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Commentary
Future Earth is an international research platform providing the knowledge and support to accelerate our transformations to a sustainable world. Future Earth 2025 Vision identified eight key focal challenges, ...
Public Health Reviews 2016 37:25
Published on: 16 November 2016
Commentary
Food production is a major driver of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission and other environmental footprints, and dietary risk factors are contributors to non-communicable diseases. A growing body of evidence has sho...
Public Health Reviews 2016 37:23
Published on: 11 November 2016
Commentary
Agriculture is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, an important part of which is associated to deforestation and indirect land use change. Appropriate and coherent food policies can play an import...
Public Health Reviews 2016 37:24
Published on: 11 November 2016
Commentary
The world is undergoing a massive urban transition, which is now both the greatest driver of global environmental change and the most significant influence on human health. Cities offer real opportunities for ...
Public Health Reviews 2016 37:22
Published on: 28 October 2016
Commentary
Global changes are major determinants for infectious diseases, although attributable, part of climate change remains debatable. Vector-borne diseases are prone to be impacted by global warming, although other ...
Public Health Reviews 2016 37:21
Published on: 27 October 2016
Review
Population aging and the associated changes in demographic structures and healthcare needs is a key challenge across Europe. Healthy aging strategies focus on ensuring the ability to maintain health, quality o...
Public Health Reviews 2016 37:20
Published on: 26 October 2016
Review
International organizations have defined and managed different aspects of migrant health issues for decades, yet we lack a systematic understanding of how they reach decisions and what they do on the ground. T...
Public Health Reviews 2016 37:19
Published on: 20 October 2016
Commentary
There are four key messages from health for climate negotiations. Two positive ones include (i) health as a motivator for action and policy and (ii) huge health co-benefits to be included in the cost-benefit t...
Public Health Reviews 2016 37:18
Published on: 19 October 2016
Commentary
Lessons learned, opportunities, and barriers to scaling up health adaptation were identified from evaluation reports and other materials from three multinational health adaptation projects covering 14 low- and...
Public Health Reviews 2016 37:17
Published on: 10 October 2016
Review
The right to health of migrant populations, whether they are foreign nationals, foreign workers, tourists, asylum seekers or refugees, is enshrined in international human rights treaties. The effectiveness of ...
Public Health Reviews 2016 37:15
Published on: 6 October 2016
Commentary
Malnutrition remains a leading cause of death in children in low- and middle-income countries; this will be aggravated by climate change. Annually, 6.9 million deaths of children under 5 were attributable dire...
Public Health Reviews 2016 37:16
Published on: 6 October 2016
Letter to Editor
The report of the Rockefeller Foundation/Lancet Commission on Planetary Health described how human health directly depends upon the environment. It takes a broad perspective not only acknowledging climate chan...
Public Health Reviews 2016 37:14
Published on: 4 October 2016
Review
Using a modified social ecological model, we conducted a review of the literature and nationwide statistics on African American health. We discuss the main social determinants of health and main health dispari...
Public Health Reviews 2016 37:12
Published on: 3 October 2016
Commentary
Ethnic density (the proportion of ethnic minority populations in a geographic area) has emerged as an important factor determining population health. By examining the relationship between mortality rates and t...
Public Health Reviews 2016 37:11
Published on: 3 October 2016
Review
Undocumented migrants (UMs) are at higher risk for health problems because of their irregular status and the consequences of economic and social marginalization. Moreover, the emergent reality of undocumented ...
Public Health Reviews 2016 37:13
Published on: 3 October 2016
Review
Studies have shown that a high proportion of refugees have been subjected to potentially traumatic experiences (PTEs). PTEs, including torture, are powerful predictors of mental ill health. This paper reports ...
Public Health Reviews 2016 37:10
Published on: 9 September 2016
Case study
This article probes into the health of migrants with a focus on the situation in the Nordic universal welfare states. The Nordic welfare states are further compared to each other with a comparison to the EU28 ...
Public Health Reviews 2016 37:9
Published on: 26 August 2016
Letter to the Editor
Wellcome exists to improve health for everyone by helping great ideas to thrive. We are a global charitable foundation, both politically and financially independent. We support scientists and researchers take ...
Public Health Reviews 2016 37:8
Published on: 24 August 2016
Review
Public health professionals have a responsibility to protect and promote the right to health amongst populations, especially vulnerable and disenfranchised groups, such as people seeking asylum and whose healt...
Public Health Reviews 2016 37:6
Published on: 22 August 2016
Commentary
The concept of frailty as a health dimension in old age is recent and has its origin in the development of geriatric medicine. Initially an unformulated clinical intuition, it is now defined by a diminished ph...
Public Health Reviews 2016 37:7
Published on: 22 August 2016
Review
In France in 2012, of the total population of 65.2 million, 8.7 % were migrants. After being the third principal host country, France is now the 6th highest host country in the OECD. Since the 1980's numerous ...
Public Health Reviews 2016 37:5
Published on: 3 August 2016
Review
Germany has experienced different forms of immigration for many decades. At the end of and after the Second World War, refugees, displaced persons and German resettlers constituted the largest immigrant group....
Public Health Reviews 2016 37:4
Published on: 30 July 2016
Review
Immigrant and refugee populations bring public health challenges to host nations. In the current global refugee crisis, children are the most vulnerable subpopulation. Diseases that were considered rare in the...
Public Health Reviews 2016 37:3
Published on: 22 July 2016
Review
In the Canadian context, the persistence and growth of Aboriginal health and social inequity signals that we are at a critical public health policy juncture; current policy reflects an historic relationship be...
Public Health Reviews 2016 37:2
Published on: 20 July 2016
Editorial
The European response to the refugee crisis has been lamentable. A preoccupation with numbers has, too often, ignored how each refugee is an individual, many of whom have experienced the most appalling conditi...
Public Health Reviews 2016 37:1
Published on: 8 July 2016
