To Save Humanity: What Matters Most for a Healthy FutureJulio Frenk, Steven J. Hoffman "The UN was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell." --Dag Hammarskj ld, United Nations Secretary-General 1953-1961 The turn of the 21st century was an objective low point in the history of human health: AIDS was scourging Africa, millions of women died each year in child birth, and billions suffered under malnourishment and poverty. In response, the United Nations launched its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), an ambitious charter that since 2000 has measurably reduced the worldwide burdens of poverty, hunger, and disease. With the MDGs set to expire in 2015, continued progress on these fronts is anything but certain. In addition to the persisting threats of the 20th century, globalization has sped the development of new threats--pandemics, climate change, chronic disease--that now threaten rich and poor countries equally. "To Save Humanity" is a collection of short, honest essays on what single issue matters most for the future of global health. Authored by the world's leading voices from science, politics, and social advocacy, this collection is both a primer on the major issues of our time and a potential blueprint for post-2015 health and development. This unparalleled collection will provide illuminating and thought-provoking reading for anyone invested in our collective future and well-being. |
Contents
1 Harnessing Womens Agency | 1 |
2 Democratizing International Development | 5 |
3 Systems Thinking | 9 |
4 Leadership for Health Equity | 13 |
5 Why Universal Health Coverage? | 17 |
6 Governance and Leadership for Health | 21 |
7 Prioritizing Vulnerable Populations | 25 |
8 The New Health Journalism | 29 |
51 Technology and Health Care in Africa | 183 |
52 Love Is the Cure | 187 |
53 MultiSectoral Investments for Health | 191 |
54 Secondary Schooling for Girls | 195 |
55 Getting Health Delivery Right | 197 |
56 Closing the Pain Divide | 201 |
57 Equity in Child Survival | 205 |
58 EvidenceInformed Health Systems | 209 |
9 VaccinesAccelerating Access for All | 33 |
10 Improving Health by Addressing Poverty | 37 |
11 Biosocial Education for All | 39 |
12 City Leadership on Climate Change | 43 |
13 Health Is Not Alone | 47 |
14 Education First | 51 |
15 Pandemics OneTwoThree Punch | 55 |
16 Equality is the Future | 59 |
17 Prioritizing Health in Politics | 63 |
18 Committing to Unbridled Collaboration | 67 |
19 A New Philanthropy | 71 |
20 Climates Big Health Warning | 75 |
21 Tackling Obesity and Overweight | 79 |
22 Preventing Premature Deaths | 81 |
23 HIV Treatment a Moral Duty | 85 |
24 The Power of Science | 89 |
25 Whose Life Is It? | 93 |
26 Security for Our Shared Home | 97 |
27 The Drugs Dont Work | 99 |
28 Vision 2020and Beyond | 103 |
29 Achieving Social Equity | 107 |
30 HealthCare Financing and Social Justice | 109 |
31 A Global CDC and FDA | 113 |
32 A Universal Flu Vaccine | 117 |
33 Accountability Is One Big Idea | 119 |
34 The Power of Knowledge | 121 |
35 Better Information Will Save Lives | 125 |
36 Communicable Before Noncommunicable Diseases | 127 |
37 HumanCentered Design | 131 |
38 A Data Revolution in Health | 135 |
39 NonDrug Interventions Also Work | 139 |
40 Investing in Health Outcomes | 143 |
41 Imagining Global Health with Justice | 145 |
42 Putting People First | 149 |
43 The Big Health Data Future | 153 |
44 Standing Up to Big Tobacco | 157 |
45 Safe Food and Medical Products | 161 |
46 Climate Change Is Here | 165 |
47 A Convenient DefenseDefining Affordability | 169 |
48 A Science of Global Strategy | 173 |
49 Time for Renewal | 177 |
50 Reliable Unbiased Reproducible Evidence | 179 |
59 Ignorance about Causes of Death | 213 |
60 Five Pillars of Wisdom | 217 |
61 Keeping the Promise to Children | 221 |
62 Embracing Community Innovation | 225 |
63 Fairness and Health Equity | 229 |
64 Medicines Must Be Safer | 233 |
65 From Hegemony to Partnership | 237 |
66 Health in the Global Economy | 241 |
67 Disability and a Healthy Society | 245 |
68 Fusion Fund for Health | 247 |
69 Health and Not Health Care | 251 |
70 Diet for a Healthy Future | 253 |
71 Global Social Protection in Health | 257 |
72 Inequities in Adolescent Health | 261 |
73 Sharing Financial Responsibilities | 263 |
74 Were All in This Together | 267 |
75 No Health without Rights | 271 |
76 No Magic Bullet | 275 |
77 The Health Impact Fund | 277 |
78 ValueBased HealthCare Delivery | 281 |
79 Acknowledging Ignorance | 283 |
80 Universal IdeasLocal Institutions | 285 |
81 From Pulse to Planet | 287 |
82 A War on Tuberculosis | 291 |
83 Universal Health Coverage | 295 |
84 Regulating Antimicrobials | 297 |
85 Who Will Lead? | 301 |
86 The Rwandan Consensus | 305 |
87 Ending Preventable Child Death | 309 |
88 Transformative Leadership | 313 |
89 Global Health Citizenship | 317 |
90 Harmonizing Health | 321 |
91 Public Health 20 | 325 |
92 Tax Reform | 329 |
93 Investing in a Grand Convergence | 333 |
94 Health in a Multipolar World | 337 |
95 Midwives Save Womens Lives | 341 |
96 Smart Data | 345 |
Books Recommended by Contributors | 349 |
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