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  1. Given the rapid evolution of health markets, learning is key to promoting the identification and uptake of health market policies and practices that better serve the needs of the poor. However there are signif...

    Authors: Sara Bennett, Gina Lagomarsino, Jeffrey Knezovich and Henry Lucas

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:54

    Content type: Commentary

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  2. Three years ago, the Lancet’s frontispiece stated “Health is now the most important foreign policy issue of our time” and last year, the Director-General of WHO, Margaret Chan, in her opening address, to the E...

    Authors: Mehrunisha Suleman, Raghib Ali and David J Kerr

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:50

    Content type: Commentary

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  3. Mobile health (mHealth) approaches for non-communicable disease (NCD) care seem particularly applicable to sub-Saharan Africa given the penetration of mobile phones in the region. The evidence to support its i...

    Authors: Gerald S Bloomfield, Rajesh Vedanthan, Lavanya Vasudevan, Anne Kithei, Martin Were and Eric J Velazquez

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:49

    Content type: Research

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  4. Noncommunicable diseases are a health and development challenge. Pacific Island countries are heavily affected by NCDs, with diabetes and obesity rates among the highest in the world. Trade is one of multiple ...

    Authors: Michelle Sahal Estimé, Brian Lutz and Ferdinand Strobel

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:48

    Content type: Research

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  5. Female sex workers (FSWs) experience high levels of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) morbidity, violence and discrimination. Successful SRH interventions for FSWs in India and elsewhere have long prioritis...

    Authors: Lizzie Moore, Matthew F Chersich, Richard Steen, Sushena Reza-Paul, Ashar Dhana, Bea Vuylsteke, Yves Lafort and Fiona Scorgie

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:47

    Content type: Research

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  6. Several biological, behavioural, and structural risk factors place female sex workers (FSWs) at heightened risk of HIV, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and other adverse sexual and reproductive health ...

    Authors: Ashar Dhana, Stanley Luchters, Lizzie Moore, Yves Lafort, Anuradha Roy, Fiona Scorgie and Matthew Chersich

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:46

    Content type: Research

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  7. Sports mega-events have expanded in size, popularity and cost. Fuelled by media speculation and moral panics, myths proliferate about the increase in trafficking into forced prostitution as well as sex work in...

    Authors: Marlise L Richter, Fiona Scorgie, Matthew F Chersich and Stanley Luchters

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:45

    Content type: Research

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  9. Antiretroviral treatment (ART) was provided to more than nine million people by the end of 2012. Although ART programs in resource-limited settings have expanded treatment, inadequate retention in care has bee...

    Authors: Yibeltal Assefa, Achamyeleh Alebachew, Meskele Lera, Lut Lynen, Edwin Wouters and Wim Van Damme

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:43

    Content type: Research

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  10. In West Africa, hypertension, once rare, has now emerged as a critical health concern and the trajectory is upward and factors are complex. The true magnitude of hypertension in some West African countries, in...

    Authors: Juliet Iwelunmor, Collins O Airhihenbuwa, Richard Cooper, Bamidele Tayo, Jacob Plange-Rhule, Richard Adanu and Gbenga Ogedegbe

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:42

    Content type: Review

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  11. It has been argued that the international community is moving ‘beyond aid’. International co-financing in the international collective interest is expected to replace altruistically motivated foreign aid. The ...

    Authors: Gorik Ooms, Rachel Hammonds, Attiya Waris, Bart Criel, Wim Van Damme and Alan Whiteside

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:41

    Content type: Debate

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  12. With the failure of the latest vaccine trial, HVTN-505, HIV prevention efforts remain critical. Social and structural factors contributing to HIV and STI transmission include stigma regarding sexual violence, ...

    Authors: Eliana Barrios Suarez, Carmen Logie and Jose F Arocha

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:40

    Content type: Debate

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  13. In 2003, governments adopted the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the world’s first global health treaty. In the decade since the treaty was adopted by 178 member states of the World Health Organizatio...

    Authors: Derek Yach, Angela Pratt, Thomas J Glynn and K Srinath Reddy

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:39

    Content type: Commentary

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  14. This article proposes an approach to comparing and assessing the adaptive capacity of multilateral health agencies in meeting country and individual healthcare needs. Most studies comparing multilateral health...

    Authors: Eduardo J Gómez

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:38

    Content type: Research

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  15. Depression and anxiety are prevalent among women in low- and lower-middle income countries who are pregnant or have recently given birth. There is promising evidence that culturally-adapted, evidence-informed,...

    Authors: Jane Fisher, Hau Nguyen, Priya Mannava, Ha Tran, Thao Dam, Huong Tran, Thach Tran, Kelly Durrant, Atif Rahman and Stanley Luchters

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:37

    Content type: Research

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  16. There is great impetus to achieve elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (eMTCT) by 2015, and part of this is to identify factors to target to achieve the goal. This study thus identified key patie...

    Authors: Coceka N Mnyani, Adonia Simango, Joshua Murphy, Matthew Chersich and James A McIntyre

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:36

    Content type: Research

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  17. As in many fragile and post-conflict countries, South Africa’s social contract has formally changed from authoritarianism to democracy, yet access to services, including health care, remains inequitable and co...

    Authors: Bronwyn Harris, John Eyles, Loveday Penn-Kekana, Liz Thomas and Jane Goudge

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:35

    Content type: Research

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  19. Person-centered care involves keeping the person at the center of the care planning and decision-making process. While the theory behind person-centered care is commonly shared, its application in healthcare s...

    Authors: Lopa Basu, Ruben Frescas Jr and Humphrey Kiwelu

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:33

    Content type: Commentary

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  20. The European Union contracted Morocco to regulate migration from so-called “transit migrants” from Morocco to Europe via the European Neighbourhood Policy. Yet, international organisations signal that human, a...

    Authors: Ines Keygnaert, Abdessamad Dialmy, Altay Manço, Jeroen Keygnaert, Nicole Vettenburg, Kristien Roelens and Marleen Temmerman

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:32

    Content type: Research

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  21. In the province of Tarragona (Spain), 24% of immigrants come from countries in the Maghreb. 40% of Maghrebis residing in Spain say their linguistic command of Spanish is inadequate, which could hinder their re...

    Authors: Lourdes Rubio-Rico, Alba Roca Biosca, Inmaculada de Molina Fernández and M Mercè Viladrich Grau

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:31

    Content type: Research

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  25. The grand challenges approach aims to spark innovative and transformative strategies to overcome barriers to significant global health issues. Grand Challenges Canada endorses an ‘Integrated Innovation™’ appro...

    Authors: Carmen Logie, Helen Dimaras, Anny Fortin and Santiago Ramón-García

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:27

    Content type: Debate

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  26. Traditional, subscription-based scientific publishing has its limitations: often, articles are inaccessible to the majority of researchers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where journal subscriptio...

    Authors: Duncan Mwangangi Matheka, Joseph Nderitu, Daniel Mutonga, Mary Iwaret Otiti, Karen Siegel and Alessandro Rhyll Demaio

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:26

    Content type: Commentary

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  27. This paper reviews Italian Development Assistance for Health and overall contribution to Global Health from 2001 to 2012. It analyses strategies and roles of central and decentralized authorities as well as th...

    Authors: Eduardo Missoni, Fabrizio Tediosi, Guglielmo Pacileo and Lara Gautier

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:25

    Content type: Research

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  28. With the increasing trend in refugee urbanisation, growing numbers of refugees are diagnosed with chronic noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). However, with few exceptions, the local and international communities ...

    Authors: Ahmed Hassan Amara and Syed Mohamed Aljunid

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:24

    Content type: Review

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  29. In 2005, the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Mongolia initiated the process of developing its Health Sector Strategic Master Plan (HSSMP), using a wide-ranging consultative process, driven by the MoH, and requirin...

    Authors: Anar Ulikpan, Indermohan Narula, Asmat Malik and Peter Hill

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:23

    Content type: Research

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  32. The idea for this survey emanated from desk research and two meetings for researchers that discussed medical tourism and out-of-country health care, which were convened by some of the authors of this article (...

    Authors: Vivien Runnels, Ronald Labonté, Corinne Packer, Sabrina Chaudhry, Owen Adams and Jeff Blackmer

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:20

    Content type: Research

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  33. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were ‘top-down’ goals formulated by policy elites drawing from targets within United Nations (UN) summits and conferences in the 1990s. Contemporary processes shaping th...

    Authors: Claire E Brolan, Scott Lee, David Kim and Peter S Hill

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:19

    Content type: Research

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  35. There is a clear and evident need for mutual learning in global health systems. It is increasingly recognized that innovation needs to be sourced globally and that we need to think in terms of co-development a...

    Authors: Nigel Crisp

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:14

    Content type: Debate

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  37. A recent Lancet article reported the first reliable estimates of suicide rates in India. National-level suicide rates are among the highest in the world, but suicide rates vary sharply between states and the caus...

    Authors: Jonathan Kennedy and Lawrence King

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:16

    Content type: Research

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  38. Principal Recipients (PRs) receive money from the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) to manage and implement programs. However, little research has gone into understanding their ...

    Authors: Francis Wafula, Charles Marwa and David McCoy

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:15

    Content type: Research

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  39. The UK government committed to undertaking impact assessments of its policies on the health of populations in low and middle-income countries in its cross-government strategy “Health is Global”. To facilitate ...

    Authors: Modi K Mwatsama, Sidney Wong, Dena Ettehad and Nicola F Watt

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:13

    Content type: Debate

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  40. International policy towards access to essential medicines in Africa has focused until recently on international procurement of large volumes of medicines, mainly from Indian manufacturers, and their import an...

    Authors: Phares GM Mujinja, Maureen Mackintosh, Mary Justin-Temu and Marc Wuyts

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:12

    Content type: Research

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  41. Diabetes has become an increasingly prevalent and severe public health issue in Algeria. This article investigates the prevalence, the cost and the management of this disease. Its first objective is to better ...

    Authors: Larbi Lamri, Erofile Gripiotis and Alessandra Ferrario

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:11

    Content type: Research

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  42. Socioeconomic status is a recognised determinant of health status, and the association may be mediated by unhealthy behaviours and psychosocial adversities, which, in developed countries, both aggregate in low...

    Authors: Antonio Ivan Lazzarino, Vasoontara Yiengprugsawan, Sam-ang Seubsman, Andrew Steptoe and Adrian C Sleigh

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:10

    Content type: Research

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  43. The burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD) will rise in parallel with the growing prevalence of type two diabetes mellitus in South Asia but is understudied. Using a cross-sectional survey of adults living in ...

    Authors: Shuchi Anand, Masuma Akter Khanam, Juliann Saquib, Nazmus Saquib, Tahmeed Ahmed, Dewan S Alam, Mark R Cullen, Michele Barry and Glenn M Chertow

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:9

    Content type: Research

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  44. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2010 Study has published disability-adjusted life year (DALY) data at both regional and country levels from 1990 to 2010. Concurrently, the Institute for Health Metrics and E...

    Authors: Michael Hanlon, Casey M Graves, Benjamin PC Brooks, Annie Haakenstad, Rouselle Lavado, Katherine Leach-Kemon and Joseph L Dieleman

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:8

    Content type: Short report

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  45. Serving on volunteer groups undertaking medical mission trips is a common activity for health care professionals and students. Although volunteers hope such work will assist underserved populations, medical mi...

    Authors: John Rovers, Michael Andreski, John Gitua, Abdoulaye Bagayoko and Jill DeVore

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:7

    Content type: Research

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  46. The objective of this review was to describe and situate the burden and treatment of diabetes within the broader context of the French health care system.

    Authors: Karine Chevreul, Karen Berg Brigham and Clara Bouché

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:6

    Content type: Review

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  47. The study aimed at developing a set of attributes for a ‘good’ health system performance assessment (HSPA) framework from literature and experiences in different contexts and using the attributes for a structu...

    Authors: Christine Kirunga Tashobya, Valéria Campos da Silveira, Freddie Ssengooba, Juliet Nabyonga-Orem, Jean Macq and Bart Criel

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:5

    Content type: Research

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  50. Limited resources in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) drive tremendous innovation in medicine, as well as in other fields. It is not often recognized that several important surgical tools and methods, ...

    Authors: Michael Cotton, Jaymie Ang Henry and Lauren Hasek

    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:1

    Content type: Commentary

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