Rakesh Parashar, Ankita Mukherjee (Oxford Policy Management, Delhi)
In this blog series we are giving a voice to practitioners, implementers and policy-makers involved in national COVID-19 responses in low- and middle-income countries. These posts seek to facilitate timely cross- learning by sharing opinions, insights and lessons on…
By Connie Hoe (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
Background
Road traffic injuries are a major public health problem and the leading killer of children and young adults around the world. One of the key risk factors is drinking and driving. This is because alcohol impairment leads to poor…
By Hamsadvani Anand Kuganantham, MBBS, MSc, HPPF; Independent consultant, Sexual and Reproductive Health
In this blogpost, we focus on maintaining access to key Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) products included in the Minimum Initial Service Package, essential maternal care medicines such as Tranexamic acid for prevention of postpartum hemorrhage and…
By Ruth Young (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), Richard Mangwi (Makerere University), Maylene Shung-King (University of Cape Town) and Rosemary Morgan (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health).
Health system functioning, operation, design and governance can reflect and perpetuate broader power structures in multiple ways. This dynamic…
By Sameera Hussain (Office of Strategic Policy and Planning, Public Health Agency of Canada) and Dena Javadi (Researcher/PhD student, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health)
This supplement, a collaboration between Health Systems Global (HSG) and the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (AHPSR), is the product of…
By James Hargreaves (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), Sandra Mounier-Jack (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), Mishal Khan ((London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) and Kabir Sheikh (Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research)
The mainstreaming of implementation research within public health programmes around the…
By Angela Carriedo (World Public Health Nutrition Association)
The 2014 Mexican soda (sugar-sweetened beverages) tax policy supported rapid policy diffusion. It also improved the conditions within the country to progress on the obesity agenda. How and why did it happen? Our article published in Health Policy and Planning, provides…
By Amyn A. Malik, Saira Khowaja (Global Health Directorate, Indus Health Network)
In this blog series we are giving a voice to practitioners, implementers and policy-makers involved in national COVID-19 responses in low- and middle-income countries. These posts seek to facilitate timely cross- learning by sharing opinions…
By Natasha Salaria (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
The 2019 impact factors are now out as of July 2020, and what a year 2020 has been so far. With things being relatively unpredictable in the global sphere, our impact factor has remained well, fairly steady and similar to…
By Lucia Brugnara, MD and Prof. Michael Marx, MD (University of Heidelberg)
In this blog series we are giving a voice to practitioners, implementers and policy-makers involved in national COVID-19 responses in low- and middle-income countries. These posts seek to facilitate timely cross- learning by sharing opinions…
A Chinese conundrum: Does higher insurance coverage for hospitalization reduce financial protection for patients who need it?
6 December 2024
Growing up with cash transfers: Can prolonged financial support during childhood improve mental health?
6 December 2024
Health Systems Performance in the Political Agenda: Intersectoral Collaboration and Integrative Governance on the Road to Health in all Policies
18 November 2024
What can we learn from Zanzibar’s Integrated Immunization Campaign?
20 August 2024
Progress on nutrition is not just possible – it is happening
13 August 2024
