Des promesses technologiques pour la santé mondiale ?
Med in Switzerland #10 avril 2018
Medicus Mundi Suisse De par le monde, la médecine de précision est envisagée comme une stratégie prometteuse, qui non seulement améliore les traitements, mais permet également de mieux cibler la prévention. Ces augures tiendront-ils leur promesse? Une réflexion critique sur cette thématique de Thomas Vogel, président du Réseau Medicus Mundi Suisse. (Photo: Being human in a digital world/Gerd Leonhard/flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0)
Why are poverty and NCDs linked so closely?
The Lancet Taskforce on NCDs and economics
The Lancet Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) disproportionately affect people with weak economic status and often drive them into financial disaster. The Lancet Taskforce on NCDs points out how poverty and financial and social inequality promote the emergence of noncommunicable diseases and, conversely, noncommunicable diseases drive people to ruin and affect the economic development of whole states. Necessary progress in nine of the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals could reduce premature mortality from NCDs by a third by 2030 according to the Lancet Taskforce. (Photo: Engineering for Change/flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0)