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Abstract The 2023 WHO guideline on the prevention and management of wasting and nutritional oedema (acute malnutrition) in infants and children under 5 years has a broad scope aligned with WHO’s ...
Summary box The 2023 WHO guideline on wasting and nutritional oedema provides the first systematically developed evidence-informed set of recommendations and good practice statements for children 6–59 ...
Wasting describes a condition where a child is dangerously thin for their height, typically due to sudden and severe weight loss. It greatly raises the risk of death but can be effectively treated. In ...
Trust, culture and communication: determinants of eye health and care among Indigenous people with diabetes in Australia ...
Epidemics continue to pose a significant public health threat to populations in low and middle-income countries. However, little is known about the appropriateness and performance of response ...
Countries around the world are increasingly rethinking the design of their health benefit package to achieve universal health coverage. Countries can periodically revise their packages by performing ...
Boyce MR, Sorrell EM, Standley CJ. An early analysis of the World Bank’s Pandemic Fund: a new fund for pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. BMJ Global Health 2023;8:e011172. doi: ...
Riumallo- Herl C, Aguila E. The effect of old-age pensions on health care utilization patterns and insurance uptake in Mexico. BMJ Global Health 2019;4:e001771. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001771.
Suba EJ, Ortega RE, Mutch DG. Unethical randomised controlled trial of cervical screening in India: US Freedom of Information Act disclosures. BMJ Global Health 2017;2:e000177. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2016 ...
Odland ML, Payne C, Witham MD, et al. Epidemiology of multimorbidity in conditions of extreme poverty: a population-based study of older adults in rural Burkina Faso. BMJ Global Health 2020;5: e002096 ...
Background Cervical cancer is the commonest cancer of women in Uganda. Over 80% of women diagnosed in Mulago a national outpatient and teaching hospital have advanced diseases. Pap smear screening, on ...
Introduction Honduras is a LMIC with a fragmented health system with less than 100 US$ per capita per year to meet its health needs. Under its commitment with UHC, the government decided to design one ...