'Blue marble health' is a recent concept that recognizes a paradoxical disease burden among poor people living in G20 and other wealthier countries. Socioeconomic disparities caused by income…
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Medicine & Health Blue Marble Health: the mismatch between national wealth and population healthView Collection
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Medicine & Health Maternal Health Task Force Year 3: Integrating Health Care to Meet the Needs of the Mother-Infant PairView Collection
The theme of the Year 3 Collection was chosen with the aim of strengthening the evidence for approaches to providing integrated care, from preconception; through pregnancy, childbirth and the…
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Medicine & Health Proceedings of Medicine XView Collection
The Stanford Medicine X program is a leading patient-centered conference on emerging technology and medicine. With aims to catalyze new ideas about the future of medicine and health care, the…
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Biology & Life Sciences Prokaryotic Genome CollectionView Collection
The Prokaryotic Genome Collection aims to present and highlight a number of important articles that describe whole genome sequence and/or comparative genomics of important prokaryotic organisms. We…
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Research Analysis & Policy Improving the Lives of Adults and Families: Identifying Individual and Systems-level Factors Relating Education, Health, Civic Engagement, and Economic Well-beingView Collection
This Collection builds upon the OECD’s Survey of Adult Skills to extend the evidence-base on the relationship of education and skills to public health for adults and their families…
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Medicine & Health Grand Convergence: Aligning Technologies & Realities in Global HealthView Collection
In this PLOS Collection, global health leaders chart the path to a dramatic reduction in the global burden of disease by 2035. This ambitious convergence in global health will require strategic…
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Medicine & Health 40 Years of the APOC PartnershipView Collection
In 1974 the Onchocerciasis Control Program (OCP) began its mission to control river blindness (onchocerciasis) in Africa, transitioning into the African Program for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC) in…
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Medicine & Health TDR Reflects on 40 YearsView Collection
In 1974, the 27th session of the World Health Assembly called for the "intensification of activities in tropical disease research" and the "strengthening of research and training…
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Medicine & Health World Health Report 2012: No Health Without ResearchView Collection
In 2011, PLOS Medicine in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) on the theme of “No Health Without Research", intended to coincide with the release of the 2012 World…
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Medicine & Health Investigating the Impact of Treatment on New HIV InfectionsView Collection
The HIV Modelling Consortium aims to strengthen the support that mathematical modelling and related quantitative disciplines can provide to global decision-making in HIV. In November 2011 the HIV…