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Baseline data on global research activity on health and human rights (HHR) needs to be assessed and analyzed to identify research gaps and to prioritize funding and research agendas. Therefore, the aim of this...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2018 3:30
Little is known about the health of GMS commercial fishers and seafarers, many of whom are migrants and some trafficked. This systematic review summarizes evidence on occupational, physical, sexual and mental ...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2018 3:28
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the World Health Organization’s five item well-being index (WHO-5) when administered to adults living with HIV or epilepsy in a rural se...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2018 3:26
Ambient air pollution has posed negative effects on human health. Individual-level factors may modify this effect, but previous studies have controversial conclusions, and evidence is lacking especially in dev...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2018 3:27
The prevalence of diabetes in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is growing rapidly. Qualitative research on experiences of type 2 diabetes in SSA is emerging, but no qualitative synthesis has been attempted. This scopi...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2018 3:25
Despite increasing recognition that health-systems constraints are the fundamental barrier to attaining anti-retroviral therapy (ART) scale-up targets in Sub-Saharan Africa, current discourses are dominated by...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2018 3:23
While malaria control is the primary health focus in Burkina Faso, the recent dengue epidemic calls for new interventions. This paper examines the implementation fidelity of an innovative intervention to contr...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2018 3:21
The pursuit of efficiency and productivity is one of the goals of health systems. In the era of Sustainable Development Goals and particularly the move towards universal health coverage, it is imperative to cu...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2018 3:22
To have a basic and comprehensive understanding about the prevalence, risk factors and disease management situation of hypertension among floating population in China.
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2018 3:24
Mass media exposure plays a pivotal role in health communication and adoption of a healthy lifestyle. In this study, we aimed to measure the prevalence of malaria prevention behaviour among adult women in eigh...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2018 3:20
Access to safe Cesarean section (C-section) in resource-constrained settings such as sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) region is a foremost approach to reduce maternal mortality. C-section is an obstetric operative proc...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2018 3:19
Low and middle income countries (LMICs) face severe resource limitations but the highest burden of disease. There is a growing evidence base on effective and cost-effective interventions for these diseases. Ho...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2018 3:17
Community Health Workers (CHWs) have been widely used in response to the shortage of skilled health workers especially in resource limited areas. China has a long history of involving CHWs in public health int...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2018 3:18
Improving access to culturally appropriate mental healthcare has been recognised as a key strategy to address the often greater burden of mental health issues experienced by Indigenous populations. We present ...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2018 3:16
The paper reviews alcohol consumption patterns and alcohol-related social and health issues among 15–29-year old young people in Asian countries, and discusses strategies for preventing and controlling alcohol...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2018 3:14
This study examined the extent to which sporting event attendance is associated with self-rated health. Drawing from an economic model of health production and psychological research on the health benefits of ...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2018 3:13
Latin America presently has the world’s highest burden of Zika virus, but there are unexplained differences in national rates of congenital malformations collectively referred to as Congenital Zika Syndrome (C...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2018 3:15
To sustain the critical progress made, prioritization and a multidisciplinary approach to malaria research remain important to the national malaria control program in Benin. To document the structure of the ma...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2018 3:11
Nigeria presently has the second highest absolute number of maternal deaths and perinatal deaths (stillbirth and neonatal deaths) in the world. The country accounts for up to 14% of global maternal deaths and ...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2018 3:12
The increasing prevalence of undiagnosed and diagnosed type 2 diabetes (T2D) posed a major challenge for public health and thus screening for T2D becomes essentially important. The social-demographical factors...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2018 3:9
The household registration system in China places migrants in a vulnerable status regarding access to local public services, including limited access to health services. Most studies on migrants’ health servic...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2018 3:8
Knowledge of local antimicrobial resistance patterns is essential for evidence- based empirical antibiotic prescribing. We aimed to investigate the distribution and changes in causative agents of urinary tract...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2018 3:10
Cultural competence has become increasingly important for Chinese health professionals because of internationalization and the opening up of China to overseas visitors and business as well as a growing awarene...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2018 3:7
Human behaviors are affected by attitudes and beliefs, which in turn are shaped by higher-level values to which we have ascribed. In this study, we explore the relationship between two higher-level values, pre...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2018 3:6
Immunizations are considered the most successful and cost-effective public health interventions employed today. While immunization coverage in India has improved dramatically in the last decade, areas of very ...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2018 3:5
In Swaziland, as in many high HIV/TB burden settings, there is not information available regarding the household location of TB cases for identifying areas of increased TB incidence, limiting the development o...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2018 3:3
Solid fuel use is the major source of household air pollution (HAP) and accounts for a substantial burden of morbidity and mortality in low and middle income countries. To evaluate and compare childhood mortal...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2018 3:4
Current practice in the Western Cape region of South Africa is to discharge newborns born in-hospital within 24 h following uncomplicated vaginal delivery and two days after caesarean section. Mothers are inst...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2018 3:2
Diarrheal diseases are a major threat to human health and still represent a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Although the burden of the diarrheal diseases is much lower in developed countrie...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2018 3:1
Starting in December 2013, the Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic spread in West Africa through five countries (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, Nigeria, and Mali), killing over 11,300 people. In partnership wit...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:35
Many low-income and crises-affected countries like Sierra Leone struggle with the recruitment and retention of their health professionals, particularly nurses and doctors. There are multiple factors that influ...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:34
To give a comprehensive and basic understanding of diabetes and its risk factors in floating people in China.
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:33
Rapid and precise diagnosis of malaria is an essential element in effective case management and control of malaria. Malaria microscopy is used as the gold standard for malaria diagnosis, however results remain...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:32
We investigated predictors of the rural clients’ satisfaction level (CSL), and interlinks between perceived specific service quality (PSSQ), perceived utility value (PUV), CSL, and clients’ reactions (CR) towa...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:31
Since the commencement of the International Health Regulations in 2007, global public health security has been faced with numerous emerging and ongoing events. Moreover, the Joint External Evaluation is a volu...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:30
Bride-trafficking has been a growing phenomenon in Southeast Asia, particularly in China, where one-child policies have resulted in demographic imbalances favoring males. Yet, empirical evidence about women an...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:28
Malaria is one of the most challenging public health concerns in the developing world. To address its impact in endemic regions, several interventions are implemented by stakeholders. The Affordable Medicine F...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:29
Female sex workers have been disproportionately affected with HIV and anal sexual experience elevate their vulnerability. Anal intercourse has more risk of HIV transmission than vaginal intercourse for recepto...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:27
The concept of ‘experimental public’ has been recently applied to publics involved in clinical trials. This term could also be applied to publics involved in longitudinal research such as health and demographi...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:26
Since the declaration of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 1990, many countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region made some improvements in maternal and child health and in tackling co...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:25
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...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:24
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...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:23
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...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:21
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...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:22
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...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:20
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...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:19
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...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:18
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...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:16
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...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:17
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...
Citation: Global Health Research and Policy 2017 2:15
Speed
49 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
26 days to first decision for all manuscripts
112 days from submission to acceptance
23 days from acceptance to publication
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95,553 downloads
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