The PLoS Medicine Editors argue for the need to fundamentally rethink how societies can look beyond the medical causes of disease when promoting health and well-being.
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Laurens Niëns and colleagues estimate the impoverishing effects of four medicines in 16 low- and middle-income countries using a metric of affordability and show that medicine purchases could impoverish large numbers of people.
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Shengxu Li and colleagues use data from a large prospective observational cohort to examine the extent to which a genetic predisposition toward obesity may be modified by living a physically active lifestyle.
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Corrado Barbui and colleagues describe their use and adaptation of the GRADE approach in developing the guidelines for the WHO mental health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP).
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Between October 2009 and February 2010 PLoS Medicine published a seven part series of articles proposing "packages of care" for mental, neurological, and substance-use disorders in low- and middle-income countries. Topics include depression, epilepsy, schizophrenia, alcohol use disorders, dementia, and ADHD.
The article last month in PLoS Medicine by Julianne Holt-Lunstad and colleagues, which reported their meta-analysis of the influence of social relationships on mortality, has received global media attention. Here is a small sample of the articles published.
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