The report of the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health, Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation, was published this week by some of the global public health leaders and gives a comprehensive, high-level overview of major challenges and trends in global public health. The authors identified the need to address NCDs and injuries as one of the three main challenges for global health over the next generation. The report refers to injuries in general, while giving particular attention to road traffic injury, as well as suicide. The report argues that packages of interventions should be developed and offered to low-income and middle-income countries to help them advance their injury prevention efforts. Areas of potential intervention are described as lying in the domains of taxes/subsidies, laws and regulations, information and communication, and improvements to the built environments. (Author/publisher)
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