Subject: EMPIRICAL: Key Facts for Leaders in Government from the Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program
From: "Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program" <[email-masked]>
To: "David" <Sergeenko>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 18:07:58 +0000

EMPIRICAL

Monthly Brief on Relevant Data for Leaders in Government

May 2017

New Burden of Tobacco Paper Provides Novel Insights and Tools for Policymakers

"The scale-up of tobacco control, especially after the adoption of the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control, is a major public health success story. Nonetheless, smoking remains a leading risk for early death and disability worldwide, and therefore continues to require sustained political commitment. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) offers a robust platform through which global, regional, and national progress toward achieving smoking-related targets can be assessed." READ MORE>>

Building the Foundations for Sustainable Development: A Case for Global Investment in the Capabilities of Adolescents

"Investment in the capabilities of the world's 1·2 billion adolescents is vital to the UN's Sustainable Development Agenda. We examined investments in countries of low income, lower-middle income, and upper-middle income covering the majority of these adolescents globally to derive estimates of investment returns given existing knowledge… Investments in health and education will not only transform the lives of adolescents in resource-poor settings, but will also generate high economic and social returns." READ MORE>>

Child and Adolescent Health From 1990 to 2015: Findings From the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors 2015 Study

“This study found significant global decreases in all-cause child and adolescent mortality from 1990 to 2015, but with increasing global inequality. In countries with a low Socio-demographic Index (SDI), mortality is the primary driver of health loss in children and adolescents, largely owing to infectious, nutritional, maternal, and neonatal causes, while nonfatal health loss prevails in locations with a higher SDI.

Nations should evaluate drivers of disease burden among children and adolescents to aid implementation of appropriate strategies to maximize the health of populations.”  READ MORE>>

World Bank's 2017 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals

"The Atlas is built around World Development Indicators 2017  — the World Bank's compilation of statistics from over 200 economies about global development and the quality of people's lives. For each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, selected indicators have been identified and visualized to analyze trends and challenges, and to stimulate discussion on measurement issues. You can browse the Atlas online here, or download it as a PDF. It is accompanied by interactive dashboards of SDG data and all the underlying data is available in the World Development Indicators database." READ MORE>>

The Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program is a joint initiative of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education in collaboration with Big Win Philanthropy, and with the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the GE Foundation.

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