Rising levels of inflation, debt and macrofiscal tightening are putting expenditures on the social sectors including health under immense scrutiny. Already, there are worrying signs of reductions in ...

Introduction The objective of this study is to examine the temporal trends and patterns of regional and socioeconomic disparities in cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Canada during 2005–2016.Methods A ...

The African Region reports the heaviest burden of public health emergencies globally. This paper presents an exploratory analysis of public health events data collected the past 22 years in the WHO ...

The number of people dying with preventable, serious health-related suffering is rapidly increasing, and international calls for the expansion of palliative care services have been made, such as the ...

Public health is a discipline grounded in science, trust and the careful stewardship of collective well-being. Leaders at its helm must represent these principles, as their decisions resonate far ...

The financing of public health facilities influences their performance. A key feature that defines health facility financing is the degree of financial autonomy. Understanding the factors that ...

Current media attention has mainly focused on the horrendous consequences of Israel’s onslaught on the people of the Gaza Strip, its rates of death, serious injury, on people’s struggle for physical ...

Alcohol companies are changing the way they market their products. Cross-border promotion and ‘programmatic native advertising’ that is data-driven and participatory is more common. 1 This form of ...

Background Authorship and author order have been used as one measure to characterise equity in research partnerships. First and last (senior) authorships often denote scientific merit as well as ...

Introduction We describe COVID-19 morbidity, mortality, case fatality and excess death in a country-wide study of municipalities in Hungary, exploring the association with socioeconomic status.Methods ...

Introduction The documented benefits of gender parity in leadership are emerging—women leaders have been shown to have a positive impact on maternal and health care policies, strengthen health ...

Subcutaneous depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA-SC) is an innovative contraceptive method aimed at meeting women’s unique circumstances and needs, largely due to its ability to be self-injected.