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Increasing protocol suitability for clinical trials in sub-Saharan Africa: a mixed methods study

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 ...

Authors: Nerina Vischer, Constanze Pfeiffer, Jennifer Kealy and Christian Burri

Global climate change: impact of heat waves under different definitions on daily mortality in Wuhan, China

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...

Authors: Yunquan Zhang, Renjie Feng, Ran Wu, Peirong Zhong, Xiaodong Tan, Kai Wu and Lu Ma

Aid effectiveness and programmatic effectiveness: a proposed framework for comparative evaluation of different aid interventions in a particular health system

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...

Authors: Hasibul Haque, Philip C. Hill and Robin Gauld

Eating practices during pregnancy: perceptions of select Maasai women in Northern Tanzania

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...

Authors: Jessica Lennox, Pammla Petrucka and Sandra Bassendowski

Examining the changing health care seeking behavior in the era of health sector reforms in India: evidences from the National Sample Surveys 2004 & 2014

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...

Authors: Arnab Jana and Rounaq Basu

A globally networked hybrid approach to public health capacity training for maternal health professionals in low and middle income countries

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...

Authors: Scott McIntosh, José G. Pérez-Ramos, Tamala David, Margaret M. Demment, Esteban Avendaño, Deborah J. Ossip and Timothy De Ver Dye

What does the development of medical tourism in Barbados hold for health equity? an exploratory qualitative case study

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...

Authors: Ronald Labonté, Vivien Runnels, Valorie A. Crooks, Rory Johnston and Jeremy Snyder

Participatory approach to design social accountability interventions to improve maternal health services: a case study from the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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) ...

Authors: Eric M. Mafuta, Marjolein A. Dieleman, Leon Essink, Paul N. Khomba, François M. Zioko, Thérèse N. M. Mambu, Patrick K. Kayembe and Tjard de Cock Buning

Childhood anemia in Rural Haiti: the potential role of community health workers

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 ...

Authors: Marie N. Séraphin, Chen Xinguang, Mohamed Ag Ayoya, Ismael Ngnie-Teta, Ellen Boldon, Aissa Mamadoultaibou, Jean Ernst Saint-Fleur and Inobert Pierre

Identifying the poor for premium exemption: a critical step towards universal health coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa

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...

Authors: Chukwuemeka A. Umeh

The evolution of socioeconomic status-related inequalities in maternal health care utilization: evidence from Zimbabwe, 1994–2011

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...

Authors: Marshall Makate and Clifton Makate

Developing an approach to assessing the political feasibility of global collective action and an international agreement on antimicrobial resistance

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...

Authors: Susan Rogers Van Katwyk, Marie Évelyne Danik, Ioana Pantis, Rachel Smith, John-Arne Røttingen and Steven J. Hoffman

Pubertal development and screen time among South Korean adolescents: testing body mass index and psychological well-being as mediators

This study tested links between pubertal development and screen time among South Korean adolescent boys and girls.

Authors: Eun-Young Lee and John C. Spence

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