Tag: Global Health

  • Campus & Community

    Benefits of clean fuel in Africa would be enormous

    A study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), finds that promoting cleaner, more efficient technologies for producing charcoal in Africa can save millions of lives and have significant climate change and development benefits. The findings appear in the April 1 issue of the journal Science.…

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  • Campus & Community

    HSPH examines government role in health disparities

    Health officials from Mexico, Sweden, England, and the United States compared notes on health reforms March 4 at a symposium designed to illuminate the role of government in addressing health disparities. The event was the first in a series of three symposia this spring that will examine the issue of health disparities and government. Harvard…

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  • Health

    WHO report reviews world mental health care

    Since the mid-1970s, World Health Organization policies have encouraged integrating mental health services into primary care settings. But no one knows what, if anything, might be working to help those who are suffering, says the author of a report reviewing mental health services — or rather, the lack of them — in developing countries. Alex…

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