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Union Budget (2025-26) and comprehensive primary healthcare system: Another lost opportunity?

BMJ Global Health

Considering the persistent threat of emerging infectious diseases and rising burden of non-communicable diseases, there was an expectation that the aftermath of the pandemic would lead to unmitigated efforts to reimagine PHC in India.

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Weight Loss Drugs arent “the answer”

Sheffield DPH

Given the difficulties that traditional public health approaches have faced in controlling non-communicable diseases (largely difficulties = lack of political will stoked by food industry PR over decades). This is a well documented PR strategy. Medicalises a social issue.

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Looking at Leprosy

Gideon

There are well-documented instances of humans contracting leprosy through contact with armadillos. 2016.09.001 [10] T Tulchinsky, and E Varavikova, “ Communicable Diseases ”, The New Public Health (Third Edition), 2014. It is estimated that only 5-20% of people are susceptible to developing leprosy.[4] 117-121, 2016.

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Proposing a new indicator to assess health disparities: measuring inequalities in causes of death

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

Much is known about the main causes of death and how mortality has been shifting from most deaths around the world being caused by communicable diseases towards most being due to non-communicable causes. Previous research has tried to document how diverse a given cause of death profile is.

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Exclusive: Emails Reveal How Health Departments Struggle To Track Human Cases of Bird Flu

KFF Health News

Several documents reflect a breakdown in communication with a subset of farm owners who don’t want themselves or their employees monitored for signs of bird flu. “We have had multiple dairies refuse a site visit,” wrote the communicable disease program manager in Weld, Colorado, in a July 2 email.

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Bird flu: Emails reveal how health departments struggle to track human cases

HEALTHBEAT

Several documents reflect a breakdown in communication with a subset of farm owners who don’t want themselves or their employees monitored for signs of bird flu. We have had multiple dairies refuse a site visit,” wrote the communicable disease program manager in Weld, Colorado, in a July 2 email.

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Monkeypox Outbreaks in Texas: Are We Ready to Prevent the Next Outbreak?

Gideon

The best way to catch emerging infectious diseases early is to equip frontline clinicians with comprehensive data on all reported infectious diseases , including: a list of symptoms, the ability to compare conditions with similar presentations, and a history of global outbreaks and documented cases, country-specific notes on disease outbreaks.