Around one-third of the world

The objective of this study was to investigate the poorly understood relationship between the process of urbanization and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) through the application of a quantitative measure of urbanicity.

International climate policy has been set back by the failure to achieve a strong and legally binding agreement at the United Nations

A growing body of scientific evidence strongly suggests that climate change has enormous and diverse effects on
human health. Rises in temperature and sea level & extreme weather events such as floods cause water logging & contamination, which in turn exacerbate diarrhoeal diseases.

Counting the world

The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), which affect the very poor, pose a major public health problem in the South-East Asia Region of the World Health Organization (WHO). Although more than a dozen NTDs affect the region, over the past five years four of them in particular

The objective was to study dengue vector breeding patterns under a variety of conditions in public and private spaces; to explore the ecological, biological and social (eco-bio-social) factors involved in vector breeding and viral transmission, and to define the main implications for vector control.

Poor sanitation helps spread disease, yet efforts to provide subsidized toilets have been resisted for cultural reasons in many developing countries. To improve the rate of uptake, some people are now advocating a market-based approach.

A trial of a new oral cholera vaccine in Kolkata is promising but, as Patralekha Chatterjee reports, a vaccine is only one weapon
in the battle against the disease.

The United Nations Secretary General