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Globalization and Health

Ausgabe 1/2018

Inhalt (124 Artikel)

Open Access Commentary

Good collaborative practice: reforming capacity building governance of international health research partnerships

Claire Leonie Ward, David Shaw, Dominique Sprumont, Osman Sankoh, Marcel Tanner, Bernice Elger

Open Access Research

Applied global health diplomacy: profile of health diplomats accredited to the UNITED STATES and foreign governments

Matthew D. Brown, Julie N. Bergmann, Thomas E. Novotny, Tim K. Mackey

Open Access Commentary

Cost of diabetes mellitus in Africa: a systematic review of existing literature

Chipo Mutyambizi, Milena Pavlova, Lumbwe Chola, Charles Hongoro, Wim Groot

Open Access Research

Knowledge and practices of general practitioners at district hospitals towards cervical cancer prevention in Burundi, 2015: a cross-sectional study

Zacharie Ndizeye, Davy Vanden Broeck, Heleen Vermandere, John Paul Bogers, Jean-Pierre Van Geertruyden

Open Access Research

The institutional context of tobacco production in Zambia

Ronald Labonté, Raphael Lencucha, Jeffrey Drope, Corinne Packer, Fastone M. Goma, Richard Zulu

Open Access Editorial

Advancing STI priorities in the SDG era: priorities for action

Matthew F. Chersich, Sinead Delany-Moretlwe, Greg Martin, Helen Rees

Open Access Commentary

Untapped aspects of mass media campaigns for changing health behaviour towards non-communicable diseases in Bangladesh

Reshman Tabassum, Guenter Froeschl, Jonas P. Cruz, Paolo C. Colet, Sukhen Dey, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam

Open Access Research

Implementation lessons for school food policies and marketing restrictions in the Philippines: a qualitative policy analysis

Erica Reeve, Anne Marie Thow, Colin Bell, Katrin Engelhardt, Ella Cecilia Gamolo-Naliponguit, John Juliard Go, Gary Sacks

Open Access Research

Psychotropic drugs in Nepal: perceptions on use and supply chain management

Nawaraj Upadhaya, Mark J. D. Jordans, Dristy Gurung, Ruja Pokhrel, Ramesh P. Adhikari, Ivan H. Komproe

Open Access Research

Effective practices of international volunteering for health: perspectives from partner organizations

Benjamin J. Lough, Rebecca Tiessen, Judith N. Lasker

Open Access Review

Characteristics of Indigenous primary health care service delivery models: a systematic scoping review

Stephen G. Harfield, Carol Davy, Alexa McArthur, Zachary Munn, Alex Brown, Ngiare Brown

Open Access Research

Saving Lives at Birth; development of a retrospective theory of change, impact framework and prioritised metrics

Marek Lalli, Harriet Ruysen, Hannah Blencowe, Kristen Yee, Karen Clune, Mary DeSilva, Marissa Leffler, Emily Hillman, Haitham El-Noush, Jo Mulligan, Jeffrey C. Murray, Karlee Silver, Joy E. Lawn

Open Access Research

Involvement of community pharmacists in continuing professional development (CPD): a baseline survey in Gondar, Northwest Ethiopia

Dessalegn Asmelashe Gelayee, Gashaw Binega Mekonnen, Mequanent Kassa Birarra

Open Access Commentary

“Cross-border collaboration in onchocerciasis elimination in Uganda: progress, challenges and opportunities from 2008 to 2013”

Thomson Lakwo, Tony Ukety, Didier Bakajika, Edridah Tukahebwa, Pitchouna Awaca, Uche Amazigo

Open Access Review

Approaches towards improving the quality of maternal and newborn health services in South Asia: challenges and opportunities for healthcare systems

Naeem uddin Mian, Muhammad Adeel Alvi, Mariam Zahid Malik, Sarosh Iqbal, Rubeena Zakar, Muhammad Zakria Zakar, Shehzad Hussain Awan, Faryal Shahid, Muhammad Ashraf Chaudhry, Florian Fischer

Open Access Research

Guidelines for responsible short-term global health activities: developing common principles

Judith N. Lasker, Myron Aldrink, Ramaswami Balasubramaniam, Paul Caldron, Bruce Compton, Jessica Evert, Lawrence C. Loh, Shailendra Prasad, Shira Siegel

Open Access Commentary

From Kisiizi to Baltimore: cultivating knowledge brokers to support global innovation for community engagement in healthcare

Chidinma A. Ibe, Lopa Basu, Rachel Gooden, Shamsuzzoha B. Syed, Viva Dadwal, Lee R. Bone, Patti L. Ephraim, Christine M. Weston, Albert W. Wu, J. Barron, R. T. Boonyasai, J. Gentry, M. C. Gibbons, I. Lief, Y. Lu, M. Rogers, M. Rosenblum, L. Purnell

Open Access Commentary

Obesity stigma as a globalizing health challenge

Alexandra Brewis, Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Amber Wutich

Open Access Review

Corporate practices and health: a framework and mechanisms

Joana Madureira Lima, Sandro Galea

Open Access Research

A qualitative evaluation of a simplified cardiovascular management program in Tibet, China

Maoyi Tian, Xuejun Yin, Danzeng Dunzhu, Zhong Liu, Cong Li, Hao Sun, Ci Song, Laba Sangzhu, Anushka Patel, Julie Redfern, Lijing L. Yan

Open Access Research

South-south collaboration on HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment research: when birds of a feather rarely flock together

Bruna de Paula Fonseca e Fonseca, Priscila Costa Albuquerque, Ed Noyons, Fabio Zicker

Open Access Review

Scoping literature review on the basic health benefit package and its determinant criteria

Ramin Hayati, Peivand Bastani, Mohammad Javad Kabir, Zahra Kavosi, Ghasem Sobhani

Open Access Commentary

Notes from a field hospital south of Mosul

John M. Quinn V, Omar F. Amouri, Pete Reed

Open Access Short report

Planning and preparing for public health threats at airports

Greg Martin, Mairin Boland

Open Access Editorial

Health system innovations: adapting to rapid change

Gerald Bloom, Annie Wilkinson, Abbas Bhuiya

Open Access Research

Population aging and migration – history and UN forecasts in the EU-28 and its east and south near neighborhood – one century perspective 1950–2050

Mihajlo Michael Jakovljevic, Yael Netz, Sandra C. Buttigieg, Roza Adany, Ulrich Laaser, Mirjana Varjacic

Open Access Research

‘We have the internet in our hands’: Bangladeshi college students’ use of ICTs for health information

Linda Waldman, Tanvir Ahmed, Nigel Scott, Shahinoor Akter, Hilary Standing, Sabrina Rasheed

Open Access Research

New forms of development: branding innovative ideas and bidding for foreign aid in the maternal and child health service in Nepal

Radha Adhikari, Pam Smith, Jeevan Raj Sharma, Obindra Bahadur Chand

Open Access Commentary

Wicked problems and a ‘wicked’ solution

Helen L. Walls

Open Access Research

The effect of sugar and processed food imports on the prevalence of overweight and obesity in 172 countries

Tracy Kuo Lin, Yasmin Teymourian, Maitri Shila Tursini

Open Access Methodology

Using qualitative and community-based engagement approaches to gain access and to develop a culturally appropriate STI prevention intervention for foreign female entertainment workers in Singapore

Raymond Boon Tar Lim, Olive N. Y. Cheung, Dede Kam Tyng Tham, Hanh Hao La, Thein Than Win, Roy Chan, Mee Lian Wong

Open Access Research

Defining the global health system and systematically mapping its network of actors

Steven J. Hoffman, Clarke B. Cole

Open Access Short report

The impact of social organizations on HIV/AIDS prevention knowledge among migrants in Hefei, China

Wenting Wang, Ren Chen, Ying Ma, Xuehui Sun, Xia Qin, Zhi Hu

Open Access Research

Health in Yemen: losing ground in war time

Charbel El Bcheraoui, Aisha O. Jumaan, Michael L. Collison, Farah Daoud, Ali H. Mokdad

Open Access Commentary

Leveraging the power of partnerships: spreading the vision for a population health care delivery model in western Kenya

Tim Mercer, Adrian Gardner, Benjamin Andama, Cleophas Chesoli, Astrid Christoffersen-Deb, Jonathan Dick, Robert Einterz, Nick Gray, Sylvester Kimaiyo, Jemima Kamano, Beryl Maritim, Kirk Morehead, Sonak Pastakia, Laura Ruhl, Julia Songok, Jeremiah Laktabai

Open Access Research

“Because if we talk about health issues first, it is easier to talk about human trafficking”; findings from a mixed methods study on health needs and service provision among migrant and trafficked fishermen in the Mekong

Nicola S. Pocock, Reena Tadee, Kanokwan Tharawan, Wansiri Rongrongmuang, Brett Dickson, Soksreymom Suos, Ligia Kiss, Cathy Zimmerman

Open Access Research

Workplace wellness programming in low-and middle-income countries: a qualitative study of corporate key informants in Mexico and India

Heather Wipfli, Kristin Dessie Zacharias, Nuvjote (Nivvy) Hundal, Luz Myriam Reynales Shigematsu, Deepika Bahl, Monika Arora, Shalini Bassi, Shubha Kumar

Open Access Research

Determinants of early neonatal mortality in Afghanistan: an analysis of the Demographic and Health Survey 2015

Gulam Muhammed Al Kibria, Vanessa Burrowes, Allysha Choudhury, Atia Sharmeen, Swagata Ghosh, Arif Mahmud, Angela KC

Open Access Research

Assessing reported cases of sexual and gender-based violence, causes and preventive strategies, in European asylum reception facilities

Charlotte Oliveira, Ines Keygnaert, Maria do Rosário Oliveira Martins, Sónia Dias

Open Access Review

What did the Go4Health policy research project contribute to the policy discourse on the sustainable development goals? A reflexive review

Vannarath Te, Nadia Floden, Sameera Hussain, Claire E. Brolan, Peter S. Hill

Open Access Review

Use of health services among international migrant children – a systematic review

Niina Markkula, Baltica Cabieses, Venla Lehti, Eleonora Uphoff, Sofia Astorga, Francisca Stutzin

Open Access Research

Socio-economic risk factors for early childhood underweight in Bangladesh

Tuhinur Rahman Chowdhury, Sayan Chakrabarty, Muntaha Rakib, Sue Saltmarsh, Kendrick A. Davis

Open Access Research

Quantification and factors associated with HIV-related stigma among persons living with HIV/AIDS on antiretroviral therapy at the HIV-day care unit of the Bamenda Regional Hospital, North West Region of Cameroon

Atem Bethel Ajong, Philip Nana Njotang, Ngholapeh Emmanuel Nghoniji, Marie José Essi, Martin Ndinakie Yakum, Valirie Ndip Agbor, Bruno Kenfack

Open Access Research

Does quality influence utilization of primary health care? Evidence from Haiti

Anna D. Gage, Hannah H. Leslie, Asaf Bitton, J. Gregory Jerome, Jean Paul Joseph, Roody Thermidor, Margaret E. Kruk

Open Access Research

Tackling injustices of occupational lung disease acquired in South African mines: recent developments and ongoing challenges

Barry Kistnasamy, Annalee Yassi, Jessica Yu, Samuel J. Spiegel, Andre Fourie, Stephen Barker, Jerry M. Spiegel

Open Access Research

International norms and the politics of sexuality education in Nigeria

Jeremy Shiffman, Michael Kunnuji, Yusra Ribhi Shawar, Rachel Sullivan Robinson

Open Access Review

Medical device landscape for communicable and noncommunicable diseases in low-income countries

Amir Sabet Sarvestani, Kathleen H. Sienko

Open Access Debate

Incorporating a structural approach to reducing the burden of non-communicable diseases

Joshua S. Yang, Hadii M. Mamudu, Rijo John

Open Access Research

Attitudes and awareness of medical assistance while traveling abroad

Yi-Hsuan Lee, Chia-Wen Lu, Pei-Zu Wu, Hsien-Liang Huang, Yi-Chun Wu, Kuo-Chin Huang

Open Access Research

A critical examination of empowerment discourse in medical tourism: the case of the dental tourism industry in Los Algodones, Mexico

Krystyna Adams, Jeremy Snyder, Valorie A. Crooks, Nicole S. Berry

Open Access Research

‘The development sector is a graveyard of pilot projects!’ Six critical actions for externally funded implementers to foster scale-up of maternal and newborn health innovations in low and middle-income countries

Neil Spicer, Yashua Alkali Hamza, Della Berhanu, Meenakshi Gautham, Joanna Schellenberg, Feker Tadesse, Nasir Umar, Deepthi Wickremasinghe

Open Access Research

Managing emerging transnational public health security threats: lessons learned from the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak

Aaron M. Wendelboe, Micah McCumber, Julie Erb-Alvarez, Nicholas Mould, Richard W. Childs, James L. Regens

Open Access Research

A pharmacovigilance system for treatment access and medical donation programs: The Max Foundation experience

Ann Kim Novakowski, Pat Garcia-Gonzalez, Michael Wrigglesworth, Andy Stergachis

Open Access Correction

Correction to: Tackling injustices of occupational lung disease acquired in South African mines: recent developments and ongoing challenges

Barry Kistnasamy, Annalee Yassi, Jessica Yu, Samuel Spiegel, Andre Fourie, Stephen Barker, Jerry M. Spiegel

Open Access Research

A feasibility study of a mobile phone supported family-centred ADL intervention, F@ce™, after stroke in Uganda

Julius T. Kamwesiga, Gunilla M. Eriksson, Kerstin Tham, Uno Fors, Ali Ndiwalana, Lena von Koch, Susanne Guidetti

Open Access Debate

Theory and practice of social norms interventions: eight common pitfalls

Beniamino Cislaghi, Lori Heise

Open Access Review

Collaborative research and actions on both sides of the US-Mexico border to counteract type 2 diabetes in people of Mexican origin

Simón Barquera, Dean Schillinger, Carlos A. Aguilar-Salinas, Marc Schenker, Luis A. Rodríguez, Cesar Hernández-Alcaraz, Jaime Sepúlveda-Amor, C. A. Aguilar-Salinas, A. Ahued, S. Barquera, S. Bertozzi, A. Bibbins-Domingo, X. Castañeda, J. Cuadros, D. Elias-Lopez, A. Fernández, S. Ponce de Leon, J. Fromow-Guerra, C. Hernández-Alcaraz, M. Hernández, M. Kauffer, D. Kershenobich, L. Muñoz-Hernández, A. Pedroza, J. Rivera, L. A. Rodríguez, J. Salmeron, Laura Schmidt, J. Sepúlveda-Amor, M. Schenker, D. Schillinger

Open Access Research

Involvement of people with schizophrenia in decision-making in rural Ethiopia: a qualitative study

Sally Souraya, Charlotte Hanlon, Laura Asher

Open Access Research

Transnational pharmacogovernance: emergent patterns in the jazz of pharmaceutical policy convergence

Mary Wiktorowicz, Kathy Moscou, Joel Lexchin

Open Access Research

Research productivity and main publishing institutions in Côte d’Ivoire, 2000–2016

Jasmina Saric, Jürg Utzinger, Bassirou Bonfoh

Open Access Review

Are health systems interventions gender blind? examining health system reconstruction in conflict affected states

Valerie Percival, Esther Dusabe-Richards, Haja Wurie, Justine Namakula, Sarah Ssali, Sally Theobald

Open Access Research

The development and implementation of a new import duty on palm oil to reduce non-communicable disease in Fiji

Jeremaia Coriakula, Marj Moodie, Gade Waqa, Catherine Latu, Wendy Snowdon, Colin Bell

Open Access Research

Overweight, obesity, and food consumption in Galapagos, Ecuador: a window on the world

Wilma B. Freire, William F. Waters, Diana Román, Elisa Jiménez, Estefania Burgos, Philippe Belmont

Open Access Research

Sharing public health data and information across borders: lessons from Southeast Asia

Marco Liverani, Srey Teng, Minh Sat Le, Richard Coker

Open Access Correction

Correction to: China’s health assistance to Africa: opportunism or altruism?

Shuang Lin, Liangmin Gao, Melissa Reyes, Feng Cheng, Joan Kaufman, Wafaa M. El-Sadr

Open Access Research

Results-based aid with lasting effects: sustainability in the Salud Mesoamérica Initiative

Charbel El Bcheraoui, Aruna M Kamath, Emily Dansereau, Erin B Palmisano, Alexandra Schaefer, Bernardo Hernandez, Ali H Mokdad

Open Access Research

Donor financing of human resources for health, 1990–2016: an examination of trends, sources of funds, and recipients

Angela E Micah, Bianca S Zlavog, Catherine S Chen, Abigail Chapin, Joseph L Dieleman

Open Access Review

Expanding global access to essential medicines: investment priorities for sustainably strengthening medical product regulatory systems

Lukas Roth, Daniel Bempong, Joseph B. Babigumira, Shabir Banoo, Emer Cooke, David Jeffreys, Lombe Kasonde, Hubert G. M. Leufkens, John C. W. Lim, Murray Lumpkin, Gugu Mahlangu, Rosanna W. Peeling, Helen Rees, Margareth Ndomondo-Sigonda, Andy Stergachis, Mike Ward, Jude Nwokike

Open Access Review

Best practices in scaling digital health in low and middle income countries

Alain B. Labrique, Christina Wadhwani, Koku Awoonor Williams, Peter Lamptey, Cees Hesp, Rowena Luk, Ann Aerts

Open Access Research

Chile’s role in global health diplomacy: a narrative literature review

Jorge Ramírez, Leonel Valdivia, Elena Rivera, Marilia da Silva Santos, Dino Sepúlveda, Ronald Labonté, Arne Ruckert

Open Access Research

Organizational capacities of national pharmacovigilance centres in Africa: assessment of resource elements associated with successful and unsuccessful pharmacovigilance experiences

H. Hilda Ampadu, Jarno Hoekman, Daniel Arhinful, Marilyn Amoama-Dapaah, Hubert G. M. Leufkens, Alex N. O. Dodoo

Open Access Research

“We think globally”: the rise of Paraguay’s Tabacalera del Este as a threat to global tobacco control

Benoît Gomis, Kelley Lee, Natalia Carrillo Botero, Philip Shepherd, Roberto Magno Iglesias

Open Access Research

Health care expenditure and health outcome nexus: new evidence from the SAARC-ASEAN region

Mohammad Mafizur Rahman, Rasheda Khanam, Maisha Rahman

Open Access Commentary

Toward a global health approach: lessons from the HIV and Ebola epidemics

Gilles Raguin, Pierre-Marie Girard

Open Access Research

Corporate political activity of major food companies in Thailand: an assessment and policy recommendations

Nongnuch Jaichuen, Sirinya Phulkerd, Nisachol Certthkrikul, Gary Sacks, Viroj Tangcharoensathien

Open Access Research

The role of the hotel industry in the response to emerging epidemics: a case study of SARS in 2003 and H1N1 swine flu in 2009 in Hong Kong

Kevin K. C. Hung, Carman K. M. Mark, May P. S. Yeung, Emily Y. Y. Chan, Colin A. Graham

Open Access Research

Sex differences and risk factors for diabetes mellitus - an international study from 193 countries

Devy Elling, Pamela J. Surkan, Sahba Enayati, Ziad El-Khatib

Open Access Research

Health service utilization, unmet healthcare needs, and the potential of telemedicine services among Korean expatriates

Ho Young Kim, Ju Young Kim, Hwa Yeon Park, Ji Hye Jun, Hye Yeon Koo, In Young Cho, Jinah Han, Yuliya Pak, Hyun Jung Baek, Ju Yeon Lee, Sung Hee Chang, Jung Hun Lee, Ji Soo Choe, Sun-kyung Yang, Kyung Chul Kim, Jeong Ha Park, Seul Ki Paik

Open Access Research

Global supermarkets’ corporate social responsibility commitments to public health: a content analysis

Claire Elizabeth Pulker, Georgina S. A. Trapp, Jane Anne Scott, Christina Mary Pollard

Open Access Research

Exploring motivations behind pollution-mask use in a sample of young adults in urban China

Francesca Valeria Hansstein, Fabián Echegaray

Open Access Commentary

Stronger together: midwifery twinning between Tanzania and Canada

Rachel Sandwell, Deborah Bonser, Emmanuelle Hebert, Katrina Kilroy, Sebalda Leshabari, Feddy Mwanga, Agnes Mtawa, Anne Wilson, Amelie Moritz

Open Access Commentary

The health of workers in the global gig economy

Uttam Bajwa, Denise Gastaldo, Erica Di Ruggiero, Lilian Knorr