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Commentary on "Social protection and the International Monetary Fund: promise versus performance" by Alexander Kentikelenis and Thomas Stubbs.
Global Health
January 2025
Department of Global Health Hans Rosling Center, University of Washington, 3980 15th Ave NE, Seattle, Seattle, WA, 98105, USA.
Background: The Covid pandemic and its aftermath have triggered new alarm and social unrest across the Global South over the deepening international debt crisis that now threatens to derail Universal Health Coverage (UHC), other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), future pandemic preparedness, and global warming mitigation. The recent Globalization and Health article by Alex Kentikelenis and Thomas Stubbs (May 2024), "Social protection and the International Monetary Fund: promise versus performance", offers a meticulously quantified rendering of the social costs imposed by the crisis and takes aim at IMF solutions. They advocate for a rejection of IMF austerity programs and offer a valuable prescription for change through the International Labor Organization's "Universal Social Protection" concept.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPolitics and implications on the health systems preparedness to COVID-19 pandemic response: The Malawian experience.
J Public Health Afr
December 2023
Department of Health Systems and Policy, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Malawi.
The spread of the COVID-19 disease to Africa has raised concerns around the resultant effects on the fragile and non-resilient health systems. Malawi reported its first COVID-19 cases in early April 2020 at the time of the country's political turmoil, as the courts ruled for a re-run of presidential elections in July 2020 due to irregularities observed in the May 2019 elections. Therefore, assessing the implications of politics on the COVID-19 health systems preparedness is critical to design health systems strengthening efforts during the pandemic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA Global Perspective on Socioeconomic Determinants of Cardiovascular Health.
Can J Cardiol
January 2025
Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Electronic address:
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality in the world. From 2005 to 2008, the World Health Organization (WHO) planned an initiative to reduce the mortality rate of CVD by 2030 by addressing health, finance, transport, education, and agriculture in these communities. Plans were underway by many countries to meet the goals of the WHO initiative.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCOVID-19 has complicated grieving experiences. Rich qualitative description of these experiences is lacking. We interviewed 10 bereaved relatives (mainly daughters) 2-3 times each: shortly after their relative died in the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic, and after 12 and 18 months (29 interviews in total).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA Cable-Driven Portable Fitness Chair with Programmable Resistance for Effective Muscle Training.
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc
July 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the lifestyle of society and the interest in health and fitness has greatly increased, accordingly. Recently, motorized devices that allow fine and automatic adjustment of resistance without physically changing the applied weight have been released to the market. In fact, these devices have eased the resistance-changing process.
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