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🗣️❗️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 B., 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

🍃 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

New @BMJ Collection with The Health Foundation: Research Priorities for Future Shocks aims to explore post-covid priorities for the research community to help the UK better prepare for future health shocks and mitigate their impact. Such shocks are not limited to respiratory infection but may also relate, for example, to conflict, climate change, and natural disaster. The Collection has two main themes: research priorities to develop UK resilience to health shocks in the future, and research priorities to mitigate the longer-term impact from covid-19. The Collection considers disparate research themes, including, non-pharmaceutical interventions, antimicrobial resistance, multidisciplinary working, non-communicable disease, child mental health, social care, foresight approaches, workforce, public trust, and equity.   The Collection includes articles by Dr Ebere Okereke Jennifer Nuzzo Richard Hurley Christina Pagel Azeem Majeed Amitava Banerjee Heidi Larson Read and share the collection https://lnkd.in/epUtH7kN

On the cover this week ➡️ Preventable deaths: is the reporting system saving lives? Also in this week's issue: -- Why PAs are retraining to be doctors -- GP video consultations for depression -- Call to reform pay-for-performance -- Asthma: redefining patients' inhaler use 🔗 Click on the link to read this week's issue https://lnkd.in/eDC_vpqR

NEW articles have been added to The BMJ’s spotlight on health in Latin America. Please read and share! Luke Taylor reports in The BMJ on the emergence of Oropouche virus and why more vigilance is needed as cases spread in #LatinAmerica and beyond, partly as a result of the warming climate. In BMJ Global Health, new research sheds light on the unique environment and challenges within the Peruvian Amazon. Claudia Vidal-Cuellar and colleagues examine how Indigenous and official health systems in the Peruvian Amazon are adapting to #climatechange and show the ways that Indigenous knowledge and responses implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic protected health. Their work showcases how the participation of Indigenous communities in health systems is a pathway to increase resilience to emergent hazards like climate change. And Lisa Woodson & colleagues show the enduring impact of #covid19 on the education and reproductive health of adolescent indigenous girls in the Peruvian Amazon basin, reducing contraceptive use and increasing school abandonment, early unions, and adolescent pregnancy. Why is Latin America so vital? The vibrancy and volatility of the region are a microcosm of the public health issues that dominate the globe today. From epidemics to obesity, the presence of food insecurity and poverty alongside extreme wealth, the shortage of health workers amid political and economic turmoil, and the increasing pressures of climate and environmental change - all these threats exacerbate efforts to advance health and health equity in the region and beyond. Latin America is also strengthening its global leadership in health: it is a source of growing medical and scientific expertise, drawing on the region’s rich cultures, political histories, and models of social medicine. During the covid-19 crisis, while experiencing some of the world’s worst impacts, Latin American countries developed local capacities, health cooperation, and vaccination policy that will help confront future and endemic health challenges. And the struggle to provide equitable and universal health coverage and rights across growing economic and political divides offers models and solutions that countries the world over could learn from. 2024 is a landmark year for Brazil, which holds the annual G20 presidency, and for the region – and an opportunity to spotlight health being at the heart of building a just world and a sustainable planet. To advance these aims, 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. https://lnkd.in/gd2PKjPj #LatinAmerica #Brazil #Brasil #Peru #Amazonbasin #Indigenoushealth #healthsystems #SRHR #womenshealth #education

Asthma is one of the most common non-communicable diseases and carries a substantial morbidity and mortality burden worldwide. Multiple factors may contribute to suboptimal asthma control, including incorrect diagnosis, comorbidities such as allergic rhinitis and obesity, smoking, and air pollution. However, asthma may also be controlled inadequately because of suboptimal inhaled therapy—inadequate use of preventer therapy, overuse of reliever therapy, and poor inhaler technique. This "10-minute consultation" article focuses on optimising inhaled therapy to support clinicians to empower patients to achieve better control of their asthma. ➡ Read the article at this link: https://lnkd.in/eD9hdUzb