Despite numerous global and national commitments to gender-inclusive global health governance, COVID-19 followed the usual modus operandi –excluding women’s voices. A mere 3.5% of 115 identified COVID ...
Background Tobacco control has been a critical strategy to reduce non-communicable disease (NCD) burden. However, the ...
Background Arab countries have seen an increased commitment towards improving access to family planning (FP) in recent ...
Effective service delivery is a cornerstone of public health efforts, ensuring that essential healthcare reaches even the ...
Twelve years after the 2014–2016 West African Ebola epidemic and 6 years after COVID-19 exposed profound weaknesses in health ...
Background Acute and emergency general surgery in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) faces critical disparities. Despite ...
Hip fractures cause substantial morbidity, mortality and healthcare costs among older adults. While advances in surgical and ...
Social community context is one of the five non-medical determinants of health and refers to the impact of social ...
Introduction Hypertension has become a major cause of morbidity and premature mortality in South Africa, but population-wide estimates of prevalence and access to care are scarce. Using data from the ...
Introduction Urban areas are generally associated with better health outcomes. However, in many low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), rapid urbanisation has led to significant health ...
Introduction Geographical accessibility is important against health equity, particularly for less developed countries as Nepal. It is important to identify the disparities in geographical ...