Expanding treatment for depression and anxiety could improve young people’s health and education while generating substantial economic and social returns.
Investing in treatment for adolescent depression and anxiety could generate up to US$15 in economic and social benefits for every US$1 invested, according to research published in…
Study across four countries highlights the systemic changes needed to turn global commitments on adolescent well-being into lasting progress.
Global commitments to improve adolescent well-being are beginning to translate into action, but persistent gaps in funding, cross-sector coordination and data could prevent that progress from being sustained…
New research shows improving nutrition could prevent child stunting, reduce chronic disease, and protect national income in two countries facing different stages of the nutrition transition.
Unhealthy diets are now recognised as a leading contributor to global ill health, linked both to persistent undernutrition in early life…
By David Bishai[1] and Austin Strange[2]
[1] The University of Hong Kong School of Public Health
[2] The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences Department of Politics and Public Administration
Background
The halt of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as a major source…
By Praveenkumar Aivalli, Post Doctoral Research Fellow, University College Dublin, Ireland
How does power shape the success—or failure—of intersectoral collaboration in global health? That’s the question at the heart of my doctoral journey. Our recent realist review dived into how power dynamics influence intersectoral collaboration (ISC) during…
By Dr. Dilantha Dharmagunawardene1, Prof. Reece Hinchcliff1, Prof. David Greenfield2, Dr. Mark Avery1 and Ms. Paula Bowman3
Department of Management, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
School of Population Health, University of New South Wales
School of Public Health and Social Work, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology
Background
There…
Robert J. Montgomery1,2, Elaine Scudder2, Caitlin Tulloch2, Muna Jama2, Naoko Kozuki2 & Baris Ata1
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
International Rescue Committee
Background
As more scrutiny is applied to foreign aid dollars, whether done carefully or carelessly, it becomes increasingly important that we correct the misconception that…
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…
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…
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.
