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Artificial intelligence in public health
Panteli, Dimitra; Adib, Keyrellous; Buttigieg, Stefan; Goiana-da-Silva, Francisco; Ladewig, Katharina; Azzopardi-Muscat, Natasha; Figueras, JosepFunding Information: We thank the European Public Health Conference convened by WHO's Regional Office for Europe and the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. We thank Lorena Boix Alonso and Marco Marsella (European Commission's Directorate General for Health) for their insights and support. Publisher Copyright: © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under...
Global age-sex-specific all-cause mortality and life expectancy estimates for 2...
Schumacher, Austin E.; Zheng, Peng; Barber, Ryan M.; A, Bhoomadevi; Aalipour, Mohammad Amin; Aalruz, Hasan; Ababneh, Hazim S.; Abaraogu, Ukachukwu O.Publisher Copyright: © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.; Comprehensive, comparable, and timely estimates of demographic metrics—including life expectancy and age-specific mortality—are essential for evaluating, understanding, and addressing trends in population health. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of timely and all-cau...
Preparing for the ‘next pandemic’
Correia, Tiago; Ricciardi, Walter; McKee, MartinPublisher Copyright: © 2024 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.; The COVID-19 pandemic revealed major failings in many countries. We argue that one of the reasons, at global, national, and local levels, was that those involved were working in silos, unable to bring together the many diverse perspectives needed to respond to this complex problem. This is despite a growing recognition of the importance of adopting a Health Fo...
Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived with Disability, a...
Kocarnik, Jonathan M.; Compton, Kelly; Dean, Frances E.; Fu, Weijia; Gaw, Brian L.; Harvey, James D.; Henrikson, Hannah Jacqueline; Lu, DanFunding: Dr Conde acknowledges financial support from the European Research Council ERC Starting Grant agreement No 848325. Dr Costa acknowledges her grant (SFRH/ BHD/110001/2015), received by Portuguese national funds through Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, IP under the Norma Transitória grant DL57/2016/CP1334/CT0006. Funding Information: Dr Conde acknowledges financial support from the European Research...
Understanding public procurement within the health sector
García-Altés, Anna; McKee, Martin; Siciliani, Luigi; Barros, Pedro Pita; Lehtonen, Lasse; Rogers, Heather; Kringos, Dionne; Zaletel, JelkaEvery year, over 250,000 public authorities in the European Union (EU) spend about 14% of GDP on the purchase of services, works and supplies. Many are in the health sector, a sector in which public authorities are the main buyers in many countries. When these purchases exceed threshold values, EU public procurement rules apply. Public procurement is increasingly being promoted as a tool for improving efficienc...
Resilience testing of health systems
Rogers, Heather L; Barros, Pedro P.; De Maeseneer, Jan; Lehtonen, Lasse; Lionis, Christos; McKee, Martin; Siciliani, Luigi; Stahl, DorotheaThe resilience of health systems has received considerable attention as of late, yet little is known about what a resilience test might look like. We develop a resilience test concept and methodology. We describe key components of a toolkit and a 5-phased approach to implementation of resilience testing that can be adapted to individual health systems. We develop a methodology for a test that is balanced in ter...