Background Tobacco control has been a critical strategy to reduce non-communicable disease (NCD) burden. However, the ...

Effective service delivery is a cornerstone of public health efforts, ensuring that essential healthcare reaches even the ...

Objectives Despite the East Asia and Pacific region (EAPR) accounting for 22.7% of global diabetes deaths amid rapid ...

Background Arab countries have seen an increased commitment towards improving access to family planning (FP) in recent ...

Globally, the rate of caesarean section (CS) has surged, from 5% in 1990 to 21% of all births in 2018, with future ...

Hip fractures cause substantial morbidity, mortality and healthcare costs among older adults. While advances in surgical and ...

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 ...

Social community context is one of the five non-medical determinants of health and refers to the impact of social ...

Afghanistan is one of the two remaining polio-endemic countries in the world. The collapse of republic government and expected escalation of violence and its consequences associated with the regime ...

Introduction Expanding access to voluntary family planning is a global health priority, yet progress has been uneven across low-income and middle-income countries. Despite being a fragile state with ...

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed critical gaps in preparedness and response capacities globally. These gaps were evident in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, as the region faces unique ...