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Nepal Thematic Report on Food Security and Nutrition 2013 - based on the findings of the Nepal Living Standard Survey 2010-11

National Planning Commission (NPC), Government of Nepal, Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), et al. (2013)

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Rapid assessment of disability in the Philippines: understanding prevalence, well-being, and access to the community for people with disabilities to inform the W-DARE project

Manjula Marella, Alexandra Devine, Graeme Ferdinand Armecin et al. Population Health Metrics (2016) CC

BioMed Central DOI 10.1186/s12963-016-0096-y

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‘Virus Carriers’ and HIV testing: navigating Ukraine’s HIV policies and programming for female sex workers

A. Tokar; J. Osborne; K. Slobodianiuk; et al. BMC Public Health (BioMed Central); Health Research Policy and Systems (2019) CC

Tokar et al. Health Research Policy and Systems (2019) 17:23 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-019-0415-4

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Promotion, prevention and protection: interventions at the population- and community-levels for mental, neurological and substance use disorders in low- and middle-income countries

I. Petersen; , S. Evans‐Lacko; M. Semrau; et al. International Journal of Mental Health Systems; BioMed Central (2016) CC

Petersen et al. Int J Ment Health Syst (2016) 10:30 DOI 10.1186/s13033-016-0060-z

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Delivering quality health services: A global imperative for universal health coverage

Kieny, Marie-Paule; Evans, Timothy Grant; Scarpetta, Stefano; Kelley, Edward T.; Klazinga, Niek; Forde, Ian; Veillard, Jeremy Henri Maurice; Leatherman, Sheila; Syed, Shamsuzzoha; Kim, Sun Mean; Nejad, Sepideh Bagheri; Donaldson, Liam World Health Organization (WHO), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and The World Bank (2018) C_WHO

Poor quality health services are holding back progress on improving health in countries at all income levels.
Today, inaccurate diagnosis, medication errors, inappropriate or unnecessary treatment, inadequate or unsafe clinical facilities or practices, or providers who lack adequate training an... more

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The global threat of Zika virus to pregnancy: epidemiology, clinical perspectives, mechanisms, and impact

Boeuf, P.; H.E. Drummer; J.S. Richards, et al. (2016) CC

BMC Medicine201614:112 DOI: 10.1186/s12916-016-0660-0

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Myanmar Living Conditions Survey 2017: Key Indicators Report

The Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Ministry of Planning and Finance, Central Statistical Organization et al. (2018) C1

The survey is representative of the Union Territory, its states and regions and urban and rural areas. It was conducted in all the districts and in 296 of the 330 townships of Myanmar. A total of 13,730 households were interviewed. It collects data on the occupations of people, how much income they ... more

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Incidence and Prevalence of Opportunistic and Other Infections and the Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy Among HIV-infected Children in Low- and Middle income Countries

B-Lajoie,MR. O. Drouin,G. Bartlett, et al. IDSA, HIVMA, et al. (2016) C2

A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Clinical Infectious Diseases® 2016;62(12):1586–94

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Double dividends: Exploring how water, sanitation and hygiene programmes can contribute to peace- and state-building

Michelle Kooy, Leni Wild, Nat Mason et al. Tearfund (2013)

It is a pressing question for donors and NGOs alike: is funding development and humanitarian work in fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS) the equivalent of pouring money into a bottomless pit, if achievements are only going to be undone by further cycles of violence? There is, of course, a st... more

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Towards universal health coverage for reproductive health services in Ethiopia: two policy recommendations

K. H. Onarheim, M. Taddesse, O. F. Norheim, et al. (2015) C1

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Health worker migration from South Africa: causes, consequences and policy responses

Labonté et al Human Resources for Health (2015) CC

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Health systems context(s) for integrating mental health into primary health care in six Emerald countries: a situation analysis

Mugisha J.; Abdulmalik, J.; Hanlon C; et al. International Journal of Mental Health Systems; BioMed Central (2017) C1

Mugisha et al. Int J Ment Health Syst (2017) 11:7 DOI 10.1186/s13033-016-0114-2

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Prevalence and factors associated with prediabetes and diabetes mellitus in Kenya: results from a national survey

Mohamed, S.F.; Mwangi M., Mutua1 M.K., et al. BMC Public Health (2018) C1

Mohamed et al. BMC Public Health 2018, 18(Suppl 3):1215 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-6053-xpre-

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The Greenmark Standard for Green Buildings

Otieno, N. Green Africa Foundation; Ministry of Health Kenya, et al. (2019) CC

The Government recognizes the critical role of the built environment in addressing climate change and environmental degradation. To this end, it has identified and empowered the Kenya Building Research Centre to champion and coordinate the government’s green building agenda in relation to climate ... more

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The Ukraine war and threats to food and energy security

Benton, T.; et al. Chatham House (2022) CC

Cascading risks from rising prices and supply disruptions, April 2022. Global resource markets are still reeling from the impacts of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; the two countries are major suppliers of energy, food and fertilizers. Supply disruption and the sudden imposition, in response to the... more

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Long-Run Impacts of the Conflict in Ukraine on Food Security in Africa

Balma, L.; et al. (2022) CC

Kiel Policy Brief, Ukraine Special 1, March 2022.Many African countries heavily rely on imports of agricultural commodities and agricultural inputs from Ukraine and Russia, for example wheat, other grains, and fertilizer. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has disrupted global access to grains due to re... more

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Regional variation in the allocation of development assistance for health

Hanlon et al. Pubmed (2014) CC

The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2010 Study has published disability-adjusted life year (DALY) data at both regional and country levels from 1990 to 2010. Concurrently, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) has published estimates of development assistance for health (DAH) at th... more

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Tracking Japan’s development assistance for health, 2012–2016

Nomura, S.; H. Sakamoto; M. K. Sugai et al. Globalization and Health (2020) CC

: Development assistance for health (DAH) is one of the most important means for Japan to promote diplomacy with developing countries and contribute to the international community. This study, for the first time, estimated the gross disbursement of Japan’s DAH from 2012 to 2016 and clarified its... more

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Access to health care for people with disabilities in rural Malawi: what are the barriers?

Harrison, J.A.K.; Thomson, R.; Banda, H.T. et al. BMC Public Health (2020) CC

People with disabilities experience significant health inequalities. In Malawi, where most individuals live in low-income rural settings, many of these inequalities are exacerbated by restricted access to health care services. This qualitative study explores the barriers to health care access experi... more

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Effectiveness of a diabetes program based on digital health on capacity building and quality of care in type 2 diabetes: a pragmatic quasi-experimental study

Moreas Morelli, D.; Rubinstein, F.; Santero, M.; et al. BMC Health Services Research, part of Springer Nature (2023) CC2

Health systems in Latin America face many challenges in controlling the increasing burden of diabetes. Digital health interventions are a promise for the provision of care, especially in developing countries where mobile technology has a high penetration. This study evaluated the effectiveness of th... more