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To borrow a phrase from American football, Donald Trump is flooding the zone. The NHS is flooding the zone. Even medical journals are flooding the zone. Pity the citizen, health professional, or reader left bewildered by a barrage of executive orders, bureaucratic healthcare edicts, and journal articles. What to do? ➡️ Read the latest Editor's Choice ✍️ Kamran Abbasi Link 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e7dyqb-H

"While strongmen leaders claim to protect women, their agenda undermines the principles required for overcoming systemic oppression and intersecting inequalities." Lynsey Robinson, Sharmila Mhatre, and Kent Buse from Global Health 50/50 look at how the rise of “strongman” leaders globally demands a feminist pushback to fight for social justice https://lnkd.in/ehXXkEjQ

"Some people will ask why Trump’s political policies matter to a medical journal. They matter because the US is powerful and influential. They matter because many of those policies will harm health in the US and everywhere else. This is a time for global solidarity in the face of the climate crisis and the assault on rights" ➡️ Read the latest Editor's Choice ✍️ Kamran Abbasi Link 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eMsgcYBA

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to withdraw the US out of the WHO. This would cut funding for the UN’s medical agency by one fifth. Will they really exit, or can a deal be made? The BMJ's editor in chief Kamran Abbasi talks to Lawrence Gostin, a professor of law at Georgetown. Watch the interview in full https://lnkd.in/ef4Esufe

The US withdrawal from the WHO: a global health crisis in the making In a major blow to global health, the US administration has announced plans to withdraw from the World Health Organization. Kent Buse and colleagues propose urgent actions for the international community to mitigate the damage. Kent Buse Martin McKee Adeeba Kamarulzaman Lawrence Gostin ➡️ Read the full piece online at https://lnkd.in/gKji-USF

🗣️❗️Medical Education Fit For the Future Requires Radical Change… We’ve just published our opinion article with the BMJ for Rethinking Health this morning We’re calling for a radical rethink in health professionals education and training. And we need your help. “We need a healthcare workforce that sees individuals dealing with their illnesses within their wider socioeconomic, sociocultural, and environmental contexts […] As a group of students and early career professionals representing the future of the NHS workforce, we are calling for a changed cultural attitude in how we conceptualise health and illness, and a refocusing of health professionals’ medical education to better meet current and future challenges.” Read the article here: https://lnkd.in/ew6bSjfy More in our manifesto: https://lnkd.in/eRk59p2X With thanks to Juliet Dobson and Kamran Abbasi. And my brilliant team/co-authors: George Gillett, Katie Choi, Zeynep Tugce T., Yasmin Baker, Bogdan Chiva Giurca. Of interest: Rageshri Dhairyawan, Dipesh Gopal, Phil Whitaker, Sir David Haslam, Alf Collins, Dr Emma Hyde National Teaching Fellow, PhD,MEd,BSc (Hons), National Academy for Social Prescribing, Anglia Ruskin University, Personalised Care Institute, College of Medicine, UK, Katie Petty-Saphon, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, Medical Schools Council, General Medical Council, British Association for Holistic Medicine & Health Care

The BMJ Appeal 2024-25 has launched! The BMJ’s 2024-25 appeal supports the International Rescue Committee’s work in conflict zones all over the world. Your donation will help provide essential support to people around the world whose lives have been shattered by war and disaster. You can donate now at: https://lnkd.in/enTn2uJY David Miliband, former UK foreign secretary, now president of the International Rescue Committee, talks to Kamran Abbasi about hospital attacks in war, the US president elect, and how his parents were refugees. Please donate generously. Thank you for your support. https://lnkd.in/enTn2uJY Kamran Abbasi BMJ International Rescue Committee

To coincide with the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil this week, NEW articles have been added to The BMJ’s spotlight on health in Latin America. Please read and share! With the G20 leadership being handed over to another country in the Global South - South Africa -  Maria de Lourdes Aguiar Oliveira, Natalie Mayet Johanna Hanefeld and Anne Meierkord examine how Brazil and South Africa can use the momentum to advance global health leadership through a southern lens. Deisy Ventura, Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Ruth Iguiñiz Romero and Michael Knipper examine the recent G20 Health Declarations for their strengths and shortfalls, and offer an analysis of how glimmers of hope for global health equity could be threatened by political upheaval. Mercedes Colomar and colleagues discuss how inequalities in abortion access and restrictions on sexual health and rights are endangering women, urging governments in Latin America and the Caribbean to remove barriers to safe abortions. And journalist  Rodrigo de Oliveira Andrade introduces us to Sao Paulo-based  Solidarity Kitchens, a grassroots food assistance programme that grew out of covid-19. It is one of many in a movement that has inspired a new federal government program in Brazil tackling hunger and other conditions of poverty. Recognising growing global leadership in health in Latin America, including Brazil’s 2024 G20 presidency, The BMJ has collected some of our recent articles in key areas, including the politics and decolonisation of health, local innovations and global lessons, and the fight for gender equality and reproductive rights in Latin America. You can read the full collection of articles here:  https://lnkd.in/evsUzWKf #G20 #G20Summit  #LatinAmerica #Brazil #Brasil #SouthAfrica #healthsystems #womenshealth #SRHR #nutrition #malnutrition #foodsecurity #globalhealth

In China, the burden of chronic diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, cancers, respiratory diseases, and diabetes has greatly increased in recent decades, driven mostly by population ageing and poor control of risk factors such as tobacco use, physical inactivity, alcohol consumption, unhealthy diets, and air pollution. Non-communicable diseases account for 91% of deaths in China and present an increasing burden on national healthcare expenditure. China urgently needs innovative and decisive strategies to tackle these chronic diseases. In this new BMJ Collection, experts from China shed light on the current state and challenges of non-communicable chronic disease prevention and control and discuss future strategies for tackling the problem. ➡ Read the collection in full: https://lnkd.in/eBRQF6bk

🍃 This week we published our fourth annual issue of The BMJ dedicated to the climate emergency. Through a series of articles, we explore how health professionals must harness the power of knowledge to strengthen climate leadership and drive change. 📚 The issue includes articles on the threats of mis and dis information around the climate emergency, redefining medical ethics for the planet, and a package of articles on how the growing genre of climate fiction represents a cultural response to the climate crisis. 🌧️ We also learn how increasing rainfall is associated with adverse health outcomes, the many negative health effects of working in extreme heat and we reaffirm The BMJ’s climate commitments. ➡️ 🔗 Click here to read the issue in full: https://lnkd.in/eP6eyYPp Kamran Abbasi Sophie Cook Juliet Dobson BMJ Elisabeth Mahase Mun-Keat Looi