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Simprints: Identification Data in Healthcare
Data is an absolute necessity in today’s world, and many basic needs cannot be provided for without it. For example, efficient delivery...
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Polygeia
Sep 5, 20174 min read
Traditional Practices and Socio-cultural Norms Affecting the Health of Pregnant Women in LMICs
Social and cultural factors impact the health of pregnant women in a multitude of ways, especially in settings where traditional beliefs...
Polygeia
Sep 1, 20174 min read
How does international migration influence individual and population health?
Concerns regarding the impact of international migration have featured prominently in recent public and political discourse. The outcome...
Polygeia
Aug 22, 20173 min read
Traditional Birth Attendants: A valuable asset or a drain on resources?
“No woman should die in pregnancy or childbirth” is a phrase that is stamped all over official WHO maternal health documentation....
Polygeia
Aug 11, 20174 min read
Cholera: Not a disease of the past
In a world of rapid economic and technological progress, an expanding health care sector and rapidly evolving innovations, diseases that...
Polygeia
May 30, 20173 min read
‘Reverse-innovation’… if that’s what you call it? Exploring a new paradigm in global health practice
Recent years have witnessed the emergence of a new paradigm in global health. Though by no means unprecedented, the notion that...
Polygeia
May 23, 20174 min read
What’s in a name? Borderline personality disorder and stigma
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a disorder of self-function and interpersonal functioning. Its symptoms, which can be...
Polygeia
May 17, 20173 min read
Antimicrobial resistance: implications for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, the United Nations (UN) outlined their Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): a series of targets which aim to significantly and...
Polygeia
May 11, 20175 min read
A One Health approach to fight the future epidemics: the case of Nipah virus in Bangladesh
Deadly epidemics have been threatening humanity since our earliest days. The recent 2013-2016 outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in...
Polygeia
May 5, 20173 min read
Maternal deaths: looking to the impacts of the Trump administration on abortion
President Trump has recently reinstated the Mexico City Policy, originally enacted by President Reagan in 1984, an extension of the 1973...
Polygeia
Apr 18, 20175 min read
The Negative Domino Effect: Why We Must Address the Role of Obesity in Cancer Development
Over the past few decades, researchers have discovered a strong association between obesity and the development of 13 types of cancers,...
Polygeia
Apr 15, 20174 min read
Surgery in the Ongoing Syrian Conflict
What started as an uprising in 2011 has now developed into a full civil war with multiple regional and international stakeholders. The...
Polygeia
Apr 11, 20173 min read
A paradigm shift towards PREVENTION via E-mental health?
The prevalence of mental health disorders, particularly depression, is very high in adolescence with 10% of teenagers experiencing a...
Polygeia
Apr 6, 20175 min read
Black-box machine learning: implications for healthcare
With self-driving cars and intelligent robots dominating the headlines, it appears that we are on the cusp of an era in which artificial...
Polygeia
Apr 3, 20172 min read
Waiting to die? Opt-out of waiting list deaths
This report presents research collated and reviewed with two fundamental goals in mind: to understand and to present in simple terms, the...
Polygeia
Mar 30, 20172 min read
An unnecessary risk to women’s health?: Rising caesarean section rates worldwide
Since 1985, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the global health community have considered an ideal rate for Caesarean Sections (CS)...
Polygeia
Mar 13, 20175 min read
Male mental health and suicide
Whilst the pain of mental illness can manifest in anyone, the way that people of different genders are affected appears to drastically...
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