Is there a male mid-life crisis epidemic out there?
An American restoration in foreign affairs will require a commitment not only to international coöperation but also to international institutions that can address global warming, the dislocations of what will likely be a deepening global economic crisis, disease epidemics, nuclear proliferation, terrorism, and other, more traditional security challenges.
Every country in the world is facing and failing to tackle a mental health crisis, from epidemics of anxiety and depression to conditions caused by violence and trauma, according to a review by experts that estimates the rising cost will hit $16tn£12tntn) by 2030.
The epidemic threshold is set at a distance of 1.96 standard deviations (SD)(95% confidence interval [CI]), which has shown to be useful for distinguishing epidemic increases from random variation (18 ), or (as for the dioxin crisis) exceptional, epidemic decrease.
In today's highly globalised world, protecting human security is a core challenge for political leaders who are simultaneously dealing with terrorism, refugee and migration crises, disease epidemics, and climate change.
The catalogue of horrors taking place under his watch in every corner of this colorful and vibrant land is so long and grim it amounts to a human rights crisis of epidemic proportions.
Failure to safeguard the public against the misleading and deceptive marketing of the food, alcohol and tobacco industries has contributed to slow-motion crises of epidemics of obesity, heart disease, diabetes and some forms of cancer.
A former head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which first declared the opioid crisis an epidemic, told me that key federal health agencies "had lots of industry money" and that influenced their position on the mass prescribing of opioids.
In the end, said Green, "the essence of the case is about whether it is lawful for states to prevent the tobacco industry from continuing to make profits by using their trademarks and other rights to further what the World Health Organisation describes as a health crisis of epidemic proportions and which imposes an immense cleanup cost on the public purse.
The Giraffe Path, a six-mile trail that runs from Central Park to the Cloisters, is designed to do just that, providing links between communities that have, by Fullilove's analysis, undergone systematic disinvestment, resulting in numerous public health crises: AIDS epidemics, crack addiction, asthma, post-traumatic stress and obesity.
