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The incidence of invasive meningococcal disease has increased over the last five years, with Māori and Pacific babies inequitably affected. Broader protection is now possible with the Bexsero vaccine, but careful coadministration of paracetamol is required to mitigate common adverse effects, says pharmacist prescriber Leanne Te Karu
This paper is about the future role of the commercial sector in global health and
health equity. The discussion is not about the overthrow of capitalism nor a full-throated
embrace of corporate partnerships. No single solution can eradicate the harms from
the commercial determinants of health the business models, practices, and products
of market actors that damage health equity and human and planetary health and wellbeing.
But evidence shows that progressive economic models, international frameworks, government
regulation, compliance mechanisms for commercial entities, regenerative business types
and models that incorporate health, social, and environmental goals, and strategic
civil society mobilisation together offer possibilities of systemic, transformative
change, reduce those harms arising from commercial forces, and foster human and planetary
wellbeing.
Don Matheson, Johanna Reidy and Rawiri Keenan suggest primary care reform may go in one of two ways: intensely competitive or built on trust. In the second of two articles, the authors suggest the competition scenario is a risky move