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  1. Countries of the Asia Pacific region account for a major share of the global burden of disease due to cardiovascular disease (CVD) and this burden is rising over time. Modifiable behavioural risk factors for C...

    Authors: Lainie Sutton, Anup Karan and Ajay Mahal
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:79
  2. The demographic and nutritional transitions taking place in Uganda, just as in other low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), are leading to accelerating growth of chronic, non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Th...

    Authors: Jeremy I Schwartz, David Guwatudde, Rachel Nugent and Charles Mondo Kiiza
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:77
  3. The priorities of research funding bodies govern the research agenda, which has important implications for the provision of evidence to inform policy. This study examines the research funding landscape for mat...

    Authors: Katharine Footman, Matthew Chersich, Duane Blaauw, Oona MR Campbell, Ashar Dhana, Josephine Kavanagh, Mari Dumbaugh, Siphiwe Thwala, Leon Bijlmakers, Emily Vargas, Elinor Kern, Francisco Becerra and Loveday Penn-Kekana
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:72
  4. The “25×25” strategy to tackle the global challenge of non-communicable diseases takes a traditional approach, concentrating on a few diseases and their immediate risk factors.

    Authors: Martin McKee, Andy Haines, Shah Ebrahim, Peter Lamptey, Mauricio L Barreto, Don Matheson, Helen L Walls, Sunia Foliaki, J Jaime Miranda, Oyun Chimeddamba, Luis Garcia-Marcos, Paolo Vineis and Neil Pearce
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:74
  5. As many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) pursue health care reforms in order to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), development of national accreditation systems has become an increasingly common ...

    Authors: Kedar S Mate, Anne L Rooney, Anuwat Supachutikul and Girdhar Gyani
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:68
  6. The health Millennium Development Goals (4, 5, 6) impose the same ambitious 2015 targets on every country. Few low-income countries are on track to reach them. Some authors have proposed country-specific targe...

    Authors: Robert L Cohen, Yira Natalia Alfonso, Taghreed Adam, Shyama Kuruvilla, Julian Schweitzer and David Bishai
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:67
  7. In just a few weeks, the Internet could be expanded to include a new .health generic top-level domain name run by a for-profit company with virtually no public health credentials - unless the international com...

    Authors: Tim K Mackey, Gunther Eysenbach, Bryan A Liang, Jillian C Kohler, Antoine Geissbuhler and Amir Attaran
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:62
  8. On the back of its recent economic development and domestic success in the fight against HIV/AIDS, Brazil is helping the Government of Mozambique to set up a pharmaceutical factory as part of its South-South c...

    Authors: Giuliano Russo, Lícia de Oliveira, Alex Shankland and Tânia Sitoe
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:70
  9. Trade and investment liberalization (trade liberalization) can promote or harm health. Undoubtedly it has contributed, although unevenly, to Asia’s social and economic development over recent decades with resu...

    Authors: Phillip Baker, Adrian Kay and Helen Walls
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:66
  10. The positive impact of global health activities by volunteers from the United States in low-and middle-income countries has been recognized. Most existing global health partnerships evaluate what knowledge, id...

    Authors: Heidi Busse, Ephrem A Aboneh and Girma Tefera
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:64
  11. Leptospirosis remains the most widespread zoonotic disease in the world, commonly found in tropical or temperate climates. While previous studies have offered insight into intra-national and intra-regional tra...

    Authors: Medhani Bandara, Mahesha Ananda, Kolitha Wickramage, Elisabeth Berger and Suneth Agampodi
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:61
  12. There is global concern with geographical and socio-economic inequalities in access to and use of maternal delivery services. Little is known, however, on how local-level socio-economic inequalities are relate...

    Authors: Sheetal Prakash Silal, Loveday Penn-Kekana, Till Bärnighausen and Helen Schneider
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:60
  13. Studies suggest that US Latinos have a higher prevalence of obesity than White Americans. However, obesity may differ by pre-immigration factors and Latinos’ cultural representations of ideal body image. This ...

    Authors: Airín D Martínez, Hee-soon Juon, David M Levine, Victoria Lyford-Pike and Sadie Peters
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:57
  14. Global labour markets continue to undergo significant transformations resulting from socio-political instability combined with rises in structural inequality, employment insecurity, and poor working conditions...

    Authors: Erica Di Ruggiero, Joanna E Cohen and Donald C Cole
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:56
  15. 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
  16. The rapid evolution and spread of health markets across low and middle-income countries (LMICs) has contributed to a significant increase in the availability of health-related goods and services around the wor...

    Authors: Gerald Bloom, Spencer Henson and David H Peters
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2014 10:53
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. 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
  34. 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
  35. 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
  36. 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
  37. 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
  38. 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

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