One-quarter of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for mental disorders and substance
abuse is borne by those 24 years old or younger, the age group that accounted for
more than 40% of the world... Section: Policy Forum
by Chunling Lu | On 09 Mar 2018 The slogan for World Health Day is “let’s talk,” emphasizing the central role of disclosure
“as a vital component of recovery” by targeting the stigma surrounding mental illness, which
acts as a bar... Section: Essays
by Vikram Patel | On 04 Apr 2017 The economic cost of dealing with the consequences of diabetes is not only a threat to health systems but is a far broader economic and social problem and thus a threat to future long-term sustainable... Section: Editorial
by Nicholas J Wareham | On 26 Jul 2016 Maternity leave reduces neonatal and infant mortality rates in high-income countries. However, the impact of maternity leave on infant health has not been rigorously evaluated in low- and middle-incom... Section: Research Papers
by Arjit Nandi | On 29 Mar 2016 Published reports on public health in DPRK are uncommon, but recent planning and financial sustainability exercises, population-based surveys, and other reports, all available online, indicate recover... Section: Policy Forum
by John Grundy | On 29 Dec 2015 Intermittent delivery of piped water can lead to waterborne illness through contamination in
the pipelines or during household storage, use of unsafe water sources during intermittencies,
and limite... Section: Research Papers
by Ayse Ercumen | On 27 Oct 2015 The global number of forced migrants is currently the highest since the Second World War.
This is a major concern to public health: lack of access to safe water, food, sanitation, and inadequate shel... Section: Essays
by Peter Heudtlass | On 20 Oct 2015 Despite an expanding body of evidence suggesting that sustainable mental health care can be effectively integrated into existing health systems at relatively low cost, mental health has not received s... Section: Policy Forum
by Barnabas J Gilbert | On 02 Jun 2015 While Universal health coverage (UHC)is not new to India, it was only in 2011 that the government appointed a high level expert group to develop a strategy to achieve UHC. Many of the recommendations... Section: Research Papers
by Thiagrajan Sundararaman | On 22 Sep 2014 The WHO-UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program (JMP) for Water and Sanitation, which tracks progress towards the water and sanitation targets of the Millennium Development Goals, estimates that 36% of the wo... Section: Perspectives
by Clarissa Brocklehurst | On 01 Aug 2014 Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is increasing and is a risk for type 2 diabetes. Evidence supporting screening comes mostly from high-income countries. Prevalence and outcomes in urban Viet Nam ar... Section: Research Papers
by Jane E Hirst | On 30 Jul 2012 The proportion of elderly in the world population is increasing. Health systems across the globe are ill prepared to meet the needs of aging populations. The needs of the elderly are different from t... Section: Perspectives
by Arlene S Bierman | On 30 Jul 2012 Improving maternal and newborn health in low-income settings requires both health service and community
action. Previous community initiatives have been predominantly rural, but India is urbanizing.... Section: Research Papers
by Neena Shah More | On 01 Jul 2012 The BasicNeeds model of Mental Health and Development (MHD), Nepal emphasizes
user empowerment, community development, strengthening of health
systems, and policy influencing.
The Nepal program was... Section: Health in Action
by Shoba Raja | On 01 Jul 2012 Afghanistan is
an example of a ‘‘fragile state,’’ characterised
by a government that lacks the
capacity to provide core services and basic
security to its population. Improving health
care within... Section: Health in Action
by Peter Ventevogel | On 01 May 2012 Efforts to strengthen capacity in health research have, so far, concentrated on
countries where there is existing capacity rather than those where it is almost
completely lacking.
Judged by absolut... Section: Essays
by Martin McKee | On 30 Apr 2012 Despite recent achievements to reduce child mortality, neonatal deaths continue to remain high, accounting
for 41% of all deaths in children under five years of age worldwide, of which over 90% occur... Section: Research Papers
by Hadley K Herbert | On 24 Mar 2012 More than 13% of the global burden of
disease for mental disorders is due to
neuro psychiatric disorders, and over 70%
of this burden lies in low- and middleincome
countries. Suicide is one of the... Section: Essays
by Mark Tomlinson | On 28 Feb 2012 The vital status of 12,373 people aged 65 years and over was determined 3–5 years after baseline survey in
sites in Latin America, India, and China. Crude and standardised mortality rates are reporte... Section: Research Papers
by Cleusa P Ferri | On 23 Feb 2012 Rapid demographic ageing is a growing public health issue in many low- and middle-income countries
(LAMICs). Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a construct frequently used to define groups of people... Section: Research Papers
by Ana Luisa Sosa | On 22 Feb 2012 Poor quality essential medicines, both substandard and counterfeit, are serious
but neglected public health problems. Anti-infective medicines are particularly
afflicted.
Unfortunately, attempts... Section: Essays
by Paul N Newton | On 30 Dec 2011 Measuring progress towards Millennium Development Goal 6, including estimates of, and time trends in, the
number of malaria cases, has relied on risk maps constructed from surveys of parasite prevale... Section: Research Papers
by Richard E Cibulskis | On 18 Dec 2011 In 2004, Afghanistan pioneered a balanced scorecard (BSC) performance system to manage the delivery of
primary health care services. This study examines the trends of 29 key performance indicators ov... Section: Research Papers
by Edward Anbrasi | On 04 Jul 2011 Return migration and health has received
little attention in policy and research.
This article will focus on the risk
factors and social determinants of health
during all phases of migration that... Section: Policy Forum
by Anita A Davies | On 20 Jun 2011 A new framework for understanding
migration as a series of phases,
defining categories of people affected by
migration and suggesting estimates of the
likely size and importance of each group is g... Section: Editorial
by PLoS Medicine Editors | On 04 Jun 2011 The relationship between health professionals and the pharmaceutical industry has become a source of
controversy. Physicians’ attitudes towards the industry can form early in their careers, but littl... Section: Research Papers
by Kirsten E Austad | On 22 May 2011 Alcohol industry is a
massive and growing US$150 billion
global business—have not yet received
adequate prominence in medical journals.
Indeed, attention to and scientific research
on the alcohol... Section: Editorial
by PLoS Medicine Editors | On 15 May 2011 It lays out a migratory process framework that highlights the multistaged and cumulative nature of the health risks and intervention opportunities that can occur throughout the migration process, and
... Section: Policy Forum
by Cathy Zimmerman | On 10 May 2011 The excellent systematic review in this
week’s PLoS Medicine by Paul Garner and
colleagues focuses discussion on this
critical issue. Their finding of poor quality
in both the public and private s... Section: Perspectives
by Jishnu Das | On 29 Apr 2011 Unequal access to and distribution of public knowledge is governed by Northern standards and is increasingly inappropriate in the age of the networked “Invisible College”. Academic journals remain the... Section: Essays
by Leslie Chan | On 29 Mar 2011 Economic growth is widely perceived as a major policy instrument in reducing childhood undernutrition in
India. The association between changes in state per capita income and the risk of undernutriti... Section: Research Papers
by Malavika A Subramanyam | On 13 Mar 2011 Despite nearly a century of use, Bacille Calmette-Gue´rin
(BCG) remains controversial, with known
variations in BCG substrains, vaccine
efficacy, policies, and practices across the
world. Global i... Section: Health in Action
by Alice Zwerling | On 12 Mar 2011 The Chin State of Burma (also known as Myanmar) is an isolated ethnic minority area with poor health
outcomes and reports of food insecurity and human rights violations. A report on a population-base... Section: Research Papers
by Richard Sollom | On 09 Feb 2011 Health evidence confirms that the
burden of disease associated with inadequate
Hygience, Sanitation, Water (HSW) is overwhelmingly (although
not exclusively) carried by the poor and
disadvantaged... Section: Policy Forum
by Jamie Bartram | On 16 Nov 2010 Many editors
are likely to deny that thoughts of a rising Impact Factor
(IF) might influence their acceptance rates. Section: Perspectives
by Harvey Marcovitch | On 05 Oct 2010 The consequences of scientific misconduct are far-ranging and the costs
associated with their investigation are substantial.
It is possible to estimate the cost (direct and indirect) of investigati... Section: Research Papers
by Arthur M Michalek | On 28 Aug 2010 Obstacles to improving survival include: many newborn infants are invisible to
health services; care-seeking for maternal and newborn ailments is limited;
health workers are often not skilled and co... Section: Policy Forum
by Nirmala Nair | On 03 Apr 2010 It is examined whether differential progress towards health MDGs was associated with economic development, public health funding (both overall and as percentage of available domestic funds), or health... Section: Research Papers
by David Stuckler | On 08 Mar 2010 Health data, poverty, and inequality exist in a complex global co-dependency, therefore making meaningful comparisons of health across widely different settings challenging. Less data exist on the hea... Section: Essays
by Peter Byass | On 24 Nov 2009 The authors shows the problems that can arise when research is done in the context of humanitarian relief work and also notes that ethical oversight of such research needs to be rigorous, but also pra... Section: Editorial
by Plos medicine Editors | On 06 Aug 2009 Many victims of domestic violence go to hospitals, but interaction with doctors and nurses tended to stop at treatment for injuries. Engaging with
the wider issues—emotional, psychiatric, social, and... Section: Research Papers
by Nayreen Daruwalla | On 29 Jul 2009 Access to clean water should be declared a basic human right for three reasons. First, access to clean water can substantially reduce the global burden of disease caused by water-borne infections. Sec... Section: Editorial
by PLoS Medicine | On 09 Jun 2009 The aim of this study was to examine the association between visual impairment from cataract and poverty in adults in Kenya, Bangladesh, and the Philippines. A population-based case–control study was... Section: Research Papers
by Hannah Kuper | On 18 Dec 2008 A framework for national surveillance, monitoring, and research that could help inform guideline development in low-income settings. [Plos Medicine Policy Forum]. Section: Policy Forum
by Mike English | On 09 Dec 2008 Political will, imaginative and collaborative solutions from across the spectrum of health and social care providers are needed to address the needs of homeless individuals. Section: Editorial
by Plos medicine Editors | On 06 Dec 2008 The current system of publication in biomedical research provides a distorted view of the reality of scientific data that are generated in the laboratory and clinic. This system can be studied by appl... Section: Essays
by Neal S Young | On 12 Oct 2008 A new survey finds that only 17 drugs are under active development for maternal health indications, which is less than 3% of the pipeline in cardiovascular health (660 drugs). The international agenci... Section: Policy Forum
by Nicholas M Fisk | On 30 Jan 2008 Commenting on recent research articles which look at the potential health benefits of behaviour change, the PLoS Medicine Editors say that publication of the findings of such research is only one part... Section: Editorial
by PLoS Medicine | On 01 Jan 2008 When research takes place within the context of clinical care, how can we distinguish which activities constitute care, and which research? The editors of PLoS Medicine believe that open access to res... Section: Editorial
by PLoS Medicine | On 30 Nov 2007 An extensive literature reflects millennia of concern over what we humans call ourselves and others. All life sciences are now grappling further with how to categorize and study the nearly infinite po... Section: Editorial
by Maggie Brown | On 26 Sep 2007 There are many reports of ghost writings and ghost management of medical journal articles. Such articles are “ghostly” because signs of their actual production are largely invisible—academic authors... Section: Essays
by Sergio Sismondo | On 17 Sep 2007 23 years after the identification of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), there is still denial that the virus is the cause of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). The Internet has served as... Section: Policy Forum
by Tara C Smith | On 11 Aug 2007 Do papers on smokeless tobacco serve a legitimate public health interest? The editors are seeking opinions from the readers [Plos Medicine editorial]. Section: Editorial
by PLoS Medicine | On 31 Jul 2007 Tuberculosis (TB) is a major contributor to the global burden of disease and has received considerable attention in recent years, particularly in low- and middle-income countries where it is closely a... Section: Research Papers
by Salla A Munro | On 24 Jul 2007 A pilot testing of the new WHO Rapid Advice Guidelines Group is done. It also talks about the International Health Regulations (IHR). These regulations are an international legal instrument designed t... Section: Editorial
by PLoS Medicine | On 25 Jun 2007 Cultural competency has become a fashionable term for clinicians and researchers. Yet no one can defi ne this term precisely enough to operationalize it in clinical training and best practices.... Section: Essays
by Arthur Kleinman | On 10 Jan 2007 As developing countries build allopathic medical systems, what should their bioethics be? In this essay, we explore possible answers to this question, ultimately arguing that Western bioethics is insu... Section: Essays
by Scott Stonington | On 02 Oct 2006 Whether we choose to admit it or not, the anecdote continues to be an important engine of novel ideas in medicine. The anecdote is rife with such diffi culties as openness to interpretation, and... Section: Essays
by Rafael Campo | On 02 Oct 2006 The overarching goals should be to increase the quality of life and years of healthy life for all Americans and to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities. This has been
an ambitious undertaki... Section: Essays
by David Satcher | On 01 Oct 2006 Over 75% of the annual estimated 9.5 million deaths in India occur in the home, and the large majority of these do not have a certified cause. India and other developing countries urgently need reliab... Section: Research Papers
by Prabhat Jha | On 28 Feb 2006 This essay briefl y examines some of the diverse developments of social
medicine as an academic discipline and its links to political conceptualizations of the role of medicine in society. The... Section: Essays
by Dorothy Porter | On 10 Jan 2006 In December 2004 three news stories in the popular press suggested that the side
effects of single-dose nevirapine, which has been proven to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, had been cove... Section: Debates
by Gary Schwitzer | On 22 Jul 2005 The international migration of health workers, especially of physicians and nurses but also increasingly of other health workers, has become a major global health concern. Most of the migration of hea... Section: Perspectives
by Delanyo Dolvo | On 23 May 2005 The success of an immunisation programme in any country depends more upon local realities and national policies. This is particularly true for a huge and diverse developing country such as India, with... Section: Policy Forum
by Yennapu Madhavi | On 05 May 2005
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