Severe non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), sickle cell disease (SCD), thalassaemia and ...

Background Tobacco use imposes significant economic burden, particularly in low and middle-income countries, diverting ...

Objective To explore the prior knowledge and attitudes of community health workers (CHWs) in Ecuador regarding chronic ...

Without timely and appropriate treatment, hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection can progress to liver fibrosis, cirrhosis or hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), contributing significantly to global ...

And I have spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books. The people who helped me most arrive at that kind of language were African ...

The Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine has led to a significant increase in infectious diseases, including zoonotic and vectorborne diseases, sexually transmitted infections and ...

Introduction Primary healthcare (PHC) is key to addressing the health and social needs of refugees. Nurses are often part of multidisciplinary teams in PHC, but little is known about their roles and ...

Background We aimed to systematically identify, standardise and disseminate individual-level dietary intake surveys from up to 207 countries for 54 foods, beverages and nutrients, including ...

Introduction Community-orientated primary care (COPC) is an approach to primary healthcare (PHC) that originated in South Africa and contributed to the formulation of the Declaration of Alma-Ata 40 ...

Introduction The war in Ukraine places a great burden on its population as well as the people who have been displaced from it. The aim of this study is to assess the prevalence of symptoms of ...

Over the last two decades, severe acute malnutrition (SAM) has been increasing in India despite favourable national-level economic growth. The latest round of the National Family Health Survey 5 (NFHS ...

Neonatal deaths contribute a growing proportion to childhood mortality, and increasing access to inpatient newborn care has been identified as a potential driver of improvements in child health.