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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

“He lets me go although he does not go with me.”: Rwandan women’s perceptions of men’s roles in maternal health

Increasing men’s involvement in their pregnant partners’ wellness has been reported as one of the ways to improve access to and utilization of maternal health services, including birth preparedness and complic...

Authors: Germaine Tuyisenge, Valorie A. Crooks and Nicole S. Berry

Community health workers for non-communicable diseases prevention and control in Bangladesh: a qualitative study

The increasing burden of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in Bangladesh underscores the importance of strengthening primary health care systems. In this study, we examined the barriers and facilitators to enga...

Authors: Lal Rawal, Shamim Jubayer, Sohel R. Choudhury, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam and Abu S. Abdullah

Correction to: The epidemiological characteristics of deaths with COVID-19 in the early stage of epidemic in Wuhan, China

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

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

The epidemiological characteristics of deaths with COVID-19 in the early stage of epidemic in Wuhan, China

To analyze the epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19 related deaths in Wuhan, China and comprehend the changing trends of this epidemic along with analyzing the prevention and control measures in Wuhan.

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

Strengthening the migrant-friendliness of Thai health services through interpretation and cultural mediation: a system analysis

In addition to healthcare entitlements, ‘migrant-friendly health services’ in Thailand include interpretation and cultural mediation services which aim to reduce language and cultural barriers between health p...

Authors: Hathairat Kosiyaporn, Sataporn Julchoo, Mathudara Phaiyarom, Pigunkaew Sinam, Watinee Kunpeuk, Nareerut Pudpong, Pascale Allotey, Zhie X. Chan, Tharani Loganathan, Nicola Pocock and Rapeepong Suphanchaimat

Geographical distribution of hyperuricemia in mainland China: a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis

Fructose plays an important role in the complex metabolism of uric acid in the human body. However, high blood uric acid concentration, known as hyperuricemia, is the main risk factor for development of gout. ...

Authors: Jiayun Huang, Zheng Feei Ma, Yutong Zhang, Zhongxiao Wan, Yeshan Li, Hang Zhou, Anna Chu and Yeong Yeh Lee

The association between area of residence and sufficient antenatal tetanus vaccination in women ages 15–49 in Afghanistan: an analysis of the 2015 DHS dataset

Neonatal tetanus (NT) is a deadly nervous system disorder that is endemic to Afghanistan. Administering sufficient doses of tetanus toxoid containing vaccine (TTCV) during pregnancy can pass antibodies to the ...

Authors: Jillian Sherley and Sam Newton

Application of artificial neural networks to predict the COVID-19 outbreak

Millions of people have been infected worldwide in the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, we aim to propose fourteen prediction models based on artificial neural networks (ANN) to predict the COVID-19 outbreak ...

Authors: Hamid Reza Niazkar and Majid Niazkar

Exploring perspectives on antimicrobial stewardship: a qualitative study of health managers in Kenya

Antimicrobial resistance is a significant public health concern with the establishment of antimicrobial stewardship in hospitals being increasingly obligatory. Perspectives and insights of health managers on a...

Authors: Samuel Mungai Mbugua, George Njoroge, Caroline Kijogi, Moses Kamita, Rachel Kimani, Peter Mwaura, Bibianne Waiganjo Aidi and Jesse Gitaka

Evaluation of a multidisciplinary global health online course in Mexico

Global Health Education (GHE) focuses on training proactive global citizens to tackle health challenges in an increasingly interconnected and interdependent world. Studies show that health professionals in tra...

Authors: Héctor Carrasco, Patricia Fuentes, Itzel Eguiluz, Cesar Lucio-Ramírez, Sandra Cárdenas, Ilse Mariana Leyva Barrera and Manuel Pérez-Jiménez

A collaborative effort of China in combating COVID-19

A novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was firstly identified in Wuhan by the end of 2019. China has implemented a series of preventive measures to deter COVID-19 spread and its consequences since the beginning of the...

Authors: Mohamed S. Bangura, Maria J. Gonzalez, Nasra M. Ali, Ran Ren and Youlin Qiao

Correction to: The potential impact of a “curative intervention” for HIV: a modelling study

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Authors: Leo Beacroft and Timothy B. Hallett

The effects of the primary health care providers’ prescription behavior interventions to improve the rational use of antibiotics: a systematic review

Irrational antibiotics use in clinical prescription, especially in primary health care (PHC) is accelerating the spread of antibiotics resistance (ABR) around the world. It may be greatly useful to improve the...

Authors: Lu Yao, Jia Yin, Ruiting Huo, Ding Yang, Liyan Shen, Shuqin Wen and Qiang Sun

China’s global engagement to fight the novel coronavirus pandemic

The world is confronted by the current pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is a common threat to the whole of humanity. In the process of fighting COVID-19 domestically, China had attached g...

Authors: Wei Song

First month of the epidemic caused by COVID-19 in Italy: current status and real-time outbreak development forecast

The first outbreak of COVID-19 in Italy occurred during the second half of February 2020 in some areas in the North of the country. Due to the high contagiousness of the infection, further spread by asymptomat...

Authors: Rosario Megna

Gender-specific temporal trends in overweight prevalence among Chinese adults: a hierarchical age-period-cohort analysis from 2008 to 2015

As a key health risk, the prevalence of overweight has been strikingly increasing worldwide. This study aimed to disentangle the net age, period, and cohort effects on overweight among Chinese adults by gender.

Authors: Yinmei Yang, Mohammedhamid Osman Kelifa, Bin Yu, Carly Herbert, Yongbo Wang and Junfeng Jiang

Timely mental health services contribute to the containment of COVID-19 pandemic in China

The COVID-19 pandemic is the most severe public health crisis in the 21st century. The pandemic not only posed great challenges to people's physical health but also induced wide-ranging impacts on mental healt...

Authors: Ning Zhang, Kankan Wu and Weidan Wang

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on firms: a survey in Guangdong Province, China

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all sectors of the world economy and society. To understand the impact of the pandemic on firms in China and suggest public policies to deal with the negative effects, we inv...

Authors: Peng Zou, Di Huo and Meng Li