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Attention to local health burden and the global disparity of health research.
Most studies on global health inequality consider unequal health care and socio-economic conditions but neglect inequality in the production of health knowledge relevant to... -
Values in environmental research: Citizens' views of scientists who acknowled...
Scientists who perform environmental research on policy-relevant topics face challenges when communicating about how values may have influenced their research. This study... -
For socially engaged science: The dynamics of knowledge production in the Fio...
Barral Netto, Manoel. Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Gonçalo Moniz. Salvador, BA, Brasil. “Documento produzido em parceria ou por autor vinculado à Fiocruz, mas não consta à... -
Local Modelling Techniques for Assessing Micro-Level Impacts of Risk Factors ...
Although inequalities in health and socioeconomic status have an important influence on childhood educational performance, the interactions between these multiple factors... -
Assessing process, content, and politics in developing the global health sect...
: Andrew Seale and colleagues discuss the development of a global strategy to counter sexually transmitted infections. -
Calculating indirect costs from international PEPFAR implementing partners
Background UNAIDS estimates global HIV investment needs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) at $26 billion per year in 2020. Yet international financing for HIV... -
Making consultation meaningful: Insights from a case study of the South Afric...
Background It is widely recognised that mental health policies should be developed in consultation with those tasked with their implementation and the users affected by them.... -
Evaluating the relationship between binge drinking rates and a replicable mea...
Excessive alcohol consumption contributes significantly to premature mortality, injuries and morbidity, and a range of U.S. state policies have been shown to reduce these... -
Conflict of Interest Policies at French Medical Schools: Starting from the Bo...
Background Medical faculties have a role in ensuring that their students are protected from undue commercial influence during their training, and are educated about... -
Defining Catastrophic Costs and Comparing Their Importance for Adverse Tuberc...
Tom Wingfield and colleagues investigate the relationship between catastrophic costs and tuberculosis outcomes for patients receiving free tuberculosis care in Peru. Please see... -
Obstacles and opportunities for monitoring ethnicity-based inequalities in ma...
BACKGROUND: Monitoring and reducing inequalities in health care has become more relevant since the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs bring an... -
Social Determinants and the Classification of Disease: Descriptive Epidemiolo...
BACKGROUND: Most major diseases have important social determinants. In this context, classification of disease based on etiologic or anatomic criteria may be neither mutually... -
Using systems science to understand the determinants of inequities in healthy...
INTRODUCTION: Systems thinking has emerged in recent years as a promising approach to understanding and acting on the prevention and amelioration of non-communicable disease.... -
Measuring the Impact of Research: Lessons from the UK's Research Excellence F...
Impactful academic research plays a stellar role in society, pressing to ask the question of how one measures the impact created by different areas of academic research.... -
Ethical issues in the development and implementation of nutrition-related pub...
Background The limited integration of ethics in nutrition-related public health policies and interventions is one major concern for those who have the task of implementing... -
Cost Benefit Analysis of Two Policy Options for Cannabis: Status Quo and Lega...
Aims To date there has been limited analysis of the economic costs and benefits associated with cannabis legalisation. This study redresses this gap. A cost benefit analysis... -
Broiler welfare trade-off: A semi-quantitative welfare assessment for optimis...
In order to support decision making on how to most effectively improve broiler welfare an innovative expert survey was conducted based on principles derived from semantic... -
Understanding the psychological nature and mechanisms of political trust.
Political trust is a perennially important concern and the events of the last few years have, in many ways, heightened this importance. The relevant scholarship has done much to... -
Beyond financial conflicts of interest: Institutional oversight of faculty co...
AbstractImportanceApproximately one-third of U.S. life sciences faculty engage in industry consulting. Despite reports that consulting contracts often impinge on faculty and... -
Using the Lives Saved Tool (LiST) to Model mHealth Impact on Neonatal Surviva...
While the importance of mHealth scale-up has been broadly emphasized in the mHealth community, it is necessary to guide scale up efforts and investment in ways to help achieve...
