Envisioning the Future of Health Professional Education

This data publication from The Commonwealth Fund measures health care access, quality, use of services, costs, health disparities, health outcomes, reproductive care and women’s health, and health disparities across the United States to evaluate health system performance in each state. For the 2023 edition, the scorecard assesses new measures of health outcomes and access to care for women, mothers, and infants.  The scorecard ranks states across 58 total measures and finds that Massachusetts, Hawaii, and…

This report from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) focuses on the inequities children in poor communities face daily, and the resulting impact on their health and wellbeing. Children growing up in poverty are nearly twice as likely to die before reaching their fifth birthday than their non-poor counterparts. Many of these deaths, however, are preventable through low-cost, high-impact interventions. Drawing on data from 51 countries, this report provides compelling evidence that investments in children…

This report published by the United Nations Environment Programme focuses on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and how the environment relates to its development and spread. The report summarizes the environmental aspects of AMR, including how AMR is tied to environmental challenges that are driven and exacerbated by human activity, such as pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss. The authors argue that understanding how the environment influences AMR is crucial to addressing it. The report advocates for…