Introduction Previous interactive education interventions for child injury prevention are suboptimal for implementation in rural areas. This study evaluated the effectiveness of a standardised ...

Rising levels of inflation, debt and macrofiscal tightening are putting expenditures on the social sectors including health under immense scrutiny. Already, there are worrying signs of reductions in ...

Introduction The objective of this study is to examine the temporal trends and patterns of regional and socioeconomic disparities in cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Canada during 2005–2016.Methods A ...

The number of people dying with preventable, serious health-related suffering is rapidly increasing, and international calls for the expansion of palliative care services have been made, such as the ...

Public health is a discipline grounded in science, trust and the careful stewardship of collective well-being. Leaders at its helm must represent these principles, as their decisions resonate far ...

The financing of public health facilities influences their performance. A key feature that defines health facility financing is the degree of financial autonomy. Understanding the factors that ...

There has been exponential growth in the numbers of ‘digital development’ programmes seeking to leverage technology to solve systemic challenges. However, despite promising results and a shift from ...

Study objective Investing in health to improve healthy life expectancy (HLE) is fundamental to create a demographic dividend. However, how dramatic population ageing affects HLE remains unknown. This ...

Politics of data In global health, one still hears the metaphor, ‘what gets measured, gets done’. Increasingly, it is proven that the converse of this is what is actually true: ‘what gets measured is ...

Only a few African countries like Ethiopia and Mozambique have long standing National Public Health Institutes (NPHI). However, since the large 2014–2016 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in West ...

The disproportionate mortality of COVID-19 and brutality of protective institutions has shifted anti-racism discourses into the mainstream.1 Increased reckoning over categorisations of people ...

Given the concerning prevalence and large-scale impact of poor perinatal mental health worldwide, there is a growing call for actionable recommendations to promote perinatal mental health and to ...