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Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology 2018

13 Global Health for the Paediatric Endocrinologist

How does paediatric endocrinology and diabetes fit in the global initiatives?

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13.1 Supporting Global Health at the Pediatric Department Level: Why and How

MB Pitt , MA Moore , CC John , M Batra , SM Butteris , GE Airewele , PS Suchdev , MC Steinhoff , on behalf of the American Board of Pediatrics Global Health Task Force

To read the full abstract: Pediatrics 2017; 139(6)This article provides guidelines for leaders in academic institutions in high-income countries who wish to develop a global health stream in their department. We should not forget that over the last 25 years, major changes in our world have decreased the distances between nations. Pediatric residents who train in high income countries are increas...

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13.2 Worldwide burden of cancer attributable to disease and high body-mass index: a comparative risk assessment

J Pearson-Stuttard , B Zhou , V Kontis , J Bentham , MJ Gunter , M Ezzati

To read the full abstract: Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol 2018; 6(2):95-104As non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are reaching epidemic levels, emerging data elucidate the devastating non-metabolic long-term risks of overweight, obesity and diabetes. Using published relative risk analysis and cancer incidence estimates from the GLOBOCAN project, the authors provide a thorough risk analysis of si...

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13.4 Effects of the Informed Health Choices podcast on the ability of parents of primary school children in Uganda to assess claims about treatment effects: a randomised controlled trial

D Semakula , A Nsangi , AD Oxman , M Oxman , A Austvoll-Dahlgren , S Rosenbaum , A Morelli , C Glenton , S Lewin , M Kaseje , I Chalmers , A Fretheim , DT Kristoffersen , NK Sewenkambo

To read the full abstract: Lancet 2017; 390(10092): 389-398[Comment on 13.3 & 13.4] Access to quality medical care is often difficult in resource-limited settings and depends upon the collaboration of key stakeholder groups, including global/regional health policymakers, national governments and health system managers, the pharmaceutical industry and trained clinicians and health work...

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13.7 Delivering modern, high-quality, affordable pathology and laboratory medicine to low-income and middle-income countries: a call to action

S Horton , R Sullivan , J Flanigan , KA Fleming , MA Kuti , LM Looi , SA Pai , M Lawler

To read the full abstract: Lancet 2018; 391(10133):1953-1964[Comment on 13.5, 13.6 & 13.7] Published just a week before the World Health Organization put out their first Essential Diagnostics List (http://www.who.int/medical_devices/diagnostics/WHO_EDL_2018.pdf), this series of 3 papers highlights the previo...