath’ (सांगात) means togetherness and consensus. It signals our mission – to take an integrated and participatory approach to addressing mental health challenges.'

'Health policymakers are increasingly seeking to replicate projects pioneered in the developing world, a process that has been dubbed “frugal innovation”.' '“Every $1 invested in a service like this gives you about $9 in return — both for the individual and the society combined,” he added.' 'Initiatives such as the Friendship Bench and the Common Elements Treatment Approach devised by Johns Hopkins University, a mental health intervention that can be delivered by trained and supervised lay providers in low and middle-income countries, are collectively reaching millions of people and have proved their worth in multiple studies. But funders still tended to focus on setting up clinical projects rather than bringing about systemic change in resource allocation or medical payment models that would drive widespread adoption.' [FT]

My source:

Sarah Neville, India inspires project saving lives in Texas. FTWeekend, 21-22 December 2024. p.4.
https://ft.com/content/a187719c-ccbb-4af9-8d22-8e70b65098cf

n.b. While these efforts are ongoing, there is a crisis and a crisis of confidence in student mental health nursing as a specialty: 

Beyond the Student Mental Health Crisis: A Collaborative Transatlantic Symposium

Virtual 1200-1830 25th March 2025. (Too expensive for me.)

Comment: Menopause - a global health and wellbeing issue that needs urgent attention

On 'X', I noticed a comment piece from the Lancet:

Menopause: a global health and wellbeing issue that needs urgent attention
Gayathri Delanerolle, Peter Phiri, Sohier Elneil, et al. The Lancet Global Health, Volume 0, Issue 0.
Publication History: Published December 18, 2024 
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(24)00528-X

As usual I searched 'Welcome to the QUAD' [W2tQ] for previous posts tagged 'menopause'. The result '0' was a surprise, as there are several posts re.'menstruation' 

https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/search?q=menstruation

And many tagged 'women':

https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/search?q=women 

And this despite, a partner and family members experiencing the effects and impact of menopause. I was also asked in the summer to sort a list of signs & symptoms for menopause that can be associated with mental health nursing.

Interesting to see reference to the Roy Adaptation Model in the paper:

Klotzbaugh R, Fawcett J. Gender minority persons’ perceptions of peer-led support groups: a Roy Adaptation Model interpretation. ANS Adv Nurs Sci 2023; 46: 59–74.

And to address the global health extent and context of menopause:

'The stigma is such that open dialogue is inhibited in the majority of LMICs and the first-generation migrants from these LMICs to high-income countries (HICs); the paucity of broader understanding and acceptance in society exacerbates the mental and emotional strain of menopause and can lead to social isolation, particularly in these stigmatised contexts.' [my emphasis]

If needed there may be a CPD exercise for student nurses, or those qualified with revalidation pending? Hodges' model (the template) can help in achieving a broader understanding of menopause, and women's health to include menstruation and social attitudes, beliefs and attitudes. The paper does not refer to shame, and self-stigma, which may prevent a person from seeking help? So, there is a reflective exercise in reading the text and mapping the recommendations in the paper:

Panel - Recommendations to improve health outcomes for individuals with menopause 

• Lifestyle modifications 
• Mental health support
• Holistic approaches
• Culturally competent care 
• Personalisation of hormone replacement therapy care 
• Peer support groups or social prescribing 
• Conduct comprehensive research 
• Improve accessibility
• Understanding various risk factors, such as lifestyles, environment, and climate

If anyone has events, journal special issues for 2025 ... I can help publicise, please let me know.

Ack. https://x.com/raj_psyc

See also:

Delanerolle, Gayathri & Forbes, Anna & Cavalini, Heitor & Taylor, Julie & Riach, Kathleen & Hinchliff, Sharron & Atkinson, Carol & Potočnik, Kristina & Briggs, Paula & Kurmi, Om & Talaulikar, Vikram & van Vlymen, Jeremy & Shetty, Ashish & Irfan, Muhammad & Kareem, Rabia & Kemp, Helen & Palo, Subrata & Rathnayake, Nirmala. (2024). An Exploration of the Mental Health Impact Among Menopausal Women: The MARIE Project Protocol (UK arm). American Journal of Biomedical Science & Research. 22. 10.34297/AJBSR.2024.22.002992. 

Paper: "How can we mainstream mental health in research engaging SDGs? -

A theory of change." i

This paper caught my eye on twitter, quite a while ago - the combination of mental health and SDGs:

Madill A, Bhola P, Colucci E, Croucher K, Evans A, et al. (2022) How can we mainstream mental health in research engaging the range of Sustainable Development Goals? A theory of change. PLOS Global Public Health 2(8): e0000837. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000837

"The recently updated WHO Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan 2013–2030 [1] concurs with this vision in that two of its six cross-cutting principles are: (i) a multi-sectoral approach, and (ii) action on social determinants. This acknowledges that “integrating mental health across wider sectors such as education, employment and social welfare helps address social determinants of mental health and ensures a comprehensive and holistic approach” [7 p12]. Shen, Eaton and Snowden [8] investigated mental health mainstreaming in 42 countries in terms of a shift towards providing mental health care from institutional to community settings. They concluded that “different countries have adapted deinstitutionalization in ways to meet idiosyncratic situations and population needs” [7 p313] and that more needs to be done with regard to management and implementation strategies. While the keyword for Shen, Eaton and Snowden [8] is ‘deinstitutionalisation’, for Gómez-Dantés and Frenk [9] it is ‘integration,’ and they provide a dimensional approach with regard to what is involved in mainstreaming mental health: “(i) incorporating mental disorders to the global and local agendas related to NCDs [non-communicable diseases]; ii) moving away both from the biological and sociological reductionisms around mental health prevalent in the past century; iii) addressing the whole range of conditions related to mental health; iv) migrating from the idea that mental diseases have to be treated in secluded clinical spaces; and v) expanding the use of a comprehensive approach in the treatment of these disorders, which includes medication, psychotherapy and other types of therapies” [9 p214]." p.2/23

Selected concepts are related to Hodges' model below. In addition to the 2x2 table below, it may be useful for visitors to consider the paper's figures against the model? There is no doubt an overlap across the care / knowledge domains of Hodges' model, but hopefully the 'holistic bandwidth' of the model and its potential as a generic conceptual framework will also be highlighted. 

Note for example the way mention of 'clinical' tends to attract care (understandably) to clinics, hospitals, institutions, controlled (mechanistic) spaces where resources can be controlled and concentrated. Additionally, to find appropriate concepts, we must appreciate how 'local' is applied not only geographically, regionally, but culturally also - within and across a community, or several.

Hodges' model provides several disciplinary bridges of relevance here:

• psycho-political
• psycho-social
• socio-economic
• socio-political
• bio-social

I will revisit the paper again soon ii.

INDIVIDUAL

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INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES               

HUMANISTIC --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      

SOCIOLOGY  :   POLITICAL 

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GROUP

intra-personal - mental health  (contribution to individual's overall health status) self advocacy qualitative evidence mental health practitioners psychotherapy, counselling individual health literacy/education "Implications for researchers include: recognising the potential of their projects to have psycho-	quantitative evidence time, environment, geography - locale treatment resources (time and physical - space) digital technologies 'clinical' seclusion spaces multiple locally-appropriate concepts 'clinical spaces' seclusion/isolation
-social wellbeing impact"* "collaborating with local communities, researchers, and service providers to effect change." "developing a more inclusive and flexible language around mental health that bridges cultures and disciplines ..." multiple locally-appropriate concepts resources  - social, family, community	LMICs - 'workforce gap' shift from institutionalised to community settings security - conflict advocacy resources $$$ income/welfare/micro-finances/ banking/digital access legislation, policies, strategies and services

*The paper also refers to "psychosocial disabilities".

My source (twitter):

https://twitter.com/PLOSGPH/status/1565066449798205440?s=20

Madill A, Bhola P, Colucci E, Croucher K, Evans A, et al. (2022) How can we mainstream mental health in research engaging the range of Sustainable Development Goals? A theory of change. PLOS Global Public Health 2(8): e0000837. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000837

Global Learning for Health Equity Network: Call for Proposals

Dear Colleagues,

I hope you have been well! I’m reaching out to share that the University of Maryland Baltimore, School of Nursing’s Global Learning for Health Equity Network recently opened a call for proposals that might be of interest to you and your network.

With support from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, we are awarding planning grants to help US communities find inspiration from low and middle income countries around the world for advancing equity in health, housing, education, and more.

Whether your organization already has a country it wants to learn from in mind or it’s just curious to explore global ideas that may advance health equity, this opportunity will provide grantees at any stage of their global learning journey with mentorship, resources and funding.

Potential applicants are invited to submit applications  the deadline is February 8, 2023. 

Would you be open to helping us amplify our call? We would love it if you could forward the link to our CFP to your network.

Let me know if you have any questions.  Want to learn more about global learning……See our webpage for more information. https://www.umaryland.edu/gl4hen/

Thanks so much.

Best regards and greetings of the season,

Yolanda Ogbolu

ogbolu AT umaryland.edu

Global Learning for Health Equity Network

University of Maryland, Baltimore
655 W. Lombard Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

My source: GANM

Universal Health Coverage Day c/o CHIC mailing list

Dear Peter,

Today, we recognize Universal Health Coverage Day and join partners around the world to advocate for #HealthForAll. How will we get there? Professional community health workers (CHWs) who are salaried, skilled, supervised, and supplied.

We have a long way to go. Millions of CHWs - 70% women - are not paid, supported, or supplied. And now, new evidence from the Coalition and collaborators spotlights the severity of stock-outs experienced by CHWs on the frontlines of care: CHWs are out of stock-out nearly ⅓ of the time, and the problem is getting worse.

This #UHCDay, we hope you'll join our #SupplyCHWs campaign to highlight the unacceptable frequency at which CHWs in low- and middle-income countries experience stock-outs and call for solutions to address this widespread issue.

Join the Campaign

In Solidarity,
The Coalition

 

READ: The first ever global estimate of the extent of stock outs among CHWs
SHARE: One-page summary with everything you need to know
ACT: Share the findings on social media and tag decision-makers to take action

Curious about the Coalition's other work? Read our latest update here and sign up to stay in the loop!)

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My access to health care Cognitive / Conceptual My health literacy (and other literacies)	logistics, stock control, 'Just in Time' Systematic Literature Review 'Coverage'?
Universal Health Coverage/Care communities paraprofessionals - lay individuals	Funding, Workforce planning SDGs Professional community health workers (CHWs) who are salaried, skilled, supervised, and supplied.

Olaniran, A., Briggs, J., Pradhan, A. et al. Stock-outs of essential medicines among community health workers (CHWs) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs): a systematic literature review of the extent, reasons, and consequences. Hum Resour Health 20, 58 (2022).
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12960-022-00755-8
https://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12960-022-00755-8

2021/22 Human Development Report: Uncertain Times, Unsettled Lives: Shaping our Future in a Transforming World

On Friday, 9 September 2022 at 00:37:02 BST, Dennis Raphael <draphael@yorku.ca> wrote:

Canada ranked 15^th… UK 18^th…

From: Pophealth <pophealth-bounces AT mailman13.u.washington.edu> On Behalf Of Stephen Bezruchka
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2022 6:21 PM
To: pophealth AT u.washington.edu
Subject: [Pophealth] 2021 Health Olympics & vast US Health decline

Today the UN released its human development report with life expectancy for 2021. You can access it (Table 1) at http://report.hdr.undp.org.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/

I've been using the UN rankings to create the health Olympics since the early 1990s for consistency. The U.S. ranks 44th, down from tied for 36 in 2019.  We are 7.6 years behind the longest lived country, Japan.  If we eradicated our three leading killers (heart disease, cancer, and COVID-19), we would be close to the first in the finish line.  In the UN rankings Thailand is now ahead of us!  And quite a few poorer nations.  

Trying to get action on our not being dead first is challenging.  

Stephen

Stephen Bezruchka MD, MPH
Departments of Health Systems and Population Health & of Global Health
School of Public Health 
Box 357660 
University of Washington 
Seattle, Washington 98195-7660

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My source - Dennis Raphael: draphael AT yorku.ca (with additional image c/o UNDP).

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