Commonwealth Health Partnerships

CHP-front-cover-2015-scaledCommonwealth Health Partnerships 2015
is the essential overview of health in the Commonwealth.

Launched at the annual Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting
(CHMM), the publication provides a guide to current issues in global health for ministers, senior officials and other stakeholders. Reflecting the theme of CHMM 2015, Commonwealth Health Partnerships 2015 looks at universal health coverage, with a particular focus on health and development challenges in an ageing world.

Content includes:

  • Expert opinion from ministries of health, World Health  Organization and transnational partnerships
  • Academic commentary from The Lancet, schools of medicine, public health and governments
  • Health systems and resourcing: responding to multi-morbidity, continuity of care
  • Dementia – social care, risk factors
  • The Ebola crisis, AIDS and other communicable diseases; antimicrobial resistance
  • Rights-based approaches to health care coverage, disabilities, palliative care
  • Youth and child health, a life-course approach to healthy ageing

The publication also includes extensive health profiles of the 53 Commonwealth member countries, incorporating the latest data on health systems and population health outcomes.

The book has now launched. Click here to purchase!