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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 ...
Impact of a malaria intervention package in schools on Plasmodium infection, anaemia and cognitive function in schoolchildren in Mali: a pragmatic cluster-randomised trial ...
Introduction Children who receive prereferral rectal artesunate (RAS) require urgent referral to a health facility where appropriate treatment for severe malaria can be provided. However, the rapid ...
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 ...
Do less populous countries receive more development assistance for health per capita? Longitudinal evidence for 143 countries, 1990–2014 (3 January, 2018 ...
Background The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the necessity of allocating limited healthcare resources both fairly and effectively. Like many other countries, Japan decided to set priorities for the ...
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 ...
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 ...