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Factors contributing to low uptake and renewal of health insurance: a qualitative study in Ghana

The effort to expand access to healthcare and reduce health inequalities in many low income countries have meant that many have adopted different levels of social health protection mechanisms. Ghana introduced...

Authors: Ama Pokuaa Fenny, Anthony Kusi, Daniel K. Arhinful and Felix Ankoma Asante

Dengue fever outbreaks in Eritrea, 2005–2015

The geographic distribution and burden of dengue is increasing globally. This study aims to evaluate dengue outbreaks and to substantiate the need for strengthened surveillance, reporting and control in Eritrea.

Authors: Abdulmumini Usman, Jacob D. Ball, Diana Patricia Rojas, Araia Berhane, Yohannes Ghebrat, Goitom Mebrahtu, Azmera Gebresellasie, Assefash Zehaie, Jacob Mufunda, Olivia Liseth, Ubydul Haque and Emmanuel Chanda

The midwives service scheme: a qualitative comparison of contextual determinants of the performance of two states in central Nigeria

The federal government of Nigeria started the Midwives Service Scheme in 2009 to address the scarcity of skilled health workers in rural communities by temporarily redistributing midwives from urban to rural c...

Authors: Arnold I. Okpani and Seye Abimbola

An instrument based on protection motivation theory to predict Chinese adolescents’ intention to engage in protective behaviors against schistosomiasis

Further advancement in schistosomiasis prevention requires new tools to assess protective motivation, and promote innovative intervention program. This study aimed to develop and evaluate an instrument develop...

Authors: Han Xiao, Minjin Peng, Hong Yan, Mengting Gao, Jingjing Li, Bin Yu, Hanbo Wu and Shiyue Li

The global spread of Middle East respiratory syndrome: an analysis fusing traditional epidemiological tracing and molecular phylodynamics

Since its discovery in 2012, over 1700 confirmed cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) have been documented worldwide and more than a third of those cases have died. While the greatest number of cas...

Authors: Jae Min, Eleonora Cella, Massimo Ciccozzi, Antonello Pelosi, Marco Salemi and Mattia Prosperi

Health system strengthening and hypertension management in China

Non-communicable diseases are the leading causes of global burden of diseases, and hypertension is one of the most important risk factors. Hypertension prevalence doubled in China in the past decade and affect...

Authors: Kehui Huang, Yu Ting Song, Yong Huan He and Xing Lin Feng

Medical students’ perceptions about the added educational value of student-run HIV/AIDS educational campaigns in the Dominican Republic

This purpose of this report was to examine the perceptions of medical students about the strengths, limitations, and recommendations for improvement of the first known student-run HIV/AIDS educational campaign...

Authors: Helena J. Chapman and Jessica Bottentuit-Rocha

Determinants of intentions to quit smoking among adult smokers in Bangladesh: findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Bangladesh wave 2 survey

With about 22 million adult smokers, Bangladesh needs strong measures that would promote smoking cessation. Using data from Wave 2 of the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Survey, this study examined the fac...

Authors: Pete Driezen, Abu S. Abdullah, Anne C. K. Quah, Nigar Nargis and Geoffrey T. Fong

Community-based management versus traditional hospitalization in treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Multidrug drug resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and extensively drug resistant Tuberculosis (XDR-TB) have emerged as significant public health threats worldwide. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed t...

Authors: Abimbola Onigbanjo Williams, Olusesan Ayodeji Makinde and Mojisola Ojo

Shifts in endocrine homeostasis and preventive hormone replacement therapy: extending the Women’s Health Initiative globally

Reducing disease risk for women after menopause is global health issue. A major portion of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) consisted of two clinical trials involving 161,809 post-menopausal women aged 50–7...

Authors: Jacob D. Ball and Xinguang Chen

Potentially traumatic events, coping strategies and associations with mental health and well-being measures among conflict-affected youth in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Youth in conflict and post-conflict settings are exposed to a variety of potentially-traumatic events that impact their mental health and well-being. The purposes of this study were to examine coping strategie...

Authors: Megan Cherewick, Shannon Doocy, Wietse Tol, Gilbert Burnham and Nancy Glass

Erratum to: Moving from medical to health systems classifications of deaths: extending verbal autopsy to collect information on the circumstances of mortality

Authors: Lucia D’Ambruoso, Kathleen Kahn, Ryan G. Wagner, Rhian Twine, Barry Spies, Maria van der Merwe, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Stephen Tollman and Peter Byass

Taking action on violence through research, policy, and practice

Violence is a critical public health problem associated with compromised health and social suffering that are preventable. The Centre for Global Health and Health Equity organized a forum in 2014 to identify: ...

Authors: Ilene Hyman, Mandana Vahabi, Annette Bailey, Sejal Patel, Sepali Guruge, Karline Wilson-Mitchell and Josephine Pui-Hing Wong

Determinants of patient survival during the 2014 Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in Bong County, Liberia

The unprecedented size of the 2014 Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa has allowed for a more extensive characterization of the clinical presentation and management of this disease. In this study...

Authors: Thomas A. Weppelmann, Bangure Donewell, Ubydul Haque, Wenbiao Hu, Ricardo J. Soares Magalhaes, Mutaawe Lubogo, Lucas Godbless, Sasita Shabani, Justin Maeda, Herilinda Temba, Theophil C. Malibiche, Naod Berhanu, Wenyi Zhang and Luke Bawo

Dilemma of healthcare reform and invention of new discipline of health fiscalogy

China's Reform and Open up Policy in 1980s has brought rapid economic development to Chinese society. With the deepening of economic reform, the withdrawal of the state in China has had visible and worrisome c...

Authors: Jitong Liu, Jianchun Miao and Dongqi Zhang

Protection motivation theory and cigarette smoking among vocational high school students in China: a cusp catastrophe modeling analysis

Tobacco use is one of the greatest public health problems worldwide and the hazards of cigarette smoking to public health call for better recognition of cigarette smoking behaviors to guide evidence-based poli...

Authors: Yunan Xu and Xinguang Chen

Moving from medical to health systems classifications of deaths: extending verbal autopsy to collect information on the circumstances of mortality

Verbal autopsy (VA) is a health surveillance technique used in low and middle-income countries to establish medical causes of death (CODs) for people who die outside hospitals and/or without registration. By v...

Authors: Lucia D’Ambruoso, Kathleen Kahn, Ryan G. Wagner, Rhian Twine, Barry Spies, Maria van der Merwe, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Stephen Tollman and Peter Byass

A new platform for global health research and policy exchange and communication

Peer-reviewed publications are essential to promote the development of global health sciences. Wuhan University Global Health Institute, in partnership with BioMed Central, launches Global Health Research and Pol...

Authors: Xinguang Chen