What can we learn from Zanzibar’s Integrated Immunization Campaign?

By Maryam Hemed, Ngwegwe Christopher Bulula, Alex Mphuru, Federica Margini, Gabrielle Appleford, Wendy Erasmus (UNICEF Tanzania Country Office)

Background

Service integration is a strategy to better meet patient and population needs. This approach refers to the coordinated and integrated delivery of services such that patients receive comprehensive, continuous, and efficient…

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Progress on nutrition is not just possible – it is happening

By Sunit Bagree (Senior Policy Advocacy Officer at Results UK and Research Associate in International Development at the University of Sussex)

A recent article in Health Policy and Planning by Jain et al laid bare the enormous costs of inaction on undernutrition. Nevertheless, there is no doubt that the overall…

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The politics of crisis, alcohol and policy formulation

By Mumta Hargovan, Leslie London & Marsha Orgill (University of Cape Town)

Alcohol is deeply entangled in the social, political and economic history of South Africa (SA). There is a high prevalence of heavy episodic drinking (binge-drinking) and related harms, including a costly burden of injuries and trauma on…

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Unveiling health systems readiness for combating domestic violence: A global perspective

By Manuela Colombini1 and Satya Shrestha2

1: Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
2: Nursing and Midwifery Program, Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences, Nepal

When we talk about domestic violence (DV), it is not just a private matter confined within…

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Envisioning change: Learning from mental health advocacy and activism in LMICs

By Alma Ionescu, University College London (UCL)

Background

Activism and advocacy are commonly misrepresented in popular discourse, often simply equated with street protests and depicted as loud, disturbing and violent. However, there’s much more to it than that. Broadly speaking, it is any effort towards changing the status quo…

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Health Policy and Planning’s Top 10 articles in 2023

By Natasha Salaria (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)

Health Policy and Planning is an open access journal publishing health policy and systems research focusing on low- and middle-income countries. The journal consists of four sections; Health Systems Research, Health Economics, Health Policy Processes and Implementation Research and…

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Supporting early career women in LMICs in health through mentoring Health Equity: Access to quality services and caring for underserved Populations

By: Nanuka Jalaghonia (Health Systems Global), Sandra Mounier-Jack (Health Policy and Planning) and Ami Bhavsar (Health Policy and Planning)

 

This supplement, a collaboration between Health Systems Global, the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and Health Policy and Planning, is the result of mentorship programme to support…

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India’s thirty years of investing in research for health

Dr Eti Rajwar1 and Prof Sandy Oliver2

1Public Health Evidence South Asia, Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India
2EPPI Centre, Social Research Institute, University College London, UK                  

August 2023

 

“Change is inevitable, growth is optional!”- John C Maxwell

It is famously said that ‘Change…

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Health Policy and Planning’s Top 10 articles in 2022

By Natasha Salaria (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)

Health Policy and Planning publishes health policy and systems research focusing on low- and middle-income countries. The journal consists of four sections; Health Systems Research, Health Economics, Health Policy Processes and Implementation Research and Evaluation.

In 2022, our impact…

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Mental health cannot wait. Nor does it need to.

By Courtney Sabey (School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa)
“They say that mental health doesn’t kill [a] person. But if someone suffer[s] from physical disease, they respond directly. But about mental health? Oh, can wait. Everyone still thinks that mental health can wait” -Rwandan…

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