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Opportunities for linking research to policy: lessons learned from implementation research in sexual and reproductive health within the ANSER network
(Springer Nature, 2018)
Background: The uptake of findings from sexual and reproductive health and rights research into policy-making
remains a complex and non-linear process. Different models of research utilisation and guidelines to maximise ...
Wealth and cardiovascular health: a cross-sectional study of wealth-related inequalities in the awareness, treatment and control of hypertension in high-, middle- and low-income countries
(BMC, 2016)
BACKGROUND: Effective policies to control hypertension require an understanding of its distribution in the population
and the barriers people face along the pathway from detection through to treatment and control. One key ...
Book Review: Textbook of Global Health by A-E. Birn, Y. Pillay and T.H. Holtz
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017)
Coinciding with a renewed focus on health
needs and disease in the global south, the
Millennium Development Goal era saw the
emergence and widespread use of the term
‘global health’. The term has been associated
with ...
Long-term exposure to outdoor and household air pollution and blood pressure in the prospective urban and rural epidemiological (pure) study
(Elsevier, 2020)
Exposure to air pollution has been linked to elevated blood pressure (BP) and hypertension, but most research has focused on short-term (hours, days, or months) exposures at relatively low concentrations. We examined the ...
Wealth and cardiovascular health: A cross-sectional study of wealth-related inequalities in the awareness, treatment and control of hypertension in high-, middle- and low-income countries
(BMC, 2016)
: Effective policies to control hypertension require an understanding of its distribution in the population
and the barriers people face along the pathway from detection through to treatment and control. One key factor ...
Global health research, partnership, and equity: no more business-as-usual
(BioMed Central, 2011)
The papers in this important collection reflect a mature and confident way of doing global health research which is anything but business-as-usual. In the context of increasing competition for individual or institutional ...
The role of 'hidden' community volunteers in community-based health service delivery platforms: examples from sub-Saharan Africa
(Co-Action Publishing, 2015)
Community-based research on child survival in sub-Saharan Africa has focussed on the increased provision
of curative health services by a formalised cadre of lay community health workers (CHWs), but we have identified
a ...
COVID-19: Can this crisis be transformative for global health?
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)
The UN has described the health, social and economic consequences of
Covid-19 as a global crisis unlike any other encountered in its history.
Although a pandemic of this nature was not unforeseeable, its arrival
seems ...
Priority indicators for adolescent health measurement – recommendations from the Global action for Measurement of Adolescent health (GAMA) advisory group
(Elsevier, 2022)
This article describes the selection of priority indicators for adolescent (10e19 years)
health measurement proposed by the Global Action for Measurement of Adolescent health advi-
sory group and partners, building on ...
Application of consolidated framework for implementation research to improve Clostridioides difficile infection management in district hospitals
(Elsevier, 2022)
Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) contributes the global threats of drug resistant infections, healthcare acquired infections and antimicrobial resistance. Yet CDI knowledge among healthcare providers in low-resource ...