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Local suffering and the global discourse of mental health and human rights: An ethnographic study of responses to mental illness in rural Ghana

Ursula M Read, Edward Adiibokah and Solomon Nyame Globalization and Health (2009) CC

The Global Movement for Mental Health has brought renewed attention to the neglect of people with mental illness within health policy worldwide. The maltreatment of the mentally ill in many low-income countries is widely reported within psychiatric hospitals, informal healing centres, and family hom... more

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Progress in health among regions of Ethiopia, 1990–2019: a subnational country analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

GBD 2019 Ethiopia Subnational-Level Disease Burden Initiative Collaborators (2022) CC

The Lancet. 13 March 2022. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02868-3. Previous Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) studies have reported national health estimates for Ethiopia. Substantial regional variations in socioeconomic status, population, demography, and access to hea... more

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Towards 90-90-90 Target: Factors Influencing Availability, Access, and Utilization of HIV Services—A Qualitative Study in 19 Ugandan Districts

F. Bajunirwe; F. Tumwebaze; D.enis Akakimpa; et al. Hindawi; BioMed Research International (2018) C2

Research Article Hindawi BioMed Research International Volume 2018, Article ID 9619684, 10 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/9619684

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Perceived Susceptibility of Persons with Physical Disability to Factors Contributing to the Risk of Contracting HIV in Cameroon: A Qualitative Study

Elvis E. Tarkang, Prosper M. Lutala International Journal of HIVAIDS Prevention, Educa tion and Behavioural Science (2015) CC

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Socioeconomic status and risk of cardiovascular disease in 20 low-income, middle-income, and high-income countries: the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiologic (PURE) study

Rosengren, A.; Smyth, A.; Rangarajan, S. et al. The Lancet Global Health (2019) CC

Socioeconomic status is associated with differences in risk factors for cardiovascular disease incidence and outcomes, including mortality. However, it is unclear whether the associations between cardiovascular disease and common measures of socioeconomic status—wealth and education—differ among... more

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Global, regional, and national burden of mortality associated with non-optimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019: a three-stage modelling study

Zhao,Q.; Guo Y., , Ye T., et al. (2021) C1

Lancet Planet Health 2021; 5: e415–25

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Socioeconomic inequality in vulnerability to all-cause and cause-specific hospitalisation associated with temperature variability: a time-series study in 1814 Brazilian cities

Rongbin Xu, Qi Zhao, M.S.Z.S. Coelho et al. (2020) CC

The Lancet Planetary Health Volume 4, ISSUE 12, e566-e576, December 01, 2020. Exposure to temperature variability has been associated with increased risk of mortality and morbidity. We aimed to evaluate whether the association between short-term temperature variability and hospitalisation was affect... more

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Individual-level data in 680 102 adults, The state of diabetes treatment coverage in 55 low-income and middle-income countries: a cross-sectional study of nationally representative

Flood, D.; Seiglie, J.A.; Dunn, M.; et al. The Lancet healthy Longevity (2021) C2

Approximately 80% of the 463 million adults worldwide with diabetes live in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). A major obstacle to designing evidence-based policies to improve diabetes outcomes in LMICs is the scarce availability of nationally representative data on the current patterns... more

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Prevalence and distribution of schistosomiasis in human, livestock, and snail populations in northern Senegal: a One Health epidemiological study of a multi-host system

Léger, E.; Borlase, A.; Fall, C. et al. The Lancet Planetary Health (2020) CC

Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease of global medical and veterinary importance. As efforts to eliminate schistosomiasis as a public health problem and interrupt transmission gather momentum, the potential zoonotic risk posed by livestock Schistosoma species via viable hybridisation in s... more

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Linking Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) - Practical tools, approaches and case studies

World Health Organization (WHO) and InterAgency Standing Committee (IASC), Save the Children, et al. (2021) C_WHO

Technical Note Recently, the approach to hazardous events has undergone a considerable shift, away from reactive activities focused on managing and responding to events and towards a more proactive process of emergency and disaster risk management (DRM). The ultimate goal of this shift in focus is ... more

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The number of people exposed to water stress in relation to how much water is reserved for the environment: a global modelling study

Vanham, D.; L. Alfieri, M. Flörke et al. The Lancet, Planetary Health (2021) CC

The Lancet, Planetary Health Volume 5, ISSUE 11, e766-e774, November 01, 2021 Increasing human demand for water and changes in water availability due to climate change threatens water security worldwide. Additionally, exploitation of water resources induces stress on freshwater environments, leadi... more

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Projecting the risk of mosquito-borne diseases in a warmer and more populated world: a multi-model, multi-scenario intercomparison modelling study

Colón-González, F.J.; M. Odhiambo Sewe, A.M Tompkins et al. The Lancet (2021) CC

Mosquito-borne diseases are expanding their range, and re-emerging in areas where they had subsided for decades. The extent to which climate change influences the transmission suitability and population at risk of mosquito-borne diseases across different altitudes and population densities has not be... more

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Trends in prevalence of blindness and distance and near vision impairment over 30 years: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study

GBD 2019 Blindness and Vision Impairment Collaborator The Lancet (2020) CC

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Life expectancy, death, and disability in Haiti, 1990- 2017: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

Fene, F.; et al. (2020) CC

7. Rev Panam Salud Publica. 2020;44:e13 Haiti faces a double burden of disease. Infectious diseases continue to be an issue, while non-communicable diseases have become a significant burden of disease. More attention must also be focused on the increase in worrying public health issues such as road... more

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Potential impact of midwives in preventing and reducing maternal and neonatal mortality and stillbirths: a Lives Saved Tool modelling study

Nove A., Friberg I., de Bernis L., et al. (2020) CC

This report provides the context, underlying evidence, content and process related to the development of the draft global strategic directions for nursing and midwifery 2021–2025.

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National guidance and district-level practices in the supervision of community health workers in South Africa: a qualitative study

Assegaai, T. and H. Schneider Human Resources for Health (2019) C1

Supportive supervision is considered critical to community health worker programme performance, but there is relatively little understanding of how it can be sustainably done at scale. Supportive supervision is a holistic concept that encompasses three key functions: management (ensuring performance... more