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Research
Forty to 70 % of medical devices and equipment in low- and middle-income countries are broken, unused or unfit for purpose; this impairs service delivery to patients and results in lost resources. Undiscerning...
Globalization and Health 2017 13:59
Published on: 18 August 2017
Research
Population is aging rapidly in Europe. Older age life expectancy (OLE) can be influenced by country-level depth of credit information (DCI) as an indicator of financial crisis, gross national income (GNI) per ...
Globalization and Health 2017 13:58
Published on: 18 August 2017
Research
Disparity in adult mortality (AM) with reference to social dynamics and health care has not been sufficiently examined. This study aimed to identify the gap in the understanding of AM in relation to religion, ...
Globalization and Health 2017 13:57
Published on: 8 August 2017
Review
The aim of this paper is to contribute to debates about how governments and other stakeholders can influence the application of ICTs to increase access to safe, effective and affordable treatment of common ill...
Globalization and Health 2017 13:56
Published on: 7 August 2017
Research
West Nile virus (WNV) is an emerging infectious disease which is most commonly transmitted to humans through mosquito, and is considered a major public-health problem worldwide. The aim of the current study is...
Globalization and Health 2017 13:55
Published on: 3 August 2017
Review
There are increasing criticisms of dominant models for scaling up health systems in developing countries and a recognition that approaches are needed that better take into account the complexity of health inte...
Globalization and Health 2017 13:54
Published on: 3 August 2017
Research
More than 30 countries in sub-Saharan Africa have introduced performance-based financing (PBF) in their healthcare systems. Yet, there has been little research on the process by which PBF was put on the nation...
Globalization and Health 2017 13:52
Published on: 1 August 2017
Research
The World Health Organization recommends establishing and implementing a national pharmaceutical policy (NPP) to guarantee effective and equitable access to medicines. Mexico has implemented several policy app...
Globalization and Health 2017 13:53
Published on: 1 August 2017
Review
Innovation theory has focused on the adoption of new products or services by individuals and their market-driven diffusion to the population at large. However, major health sector innovations typically emerge fro...
Globalization and Health 2017 13:49
Published on: 31 July 2017
Research
Malawi is a low-income country with one of the highest HIV prevalence rates worldwide (Kendig et al., Trop Med Health 41:163–170, 2013). The health system depends largely on external funding. Official German d...
Globalization and Health 2017 13:50
Published on: 26 July 2017
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In October 2012 Uganda extended its prevention of mother to child HIV transmission (PMTCT) policy to Option B+, providing lifelong antiretroviral treatment for HIV positive pregnant and breastfeeding women. Th...
Globalization and Health 2017 13:51
Published on: 26 July 2017
Research
Like other colonised populations, Indigenous Australians experience poorer health outcomes than non-Indigenous Australians. Preventable chronic disease is the largest contributor to the health differential bet...
Globalization and Health 2017 13:48
Published on: 14 July 2017
Research
A primary rationale for scaling up mental health services in low and middle-income countries is to address human rights violations, including physical restraint in community settings. The voices of those with ...
Globalization and Health 2017 13:47
Published on: 11 July 2017
Research
The Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) and the College of Ophthalmology of Eastern Central and Southern Africa (COECSA) are collaborating to cascade a Training the Trainers (TTT) Programme across the ...
Globalization and Health 2017 13:46
Published on: 10 July 2017
Research
Globally, safe and effective medication administration relies on nurses being able to apply strong drug calculation skills in their real-life practice, in the face of stressors and distractions. These may be e...
Globalization and Health 2017 13:45
Published on: 4 July 2017
Debate
Mental health is increasingly finding a place on global health and international development agendas. Advocates for Global Mental Health (GMH), and international organizations such as the World Health Organiza...
Globalization and Health 2017 13:44
Published on: 1 July 2017
Commentary
Globally, chronic kidney disease of unknown aetiology (CKDu) is observed in several areas and among specific ethnic or occupational groups. Given the widespread environmental pollution and the proportions of a...
Globalization and Health 2017 13:43
Published on: 30 June 2017
Research
The World Health Organisation Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) improves surgical outcomes and the research question is no longer ‘does the SSC work?’ but, ‘how to make the SSC work?’ Evidence for implementation...
Globalization and Health 2017 13:42
Published on: 29 June 2017
Erratum
Globalization and Health 2017 13:41
Published on: 29 June 2017
The original article was published in Globalization and Health 2017 13:8
Commentary
The twenty-first Century Panglong Conference, proposed by Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy, has concluded with unsatisfactory results. This five-day conference attracted global attention ...
Globalization and Health 2017 13:40
Published on: 28 June 2017
Research
The Sustainable Development Goals call for the effective governance of shared natural resources in ways that support inclusive growth, safeguard the integrity of the natural and physical environment, and promo...
Globalization and Health 2017 13:39
Published on: 27 June 2017
Debate
Stronger health systems, with an emphasis on community-based primary health care, are required to help accelerate the pace of ending preventable maternal and child deaths as well as contribute to the achieveme...
Globalization and Health 2017 13:37
Published on: 26 June 2017
Research
This article is based upon data gathered during a study conducted in partnership with the World Intellectual Property Organization on the patent status of products appearing on the World Health Organization’s ...
Globalization and Health 2017 13:38
Published on: 26 June 2017
Methodology
A country will trust, value, and use, its health information system (HIS) to the extent it has had a role in its creation and maintenance. A sense of ownership contributes in turn to the long-term sustainabili...
Globalization and Health 2017 13:36
Published on: 24 June 2017
Research
Collection of reliable and comparable individual food consumption data is of primary importance to better understand, control and monitor malnutrition and its related comorbidities in low- and middle-income co...
Globalization and Health 2017 13:35
Published on: 19 June 2017
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