2023 Scorecard on State Health System Performance

This Lancet Commission examines the increased risk of physical disease experienced by those with mental illnesses—a risk that has been observed across mental health illnesses in all countries. The comorbidity of physical and mental diseases leads to a lower life expectancy, while also increasing the personal, social, and economic costs of mental illness. The Commission (1) establishes the most important aspects of the comorbidity and mortality that have transdiagnostic applications; (2) highlights the common factors…

This data publication from the World Health Organization, on behalf of the United Nations Inter-Agency Working Group on Violence Against Women Estimation and Data, provides the most up-to-date estimates of two of the most common forms of violence against women: intimate partner violence and non-partner sexual violence. Intimate partner violence is described in this report as violence by a husband or male intimate partner (physical, sexual or psychological) and is the most widespread form of…

This report from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) examines the right to self-determination and rights to land, territories, and natural resources at the core of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The relationship indigenous peoples’ have to their lands and territories sits at the core of their cultural identities, as knowledge on the preservation of their environment is passed down from generation to generation. The right of…