Tremendous advances have been made in global health in the past few decades, from fewer infant deaths to progress in ending polio, yet many programs are falling short of achieving ...
Access to healthcare is a major challenge in low- and middle-income countries, with financial and physical barriers playing a key role. This includes Pakistan, which has a severe shortage of ...
Genetic health services are playing an increasingly important role in improving human health. Australia’s First Nations people are underrepresented in such services, despite having a willingness to access these services ...
In its recently published Mental health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) operations manual, the World Health Organization stressed the enormous global disease burden that mental, neurological and substance use (MNS) conditions ...
Poor oral health is an important contributor to morbidity worldwide. Oral diseases have consistently been listed among the top causes of years lived with disability . Dental caries (tooth decay) ...
In 2017, in response to gender-based violence in Achham, Nepal and incidents of gender-based harassment in the workplace, Subeksha Poudel created a Gender Equity Committee with other leaders in her ...
The epidemic of diabetes is sweeping across the world with an estimated 425 million people affected; this number is projected to increase to 629 million by 2045. Of great concern ...
Given the unique health challenges in Africa and with increasing recognition of the high genetic diversity among African populations, genomic research and biobanking based in the region has grown substantially ...
Effective delivery of health services in rural areas remains challenging in most low- and middle-income countries (1). This includes rural India, where acute shortages of medical health professionals persist across ...
Obesity, a risk factor for multiple non-communicable diseases, is rapidly increasing in prevalence in many low- and middle-income countries, including those in sub-Saharan Africa (1). Findings from recent research suggest ...