Introduction Drowning burdens in low- and middle-income contexts are underestimated, as current data collection systems ...

Background The epidemiology of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) in the Mediterranean area remains unclear. The aim of this study ...

Introduction Prior to 2020, treatment options for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) were limited and typically ...

Introduction Low‐ and middle-income countries (LMICs) suffer the highest rates of death and disability due to emergency ...

Introduction There have been increasing concerns about the overproduction of the health workforce in low- and middle-income ...

Introduction Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and amodiaquine (SPAQ) has been delivered ...

When we, Wangari Kinyanjui and Amy Patel, started our partnership while both at our respective medical schools, neither of us was oblivious to the challenges faced by low- and middle-income country ...

Aiming to investigate small island resilience in public health emergencies, we found existing classifications of Small Island ...

Introduction Timely detection, notification and response are critical for mitigating outbreak impact, yet evidence linking timeliness to public health outcomes is limited.Methods We hypothesised that ...

Background The WHO estimates a global shortage of 2.8 million physicians, with severe deficiencies especially in low and middle-income countries (LMIC). The unequitable distribution of physicians ...

Introduction The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) has been the World Health Organization’s (WHO) second biggest source of funding in recent years, contributing 9.5% of WHO’s revenues between ...

When making decisions about complex interventions, guideline development groups need to factor in the sociocultural acceptability of an intervention, as well as contextual factors that impact on the ...