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The most effective population-wide approach to preventive mental health care is nuanced and tailored to the needs of diverse communities.

Cases of depression and anxiety continue to skyrocket, as it is becoming clear that the pandemic will leave a legacy of poor mental health.

Caribbean youth have set their governments an agenda for change in a region hobbled by inadequate mental health services.

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The growing phenomenon of climate anxiety, how it presents itself, and who is affected by it.

The unfettered world of social media can have a negative impact on mental health. Improving education can have a protective effect.

Mental health conditions remain untreated in large parts of Africa. Community-led initiatives are bridging the gap by training lay...

The growing economic burden of diabetes globally, and its particular impact on emerging markets, has highlighted the importance of...

Air pollution is an invisible threat to human health as well as the planet—and not only because of its connection with respiratory...

With every day comes new evidence of the devastation caused by climate change, and paralleling this rise is the rapid escalation of the...

Obesity is one of the most urgent global health challenges of the 21st century. Prevalence rates have reached pandemic proportions,...

Better prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) could avert millions of years of lost productivity. Increasing risk factors cause...

As COVID-19 pandemic-priorities escalated, care of non-communicable diseases got pushed aside, particularly in less well off countries....

Already strained healthcare systems further burdened by the Covid-19 pandemic are struggling to pay sufficient attention to NCDs, the...

Before the pandemic crisis, women’s lives were already heavily affected by non-communicable diseases (NCDs), as women constitute the...

Populations in more than one in three low-income countries are hit by a double burden of malnutrition in the form of both obesity and...

The number of people living in cities is projected to rise from 55 % to 68 % of the world’s population by 2050, according to the United...