Tag: Department of Population and International Health

  • Science & Tech

    Smoking and solid-fuel-burning in homes in China projected to cause millions of deaths

    If current levels of smoking and biomass and coal fuel use in homes continues, between 2003 and 2033 there will be an estimated 65 million deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and 18 million deaths from lung cancer in China, accounting for 19% and 5% of all deaths in that country during this period.…

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  • Science & Tech

    SPH professor finds Taliban inmates dying, in need of care

    Jennifer Leaning is a professor in the Harvard School of Public Health’s Department of Population and International Health. She is also one of Physicians for Human Rights’ founders. In January 2002, Leaning traveled to Afghanistan to investigate the conditions under which Taliban prisoners were being held. While the investigators found no evidence that the prisoner…

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  • Health

    New vaccines could balance global burden of disease

    The scientific community believes that diseases that have long plagued the world can be controlled by vaccination. But vaccines won’t work unless they reach the people who need them most — and that means mostly people in poor countries. In two articles in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Harvard School of Public Health…

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  • Science & Tech

    Examining differing reproductive desires in Gambia

    For men in rural Gambia, more than 15 kids are desirable. That’s double the number of children that women are actually delivering. The number may seem high to people in the West, but in rural Gambia fertility for both men and women represents more than simple family size. Allan Hill, a researcher at the Harvard…

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