Articles

Decolonizing global health: what should be the target of this movement and where does it lead us?

The current decolonizing global health movement is calling us to take a post-colonial perspective at the research and practice of global health, an area that has been re-defined by contemporary scholars and ad...

Authors: Xiaoxiao Kwete, Kun Tang, Lucy Chen, Ran Ren, Qi Chen, Zhenru Wu, Yi Cai and Hao Li

Does disability increase households’ health financial risk: evidence from the Uganda demographic and health survey

In the last few years, there has been a worldwide commitment to protect the vulnerable individuals from higher financial risk through out-of-pocket (OOP) health expenditure. This study examines the influence o...

Authors: Wilfried Guets and Deepak Kumar Behera

Global health education for the post-pandemic years: parity, people, planet, priorities, and practices

Global health degree programs are now offered by institutions of higher education in most world regions. Based on our review of the curricula for many of these programs, we identified five domains that are cen...

Authors: Kathryn H. Jacobsen and Caryl E. Waggett

Validity, reliability, and measurement invariance of an adapted short version of the HIV stigma scale among perinatally HIV infected adolescents at the Kenyan coast

There is a dearth of instruments that have been developed and validated for use with children living with HIV under the age of 17 years in the Kenyan context. We examined the psychometric properties and measur...

Authors: Stanley W. Wanjala, Derrick Ssewanyana, Patrick N. Mwangala, Carophine Nasambu, Esther Chongwo, Stanley Luchters, Charles R. J. C. Newton and Amina Abubakar

The military as a neglected pathogen transmitter, from the nineteenth century to COVID-19: a systematic review

The risk of outbreaks escalating into pandemics has soared with globalization. Therefore, understanding transmission mechanisms of infectious diseases has become critical to formulating global public health po...

Authors: Claudia Chaufan, Ilinca A. Dutescu, Hanah Fekre, Saba Marzabadi and K. J. Noh

Thinking global health from the perspective of anthropology

COVID-19 has brought about political, economic, cultural, and interspecies problems far from medical areas, which challenges academia to rethink global health. For holism principle, anthropology offers valuabl...

Authors: Ruobing Ji and Yu Cheng

Can Africa achieve herd immunity?

The World Health Organization described herd immunity, also known as population immunity, as the indirect fortification from an infectious disease that happens when a population is immune either through vaccin...

Authors: Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno III, Isaac Olushola Ogunkola, Ekpereonne Babatunde Esu, Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi, Xu Lin and Hao Li

Evaluation of the determinants of food security within the COVID-19 pandemic circumstances- a particular case of Shaanxi, China

Agricultural food production and distribution industries may play a vital role in determining the current conditions of any country’s food security and sustainable development goals. This paper examined the de...

Authors: Apurbo Sarkar, Wang Hongyu, Abdul Azim Jony, Jiban Chandro Das, Waqar Hussain Memon and Lu Qian

Informal payments in public hospitals in Malawi: the case of Kamuzu Central Hospital

Informal payments in public health facilities act as a barrier to accessing quality health services, especially for poor people. This research aimed to investigate informal payments for health care services at...

Authors: Annette Mphande-Namangale and Isabel Kazanga-Chiumia

The impact of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico’s health system: post-disaster perceptions and experiences of health care providers and administrators

After its landfall in Puerto Rico in 2017, Hurricane Maria caused the longest blackout in United States history, producing cascading effects on a health care system that had already been weakened by decades of...

Authors: Sheilla L. Rodríguez-Madera, Nelson Varas-Díaz, Mark Padilla, Kevin Grove, Kariela Rivera-Bustelo, Jeffrey Ramos, Violeta Contreras-Ramirez, Sergio Rivera-Rodríguez, Ricardo Vargas-Molina and Jose Santini

Addressing constraints to informal providers’ involvement in tuberculosis control: a qualitative study of patent medicine dealers and tuberculosis programme managers

A major constraint to tuberculosis control is low case finding with under-reporting to national authorities. Evidence shows that Patent Medicine Dealers are first port of call for most people with symptoms of ...

Authors: Cosmas Kenan Onah, Benedict Ndubueze Azuogu, Edmund Ndudi Ossai, Adaoha Pearl Agu, Victoria Chioma Azuogu, Isaac Alobu and Emeka Onwe Ogah

Understanding parental self-medication with antibiotics among parents of different nationalities: a cross-sectional study

There is an increasing trend on the practices of parental self-medication with antibiotics (PSMA) around world, accelerating the antibiotic abuse. This study aims to examine the nationality differences in the ...

Authors: Zhongliang Zhou, Dantong Zhao, Huarui Zhang, Chi Shen, Dan Cao, Guanping Liu, Liang Zhu and Yu Fang

Experiences with a violence and mental health safety protocol for a randomized controlled trial to support youth living with HIV

Safety protocols are an essential component of studies addressing violence and mental health but are rarely described in the published literature from Sub-Saharan Africa. We designed and implemented a safety p...

Authors: Katherine G. Merrill, Jonathan K. Mwansa, Sam Miti, Virginia M. Burke, Elizabeth A. Abrams, Christiana Frimpong, Michele R. Decker, Jacquelyn C. Campbell and Julie A. Denison

Health problems and utilization of health services among Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals in Bangladesh

Access to and utilization of health services have remained major challenges for people living in low- and middle-income countries, especially for those living in impaired public health environment such as refu...

Authors: Lal B. Rawal, Kie Kanda, Tuhin Biswas, Md. Imtiaz Tanim, Padam Kanta Dahal, Md. Rajibul Islam, Tarique Md. Nurul Huda, Tahmina Begum, Berhe W. Sahle, Andre M. N. Renzaho and Iqbal Anwar

Health system and patient-level factors serving as facilitators and barriers to rheumatic heart disease care in Sudan

Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa despite widely available preventive therapies such as prophylactic benzathine penicillin G (BPG). In this ...

Authors: Jeffrey G. Edwards, Michele Barry, Dary Essam, Mohammed Elsayed, Mohamed Abdulkarim, Basamat M. A. Elhossein, Zahia H. A. Mohammed, Abdelmunim Elnogomi, Amna S. E. Elfaki, Ahmed Elsayed and Andrew Y. Chang

Local characterization of the COVID-19 response: the case of a lockdown in Lusaka, Zambia

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has sparked heated debate among scholars on the relevance of lockdowns. There are those in favor of the lockdown and others who are critical of it. However, despite the incre...

Authors: Choolwe Muzyamba

The impact of health education videos on general public’s mental health and behavior during COVID-19

COVID-19 has seriously affected people's mental health and changed their behaviors. Previous studies for mental state and behavior promotion only targeted limited people or were not suitable for daily activity...

Authors: Qian Yang, Zhihua Wu, Ying Xie, Xiaohua Xiao, Jinnan Wu, Tian Sang, Kejun Zhang, Haidong Song, Xifeng Wu and Xin Xu

Are doctors protected enough during COVID-19 in South Asia?

The highly contagious nature of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) places physicians in South Asia at high risk of contracting the infection. Accordingly, we conducted this study ...

Authors: Nadia Nazir Jatoi, Saniya Ahmad, Emad ud-din Sajid, Farah Yasmin, Muhammad Sohaib Asghar, Syed Ali Farhan, Bushra Zafar Sayeed, Momina Mariam Marufi, Kaneez Fatima and Syed Faisal Mahmood

A longitudinal surgical systems strengthening research program for medical students: the exploration of a model for global health education

In response to the staggering global burden of conditions requiring emergency and essential surgery, the development of international surgical system strengthening (SSS) is fundamental to achieving universal, ...

Authors: Gregory L. Peck, Joseph S. Hanna, Erin M. Scott, Dhaval Mehta, Zina Model, Deesha Sarma, Elizabeth E. Ginalis, Zachary Berlant, Fernando Ferrera, Javier Escobar, Carlos A. Ordoñez, Carlos Morales and Vicente H. Gracias

User experiences and perceptions of health wearables: an exploratory study in Cambodia

In many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), health system capacities to address the burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are often inadequate. In these countries, wearable health technologies such ...

Authors: Marco Liverani, Por Ir, Virginia Wiseman and Pablo Perel

Correction to: Health-related quality of life in Chinese workers: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Authors: Ya Su, Meng-Shuang Liu, Pinnaduwage Vijitha De Silva, Truls Østbye and Ke-Zhi Jin

A systematic review of qualitative literature on antimicrobial stewardship in Sub-Saharan Africa

Antibiotic resistance is a major problem in every region of the globe and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is no exception. Several systematic reviews have addressed the prevalence of resistant organisms but few have ...

Authors: George James Porter, Stephen Owens and Matthew Breckons

An intersectional gender analysis of familial and socio-cultural drivers of inequitable scientific career progression of researchers in Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) suffers from a dearth of concrete information on the causes of women’s under-representation in scientific research workforce particularly at higher levels compared with the wealth of i...

Authors: Millicent L. Liani, Isaac K. Nyamongo, Justin Pulford and Rachel Tolhurst

Health-related quality of life in Chinese workers: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Studies of health-related quality of life among workers have generated varying results. The purpose of this study was to conduct a systematic review to synthesize the scores of health-related quality of life m...

Authors: Ya Su, Meng-Shuang Liu, Pinnaduwage Vijitha De Silva, Truls Østbye and Ke-Zhi Jin

Correction to: Morbidity and mortality outcomes of COVID-19 patients with and without hypertension in Lagos, Nigeria: a retrospective cohort study

Authors: Akin Abayomi, Akin Osibogun, Oluchi Kanma-Okafor, Jide Idris, Abimbola Bowale, Ololade Wright, Bisola Adebayo, Mobolanle Balogun, Segun Ogboye, Remi Adeseun, Ismael Abdus-Salam, Bamidele Mutiu, Babatunde Saka, Dayo Lajide, Sam Yenyi, Rotimi Agbolagorite…

Role of the Global Fund in national HIV/AIDS response in Myanmar: a qualitative study

The Global Fund has been a major funding source for HIV/AIDS programs in Myanmar. In this qualitative study, we aim to understand the impact of Global Fund on national HIV/AIDS response in Myanmar during the e...

Authors: Zarni Htun, Yingxi Zhao, Hannah Gilbert and Chunling Lu

Morbidity and mortality outcomes of COVID-19 patients with and without hypertension in Lagos, Nigeria: a retrospective cohort study

The current pandemic of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has shown epidemiological and clinical characteristics that appear worsened in ...

Authors: Akin Abayomi, Akin Osibogun, Oluchi Kanma-Okafor, Jide Idris, Abimbola Bowale, Ololade Wright, Bisola Adebayo, Mobolanle Balogun, Segun Ogboye, Remi Adeseun, Ismael Abdus-Salam, Bamidele Mutiu, Babatunde Saka, Dayo Lajide, Sam Yenyi, Rotimi Agbolagorite…

Identifying the research gap of zoonotic disease in displacement: a systematic review

Outbreaks of zoonotic diseases that transmit between animals and humans, against a backdrop of increasing levels of forced migration, present a major challenge to global public health. This review provides an ...

Authors: Dorien Hanneke Braam, Freya Louise Jephcott and James Lionel Norman Wood

The need for adaptable global guidance in health systems strengthening for musculoskeletal health: a qualitative study of international key informants

Musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions, MSK pain and MSK injury/trauma are the largest contributors to the global burden of disability, yet global guidance to arrest the rising disability burden is lacking. We aimed...

Authors: Andrew M. Briggs, Joanne E. Jordan, Deborah Kopansky-Giles, Saurab Sharma, Lyn March, Carmen Huckel Schneider, Swatee Mishrra, James J. Young and Helen Slater

Determinants of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in the Arab world: a cross-sectional study

The Arab region is highly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Local governments have already started to act against the disease. However, only a few countries provided COVID-19 vaccination. Compliance with vacc...

Authors: M. Ihsan Kaadan, Joud Abdulkarim, Maher Chaar, Obada Zayegh and Mouhammed Ali Keblawi

Deployment of workforce in global health: what should be the priorities for China?

China has increasingly emerged as an important player in global health. However, compared to developed countries, China still lacks a sufficient health workforce for global health engagement with the necessary...

Authors: Xuejiao Ma, Wei Ding, Yingjun Qian, Shenning Lu, Bei Wang, Qiuli Xu, Duoquan Wang, Yayi Guan, Ning Xiao and Xiaonong Zhou

Barriers and facilitators for early and exclusive breastfeeding in health facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review

Sub-Saharan Africa carries a disproportionate burden of under-five child deaths in the world and appropriate breastfeeding practices can support efforts to reduce child mortality rates. Health facilities are i...

Authors: Mai-Lei Woo Kinshella, Sarina Prasad, Tamanda Hiwa, Marianne Vidler, Alinane Linda Nyondo-Mipando, Queen Dube, David Goldfarb and Kondwani Kawaza

Does city lockdown prevent the spread of COVID-19? New evidence from the synthetic control method

At 10 a.m. on January 23, 2020 Wuhan, China imposed a 76-day travel lockdown on its 11 million residents in order to stop the spread of COVID-19. This lockdown represented the largest quarantine in the history...

Authors: Xiaoxuan Yang

The influence of gender dynamics on polio eradication efforts at the community, workplace, and organizational level

Globally, gender as a barrier or facilitator in achieving health outcomes is increasingly being documented. However, the role of gender in health programming and organization is frequently ignored. The Global ...

Authors: Anna Kalbarczyk, Aditi Rao, Adedamola Adebayo, Ellie Decker, Sue Gerber and Rosemary Morgan

The comparison of epidemiological characteristics between confirmed and clinically diagnosed cases with COVID-19 during the early epidemic in Wuhan, China

To put COVID-19 patients into hospital timely, the clinical diagnosis had been implemented in Wuhan in the early epidemic. Here we compared the epidemiological characteristics of laboratory-confirmed and clini...

Authors: Fang Shi, Haoyu Wen, Rui Liu, Jianjun Bai, Fang Wang, Sumaira Mubarik, Xiaoxue Liu, Yong Yu, Qiumian Hong, Jinhong Cao and Chuanhua Yu

Socio-demographics and asthma prevalence, management, and outcomes among children 1–11 years of age in California

Asthma disproportionately affects minority and low-income children. We examined asthma prevalence, management and outcomes, focusing on race/ethnicity and acculturation of parents (particularly English languag...

Authors: Jim E. Banta, Majed Ramadan, Noara Alhusseini, Khaled Aloraini and Naomi Modeste

Relationship between perceived social support and postpartum care attendance in three Latin American countries: a cross-sectional analytic study

Postpartum Care is a strategy to improve survival of women and newborns, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Early post-partum care can promote healthy behaviors and the identification of risk fact...

Authors: Nancy R. Cardona Cordero, José Perez Ramos, Zahira Quiñones Tavarez, Scott McIntosh, Esteban Avendaño, Carmen DiMare, Deborah J. Ossip and Timothy De Ver Dye

Climate change, 24-hour movement behaviors, and health: a mini umbrella review

The worsening climate change and alarming prevalence of communicable and non-communicable diseases continue to threat human life and existence. Accumulating evidence suggests that favorable patterns of 24-h mo...

Authors: Evaline Zisis, Shawn Hakimi and Eun-Young Lee

The effects of tobacco taxation and pricing on the prevalence of smoking in Africa

Tobacco use continues to kill millions of people globally, making it one of the major causes of preventable deaths. Notwithstanding, there has been a very marginal fall in the prevalence of tobacco smoking in ...

Authors: Mustapha Immurana, Micheal Kofi Boachie and Abdul-Aziz Iddrisu

Rethinking and strengthening the Global Health Diplomacy through triangulated nexus between policy makers, scientists and the community in light of COVID-19 global crisis

The COVID-19 pandemic is considerably the biggest global health challenge of this modern era. Spreading across all regions of the world, this corona virus disease has disrupted even some of the most advanced e...

Authors: Mohammed AlKhaldi, Nigel James, Vijay Kumar Chattu, Sara Ahmed, Hamza Meghari, Kirsty Kaiser, Carel IJsselmuiden and Marcel Tanner

Economic burden of childhood diarrhea in Burundi

In 2016, diarrhea killed around 7 children aged under 5 years per 1000 live births in Burundi. The objective of this study was to estimate the economic burden associated with diarrhea in Burundi and to examine...

Authors: Fulgence Niyibitegeka, Arthorn Riewpaiboon, Sitaporn Youngkong and Montarat Thavorncharoensap

The impact of lockdown policy on depressive symptoms among pregnant women in China: mediating effects of internet use and family support

Although more and more attention has been paid to the psychological consequences of the lockdown policy amongst pregnant women, the underlying mechanism linking the lockdown policy to maternal depression has n...

Authors: Yongjie Zhou, Ruoxi Wang, Lei Liu, Ting Ding, Lijuan Huo, Ling Qi, Jie Xiong, Jie Yan, Lingyun Zeng, Jiezhi Yang, Suyi Song and Gaolanxin Dai

Evaluation of preventive, supportive and awareness building measures among international students in China in response to COVID-19: a structural equation modeling approach

Education institutions promptly implemented a set of steps to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among international Chinese students, such as restrictive physical exercise, mask wear, daily health reporting, etc....

Authors: Tanwne Sarker, Apurbo Sarkar, Md. Ghulam Rabbany, Milon Barmon, Rana Roy, Md. Ashfikur Rahman, Kh. Zulfikar Hossain, Fazlul Hoque and Muhammad Asaduzzaman

Political economy analysis of the performance‐based financing programme in Afghanistan

Performance-based financing (PBF) has attracted considerable attention in recent years in low and middle-income countries. Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) implemented a PBF programme between 201...

Authors: Ahmad Shah Salehi, Karl Blanchet, Anna Vassall and Josephine Borghi

Health financing for universal health coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review

Universal health coverage (UHC) embedded within the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, is defined by the World Health Organization as all individuals having access to required health services, of su...

Authors: Susan C. Ifeagwu, Justin C. Yang, Rosalind Parkes-Ratanshi and Carol Brayne

Assessment of China’s contributions to the Regional Network for Asian Schistosomiasis and Other Helminth Zoonoses: a questionnaire survey

The Regional Network for Asian Schistosomiasis and Other Helminth Zoonoses (RNAS⁺) was established in 1998, which has developed close partnerships with Asian countries endemic for schistosomiasis and other helmin...

Authors: Hong-Mei Li, Ying-Jun Qian, Kun Yang, Wei Ding, Lu-Lu Huang, Xue-Jiao Ma, Lei Duan, Duo-Quan Wang, Ya-Yi Guan, Ning Xiao and Xiao-Nong Zhou

Policy implications for awareness gaps in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and antimicrobial use among commercial Nepalese poultry producers

Nepal’s poultry industry has increased with a growing middle class, which has translated to an increase in antimicrobial consumption and thus a rise in antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Describing and understand...

Authors: Anastasia S. Lambrou, Gabriel K. Innes, Laura O’Sullivan, Himal Luitel, Rebanta K. Bhattarai, Hom B. Basnet and Christopher D. Heaney

Country size bias in global health: cross-country comparison of malaria policy and foreign aid

Foreign aid has been shown to be favourably biased towards small countries. This study investigated whether country size bias also occurs in national malaria policy and development assistance from internationa...

Authors: Tomas Jezek

Does the gap between health workers’ expectations and the realities of implementing a performance-based financing project in Mali create frustration?

Performance-Based Financing (PBF), an innovative health financing initiative, was recently implemented in Mali. PBF aims to improve quality of care by motivating health workers. The purpose of this research wa...

Authors: Tony Zitti, Amandine Fillol, Julia Lohmann, Abdourahmane Coulibaly and Valéry Ridde

Willingness of Greek general population to get a COVID-19 vaccine

Epidemiological data indicate that a large part of population needs to be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity. Hence, it is of high importance for public health officials to know whether people are going to ge...

Authors: Georgia Kourlaba, Eleni Kourkouni, Stefania Maistreli, Christina-Grammatiki Tsopela, Nafsika-Maria Molocha, Christos Triantafyllou, Markela Koniordou, Ioannis Kopsidas, Evangelia Chorianopoulou, Stefania Maroudi-Manta, Dimitrios Filippou and Theoklis E. Zaoutis