WHO Triple Billion Dashboard

This report from the World Health Organization (WHO) analyzes the global progress made in tobacco control by countries worldwide. The 2023 report marks 15 years since the 'MPOWER' measures were introduced–six guidelines established by the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) to promote government action on tobacco control. The 'MPOWER' measures include monitoring tobacco use; protecting people from tobacco smoke; offering cessation help; warning about tobacco dangers; enforcing bans on advertising; and raising taxes.…

This case study epilogue is one in a four-part series describing the largest, most expensive, and controversial hospital merger in U.S. history. It explores the results, three years later, of the merger of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Naval Military Center in Bethesda, Maryland between 2011 and 2014. That merger, described in Case A, was led by Vice Admiral Dr. John Mateczun, a three-star Navy admiral. The case and epilogue invite…

This article in The Lancet analyzes the progress made towards improving intervention coverage, equity, and drivers of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) in the 81 countries that account for most child and maternal deaths in the world, and which are the focus of the “Countdown to 2030” collaboration. The authors describe how Countdown priorities are evolving in response to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and universal health coverage challenge, arguing that in order…