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  1. Medical tourism describes the private purchase and arrangement of medical care by patients across international borders. Increasing numbers of medical facilities in countries around the world are marketing the...

    Authors: Rory Johnston, Valorie A Crooks and Jeremy Snyder
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2012 8:23
  2. Several World Health Organization (WHO) initiatives aim to improve the accessibility of safe and effective medicines for children. A first step in achieving this goal is to obtain a baseline measure of access ...

    Authors: Angela Anson, Brooke Ramay, Antonio Ruiz de Esparza and Lisa Bero
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2012 8:22
  3. The purpose of the research was to assess access to sexual and reproductive health services for migrant women who work as beer promoters. This mixed methods research was conducted in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Bang...

    Authors: Gail Webber, Denise Spitzer, Ratana Somrongthong, Truong Cong Dat and Somphone Kounnavongsa
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2012 8:21
  4. As a country, the United Arab Emirates has developed very rapidly from a developing country with a largely nomadic population, to a modern and wealthy country with a Western lifestyle. This economic progress h...

    Authors: Cother Hajat, Oliver Harrison and Zainab Shather
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2012 8:18
  5. Developing countries can generate effective solutions for today’s global health challenges. This paper reviews relevant literature to construct the case for international cooperation, and in particular, develo...

    Authors: Shamsuzzoha B Syed, Viva Dadwal, Paul Rutter, Julie Storr, Joyce D Hightower, Rachel Gooden, Jean Carlet, Sepideh Bagheri Nejad, Edward T Kelley, Liam Donaldson and Didier Pittet
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2012 8:17
  6. The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, which provides an international agreement on how to deliver aid, has recently been reviewed by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Hea...

    Authors: Tim Shorten, Martin Taylor, Neil Spicer, Sandra Mounier-Jack and David McCoy
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2012 8:13
  7. Most low and middle income countries (LMICs) are currently not on track to reach the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). One way to accelerate progress would be through the large-scale implemen...

    Authors: Gavin Yamey
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2012 8:11
  8. The impact of increased national wealth, as measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP), on public health is widely understood, however an equally important but less well-acclaimed relationship exists between imp...

    Authors: Greg Martin, Alexandra Grant and Mark D'Agostino
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2012 8:8
  9. To evaluate medicine prices, availability and affordability in Brazil, considering the differences across three types of medicines (originator brands, generics and similar medicines) and different types of fac...

    Authors: Andréa Dâmaso Bertoldi, Ana Paula Helfer, Aline L Camargo, Noêmia U L Tavares and Panos Kanavos
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2012 8:6
  10. With limited time to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, progress towards improving women's and children's health needs to be accelerated. With Africa accounting for over half of the world's maternal and...

    Authors: Kadidiatou Toure, Rotimi Sankore, Shyama Kuruvilla, Elisa Scolaro, Flavia Bustreo and Babatunde Osotimehin
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2012 8:3
  11. The U.S. imports a substantial and increasing portion of its fruits and vegetables. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration currently inspects less than one percent of import shipments. While countries exporting...

    Authors: Roni A Neff, Jennifer C Hartle, Linnea I Laestadius, Kathleen Dolan, Anne C Rosenthal and Keeve E Nachman
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2012 8:2
  12. The International Health Regulations (IHRs) (2005) was developed with the aim of governing international responses to public health risks and emergencies. The document requires all 194 World Health Organizatio...

    Authors: Aranka Anema, Eric Druyts, Helge G Hollmeyer, Maxwell C Hardiman and Kumanan Wilson
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2012 8:1
  13. Cardiovascular diseases represent an increasing share of the global disease burden. There is concern that increased consumption of palm oil could exacerbate mortality from ischemic heart disease (IHD) and stro...

    Authors: Brian K Chen, Benjamin Seligman, John W Farquhar and Jeremy D Goldhaber-Fiebert
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2011 7:45
  14. Low and middle income countries are ageing at a much faster rate than richer countries, especially in Asia. This is happening at a time of globalisation, migration, urbanisation, and smaller families. Older pe...

    Authors: Wendy R Holmes and Jennifer Joseph
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2011 7:43
  15. Few studies have examined the link between health system strength and important public health outcomes across nations. We examined the association between health system indicators and mortality rates.

    Authors: Katherine A Muldoon, Lindsay P Galway, Maya Nakajima, Steve Kanters, Robert S Hogg, Eran Bendavid and Edward J Mills
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2011 7:42
  16. HIV was first described as a "long-wave event" in 1990, well before the advent of antiretroviral therapy (ART). The pandemic was then seen as involving three curves: an HIV curve, an AIDS curve and a curve rep...

    Authors: Stephanie A Nixon, Jill Hanass-Hancock, Alan Whiteside and Tony Barnett
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2011 7:41
  17. Tiered pricing - the concept of selling drugs and vaccines in developing countries at prices systematically lower than in industrialized countries - has received widespread support from industry, policymakers,...

    Authors: Suerie Moon, Elodie Jambert, Michelle Childs and Tido von Schoen-Angerer
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2011 7:39
  18. The growing caseload caused by patients with chronic life-long conditions leads to increased needs for health care providers and rising costs of health services, resulting in a heavy burden on health systems, ...

    Authors: Josefien van Olmen, Grace Marie Ku, Raoul Bermejo, Guy Kegels, Katharina Hermann and Wim Van Damme
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2011 7:38
  19. Globally, chronic diseases are responsible for an enormous burden of deaths, disability, and economic loss, yet little is known about the optimal health sector response to chronic diseases in poor, post-confli...

    Authors: Patrick T Lee, Gina R Kruse, Brian T Chan, Moses BF Massaquoi, Rajesh R Panjabi, Bernice T Dahn and Walter T Gwenigale
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2011 7:37
  20. 'Transactional sex' was regarded by the mid-1990s as an important determinant of HIV transmission, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Little attention has been paid to what the terms used to denote transactio...

    Authors: Kirsten Stoebenau, Stephanie A Nixon, Clara Rubincam, Samantha Willan, Yanga ZN Zembe, Tumelo Tsikoane, Pius T Tanga, Haruna M Bello, Carlos F Caceres, Loraine Townsend, Paul G Rakotoarison and Violette Razafintsalama
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2011 7:34
  21. The past decade has seen remarkable progress in increasing access to antiretroviral therapy in resource-limited settings. Early concerns about the cost and complexity of treatment were overcome thanks to the e...

    Authors: Nathan Ford, Alexandra Calmy and Edward J Mills
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2011 7:33
  22. This paper attempts to describe and analyse the policy processes that led to the granting and implementation of the government use licenses to enable the import and production of generic versions of medicines ...

    Authors: Suwit Wibulpolprasert, Vichai Chokevivat, Cecilia Oh and Inthira Yamabhai
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2011 7:32
  23. HIV/AIDS has always been one of the most thoroughly global of diseases. In the era of widely available anti-retroviral therapy (ART), it is also commonly recognised as a chronic disease that can be successfull...

    Authors: Christopher J Colvin
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2011 7:31
  24. Between 2006 and 2008, Thailand's Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) granted government use licenses for seven patented drugs in order to improve access to these essential treatments. The decision to grant the g...

    Authors: Inthira Yamabhai, Adun Mohara, Sripen Tantivess, Kakanang Chaisiri and Yot Teerawattananon
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2011 7:28
  25. In recent years, 10 major multinational food and beverage companies have worked together within the International Food and Beverage Alliance (IFBA) to increase their commitments to public health. Current IFBA ...

    Authors: Eleanore Alexander, Derek Yach and George A Mensah
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2011 7:26
  26. Strengthened national health systems are necessary for effective and sustained expansion of antiretroviral therapy (ART). ART and its supply chain management in Uganda are largely based on parallel and externa...

    Authors: Ricarda Windisch, Peter Waiswa, Florian Neuhann, Florian Scheibe and Don de Savigny
    Citation: Globalization and Health 2011 7:25

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