Tag:The Lancet

Horton’s final plea is therefore both scientific and moral: acknowledge the scale of the last disaster, confront the uncomfortable truths about how we live on this planet, and act before the next inevitable outbreak becomes the one we cannot contain.

Over the last three decades, the global age-standardized mortality rate for suicide declined by nearly 40 per cent, from about 15 deaths per 100,000 to 9 deaths per 100,000, indicating that intervention and prevention are working.

The recent report by The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on Youth Mental Health underscores a global deterioration in youth mental well-being. Key contributing factors include...

A report by the Lancet’s Commission on the COVID-19 pandemic points to a ‘massive global failure’ that led to COVID-19 deaths and reversal of...