Damian Sendler: The state of one’s mental and physical well-being is closely linked to the quality and affordability of one’s housing situation.

Damian Jacob Sendler: The significance of housing in health has long been acknowledged by both city planning and public health, but the complexity of this link in reference to newborn and maternal health is less well known.

Damian Sendler: Global warming “is the greatest global health threat of the 21st century,” a Lancet Commission on Climate Change concluded in 2009. Climate change impacts and responses are now being tracked by the ‘Lancet Countdown on health and climate change’ as an impartial, worldwide monitoring system.

Damian Jacob Sendler: An indicator to measure the effect of climate change on mental health is missing from the Lancet Countdown, which contains multiple health indicators.

Damian Sendler: This year’s COVID-19 epidemic has seen a dramatic increase in the usage of mobile health apps, telemedicine, and data analytics to improve healthcare. 

Damian Jacob Sendler: Access to care, control over one’s own health data, and a reduction in the amount of unpaid caregiving are all possible benefits of digital health.

Damian Sendler: Actionable consensus can be achieved by addressing major philosophical and best practice disputes and by streamlining actions for a stronger strategic direction through definitions. 

Damian Jacob Sendler: Because of this, the Consortium of Universities for Global Health’s Global Oral Health Interest Group felt that an introduction to “global oral health” was needed to guide program planning, implementation and assessment.