Patricio V. Marquez

Mental health is as Important as Physical Health in a Post-Pandemic World

Patricio V Marquez

January 21, 2023

It is widely accepted that the world is currently going through a historical moment characterized by a “polycrisis”—a cluster of multiple global emergencies, unfolding simultaneously on an unprecedented scale, impacting all countries. 

A Policy Perspective on Climate Change, Health, and Health Systems

                         Patricio V Marquez

Back in 2015, in his powerful Encyclical Letter “Laudato Si” or “Praise Be to You, Pope Francis made a powerful statement, unifying both the spiritual and scientific dimensions of life, on one of humanity’s greatest challenges in the 21st Century: environmental destruction and climate change.

World No Tobacco Day 2022: Realizing environmental and public health co-benefits

The original version of this blog was posted as a World Bank Group Investing in Health blog, May 31, 2022:
https://blogs.worldbank.org/health/world-no-tobacco-day-2022-realizing-environmental-and-public-health-co-benefits

 

Patricio V. Marquez and Bronwyn King

Working Paper "A Novel Tobacco Market Diversification: Unsmoking Rich Countries while Smoking Low-and-Middle Income Countries”

WORKING PAPER 

       APRIL 2022

 “A NOVEL TOBACCO MARKET DIVERSIFICATION:   UNSMOKING RICH COUNTRIES WHILE SMOKING LOW-AND-MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES”

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Mental Health Amid Rising Global Fragility, Conflict and Violence

As discussed today in the 2022 World Bank Group (WBG)-International Monetary Fund (IMF) Spring Meetings flagship event "On the Frontlines of Rising Fragility”, over the last two years, the world has seen a series of massive setbacks to stability in regions across the world.  As noted, this disturbing trend points to an urgent need for the international community to come together and develop new and innovative approaches to deal with and help people cope with