Journal of Public Health Policy
Volume 36, Issue 4 (November 2015)
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jphp/journal/v36/n4/index.html

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Climate change: Assessing effects on health and wealth of populations
Anthony Robbins
Excerpt
Can the health consequences of climate change be at the center of discussions at this year’s climate summit in Paris? Very possibly. Pope Francis’ encyclical letter and The Lancet’s excellent report on the topic give us hope.1, 2 Now the World Federation of Public Health Associations (whose Federation’s Pages we publish in JPHP) is preparing to participate in the twenty-first Conference of the Parties, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Federation and its Environmental Health Working Group have developed a strategy to put population health front and center in the Paris discussions. We commend them…

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Viewpoint: Counterfeit medicines and substandard medicines: Different problems requiring different solutions
Ellen ‘t Hoen and Fernando Pascual
J Public Health Pol 36: 384-389; advance online publication, July 16, 2015; doi:10.1057/jphp.2015.22
Ensuring that all effective and necessary medicines are affordable, available, and of assured quality will combat falsified and substandard medicines. The authors explain how and why this will protect consumers.

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Global prevention and control of NCDs: Limitations of the standard approach
Neil Pearce, Shah Ebrahim, Martin McKee, Peter Lamptey, Mauricio L Barreto, Don Matheson, Helen Walls, Sunia Foliaki, J Jaime Miranda, Oyun Chimeddamba, Luis Garcia-Marcos, Andy Haines, and Paolo Vineis
J Public Health Pol 36: 408-425; advance online publication, September 17, 2015; doi:10.1057/jphp.2015.29
The standard approach to prevention and control of non-communicable disease, called ‘25×25’ has the benefit of simplicity, but also has major weaknesses described herein.