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As an emerging donor in health related development across the world, particularly towards Africa, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has been increasing its influence within the field of global public health...
Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:24
Published on: 9 August 2017
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The rise on the international scene of advocacy for universal health coverage (UHC) was accompanied by the promotion of a variety of health financing policies. Major donors presented health insurance, user fee...
Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:23
Published on: 8 August 2017
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The 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak was an unprecedented public health event, and in addition to claiming over 11,000 lives, it resulted in the deaths of more healthcare workers than a...
Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:21
Published on: 7 August 2017
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In disease mapping field, researchers often encounter data from multiple sources. Such data are fraught with challenges such as lack of a representative sample, often incomplete and most of which may have meas...
Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:22
Published on: 1 August 2017
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Globally, food allergy [FA] is considered a growing health epidemic. While much of what is known comes from developed countries, there is growing interest in the epidemiology of FA in developing regions such a...
Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:20
Published on: 11 July 2017
Review
Tobacco control policy is essential for addressing the growing tobacco consumption seen in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, the single greatest preventable contributor to the non-communicable disease epidemic...
Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:19
Published on: 10 July 2017
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The main objective of the paper is to identify the governance system related to policies to reduce health inequalities in the European regions. Considering the Action Spectrum of inequalities and the check lis...
Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:18
Published on: 3 July 2017
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For many people, the need for parenthood remains unfulfilled due to biological reasons and a remedy for these individuals is assisted reproduction (AR). Because of widely differing and sometimes incompatible l...
Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:16
Published on: 12 June 2017
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Anti-poverty has always been an important issue to be settled. What policies should be selected to help individuals escaping from the poverty trap: by directly offering transfer payments or indirectly providin...
Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:15
Published on: 5 June 2017
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Emerging evidence suggests that body weight misperception may be associated with psychological distress among people in developed countries. Participating in physical activity (PA) may negate the association b...
Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:17
Published on: 5 June 2017
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Phylodynamics, the study of the interaction between epidemiological and pathogen evolutionary processes within and among populations, was originally defined in the context of rapidly evolving viruses and used ...
Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:13
Published on: 8 May 2017
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The medications that are registered and available in a country are meant for the prevention and treatment of ailments and diseases. However, a lack of effective regulatory bodies and operative control mechanis...
Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:14
Published on: 8 May 2017
Methodology
Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a vector-borne parasitic disease that is being targeted for elimination through mass drug administration (MDA). The co-distribution of Loa loa in Central Africa poses a significant ba...
Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:12
Published on: 1 May 2017
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The trial protocol is the most important document for clinical trials and describes not only the design and methodology of a study, but also all practical aspects. The suitability of the protocol has a direct ...
Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:11
Published on: 7 April 2017
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There was no consistent definition for heat wave worldwide, while a limited number of studies have compared the mortality effect of heat wave as defined differently. This paper aimed to provide epidemiological...
Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:10
Published on: 5 April 2017
Methodology
Against a backdrop of changing concepts of aid effectiveness, development effectiveness, health systems strengthening, and increasing emphasis on impact evaluation, this article proposes a theory-driven impact...
Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:7
Published on: 3 April 2017
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Globally, pregnant women are challenged to meet sufficient and necessary dietary intake in order to improve maternal and neonatal outcomes. These challenges are amplified in traditional communities, such as th...
Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:9
Published on: 13 March 2017
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Health policy formulations in India have witnessed a shift from a reactive approach to a more proactive approach over the last decade. It is therefore important to understand the effectiveness of recent nation...
Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:6
Published on: 6 March 2017
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MundoComm is a current NIH-funded project for sustainable public health capacity building in community engagement and technological advances aimed at improving maternal health issues. Two to four teams are sel...
Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:8
Published on: 1 March 2017
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Although the global growth of privatized health care services in the form of medical tourism appears to generate economic benefits, there is debate about medical tourism’s impacts on health equity in countries...
Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:5
Published on: 20 February 2017
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Social accountability (SA) comprises a set of mechanisms aiming to, on the one hand, enable users to raise their concerns about the health services provided to them (voice), and to hold health providers (HPs) ...
Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:4
Published on: 6 February 2017
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Childhood iron deficiency anemia (IDA) is an important contributor to under-five mortality in the developing world. There is evidence that Community Health Worker (CHW) delivered programs to increase maternal ...
Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:3
Published on: 23 January 2017
Letter to the Editor
Premium exemption for the poor is a critical step towards achieving universal health coverage in sub-Saharan Africa due to the large proportion of the population living in extreme poverty who cannot pay premiu...
Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:2
Published on: 9 January 2017
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Inequalities in maternal health care are pervasive in the developing world, a fact that has led to questions about the extent of these disparities across socioeconomic groups. Despite a growing literature on m...
Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:1
Published on: 5 January 2017
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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global issue. International trade, travel, agricultural practices, and environmental contamination all make it possible for resistant microbes to cross national borders. Glo...
Global Health Research and Policy 2016 1:20
Published on: 13 December 2016
