Medicine and Science from The BMJ

The World Bank - trust funds

The world bank was set up in 1944. In the aftermath of the second world war, the institution was there to give loans to countries rebuilding after the conflict. Their first loan went to France - but with stipulations about repayment that set a tone for future funds.
A new series, authored by Devi Sridhar, and her team from the University of Edinburgh, and published on bmj.com, looks at where the World Bank has come. The series is , and the articles will cover;
Why the World Bank matters to global health
The World Bank’s turn to Universal health coverage
How the Bank’s trust funds are being used to fund specific projects - and why it’s hard to know what those are
The Global Financing Facility - grants and loans supplied together,
and finally, creating a market out of pandemic risk
In this third interview, Janelle Winters a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh explains what the bank's trust funds are, and why it can be hard to tell what they're funding.
Read the full analysis:
http://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j3394

The World Bank - Universal Healthcare

The world bank was set up in 1944. In the aftermath of the second world war, the institution was there to give loans to countries rebuilding after the conflict. Their first loan went to France - but with stipulations about repayment that set a tone for future funds.
A new series, authored by Devi Sridhar, and her team from the University of Edinburgh, and published on bmj.com, looks at where the World Bank has come. The series is , and the articles will cover;
Why the World Bank matters to global health
The World Bank’s turn to Universal health coverage
How the Bank’s trust funds are being used to fund specific projects - and why it’s hard to know what those are
The Global Financing Facility - grants and loans supplied together,
and finally, creating a market out of pandemic risk
In this second interview, Marlee Tichenor, postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Edinburgh explains why the bank has embraced universal healthcare.
Read the full analysis:
http://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j3347

The World Bank - why it matters for global health

The world bank was set up in 1944. In the aftermath of the second world war, the institution was there to give loans to countries rebuilding after the conflict. Their first loan went to France - but with stipulations about repayment that set a tone for future funds.
A new series, authored by Devi Sridhar, and her team from the University of Edinburgh, and published on bmj.com, looks at where the World Bank has come. The series is , and the articles will cover;
Why the World Bank matters to global health
The World Bank’s turn to Universal health coverage
How the Bank’s trust funds are being used to fund specific projects - and why it’s hard to know what those are
The Global Financing Facility - grants and loans supplied together,
and finally, creating a market out of pandemic risk
In this first interview, Devi Sridhar, professor of global health at the University of Edinburgh explains why the bank matters for global health.
Read the full analysis:
http://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j3339

Preventing Overdiagnosis 2017 - from theory to practice

In our last podcast from Preventing Overdiagnosis 2017, we convened an impromptu roundtable of clinicians who are attending the conference to see how some of the big themes that were discussed at the conference are going to impact their everyday practice.
Joining us were;
Jessica Otte - Family physician from Canada
David Warriner - Cardiologist from the UK.
Jack O’Sullivan - Junior doctor from Australia
Imran Sajid - GP from the UK
To read more, have a look at our Too much medicine campaign - bmj.com/too-much-medicine.

Preventing Overdiagnosis 2017 - Citizen juries

This week we’re at the over diagnosis conference in Quebec Canada, Preventing overdiangosis is a forum to discuss the harms associated with using uncertain methods to look for disease in apparently healthy people - and is part of the BMJ’s too much medicine campaign.
One of the ways in which the public’s attitudes and wishes around health is measured are citizen or community juries - set up in a similar way to a criminal jury - with an information gathering, and a deliberation phase - recently one of these citizen juries discussed, whether abortion should be allowed in Ireland (they decided “yes”).
We're joined by Rae Thomas, from Bond University and Chris Degeling, from the University of Sydney, who have both been using citizen juries to look at over diagnosis.

Preventing Overdiagnosis 2017 - Vinay Prasad

The Preventing overdiagnosis conference covers how physicians, researchers and patients can implement solutions to the problems of over diagnosis and overuse in healthcare.
If you’re a doctor on twitter, you’ve probably come across our guest - Vinay Prasad, assistant prof. of medicine at Oregon Health and Science University, and author of the book Ending Medical Reversal.

Preventing Overdiagnosis 2017 - Rita Redberg

This week we’re at the Preventing Overdiagnosis conference in Quebec Canada, The conference is a forum to discuss the harms associated with using uncertain methods to look for disease in apparently healthy people - and is part of the BMJ’s too much medicine campaign.
The literature on overdiagnosis has mostly been published since 2013 - partly because of The BMJ, but in large part because of the work of Rita Redberg, professor of clinical medicine, and a working cardiologist, at UCSF, and editor of JAMA internal medicine who joins us to discuss why less is more.

Preventing Overdiagnosis 2017 - Stacy Carter on the culture of overmedicalisation

In this interview from Preventing Overdiagnosis 2017 (preventingoverdiagnosis.net) Stacy Carter, associate professor at Sydney Health Ethics - and the author of a recently written BMJ essay the ethical aspects of overdiagnosis, joins us to talk about how the cultural context of medicine seeps into our decision making processes and affects how people conceptualise the risks of too much medicine.
Read Stacy's full essay:
http://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j3872

What’s driving overdiagnosis?

This week the annual Preventing over diagnosis conference is happening in Quebec, Canada. The conference is put together with a wide range of partners, including The BMJ, and aims to tackle the some of the problems of Too Much Medicine.
To kick off our content for the conference, this week we’ve published an article looking at some of the drivers - and hence potential solutions for over diagnosis.
Two of the authors of that paper. Thanya Pathirana, and Ray Moynihan, both from Bond University’s Centre fro Research in Evidence Based Practice, join us to discuss.

Helping Bereaved people

Loss of a loved one can be very painful. When seeking support, some people turn to their doctor. Because of their pivotal role in the community, physicians can provide excellent support for bereaved people and can often direct them to additional resources.
Katherine Shear, a physician, and Stephanie Muldberg, a bereaved mother, join us to discuss how grief can play out in the consultation, and explain the importance of doctors acknowledging the death of a patient's loved one.
Read their full practice article:
http://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j2854