Solidarity rhetoric has become a regular feature in global health, particularly in the context of global health emergencies. It is, however, a nebulous concept, differently defined, understood and ...

Several barriers challenge development, adoption and scale-up of diagnostics in low and middle income countries. An innovative global health discussion platform allows capturing insights from the ...

Left-behind children are children whose parents, or one of them, have left their children behind in their hometown or home countries for work for more than 6 months and are cared for by grandparents ...

Abstract. Since the new global health and development goal, Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3, and its nine targets and four means of implementation were introduced to the world through a United ...

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the ...

Health security at the global level. At the global level, the state-centric notion of security guided by political realism retains its influence.2 6 21 For instance, the Global Health Security ...

Global health research is expanding.1 New global health institutions appear in the North, sometimes by relabelling existing entities. Global health journals have been born, and funding schemes with ...

Box 1 Poor perinatal mental health and mistreatment of women during childbirth. A. Contributors to poor perinatal mental health. These include, among others, intimate partner violence or marital ...

In September 2015, all United Nations (UN) Member States adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as an integrated global agenda to chart a new era for development and poverty reduction.1 One ...

There are contrasting opinions of what global health (GH) curricula should contain and limited discussion on whose voices should shape it. In GH education, those with first-hand expertise of living ...

The 2014–2016 Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in West Africa was the catalyst that accelerated the commitments that led to the establishment of a continental public health agency as it exposed the ...

Background Low-wage migrant workers are vulnerable to healthcare inequities. We sought to identify potential barriers to healthcare and risk factors for mental health issues in non-domestic migrant ...