The stages of international (global) health: histories of success or successes of history?

abstract：:This paper demonstrates that certain notions of young people in the HIV and AIDS response reveal an overly generalised understanding of 'youth' that does not reflect a realistic view of young people's identity and lives. Faulty stereotypes of 'youth'--such as the perceptions that young people are necessarily victims o...

journal_title：Global public health

authors： Chandler CL

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to identify trends and change in micronutrient supplementation (MNS) knowledge across pregnancy and post-partum and to assess the impact of MNS knowledge (MNS-k) on practice in pregnancy in rural Tibet, an area with endemic micronutrient deficiency. A prospective cohort with repeated me...

journal_title：Global public health

authors： De Ver Dye T,Pelto G,Kristensen S,Samen A,Dozier A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this article is to describe the results of a 2-year pilot programme implementing prevention of mother to child HIV transmission (PMTCT) in a refugee camp setting. Interventions used were: community sensitization, trainings of healthcare workers, voluntary counselling and HIV testing (VCT), infant feed...

journal_title：Global public health

authors： Rutta E,Gongo R,Mwansasu A,Mutasingwa D,Rwegasira V,Kishumbu S,Tabayi J,Masini T,Ramadhani H

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Driven by long-standing ties with India, and intertwined with global market interests, a growing influx of materia medica from South Asia is currently emerging in East Africa. To compete at a global level and framed within the language of 'South-South cooperation for mutual benefit', India presents itself as an approp...

journal_title：Global public health

authors： Meier Zu Biesen C

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ensuring that biomedical information about research procedures is adequately understood by participants and their communities is key for conducting ethical research. This article explores participants' understanding of trial procedures for an experimental vaccine against Ebola virus disease (EVD) in a West African con...

journal_title：Global public health

authors： Alenichev A,Peeters Grietens K,Gerrets R

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sierra Leone suffered from 11 years of civil war (1991-2002) resulting in tens of thousands of deaths and mutilations and massive population displacement. In 2001, ARC International, Sierra Leone, conducted a baseline survey of 244 female youth and 293 male youth on knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours around HIV/AIDS...

journal_title：Global public health

authors： Casey SE,Larsen MM,McGinn T,Sartie M,Dauda M,Lahai P

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergent Dominican LGBT movement in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, has been embedded in local and global structures and discourses related to HIV/AIDS, women's health, and identity. This article explores how ongoing sociocultural changes, increased international HIV funding, and elite support facilitated a sur...

journal_title：Global public health

authors： Daniel Castellanos H

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vietnam is currently considering a revision of its 2008 Health Insurance Law, including the regulation of provider payment methods. This study uses a simple spreadsheet-based, micro-simulation model to analyse the potential impacts of different provider payment reform scenarios on resource allocation across health car...

journal_title：Global public health

authors： Cashin C,Phuong NK,Shain R,Oanh TT,Thuy NT

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Women comprise two-thirds of the global-health (GH) workforce but are underrepresented in leadership. GH departments are platforms to advance gender equality in GH leadership. Using a survey of graduates from one GH department, we compared women's and men's post-training career agency and GH employment and assessed wh...

journal_title：Global public health

authors： Yount KM,Cheong YF,Miedema SS,Chen JS,Menstell E,Maxwell L,Ramakrishnan U,Clark CJ,Rochat R,Del Rio C

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cash transfer programmes have recently emerged as promising interventions for HIV prevention among adolescents in Africa. However, the pathways through which risk reduction occurs are not well understood. We examine data on 1429 adolescents and youth from the Kenya Cash Transfer for Orphans and Vulnerable Children, wh...

journal_title：Global public health

authors： Handa S,Palermo T,Rosenberg M,Pettifor A,Halpern CT,Thirumurthy H

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgender women in Lima, Peru have, until recently, been grouped together with gay and bisexual men in the category MSM, or men who have sex with men, with little consideration of their unique situation and needs. Transgender women, self-identified in Peru as travesti, are a socially vulnerable population with many ...

journal_title：Global public health

authors： Pollock L,Silva-Santisteban A,Sevelius J,Salazar X

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The global movement of people across international borders to undergo assisted reproductive treatment is common, although there is little accurate data. In this article, we synthesise findings from our own empirical research on reproductive travel in addition to a review of clinical, ethical, legal, and regulatory com...

journal_title：Global public health

authors： Whittaker A,Inhorn MC,Shenfield F

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing population of older adults resides in sub-Saharan Africa's urban slums. Although environmental conditions in slums are adversarial, there is limited knowledge on the wellbeing of older adults residing in these settings. This review sought to understand the scope, extent, and nature of current research on the...

journal_title：Global public health

authors： Alaazi DA,Menon D,Stafinski T

更新日期：2020-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) trade liberalisation combined with post-9/11 border securitisation means North America increasingly relies on pools of temporary foreign labour, particularly in the agricultural and service sectors. Despite being temporary, these workers often spend most of their years ...

journal_title：Global public health

authors： Barnes N

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the extensive literature on the tobacco industry, there has been little attempt to study how transnational tobacco companies (TTCs) coordinate their political activities globally, or to theorise TTC strategies within the context of global governance structures and policy processes. This article draws on three ...

journal_title：Global public health

authors： Hawkins B,Holden C,Mackinder S

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Ethiopia, maternal waiting areas (MWAs) - residential areas near health facilities where women can stay while waiting to give birth - are community-based, equity-oriented interventions to improve maternal outcomes among rural populations. In this qualitative study we sought to explore the barriers and enablers that...

journal_title：Global public health

authors： Bergen N,Abebe L,Asfaw S,Kiros G,Kulkarni MA,Mamo A,Morankar S,Labonté R

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the fringes of the unprecedented medication scale-up in the treatment of HIV, many African countries have experienced dramatic antiretroviral drug stock-outs. Usually considered the result of irrational decisions on behalf of local politicians, programme managers and even patients (who are stigmatised as immoral), ...

journal_title：Global public health

authors： David PM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Public health indicators generally operate in the world as credible, apolitical and authoritative. But indicators are less stable than they appear. Clinical critiques of Intrauterine Growth Restriction (IUGR) criteria have been forthcoming for decades. This article, though, takes up the measuring and calculation gradi...

journal_title：Global public health

authors： Erikson SL

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, dozens of countries have introduced accreditation and other quality improvement initiatives. A great deal of information is available regarding best practices in high- and middle-income countries; however, little is available to guide developing nations seeking to introduce an accreditation programme....

journal_title：Global public health

authors： Cleveland EC,Dahn BT,Lincoln TM,Safer M,Podesta M,Bradley E

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although cash transfers (CT) have been recommended as a strategy to address structural drivers of HIV, the evidence of the effects of CT on sexual risk and HIV outcomes is mixed. This could partly be due to CT implementation dynamics and beneficiary interpersonal factors. We conducted an assessment of CT component of ...

journal_title：Global public health

authors： Wamoyi J,Balvanz P,Gichane MW,Maman S,Mugunga S,Majani E,Pettifor A

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this text is to survey the political construction of sexual rights in Brazil working on themes that are especially relevant to the configuration of these rights (reproduction/abortion, STDs/AIDS and sexual diversity), and mapping the main actors, the legal instruments now in place or still being discu...

journal_title：Global public health

authors： Vianna AR,Carrara S,Lacerda P

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes a review of 58 evaluation studies of programmes with men and boys in sexual and reproductive health (including HIV prevention, treatment, care and support); father involvement; gender-based violence; maternal, newborn and child health; and gender socialisation more broadly. While few of the prog...

journal_title：Global public health

authors： Barker G,Ricardo C,Nascimento M,Olukoya A,Santos C

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the politics and the underlying discourses of water provisioning and how residents of Korogocho and Viwandani slum settlements in Nairobi city cope with challenges relating to water access. We use qualitative data from 36 focus group discussions conducted in the two slums to unravel discourses rega...

journal_title：Global public health

authors： Mudege NN,Zulu EM

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study considers care-seeking patterns for maternal morbidity in Mumbai's slums. Our objectives were to document women's self-reported symptoms and care-seeking, and to quantify their choice of health provider, care-seeking delays and referrals between providers. The hypothesis that care-seeking sites for maternal...

journal_title：Global public health

authors： More NS,Alcock G,Das S,Bapat U,Joshi W,Osrin D

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poor reproductive health constitutes one of the leading public health problems in the world, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We report here an academic partnership that commenced in 2003 between a US institution and six universities in SSA. The partnership addresses the human resources development challenge ...

journal_title：Global public health

authors： Oni G,Fatusi A,Tsui A,Enquselassie F,Ojengbede O,Agbenyega T,Ojofeitimi E,Taulo F,Quakyi I

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite significant public health efforts, girls and young women still face gender-specific barriers to achieving optimal physical and mental health. Public health interventions have historically addressed the health needs of girls and young women using risk-focused, or deficit-based, approaches. Emerging research in ...

journal_title：Global public health

authors： LoVette A,Kuo C,Harrison A

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 2002, ageing populations worldwide have received increasing attention by global policy-makers. However, resources committed by inter-governmental donors and US-based private foundations in support of ageing-related policies and interventions in non-Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) co...

journal_title：Global public health

authors： Esser DE,Ward PS

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dramatic scale-up of HIV services in lower-income countries has led to the development of service delivery models reflecting the specific characteristics of HIV and its treatment as well as local contexts and cultures. Given the shared barriers and challenges faced by health programmes in lower-income countries, m...

journal_title：Global public health

authors： Rabkin M,El-Sadr WM

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few countries in West Africa have the capacity for carrying out advanced training in nutrition and public health. To provide additional information on current regional applied nutrition research capacity and productivity, we analysed peer-reviewed articles on key public health nutrition topics that were published from...

journal_title：Global public health

authors： Aaron GJ,Wilson SE,Brown KH

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zimbabwe is going through a generalised acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic. The first five years of the epidemic (1985-1990) were characterised by lack of medicines against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and an exponential increase in prevalence (65-fold) and incidence (13-fold), which were fuelle...

journal_title：Global public health

authors： Chingwaru W,Vidmar J

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00