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  1. Immigrant women often experience health inequities, whether for reasons of gender, country of origin, or socioeconomic status. The view of immigrant women has always focussed on their needs, without taking int...

    Authors: Anna Bonmatí-Tomás, Maria del Carmen Malagón-Aguilera, Cristina Bosch-Farré, Sandra Gelabert-Vilella, Dolors Juvinyà-Canal and Maria del Mar Garcia Gil
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2016 12:37
  2. There are significant differences in the meaning and use of the term ‘Reverse Innovation’ between industry circles, where the term originated, and health policy circles where the term has gained traction. It i...

    Authors: Matthew Harris, Emily Weisberger, Diana Silver, Viva Dadwal and James Macinko
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2016 12:36
  3. Researchers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are under-represented in scientific literature. Mapping of authorship of articles can provide an assessment of data ownership and research capacity in LM...

    Authors: Matthew F. Chersich, Duane Blaauw, Mari Dumbaugh, Loveday Penn-Kekana, Ashar Dhana, Siphiwe Thwala, Leon Bijlmakers, Emily Vargas, Elinor Kern, Francisco Becerra-Posada, Josephine Kavanagh, Priya Mannava, Langelihle Mlotshwa, Victor Becerril-Montekio, Katharine Footman and Helen Rees
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2016 12:35
  4. Finding solutions to global health problems will require a highly-trained, inter-disciplinary workforce. Global health education and research can potentially have long-range impact in addressing the global bur...

    Authors: Mellissa Withers, David Press, Heather Wipfli, Judith McCool, Chang-Chuan Chan, Masamine Jimba, Christopher Tremewan and Jonathan Samet
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2016 12:34
  5. The adverse health and equity impacts of transnational corporations’ (TNCs) practices have become central public health concerns as TNCs increasingly dominate global trade and investment and shape national eco...

    Authors: Frances E. Baum, David M. Sanders, Matt Fisher, Julia Anaf, Nicholas Freudenberg, Sharon Friel, Ronald Labonté, Leslie London, Carlos Monteiro, Alex Scott-Samuel and Amit Sen
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2016 12:27
  6. There is increased interest in the capacity of US immigrants to contribute to their homelands via entrepreneurship and philanthropy. However, there has been little research examining how immigrant physicians m...

    Authors: Joseph Nwadiuko, Keyonie James, Galen E. Switzer and Jamie Stern
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2016 12:33
  7. The U.S Congress initiated sanctions against Iran after the 1979 U.S. Embassy hostage crisis in Tehran, and since then the scope of multilateral sanctions imposed by the United States, the European Union, and ...

    Authors: Sogol Setayesh and Tim K. Mackey
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2016 12:31
  8. In 2004, Ghana began implementation of a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to minimize out-of-pocket expenditure at the point of use of service. The implementation of the scheme was accompanied by increa...

    Authors: Genevieve Cecilia Aryeetey, Justice Nonvignon, Caroline Amissah, Gilbert Buckle and Moses Aikins
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2016 12:32
  9. Human capital requires opportunities to develop and capacity to overcome challenges, together with an enabling environment that fosters critical and disruptive innovation. Exploring such features is necessary ...

    Authors: J. Jaime Miranda, Antonio Bernabé-Ortiz, Francisco Diez-Canseco, Germán Málaga, María K. Cárdenas, Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco, María Lazo-Porras, Miguel Moscoso-Porras, M. Amalia Pesantes, Vilarmina Ponce, Ricardo Araya, David Beran, Peter Busse, Oscar Boggio, William Checkley, Patricia J. García…
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2016 12:29
  10. Free trade agreements (FTAs) can affect food environments and non-communicable disease risks through altering the availability of highly-processed foods. Few studies have quantified such effects. Using a natur...

    Authors: Phillip Baker, Sharon Friel, Ashley Schram and Ron Labonte
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2016 12:24
  11. Strategic, interdisciplinary partnerships are essential to addressing the complex drivers of health inequities that result in survival disparities worldwide. Take for example the aggressive early childhood eye...

    Authors: Jessica A. Hill, Kahaki Kimani, Abby White, Faith Barasa, Morgan Livingstone, Brenda L. Gallie and Helen Dimaras
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2016 12:23
  12. In response to health care challenges worldwide, extensive funding has been channeled to the world’s most vulnerable health systems. Funding alone is not sufficient to address the complex issues and challenges...

    Authors: Rohit Ramaswamy, Brianne Kallam, Dragica Kopic, Borislava Pujic and Medge D. Owen
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2016 12:22
  13. Maternal and child health issues have gained global political attention and resources in the past 10 years, due in part to their prominence on the Millennium Development Goal agenda and the use of evidence-bas...

    Authors: Lori McDougall
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2016 12:21
  14. There is a substantial body of literature on the principles of good partnerships and the rationale for such partnerships in research capacity strengthening. This paper illustrates the long term effects of a mu...

    Authors: Khalifa Elmusharaf, Hanan Tahir, Diarmuid O’ Donovan, Ruairi Brugha, Mamoun Homeida, Amal M. O. Abbas and Elaine Byrne
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2016 12:20
  15. With the recognition of the need for research capacity strengthening for advancing health and development, this research capacity article explores the use of technology enhanced learning in the delivery of a c...

    Authors: E. Byrne, L. Donaldson, L. Manda-Taylor, R. Brugha, A. Matthews, S. MacDonald, V. Mwapasa, M. Petersen and A. Walsh
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2016 12:19
  16. There is growing concern that short-term experiences in global health experiences (STEGH), undertaken by healthcare providers, trainees, and volunteers from high income countries in lower and middle income cou...

    Authors: Lawrence C. Loh, Olga Valdman and Matthew M. Dacso
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2016 12:15
  17. In 2007 the “Crisp Report” on international partnerships increased interest in Northern countries on the way their links with Southern partners operated. Since its establishment in 2007 the Division of Tropica...

    Authors: David Beran, Sigiriya Aebischer Perone, Gabriel Alcoba, Alexandre Bischoff, Claire-Lise Bussien, Gilles Eperon, Olivier Hagon, Olivia Heller, Frédérique Jacquerioz Bausch, Nicolas Perone, Thomas Vogel and François Chappuis
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2016 12:14
  18. In the current United Nations efforts to plan for post 2015-Millennium Development Goals, global partnership to address non-communicable diseases (NCDs) has become a critical goal to effectively respond to the...

    Authors: M. S. Winchester, R. BeLue, T. Oni, U. Wittwer-Backofen, D. Deobagkar, H. Onya, T. A. Samuels, S. A. Matthews, C. Stone and C. Airhihenbuwa
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2016 12:13
  19. Health workers are at high risk of acquiring infectious diseases at work, especially in low and middle-income countries (LMIC) with critical health human resource deficiencies and limited implementation of occ...

    Authors: Annalee Yassi, Muzimkhulu Zungu, Jerry M. Spiegel, Barry Kistnasamy, Karen Lockhart, David Jones, Lyndsay M. O’Hara, Letshego Nophale, Elizabeth A. Bryce and Lincoln Darwin
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2016 12:10
  20. Partnerships between developed and developing country institutions are increasingly becoming important in addressing contemporary global health challenges faced by health systems. Inter-university health colla...

    Authors: David Musoke, Linda Gibson, Trasias Mukama, Yesmean Khalil and John C. Ssempebwa
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2016 12:11
  21. Capacity building partnerships between healthcare institutions have the potential to benefit both partners particularly in staff development. Previous research suggests that volunteering can contribute to prof...

    Authors: Esther Tillson, Sibylle Herzig van Wees, Charlotte McGowan, Hannah Franklin, Helena Jones, Patrick Bogue, Shirin Aliabadi and Paula Baraitser
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2016 12:9
  22. Anaesthesia and Intensive Care is a neglected specialty in low-income countries. There is an acute shortage of health workers – several low-income countries have less than 1 anaesthesia provider per 100,000 po...

    Authors: Mpoki Ulisubisya, Henrik Jörnvall, Lars Irestedt and Tim Baker
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2016 12:7
  23. Founded in 2005, Globalization and Health was the first open access global health journal. The journal has since expanded the field, and its influence, with the number of downloaded papers rising 17-fold, to over...

    Authors: Greg Martin, Malcolm MacLachlan, Ronald Labonté, Fiona Larkan, Frédérique Vallières and Niamh Bergin
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2016 12:6
  24. As is common in developing countries, in Ethiopia young people with disabilities (YPWD) are more likely than the general population to be illiterate, unemployed and impoverished. They often lack equal access t...

    Authors: Tigist Alemu Kassa, Tobias Luck, Assegedech Bekele and Steffi G. Riedel-Heller
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2016 12:5
  25. Because of the shortage of health professionals, particularly in specialty areas, Rwanda initiated the Human Resources for Health (HRH) Program. In this program, faculty from United States teaching institution...

    Authors: Esperance Ndenga, Glorieuse Uwizeye, Dana R. Thomson, Eric Uwitonze, Joel Mubiligi, Bethany L. Hedt-Gauthier, Michael Wilkes and Agnes Binagwaho
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2016 12:4
  26. Zimbabwe is the largest tobacco producer in Africa. Despite expressing opposition in the past, Zimbabwe recently acceded to the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). We ex...

    Authors: E. Anne Lown, Patricia A. McDaniel and Ruth E. Malone
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2016 12:2
  27. Despite the worthy intentions of international health partnerships between high-income countries and countries with developing economies, the tangible benefits are rarely evaluated, limiting the assessment of ...

    Authors: Ben Hague, Jenny Sills and Andrew R. Thompson
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2015 11:52
  28. Many health service delivery models are adapting health services to meet rising demand and evolving health burdens in low- and middle-income countries. While innovative private sector models provide potential ...

    Authors: Onil Bhattacharyya, Kathryn Mossman, John Ginther, Leigh Hayden, Raman Sohal, Jieun Cha, Ameya Bopardikar, John A. MacDonald, Himanshu Parikh, Ilan Shahin, Anita McGahan and Will Mitchell
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2015 11:51
  29. Contemporary interest in in short-term experiences in global health (STEGH) has led to important questions of ethics, responsibility, and potential harms to receiving communities. In addressing these issues, t...

    Authors: Lawrence C. Loh, William Cherniak, Bradley A. Dreifuss, Matthew M. Dacso, Henry C. Lin and Jessica Evert
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2015 11:50
  30. International health partnerships are one approach to capacity building in health systems. The evidence base for institutional partnerships for health service development remains weak and evaluation of the pro...

    Authors: Suzanne Edwards, Dan Ritman, Emily Burn, Natascha Dekkers and Paula Baraitser
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2015 11:49
  31. Institutional Health Partnerships are long-term, institution to institution partnerships between high income and low and middle income countries which seek to build capacity and strengthen health institutions ...

    Authors: Ema Kelly, Vicki Doyle, David Weakliam and Yvonne Schönemann
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2015 11:48

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  32. There is a global need to expand palliative care services to reach the increasing number requiring end of life care. In developing countries where the incidences of cancer are rising there is an urgent need to...

    Authors: B. A. Jack, J. A. Kirton, J. Downing and K. Frame
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2015 11:47
  33. Two themes consistently emerge from the broad range of academics, policymakers and opinion leaders who have proposed changes to the World Health Organization (WHO): that reform efforts are too slow, and that t...

    Authors: Unni Gopinathan, Nicholas Watts, Daniel Hougendobler, Alex Lefebvre, Arthur Cheung, Steven J. Hoffman and John-Arne Røttingen
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2015 11:46
  34. Country-of-origin of a product can negatively influence its rating, particularly if the product is from a low-income country. It follows that how non-traditional sources of innovation, such as low-income count...

    Authors: Matthew Harris, Emily Weisberger, Diana Silver and James Macinko
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2015 11:45
  35. Against the backdrop of systemic inefficiency in the public health care system and the theoretical claims that markets result in performance and efficiency improvement, developing countries’ governments have b...

    Authors: Vitalis Chukwudi Nwagbara and Rajah Rasiah
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2015 11:44
  36. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are rapidly becoming priorities in developing countries. While developed countries are more prepared in terms of skilled human resources for NCD management, developing the requ...

    Authors: Shiva Raj Mishra, Dinesh Neupane, David Preen, Per Kallestrup and Henry B. Perry
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2015 11:43
  37. Trade and investment liberalization may facilitate the spread of sugar-sweetened carbonated beverages (SSCBs), products associated with increased risk factors for obesity, type II diabetes, and cardiovascular ...

    Authors: Ashley Schram, Ronald Labonte, Phillip Baker, Sharon Friel, Aaron Reeves and David Stuckler
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2015 11:41

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