Julio Frenk, Lincoln Chen, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Jordan J. Cohen et al.
Lincoln Chen, Timothy Evans, Sudhir Anand, Jo Ivey Boufford et al.
In this analysis of the global workforce, the Joint Learning Initiative-a consortium of more than 100 health leaders-proposes that mobilisation and strengthening of human resources for health, neglected yet critical, is central to combating health crises in some of the world's poorest countries and ...
Harika Yadav, Devanshi Shah, Shahin Sayed, Susan Horton et al.
BACKGROUND: Pathology and laboratory medicine diagnostics and diagnostic imaging are crucial to achieving universal health coverage. We analysed Service Provision Assessments (SPAs) from ten low-income and middle-income countries to benchmark diagnostic availability. METHODS: Diagnostic availabiliti...
Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá, Sumegha Asthana, Cristián Montenegro, Renzo Guinto et al.
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19AU : PleasenotethatCOVID 19hasbeendefinedasCoro ) pandemic, the Black Lives Matter and Women in Global Health movements, and ongoing calls to decolonise global health have all created space for uncomfortable but important conversations that reveal serious asymme...
Omnia El Omrani, Alaa Dafallah, Blanca Paniello-Castillo, Bianca Q. R. C. Amaro et al.
BACKGROUND: With deteriorating ecosystems, the health of mankind is at risk. Future health care professionals must be trained to recognize the interdependence of health and ecosystems to address the needs of their patients and communities. Health issues related to, e.g. climate change and air pollut...
Melissa Neuman, Glyn Alcock, Kishwar Azad, Abdul Kuddus et al.
OBJECTIVES: To describe the prevalence and determinants of births by caesarean section in private and public health facilities in underserved communities in South Asia. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: 81 community-based geographical clusters in four locations in Bangladesh, India and Nepal (...
James Trostle
Syed Moshfiqur Rahman, Nabeel Ashraf Ali, Larissa Jennings, M. Habibur R. Seraji et al.
BACKGROUND: Well-trained and highly motivated community health workers (CHWs) are critical for delivery of many community-based newborn care interventions. High rates of CHW attrition undermine programme effectiveness and potential for implementation at scale. We investigated reasons for high rates ...
Gaurav Sharma, Matthews Mathai, Kim Dickson, Andrew Weeks et al.
BACKGROUND: Good outcomes during pregnancy and childbirth are related to availability, utilisation and effective implementation of essential interventions for labour and childbirth. The majority of the estimated 289,000 maternal deaths, 2.8 million neonatal deaths and 2.6 million stillbirths every y...
Charles Ameh, Sia E. Msuya, Jan Hofman, Joanna Raven et al.
BACKGROUND: Ensuring women have access to good quality Emergency Obstetric Care (EOC) is a key strategy to reducing maternal and newborn deaths. Minimum coverage rates are expected to be 1 Comprehensive (CEOC) and 4 Basic EOC (BEOC) facilities per 500,000 population. METHODS AND FINDINGS: A cross-se...
Meike Schleiff, Iain Aitken, Mohammad Ariful Alam, Zufan Abera Damtew et al.
BACKGROUND: This is the sixth of our 11-paper supplement entitled "Community Health Workers at the Dawn of New Era". Expectations of community health workers (CHWs) have expanded in recent years to encompass a wider array of services to numerous subpopulations, engage communities to collaborate with...
Aashna Mehta, Jyi Cheng Ng, Wireko Andrew Awuah, Helen Huang et al.
Robotic surgery has applications in many medical specialties, including urology, general surgery, and surgical oncology. In the context of a widespread resource and personnel shortage in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), the use of robotics in surgery may help to reduce physician burnout, su...
Henry B. Perry, Mushtaque Chowdhury, Miriam Were, Karen LeBan et al.
BACKGROUND: This is the concluding paper of our 11-paper supplement, "Community health workers at the dawn of a new era". METHODS: We relied on our collective experience, an extensive body of literature about community health workers (CHWs), and the other papers in this supplement to identify the mo...
Adnan A. Hyder, S. Syed, Prasanthi Puvanachandra, Gerald Bloom et al.
Objectives Future Health Systems: Innovations for Equity (FHS) is working in six partner countries in Asia and Africa, focusing on strengthening the research-policy interface in relation to specific health system research projects. These projects present an opportunity to study the influence of stak...
Spencer L James, Chris D Castle, Zachary V Dingels, Jack T Fox et al.
BACKGROUND: While there is a long history of measuring death and disability from injuries, modern research methods must account for the wide spectrum of disability that can occur in an injury, and must provide estimates with sufficient demographic, geographical and temporal detail to be useful for p...