Andrew Stickley

TL;DR: Japan needs to tackle major health challenges that are emanating from a rapidly ageing population, causes that are not amenable to health technologies, and the effects of increasing social disparities to sustain the improvement in population health.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compile the best available evidence about population health in Japan to investigate what has made the Japanese people healthy in the past 50 years and find that the Japanese population achieved longevity in a fairly short time through a rapid reduction in mortality rates for communicable diseases from the 1950s to the early 1960s, followed by a large reduction in stroke mortality rates.

TL;DR: Loneliness is associated with suicidal behavior in the general adult population and highlights the importance of efforts to reduce loneliness in order to mitigate its harmful effects on health and well-being.

TL;DR: Acute alcohol poisoning has now reached unprecedented rates in parts of the ex-USSR with worrying trends among men as well as among women and effective action by the governments concerned is now essential.

TL;DR: A strong association between sleep problems and psychotic symptoms was observed globally and will serve as a basis for future studies to elucidate the causal association between psychotic symptoms and sleep problems.