Healthier, Fairer, Safer: The Global Health Journey

This web portal, offered by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, offers evidence-based information and tools related to numerous health and wellness topics to support its mission of improving health for all Americans. It has established benchmarks and monitored progress over time to encourage collaborations across communities and sectors, empower individuals to make informed health decisions, and measure the impact of prevention efforts. Its…

The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation dedicated to promoting a high-performing health care system in the United States that increases access, improves quality, and works more efficiently—particularly for the country’s more vulnerable populations. The organization’s primary areas of focus are health care coverage and access, health care delivery reform, and international health policy, regularly disseminating findings through freely available publications and data. In addition to case studies that illuminate health care innovation or progress,…

This report from The Tsinghua-Lancet Commission on Healthy Cities in China, led by Tsinghua University in Beijing, examines the challenges and opportunities faced by China’s cities with regard to health risks, health promotion, environmental health, and health-care delivery. The report describes how rapid urbanization in China has brought unprecedented health benefits to urban residents—for example, city-dwellers live longer and have greater access to health services and improved sanitation. However, the changes associated with that urbanization—such…