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  1. Utu is a Kiswahili term with a long history of cultural significance in Tanzania. It conveys a value system of shared, collective humanity. While variants of Utu have been studied in other contexts, a measure ...

    Authors: Megan Cherewick, Ronald E. Dahl, Daphna Rubin, Jenn A. Leiferman and Prosper F. Njau
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2023 8:15
  2. The call for decolonization in global health is growing alongside China’s increasing involvement in the field. This perspective paper presents and extends with a further literature review of a dialogue with St...

    Authors: Yu Tang, Feifei Zhang and Dong Roman Xu
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2023 8:14
  3. Due to slum dwellers' deprivation, they are more likely to develop Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) and its complications. Type 2 Diabetes is a long-life disease that requires continuous health care utilization. One of t...

    Authors: Fawzieh Ghammari, Rahim Khodayari-zarnaq, Habib Jalilian and Masumeh Gholizadeh
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2023 8:13
  4. Diabetes mellitus is an obtrusive universal health emergency in developed and developing countries, including India. With the exponential rise of epidemiological conditions, the costs of treating and managing ...

    Authors: Pooja Kansra and Sumit Oberoi
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2023 8:11

    The Correction to this article has been published in Global Health Research and Policy 2023 8:34

  5. There has been considerable progress in developing global health education and research in China. Nevertheless, evidence of the progress of Chinese universities’ contributions to global health research is limi...

    Authors: Chenkai Wu, Lijing L. Yan, Qian Long, Yunguo Liu, Jie Tan, Zhexun Lou and Shenglan Tang
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2023 8:10
  6. Adolescent consumer engagement is widely accepted, with global calls to meaningfully involve adolescents for effective and tailored policy and guideline development. However, it is still unclear if and how ado...

    Authors: Mariam Mandoh, Julie Redfern, Seema Mihrshahi, Hoi Lun Cheng, Philayrath Phongsavan and Stephanie R. Partridge
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2023 8:9
  7. Family environmental factors play a vital role in shaping children’s health practices (e.g., obesity prevention). It is still unclear how parents’ social support affects children’s obesity-related health pract...

    Authors: Paulin Tay Straughan and Chengwei Xu
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2023 8:8
  8. Postpartum contraceptive uptake reduces short interpregnancy intervals, unintended pregnancies, and their negative sequalae: poor maternal and fetal outcomes. Healthy timing and spacing of pregnancy in people ...

    Authors: Daniel E. Sack, Almiro Emílio, Erin Graves, Ariano Matino, Paula Paulo, Arifo U. Aboobacar, Caroline De Schacht and Carolyn M. Audet
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2023 8:7
  9. Many emerging and developing economies, such as China, have played the important roles in combating global neglected diseases (NDs). This study aims to explore China’s public landscape of research projects and...

    Authors: Jiyan Ma, Lanchao Zhang, Xianzhe Li, Jiashu Shen, Yinuo Sun and Yangmu Huang
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2023 8:6
  10. Co-design with people having poor access to health services and fragile health systems in low- and middle-income countries can be momentous in bringing service users and other stakeholders together to improve ...

    Authors: Devendra Raj Singh, Rajeeb Kumar Sah, Bibha Simkhada and Zoe Darwin
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2023 8:5
  11. The burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is high in Malawi. However, resources and training for NCD care remain scarce, especially in rural hospitals. Current care for NCDs in the developing world focuse...

    Authors: Peter Olds, Chiyembekezo Kachimanga, George Talama, Bright Mailosi, Enoch Ndarama, Jodie Totten, Nicholas Musinguzi, Dickson Hangiwa, Gene Bukhman and Emily B. Wroe
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2023 8:4
  12. Tobacco is one of the biggest public health problems and a major risk factor for various non-communicable diseases (NCDs). An important aspect of tobacco control strategy could include modifications in the tob...

    Authors: Yogesh Damodar Sabde, Vikas Yadav, Abhijit P. Pakhare, Sanjeev Kumar, Ankur Joshi and Rajnish Joshi
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2023 8:3
  13. South America, once an epicenter of COVID-19, has stayed on the road of continued management of the pandemic. The region initially struggled to cope with the pandemic as it experienced spiraling numbers of inf...

    Authors: Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno III, Deborah Oluwaseun Shomuyiwa, Creuza Rachel Vicente, María José González Méndez, Shohra Qaderi, Jaifred Christian Lopez, Yidnekachew Girma Mogessie, Jason Alacapa, Lila Chamlagai, Remy Ndayizeye and Pelin Kinay
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2023 8:2
  14. Over the years, civil society organizations (CSOs) have made tremendous efforts to ensure that state policies, programmes, and actions facilitate equitable access to healthcare. While CSOs are key actors in th...

    Authors: Diya Uberoi, Tolulope Ojo, Abi Sriharan and Lincoln Lau
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2023 8:1
  15. Current global health course is most set as elective course taught in traditional teacher-taught model with low credit and short term. Innovate teaching models are required. Crowdsourcing characterized by high...

    Authors: Huanle Cai, Huiqiong Zheng, Jinghua Li, Chun Hao, Jing Gu, Jing Liao and Yuantao Hao
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2022 7:50
  16. Identifying factors associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) is critical for its prevention, but this topic is scarcely investigated in Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, northwestern China. We thus explored th...

    Authors: Jia-Xin Li, Li Li, Xuemei Zhong, Shu-Jun Fan, Tao Cen, Jianquan Wang, Chuanjiang He, Zhoubin Zhang, Ya-Na Luo, Xiao-Xuan Liu, Li-Xin Hu, Yi-Dan Zhang, Hui-Ling Qiu, Guang-Hui Dong, Xiao-Guang Zou and Bo-Yi Yang
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2022 7:48
  17. Recent evidence suggests that soil-transmitted helminth (STH) transmission interruption may be feasible through community-wide mass drug administration (cMDA) that deworms community members of all ages. A chan...

    Authors: Amy Roll, Malvika Saxena, Elizabeth Orlan, Angelin Titus, Sanjay Kamlakar Juvekar, Marie-Claire Gwayi-Chore, Euripide Avokpaho, Félicien Chabi, Comlanvi Innocent Togbevi, Abiguel Belou Elijan, Providence Nindi, Judd L. Walson, Sitara S. R. Ajjampur, Moudachirou Ibikounlé, Khumbo Kalua, Kumudha Aruldas…
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2022 7:47
  18. In many low-income countries, households bear most of the health care costs. Community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes have multiplied since the 1990s in West Africa. They have significantly improved the...

    Authors: Kaba Kanko Conde, Aboubacar Mariama Camara, Manar Jallal, Mohamed Khalis, Saad Zbiri and Vincent De Brouwere
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2022 7:46
  19. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has posed particular health risks to United Nations peacekeepers, which require prompt responses and global attention. Since the health protection of United Nat...

    Authors: Quan Yuan, Yong Chen, Jiqing Wan, Rui Zhang, Miaomiao Liao, Zhaogang Li, Jiani Zhou and Ying Li
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2022 7:45
  20. Malnutrition is a key global health challenge and a major contributor to childhood morbidity and mortality. In recent times, the contrasting coexistence of undernutrition including micronutrient deficiencies a...

    Authors: Mukhtar A. Ijaiya, Seun Anjorin and Olalekan A. Uthman
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2022 7:44
  21. Breast cancer is the most common malignant disease in women and is the leading cause of cancer deaths among women. Mammography is the best and the most available diagnostic method for breast cancer early detec...

    Authors: Mehdi Mirzaei-Alavijeh, Bonnie Jerome-D”Emilia, Farid Najafi, Mehdi Moradinazar, Razieh Pirouzeh and Farzad Jalilian
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2022 7:43
  22. COVID-19 vaccination has been advocated as the most effective way to curb the pandemic. But with its inequitable distribution and slow rollout, especially in low- to middle- income countries, it will still tak...

    Authors: Joseph Christian Obnial, Mystie Suzuki, Catherine Joy Escuadra, Janine Trixia Austria, Ma. Jamaica Monique Ponce and Elaine Cunanan
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2022 7:42
  23. With the rising prevalence of obesity and overweight, increasing number of scholars paid attention to the negative effects on human health and life. Recent years, many studies have focused on the relation of s...

    Authors: Kai Wang, Caifeng Wu, Yifan Yao, Shihan Zhang, Yaxuan Xie, Kejian Shi and Zhanpeng Yuan
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2022 7:41
  24. The increasing of exchange activities among public health institutes and experts globally calls for a standardized operation to construct public health field investigation and short-term study hub (Field Study...

    Authors: Ning Feng, Yanhui Dong, Shelan Liu and Xiaoping Dong
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2022 7:40
  25. Payment methods are known to influence maternal care delivery in health systems. Ghana suspended a piloted capitation provider payment system after nearly five years of implementation. This study aimed to exam...

    Authors: John Kanyiri Yambah, Kofi Akohene Mensah, Naasegnibe Kuunibe, Kindness Laar, Roger Ayimbillah Atinga, Millicent Ofori Boateng, Daniel Opoku and Wilm Quentin
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2022 7:38
  26. Fever is one of the most frequent reasons for paediatric consultations in Burkina Faso, but health care-seeking behaviours and the factors associated with health care-seeking in the event of childhood fever ar...

    Authors: Hermann Badolo, Aristide R. Bado, Hervé Hien, Nicolas Méda and A. Sathiya Susuman
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2022 7:37
  27. Schistosomiasis is a global health problem affecting 250 million people, with 90% in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Botswana, the burden is high in the Okavango delta because of the water channels. WHO recommends inte...

    Authors: Kebabonye P. Gabaake, Nthabiseng A. Phaladze, Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno III and Olekae T. Thakadu
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2022 7:36
  28. The COVID-19 pandemic is a public health crisis and an inspection of national governance systems and crisis response capabilities of countries globally. China has adopted a tough accountability system for offi...

    Authors: Shian Zeng and Chengdong Yi
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2022 7:33
  29. More than one million people each year become infected by parasites that cause the disease cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL). This disease manifests as one or more skin lesions or ulcers that are slow to heal with ...

    Authors: Brianne Wenning, Helen Price, Hasara Nuwangi, Kelemework Tafere Reda, Ben Walters, Reem Ehsanullah, Greice Viana, Alina Andras and Lisa Dikomitis
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2022 7:34
  30. Child marriage remains an important social issue in Indonesia. Child marriages were reported from 14.67% in 2008 to 10.82% in 2019. However, 22 out of 34 provinces in Indonesia still had high child marriage ra...

    Authors: Muliani Ratnaningsih, Heribertus Rinto Wibowo, Nicholas J. Goodwin, Ade Ayu Kartika Sari Rezki, R. Ridwan, Ratnakanya Nitya Hadyani, Emilie Minnick, Derry Fahrizal Ulum, Tanti Kosmiyati Kostaman and Sitti Nur Faizah
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2022 7:32
  31. Musculoskeletal injury contributes significantly to the burden of disease in Tanzania and other LMICs. For hospitals to cope financially with this burden, they often mandate that patients pay their entire hosp...

    Authors: Joy E. Obayemi, Elizabeth B. Card, Octavian Shirima, Ajay Premkumar, Honest Massawe and Neil P. Sheth
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2022 7:31
  32. Informal payments are one of the major obstacles to health system reform in many developing countries, and its elimination is on the agenda of health system policymakers in many countries, including Iran. This...

    Authors: Mohammad Arab, Bahman Khosravi, Hossein Safari, Hojat Rahmani, Ghasem Rajabi Vasokolaei, Mohammadreza Mobinizadeh and Farhad Habibi
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2022 7:30
  33. Evidence suggests that there are approximately two female genital fistula cases per 1000 women of reproductive age in sub-Saharan Africa. It is estimated that more than 200,000 women are affected by fistula in...

    Authors: Emmanuel Kelechi Nwala, Charles Nwaigwe, Pooja Sripad, Charlotte E. Warren, Salisu Ishaku and Solomon Kongyamba
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2022 7:29
  34. The contribution of vaccination to global public health and community wellbeing has been described as one of the greatest success stories of modern medicine. However, 13.5 million children still miss at least ...

    Authors: Gbadebo Collins Adeyanju, Cornelia Betsch, Abdu A. Adamu, Khadijah Sanusi Gumbi, Michael G. Head, Aristide Aplogan, Haoua Tall and Tene-Alima Essoh
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2022 7:28
  35. Surveillance efforts are essential to pandemic control, especially where the state is the primary health provider, such as Brazil. When public health testing guidelines limit molecular tests, there are reducti...

    Authors: Lorena G. Barberia, Natália de P. Moreira, Brigina Kemp, Maria Amelia de Sousa Mascena Veras, Marcela Zamudio, Isabel Seelaender Costa Rosa, Rebeca de J. Carvalho and Tatiane C. M. Sousa
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2022 7:27
  36. Surgical tourism is an emerging economic sector, with the most growth potential demonstrated in China's health industry before the COVID-19 pandemic. Surgical tourism accounts for a large part of medical touri...

    Authors: Dan Zhang, Yue Yan, Mei-xia Liao and Ting-fang Liu
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2022 7:26
  37. Economic evaluation studies demonstrate the value of money in health interventions and enhance the efficiency of the healthcare system. Therefore, this study reviews published economic evaluation studies of pu...

    Authors: Mouaddh Abdulmalik Nagi, Mustafa Ali Ali Rezq, Sermsiri Sangroongruangsri, Montarat Thavorncharoensap and Pramitha Esha Nirmala Dewi
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2022 7:25
  38. Despite free tuberculosis (TB) care in Pakistan, patients still have to bear high costs, which push them into poverty. This study estimated the pre- and post-diagnosis costs households bear for TB care, and in...

    Authors: Shama Razzaq, Aysha Zahidie and Zafar Fatmi
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2022 7:22
  39. The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to disrupt the availability and utilization of routine and emergency health care services, with differing impacts in jurisdictions across the world. In t...

    Authors: Prince A. Adu, Lisa Stallwood, Stephen O. Adebola, Theresa Abah and Arnold Ikedichi Okpani
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2022 7:20
  40. Cerebral palsy (CP) registers serve as instrumental tools to support development of care pathways, preventative strategies, and health gains. Such health gains, however, are not always universal, with Indigeno...

    Authors: Karen Wright, Aria Dehar, N. Susan Stott, Anna Mackey, Alexandra Sorhage, Rachel Tapera and Sîan A. Williams
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2022 7:24
  41. Vaccination against the novel coronavirus is one of the most effective strategies for combating the global Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. However, vaccine hesitancy has emerged as a major obstacle in...

    Authors: Betty B. B. Ackah, Michael Woo, Lisa Stallwood, Zahra A. Fazal, Arnold Okpani, Ugochinyere Vivian Ukah and Prince A. Adu
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2022 7:21
  42. With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing, various treatments have become widely practiced. Stem cells have a wide range of applications in the treatment of lung diseases and have therefore been experimentally use...

    Authors: Minghe Zhang, Xinchun Yan, Minghui Shi, Ruihang Li, Ziwei Pi, Xiangying Ren, Yongbo Wang, Siyu Yan, Yunyun Wang, Yinghui Jin and Xinghuan Wang
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2022 7:19
  43. The COVID-19 pandemic and governments’ attempts to contain it are negatively affecting young children’s health and development in ways we are only beginning to understand and measure. Responses to the pandemic...

    Authors: Chunling Lu, Yiqun Luan, Sara N. Naicker, S. V. Subramanian, Jere R. Behrman, Jody Heymann, Alan Stein and Linda M. Richter
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2022 7:18

    The Correction to this article has been published in Global Health Research and Policy 2022 7:23

  44. To understand the magnitude and spatial–temporal distribution of the regional burden attributable to severe mental disorders is of great essential and high policy relevance. The study aimed to address the burd...

    Authors: Wenyan Tan, Lichang Chen, Yuqin Zhang, Junyan Xi, Yuantao Hao, Fujun Jia, Brian J. Hall, Jing Gu, Shibin Wang, Haicheng Lin and Xiao Lin
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2022 7:17
  45. A national drug resistance survey (DRS) was implemented for the first time in Timor-Leste (TL) in 2019. The primary objective of the survey was to assess the prevalence of drug resistance among new and previou...

    Authors: Constantino Lopes, Debashish Kundu, Ismael Da Costa Barreto, Bernardino da Cruz, S. Siva Kumar, Sureshbabu Ramalingam, Anna S. Dean, Vineet Bhatia, Prabhu Seenivasan, C. Padmapriyadarsini and Olga Tosas Auguet
    Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2022 7:16

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