Executive summary “Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive
in the way it becomes known to the self—to the mediating intellect—as to verge close to …

Globally, more than 5 million people die annually from lack of access to critical treatments for
kidney disease—by 2040, chronic kidney disease is projected to be the fifth leading cause of …

Background Efforts to establish the 2015 baseline and monitor early implementation of the
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) highlight both great potential for and threats to …

As the leading cause of death worldwide, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) present major
challenges for health systems. In this study, we analyzed the effects of better population …

Introduction There is an urgent need for effective action to address the over 10 million
annual deaths attributable to unhealthy diets. Food industry interference with policies aimed …

With increased globalization and modernization of people's lives, lifestyle behavior has
changed substantially in many countries around the world. This change has brought two key …

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how health emergencies can stop sustainable
development in its tracks. This crisis has claimed millions of lives and it has wreaked havoc …

While obesity across rural India has doubled in the last decade, research explaining such an
unprecedented change is sparse. This paper shows that the rise in the incidence of rural …

Executive summary In 2013, the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health published its
report,“Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation”(GH2035). The report …

Abstract Background The World Health Organization has advocated for sugar-sweetened
beverage (SSB) taxes as part of a broader non-communicable disease prevention strategy …