Background Marburg virus disease (MVD), a highly fatal haemorrhagic fever with a fatality rate that can reach up to 88%. The ...

The Alma-Ata ‘Health for All’ Declaration of 1978 emphasised community participation in health systems and the need to ‘bring ...

The publish-or-perish paradigm puts pressure on academics worldwide to produce internationally visible research, with journal ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Nigeria, two of Africa’s largest and most populous nations, present unique yet ...

International donors are transnational actors that pursue various strategies to influence policy decisions in Global South ...

With his clarion call for ‘A World Without Measles’ in 2024, epidemiologist and immunisation specialist Jon Kim Andrus ...

Background Users often regard the 2022 WHO verbal autopsy (VA) instrument as lengthy and time-consuming to implement, ...

Background Catastrophic healthcare expenditure (CHE) poses significant financial burdens on households globally, particularly ...

Background Nutrition is a critical determinant of tuberculosis (TB), providing a protective effect at high body mass index (BMI) and incurring an increased risk of TB disease at low BMI. Global ...

Public Health Emergency Operations Centres (PHEOCs) provide a platform for multisectoral coordination and collaboration, to enhance the efficiency of outbreak response activities and enable the ...

Study objective Investing in health to improve healthy life expectancy (HLE) is fundamental to create a demographic dividend. However, how dramatic population ageing affects HLE remains unknown. This ...

Background More complex humanitarian emergencies have a profound impact on a rapidly growing ageing population. There are few data available on the mental health conditions of older people in ...