Journal ArticlePloS one · January 2025
IntroductionIn Texas, the adolescent birth rate is higher than the national average and STIs have steadily increased over the last decade. Sex education is not mandated in Texas and the majority of public schools provide an abstinence-based sex ed ...
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Journal ArticleGlobalization and health · July 2024
BackgroundCovid-19 has reinforced health and economic cases for investing in pandemic preparedness and response (PPR). The World Bank and World Health Organization (WHO) propose that low- and middle-income governments and donor countries should in ...
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Journal ArticleVaccine · July 2024
Schistosomiasis is caused by parasitic flatworms (Schistosoma). The disease in humans can be caused by seven different species of Schistosoma: S. mansoni, S. japonicum, S. haematobium, S. malayensis, S. mekongi, S. guineensis and S. intercalatum, as well a ...
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Journal ArticlePLOS global public health · January 2024
Misuse and overconsumption of certain consumer products have become major global risk factors for premature deaths, with their total costs in trillions of dollars. Progress in reducing such deaths has been slow and difficult. To address this challenge, thi ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics · January 2024
The 2024 U.S. election will shape the future of global health policy, with crucial implications for continuing U.S. leadership in global health. The United States has long played a critical role in global health governance, through multilateral institution ...
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Journal ArticleLancet (London, England) · December 2023
Global campaigns to control HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, and vaccine-preventable illnesses showed that large-scale impact can be achieved by using additional international financing to support selected, evidence-based, high-impact investment areas and to ca ...
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Journal ArticleBMJ global health · May 2023
IntroductionPoverty-related and neglected diseases (PRNDs) cause over three million deaths annually. Despite this burden, there is a large gap between actual funding for PRND research and development (R&D) and the funding needed to launch PRND pro ...
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Journal ArticleThe Lancet. Global health · April 2023
BackgroundMaternal and newborn mortality rates in Nigeria are among the highest globally, and large socioeconomic inequalities exist in access to maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) services in the country. Inequalities also exist in catast ...
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Journal ArticleBMJ open · March 2023
ObjectivesThis study aimed to assess Nigeria's preparedness to finance and drive the universal health coverage (UHC) agenda within the context of changing health conditions and resource needs associated with the disease, demographic and funding tr ...
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Journal ArticleBMJ global health · January 2023
This paper reviews the experience of six low-income and lower middle-income countries in setting their own essential packages of health services (EPHS), with the purpose of identifying the key requirements for the successful design and transition to implem ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2023
Global public health is under threat from challenges that transcend the boundaries of individual nation states, including pandemics and antimicrobial resistance. Activities that can curb these transnational threats are called global common goods for health ...
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ConferenceBMJ global health · December 2022
BackgroundAlthough it is difficult to quantify, previous estimates suggested that China's global health aid has increased sharply since the early 2000s. Unlike many donors, China has no official aid reporting obligations, nor does it voluntarily d ...
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Journal ArticleHealth policy and planning · October 2022
As countries graduate from low-income to middle-income status, many face losses in development assistance for health and must 'transition' to greater domestic funding of their health response. If improperly managed, donor transitions in middle-income count ...
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Journal ArticleBMC health services research · April 2022
BackgroundEthiopia has achieved impressive improvements in health outcomes and economic growth in the last decade but its total health spending is among the lowest in Africa. Ethiopia launched a Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) scheme in 20 ...
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Journal ArticleThe Lancet. Global health · January 2022
There is increasing evidence that elimination strategies have resulted in better outcomes for public health, the economy, and civil liberties than have mitigation strategies throughout the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. With vaccines that offer high ...
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Journal ArticlePLOS global public health · January 2022
The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has triggered a public health and economic crisis in high and low resource settings since the beginning of 2020. With the first case being discovered on 12th March 2020, Kenya has responded by using health and non-health ...
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Journal ArticleFrontiers in public health · January 2022
ObjectiveTracking global health funding is a crucial but time consuming and labor-intensive process. This study aimed to develop a framework to automate the tracking of global health spending using natural language processing (NLP) and machine lea ...
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Journal ArticleHealth policy and planning · August 2021
In the coming years, about a dozen middle-income countries are excepted to transition out of development assistance for health (DAH) based on their economic growth. This anticipated loss of external funds at a time when there is a need for accelerated prog ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS medicine · June 2021
Wenhui Mao and coauthors discuss possible implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for health aspirations in low- and middle-income countries. ...
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Journal ArticleBMJ global health · January 2021
BackgroundGhana's shift from low-income to middle-income status will make it ineligible to receive concessional aid in the future. While transition may be a reflection of positive changes in a country, such as economic development or health progre ...
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Journal ArticleGates Open Research · January 1, 2021
Background: Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) requires increased domestic financing of health by low-income countries (LICs) and middle-income countries (MICs). It is critical to understand how much governments have devoted to health from domestic ...
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Journal ArticleGlob Health Sci Pract · September 30, 2020
This resource list could serve to orient those interested in global surgery and could be supplemented with resources advocating for global surgery from clinical, population health, or policy perspectives. ...
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Journal ArticleGates Open Research · January 1, 2020
Background: Funding for neglected disease product development fell from 2009-2015, other than a brief injection of Ebola funding. One impediment to mobilizing resources is a lack of information on product candidates, the estimated costs to move them throug ...
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Journal ArticleGates open research · January 2020
Background: Preterm birth, defined as infants born before 37 weeks of gestation, is the largest contributor to child mortality. Despite new evidence highlighting the global burden of prematurity, policymakers have failed to adequately prioritize pre ...
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Journal ArticleF1000Research · January 2020
Background: Health systems strengthening (HSS) and health security are two pillars of universal health coverage (UHC). Investments in these areas are essential for meeting the Sustainable Development Goals and are of heightened relevance given the e ...
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Journal ArticleF1000Research · January 2020
Background: To estimate how much additional funding is needed for poverty-related and neglected disease (PRND) product development and to target new resources effectively, policymakers need updated information on the development pipeline and estimat ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS Med · November 2019
BACKGROUND: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by all United Nations (UN) member states in 2015, established a set of bold and ambitious health-related targets to achieve by 2030. Understanding China's progress toward these targets is critic ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS medicine · June 2019
Gavin Yamey and co-authors discuss approaches to providing support for middle-income countries transitioning away from health aid. ...
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Journal ArticleInternational journal of health policy and management · March 2019
Over just a six-year period from 2005-2011, five aid effectiveness initiatives were launched: the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005), the International Health Partnership plus (2007), the Accra Agenda for Action (2008), the Busan Partnership for ...
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Journal Article · February 24, 2019
The aims of the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge (RTTC) include creation of an off-the-grid sanitation system with operating costs of less than US$0.05 per user per day. Because of the small scale at which many reinvented toilets (RT) are intended to operate, ...
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Journal ArticleBMJ global health · January 2019
Achieving many of the health targets in the Sustainable Development Goals will not be possible without increased financing for global health research and development (R&D). Yet financing for neglected disease product development fell from 2009-2015, with t ...
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Journal ArticleHealth systems and reform · January 2019
West Africa's Ebola epidemic of 2014-2016 exposed, among other problems, the under-funding of transnational global health activities known as global common goods for health (CGH), global functions such as pandemic preparedness and research and development ...
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Journal ArticleHealth systems and reform · January 2019
"Global functions" of health cooperation refer to those activities that go beyond the boundaries of individual nations to address transnational issues. This paper begins by presenting a taxonomy of global functions and laying out the key value propositions ...
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Journal ArticleHealth policy and planning · April 2018
The Commission on Investing in Health (CIH), an international group of 25 economists and global health experts, published its Global Health 2035 report in The Lancet in December 2013. The report laid out an ambitious investment framework for achieving a "g ...
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Journal ArticleGates open research · January 2018
Background: The Portfolio-To-Impact (P2I) Model is a novel tool, developed to estimate minimum funding needs to accelerate health product development from late stage preclinical study to phase III clinical trials, and to visualize potential product ...
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Journal ArticleHealth research policy and systems · September 2017
BackgroundPreterm birth (PTB) is the leading cause of death in children under age five. Healthcare policy and other decision-making relevant to PTB may rely on obsolete, incomplete or inapplicable research evidence, leading to worsened outcomes. A ...
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Journal ArticleSalud publica de Mexico · May 2017
Developing country governments and aid agencies face difficult decisions on how best to allocate their finite resources. Investments in many different sectors -including education, water and sanitation, transportation, and health- can all reap social and e ...
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Journal ArticleLancet (London, England) · November 2016
In this Series we document the substantial progress in the reduction of maternal mortality and discuss the current state of science in reducing maternal mortality. However, maternal health is also powerfully influenced by the structures and resources of so ...
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Journal ArticleThe Lancet. Global health · October 2016
BackgroundThe United Nations Sustainable Development Goal for health (SDG3) poses complex challenges for signatory countries that will require clear roadmaps to set priorities over the next 15 years. Building upon the work of the Commission on Inv ...
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Journal ArticleHealth affairs (Project Hope) · October 2016
Trends in child mortality, maternal mortality, and fertility in India reveal wide variation across states. As a whole, India performs worse than many other low- and middle-income countries, although its rates of improvement have recently increased. Differe ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS medicine · May 2016
BackgroundLittle is known about the social and political factors that influence priority setting for different health services in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), yet these factors are integral to understanding how national health agendas ...
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Journal ArticleLancet (London, England) · May 2016
In today's highly globalised world, protecting human security is a core challenge for political leaders who are simultaneously dealing with terrorism, refugee and migration crises, disease epidemics, and climate change. Promoting universal health coverage ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS biology · March 2016
In its report Global Health 2035, the Commission on Investing in Health proposed that health investments can reduce mortality in nearly all low- and middle-income countries to very low levels, thereby averting 10 million deaths per year from 2035 onward. M ...
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Journal ArticleReproductive health · March 2016
Preterm birth (PTB) is the world's leading cause of death in children under 5 years. In 2013, over one million out of six million child deaths were due to complications of PTB. The rate of decline in child death overall has far outpaced the rate of decline ...
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Journal ArticleThe Cochrane database of systematic reviews · March 2016
BackgroundMalaria causes ill health and death in Africa. Treating illness promptly with artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) is likely to cure people and avoid the disease progressing to more severe forms and death. In many countries, ACT u ...
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Journal ArticlePloS one · January 2016
BackgroundObstetric hemorrhage (OH), which includes hemorrhage from multiple etiologies during pregnancy, childbirth, or postpartum, is the leading cause of maternal mortality and accounts for one-quarter of global maternal deaths. The Non-pneumat ...
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Journal ArticleOxford Review of Economic Policy · January 1, 2016
The international development community is transitioning from the era of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), ending in 2015, to the era of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which have a 2030 target. Global development assistance for health (DA ...
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Journal ArticleBMJ open · January 2016
ObjectiveTo examine newspaper coverage of maternal health in three countries that have made varying progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG 5): Bangladesh (on track), Rwanda (making progress, but not on track) and South Africa (no prog ...
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Journal ArticleSpringerplus · 2016
BACKGROUND: The non-profit and volunteer sector has made notable contributions to delivering surgical services in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). As an estimated 55 % of surgical care delivered in some LMICs is via charitable organizations; the fi ...
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Journal ArticleBMJ global health · January 2016
The Millennium Development Goals have ended and the Sustainable Development Goals have begun, marking a shift in the global health landscape. The frame of reference has changed from a focus on 8 development priorities to an expansive set of 17 interrelated ...
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Journal ArticleLancet (London, England) · December 2015
The slow global response to the Ebola crisis in west Africa suggests that important gaps exist in donor financing for key global functions, such as support for health research and development for diseases of poverty and strengthening of outbreak preparedne ...
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Journal ArticleBMJ Open · November 9, 2015
OBJECTIVE: The funds available for global surgical delivery, capacity building and research are unknown and presumed to be low. Meanwhile, conditions amenable to surgery are estimated to account for nearly 30% of the global burden of disease. We describe f ...
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Journal ArticleSalud publica de Mexico · September 2015
Prompted by the 20th anniversary of the 1993 World Development Report, a Lancet Commission revisited the case for investment in health and developed a new investment framework to achieve dramatic health gains by 2035. The Commission's report has four key m ...
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Journal ArticleInternational journal of health policy and management · July 2015
Global Health 2035, the report of The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health, laid out a bold, highly ambitious framework for making rapid progress in improving global public health outcomes. It showed that with the right health investments, the internat ...
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Journal ArticleThe Lancet. Global health · April 2015
BackgroundGiven the large burden of surgical conditions and the crosscutting nature of surgery, scale-up of basic surgical services is crucial to health-system strengthening. The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery proposed that, to meet populatio ...
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Journal ArticleLancet (London, England) · January 2015
BackgroundThe UN will formulate ambitious Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, including one for health. Feasible goals with some quantifiable, measurable targets can influence governments. We propose, as a quatitative health target, "Avoid in ...
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Journal ArticleSalud Publica de Mexico · January 1, 2015
Prompted by the 20th anniversary of the 1993 World Development Report, a Lancet Commission revisited the case for investment in health and developed a new investment framework to achieve dramatic health gains by 2035. The Commission's report has four key m ...
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Journal ArticleThe Lancet. Global health · December 2014
BackgroundMeasuring a country's health performance has focused mostly on estimating levels of mortality. An alternative is to measure rates of decline in mortality, which are more sensitive to changes in health policy than are mortality levels. Hi ...
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Chapter · April 14, 2014
From its early origins in the 1990s, evidence-based medicine has become a major driving force in healthcare improvement worldwide and has prompted other evidence-based “movements, " including evidence-based policy-making (EBP) in global health. EBP approac ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS Med · August 2013
Ruby Singhrao and colleagues propose four arguments for why cervical cancer screening and treatment should be prioritized. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary ...
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Journal ArticlePloS one · January 2013
BackgroundIn 2010, diarrhea caused 0.75 million child deaths, accounting for nearly 12% of all under-five mortality worldwide. Many evidence-based interventions can reduce diarrhea mortality, including oral rehydration solution (ORS), zinc, and im ...
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Journal ArticleBulletin of the World Health Organization · June 2012
The Affordable Medicines Facility-malaria is an innovative financing mechanism, managed by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. This initiative aims to increase the use of artemisinin-based combination therapies for treating malaria. A ...
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Journal ArticleGlobalization and health · May 2012
BackgroundMost low and middle income countries (LMICs) are currently not on track to reach the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). One way to accelerate progress would be through the large-scale implementation of evidence-based hea ...
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Journal ArticleMalaria journal · April 2012
BackgroundConsiderable declines in malaria have accompanied increased funding for control since the year 2000, but historical failures to maintain gains against the disease underscore the fragility of these successes. Although malaria transmission ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS medicine · June 2011
Drawing upon interviews with experts and a review of the literature, Gavin Yamey proposes a new framework for scaling up global health interventions. ...
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Journal ArticlePloS one · February 2011
BackgroundIn 2008, over 300,000 women died during pregnancy or childbirth, mostly in poor countries. While there are proven interventions to make childbirth safer, there is uncertainty about the best way to deliver these at large scale. In particu ...
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Journal ArticleHealth and human rights · January 2008
Most biomedical journals charge readers a hefty access toll to read the full text version of a published research article. These tolls bring enormous profits to the traditional corporate publishing industry, but they make it impossible for most people worl ...
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Journal ArticleDisability and rehabilitation · April 2004
PurposeTo explore the religious beliefs that patients may bring to the rehabilitation process, and the hypothesis that these beliefs may diverge from the medical model of rehabilitation.MethodsQualitative semi-structured interviews with r ...
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