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01-11-2015 | Editorial

Call for reviews on global health challenges

Authors: Peiling Yap, Peter Waiswa, Anke Berger, Nino Künzli

Published in: International Journal of Public Health | Issue 7/2015

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It is our great pleasure to publish this special issue with reviews relevant to global health. IJPH launched this Call to concert the 9th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health, which runs under the title “Driving the Best Science to Meet Global Health Challenges”. The Call received high attention with 18 manuscripts submitted from 11 countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Although half of the submitted reviews addressed problems in low-income or developing countries, no authors from Africa responded to the Call. Does this reflect the continued inequity in the availability of research resources for global health? …

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Cobos Muñoz D, Monzón Llamas L, Bosch-Capblanch X (2015) Exposing concerns about vaccination in low and middle income countries: a systematic review. Int J Public Health 60(7). doi:10.1007/s00038-015-0715-6

Dagenais C, Siron S, Ridde V (2015) What research tells us about knowledge transfer strategies to improve public health in low-income countries: a scoping review. Int J Public Health 60(7). doi:10.1007/s00038-015-0716-5

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Title: Call for reviews on global health challenges
Authors: Peiling Yap
Peter Waiswa
Anke Berger
Nino Künzli
Publication date: 01-11-2015
Publisher: Springer Basel
Published in: International Journal of Public Health / Issue 7/2015
Print ISSN: 1661-8556
Electronic ISSN: 1661-8564
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-015-0732-5

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