Issue 1/2014
Content (83 Articles)
“To patent or not to patent? the case of Novartis’ cancer drug Glivec in India”
Ravinder Gabble, Jillian Clare Kohler
Value innovation: an important aspect of global surgical care
Michael Cotton, Jaymie Ang Henry, Lauren Hasek
The burden and treatment of diabetes in France
Karine Chevreul, Karen Berg Brigham, Clara Bouché
The associations between unhealthy behaviours, mental stress, and low socio-economic status in an international comparison of representative samples from Thailand and England
Antonio Ivan Lazzarino, Vasoontara Yiengprugsawan, Sam-ang Seubsman, Andrew Steptoe, Adrian C Sleigh
Regional variation in the allocation of development assistance for health
Michael Hanlon, Casey M Graves, Benjamin PC Brooks, Annie Haakenstad, Rouselle Lavado, Katherine Leach-Kemon, Joseph L Dieleman
Expanding the scope of medical mission volunteer groups to include a research component
John Rovers, Michael Andreski, John Gitua, Abdoulaye Bagayoko, Jill DeVore
Health systems performance assessment in low-income countries: learning from international experiences
Christine Kirunga Tashobya, Valéria Campos da Silveira, Freddie Ssengooba, Juliet Nabyonga-Orem, Jean Macq, Bart Criel
Diabetes in Algeria and challenges for health policy: a literature review of prevalence, cost, management and outcomes of diabetes and its complications
Larbi Lamri, Erofile Gripiotis, Alessandra Ferrario
High prevalence of chronic kidney disease in a community survey of urban Bangladeshis: a cross-sectional study
Shuchi Anand, Masuma Akter Khanam, Juliann Saquib, Nazmus Saquib, Tahmeed Ahmed, Dewan S Alam, Mark R Cullen, Michele Barry, Glenn M Chertow
Global health impacts of policies: lessons from the UK
Modi K Mwatsama, Sidney Wong, Dena Ettehad, Nicola F Watt
Noncommunicable diseases among urban refugees and asylum-seekers in developing countries: a neglected health care need
Ahmed Hassan Amara, Syed Mohamed Aljunid
How can health remain central post-2015 in a sustainable development paradigm?
Peter S Hill, Kent Buse, Claire E Brolan, Gorik Ooms
Economic impacts of health shocks on households in low and middle income countries: a review of the literature
Khurshid Alam, Ajay Mahal
Effects of hazardous and harmful alcohol use on HIV incidence and sexual behaviour: a cohort study of Kenyan female sex workers
Matthew F Chersich, Wilkister Bosire, Nzioki King’ola, Marleen Temmerman, Stanley Luchters
Canadian physicians’ responses to cross border health care
Vivien Runnels, Ronald Labonté, Corinne Packer, Sabrina Chaudhry, Owen Adams, Jeff Blackmer
“In the driver’s seat”: The Health Sector Strategic Master Plan as an instrument for aid coordination in Mongolia
Anar Ulikpan, Indermohan Narula, Asmat Malik, Peter Hill
Italy’s contribution to global health: the need for a paradigm shift
Eduardo Missoni, Fabrizio Tediosi, Guglielmo Pacileo, Lara Gautier
Implementing Global Fund programs: a survey of opinions and experiences of the Principal Recipients across 69 countries
Francis Wafula, Charles Marwa, David McCoy
The political economy of farmers’ suicides in India: indebted cash-crop farmers with marginal landholdings explain state-level variation in suicide rates
Jonathan Kennedy, Lawrence King
mHealth and global mental health: still waiting for the mH2 wedding?
Conor Farrington, Angela Aristidou, Kai Ruggeri
Back to the future: what would the post-2015 global development goals look like if we replicated methods used to construct the Millennium Development Goals?
Claire E Brolan, Scott Lee, David Kim, Peter S Hill
CETA and pharmaceuticals: impact of the trade agreement between Europe and Canada on the costs of prescription drugs
Joel Lexchin, Marc-André Gagnon
Sexual violence and sub-Saharan migrants in Morocco: a community-based participatory assessment using respondent driven sampling
Ines Keygnaert, Abdessamad Dialmy, Altay Manço, Jeroen Keygnaert, Nicole Vettenburg, Kristien Roelens, Marleen Temmerman
Enhancing medicine price transparency through price information mechanisms
Michael Hinsch, Miloud Kaddar, Sarah Schmitt
Patient guardians as an instrument for person centered care
Lopa Basu, Ruben Frescas Jr, Humphrey Kiwelu
Maghrebi minors as translators in health services in Tarragona (Spain): a qualitative study of the discourse of the Maghrebi adults
Lourdes Rubio-Rico, Alba Roca Biosca, Inmaculada de Molina Fernández, M Mercè Viladrich Grau
Patient factors to target for elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV
Coceka N Mnyani, Adonia Simango, Joshua Murphy, Matthew Chersich, James A McIntyre
Research to stop tobacco deaths
Derek Yach, Angela Pratt, Thomas J Glynn, K Srinath Reddy
An open debate about the object and purpose of global health knowledge in the context of an interdisciplinary research partnership on HIV/STI prevention priorities in Peru
Eliana Barrios Suarez, Carmen Logie, Jose F Arocha
Adverse or acceptable: negotiating access to a post-apartheid health care contract
Bronwyn Harris, John Eyles, Loveday Penn-Kekana, Liz Thomas, Jane Goudge
Beyond health aid: would an international equalization scheme for universal health coverage serve the international collective interest?
Gorik Ooms, Rachel Hammonds, Attiya Waris, Bart Criel, Wim Van Damme, Alan Whiteside
UK medical tourists in Thailand: they are not who you think they are
Thinakorn Noree, Johanna Hanefeld, Richard Smith
Prevalence, determinants and systems-thinking approaches to optimal hypertension control in West Africa
Juliet Iwelunmor, Collins O Airhihenbuwa, Richard Cooper, Bamidele Tayo, Jacob Plange-Rhule, Richard Adanu, Gbenga Ogedegbe
Scaling up antiretroviral treatment and improving patient retention in care: lessons from Ethiopia, 2005-2013
Yibeltal Assefa, Achamyeleh Alebachew, Meskele Lera, Lut Lynen, Edwin Wouters, Wim Van Damme
Local level inequalities in the use of hospital-based maternal delivery in rural South Africa
Sheetal Prakash Silal, Loveday Penn-Kekana, Till Bärnighausen, Helen Schneider
Globalization of leptospirosis through travel and migration
Medhani Bandara, Mahesha Ananda, Kolitha Wickramage, Elisabeth Berger, Suneth Agampodi
Community-based interventions for improving maternal health and for reducing maternal health inequalities in high-income countries: a systematic map of research
Martha Perry, Francisco Becerra, Josephine Kavanagh, Angéline Serre, Emily Vargas, Victor Becerril
Hospital accreditation: lessons from low- and middle-income countries
Helen Smits, Anuwat Supachutikul, Kedar S Mate
Learning from developing countries in strengthening health systems: an evaluation of personal and professional impact among global health volunteers at Addis Ababa University’s Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital (Ethiopia)
Heidi Busse, Ephrem A Aboneh, Girma Tefera
Trade and investment liberalization and Asia’s noncommunicable disease epidemic: a synthesis of data and existing literature
Phillip Baker, Adrian Kay, Helen Walls
On the margins of aid orthodoxy: the Brazil-Mozambique collaboration to produce essential medicines in Africa
Giuliano Russo, Lícia de Oliveira, Alex Shankland, Tânia Sitoe
A call for a moratorium on the .health generic top-level domain: preventing the commercialization and exclusive control of online health information
Tim K Mackey, Gunther Eysenbach, Bryan A Liang, Jillian C Kohler, Antoine Geissbuhler, Amir Attaran
Country progress towards the Millennium Development Goals: adjusting for socioeconomic factors reveals greater progress and new challenges
Robert L Cohen, Yira Natalia Alfonso, Taghreed Adam, Shyama Kuruvilla, Julian Schweitzer, David Bishai
The limits of global health diplomacy: Taiwan's observer status at the world health assembly
Jonathan Herington, Kelley Lee
Accreditation as a path to achieving universal quality health coverage
Kedar S Mate, Anne L Rooney, Anuwat Supachutikul, Girdhar Gyani
Towards a comprehensive global approach to prevention and control of NCDs
Martin McKee, Andy Haines, Shah Ebrahim, Peter Lamptey, Mauricio L Barreto, Don Matheson, Helen L Walls, Sunia Foliaki, J Jaime Miranda, Oyun Chimeddamba, Luis Garcia-Marcos, Paolo Vineis, Neil Pearce
A systematic mapping of funders of maternal health intervention research 2000-2012
Katharine Footman, Matthew Chersich, Duane Blaauw, Oona MR Campbell, Ashar Dhana, Josephine Kavanagh, Mari Dumbaugh, Siphiwe Thwala, Leon Bijlmakers, Emily Vargas, Elinor Kern, Francisco Becerra, Loveday Penn-Kekana
Illicit cigarette consumption and government revenue loss in Indonesia
Abdillah Ahsan, Nur Hadi Wiyono, Diahhadi Setyonaluri, Ryan Denniston, Anthony D So
Contract Research Organizations (CROs) in China: integrating Chinese research and development capabilities for global drug innovation
Yun-Zhen Shi, Hao Hu, Chunming Wang
Development assistance for health given to Nepal by China and India: a comparative study
Haomin Yang, Shambhu Prasad Acharya, Peilong Liu, Yan Guo
Looking at non-communicable diseases in Uganda through a local lens: an analysis using locally derived data
Jeremy I Schwartz, David Guwatudde, Rachel Nugent, Charles Mondo Kiiza
Evidence for cost-effectiveness of lifestyle primary preventions for cardiovascular disease in the Asia-Pacific Region: a systematic review
Lainie Sutton, Anup Karan, Ajay Mahal
The economic burden of diabetes in India: a review of the literature
Charles AK Yesudian, Mari Grepstad, Erica Visintin, Alessandra Ferrario
A concept in flux: questioning accountability in the context of global health cooperation
Carlos Bruen, Ruairí Brugha, Angela Kageni, Francis Wafula
Adapting to the health impacts of climate change in a sustainable manner
Damian Hoy, Adam Roth, Christelle Lepers, Jo Durham, Johann Bell, Alexis Durand, Padma Narsey Lal, Yvan Souares
Non‐Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in developing countries: a symposium report
Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, Tina Dannemann Purnat, Nguyen Thi Anh Phuong, Upendo Mwingira, Karsten Schacht, Günter Fröschl
Integration of community home based care programmes within national primary health care revitalisation strategies in Ethiopia, Malawi, South-Africa and Zambia: a comparative assessment
Carolien Aantjes, Tim Quinlan, Joske Bunders
Involvement of low- and middle-income countries in randomized controlled trial publications in oncology
Janice C Wong, Kimberly A Fernandes, Shubarna Amin, Zarnie Lwin, Monika K Krzyzanowska
China’s role as a global health donor in Africa: what can we learn from studying under reported resource flows?
Karen A Grépin, Victoria Y Fan, Gordon C Shen, Lucy Chen
Health diplomacy: a new approach to the Muslim world?
Mehrunisha Suleman, Raghib Ali, David J Kerr
Systematic review of facility-based sexual and reproductive health services for female sex workers in Africa
Ashar Dhana, Stanley Luchters, Lizzie Moore, Yves Lafort, Anuradha Roy, Fiona Scorgie, Matthew Chersich
Community empowerment and involvement of female sex workers in targeted sexual and reproductive health interventions in Africa: a systematic review
Lizzie Moore, Matthew F Chersich, Richard Steen, Sushena Reza-Paul, Ashar Dhana, Bea Vuylsteke, Yves Lafort, Fiona Scorgie
The role of law and governance reform in the global response to non-communicable diseases
Roger S Magnusson, David Patterson
Private sector, for-profit health providers in low and middle income countries: can they reach the poor at scale?
Elizabeth Tung, Sara Bennett
Roundtable discussion: what is the future role of the private sector in health?
Guy Stallworthy, Kwasi Boahene, Kelechi Ohiri, Allan Pamba, Jeffrey Knezovich
‘There are a lot of new people in town: but they are here for soccer, not for business’ a qualitative inquiry into the impact of the 2010 soccer world cup on sex work in South Africa
Marlise L Richter, Fiona Scorgie, Matthew F Chersich, Stanley Luchters
Innovation in regulation of rapidly changing health markets
Gerald Bloom, Spencer Henson, David H Peters
The association between nutrition transition score and measures of obesity: results from a cross-sectional study among Latina/o immigrants in Baltimore
Airín D Martínez, Hee-soon Juon, David M Levine, Victoria Lyford-Pike, Sadie Peters
Accelerating learning for pro-poor health markets
Sara Bennett, Gina Lagomarsino, Jeffrey Knezovich, Henry Lucas
Cost, outcomes, treatment pathways and challenges for diabetes care in Italy
Federico Grimaccia, Panos Kanavos
Trade as a structural driver of dietary risk factors for noncommunicable diseases in the Pacific: an analysis of household income and expenditure survey data
Michelle Sahal Estimé, Brian Lutz, Ferdinand Strobel
The politics of agenda setting at the global level: key informant interviews regarding the International Labour Organization Decent Work Agenda
Erica Di Ruggiero, Joanna E Cohen, Donald C Cole
Translation, cultural adaptation and field-testing of the Thinking Healthy Program for Vietnam
Jane Fisher, Hau Nguyen, Priya Mannava, Ha Tran, Thao Dam, Huong Tran, Thach Tran, Kelly Durrant, Atif Rahman, Stanley Luchters
Mobile health for non-communicable diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of the literature and strategic framework for research
Gerald S Bloomfield, Rajesh Vedanthan, Lavanya Vasudevan, Anne Kithei, Martin Were, Eric J Velazquez
The future of health markets
Sara Bennett, Gerald Bloom, Jeffrey Knezovich, David H Peters
The global financial crisis and health equity: Early experiences from Canada
Arne Ruckert, Ronald Labonté
Government capacities and stakeholders: what facilitates ehealth legislation?
Achim Lang
Local production of pharmaceuticals in Africa and access to essential medicines: 'urban bias’ in access to imported medicines in Tanzania and its policy implications
Phares GM Mujinja, Maureen Mackintosh, Mary Justin-Temu, Marc Wuyts
Open access: academic publishing and its implications for knowledge equity in Kenya
Duncan Mwangangi Matheka, Joseph Nderitu, Daniel Mutonga, Mary Iwaret Otiti, Karen Siegel, Alessandro Rhyll Demaio
Challenges faced by multidisplinary new investigators on addressing grand challenges in global health
Carmen Logie, Helen Dimaras, Anny Fortin, Santiago Ramón-García
The multiple meanings of global health governance: a call for conceptual clarity
Kelley Lee, Adam Kamradt-Scott