Resources

The effects of opioid overdose can be dramatically reduced through increased access to the opioid antagonist naloxone. But naloxone is too often unavailable when and where it is most needed, partly due to its continued status as a prescription medication. This commentary argues that the Food and Drug Administration should reclassify naloxone from prescription-only to over-the-counter status.

This article summarizes lessons learned in the first 2 years of the Resolve to Save Lives (RTSL) hypertension management program, operated in coordination with the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners.

Of the approximately 1.4 billion people with hypertension worldwide, only about one in seven has their blood pressure successfully treated and adequately controlled.

Preventable noncommunicable diseases, mostly cardiovascular diseases, are responsible for 38 million deaths annually. A few well-documented interventions have the potential to prevent many of these deaths, but a large proportion of the population in need does not have access to these interventions.

This article highlights how preemption—the ability of a higher level of government to limit the regulatory power of a lower level of government—has both created and alleviated health inequities. It proposes the development of an equity-first preemption framework to establish evidence-based criteria for assessing when preemption will enhance or inhibit equity and a research agenda for developing the evidence necessary to inform and operationalize the framework.

This campaign from Bandung, Indonesia tells the story of the victim of a motorcycle crash and the importance of properly wearing a helmet.

There is an overdose epidemic in the United States. More than 93,000 people died of drug overdoses in 2020, the highest number of overdose deaths ever recorded in a single year in the United States. Every overdose death is preventable.

This Fortaleza government campaign is dedicated to promoting safer behavior of motorcyclists.