Background Tobacco control has been a critical strategy to reduce non-communicable disease (NCD) burden. However, the ...

Effective service delivery is a cornerstone of public health efforts, ensuring that essential healthcare reaches even the ...

Objectives Despite the East Asia and Pacific region (EAPR) accounting for 22.7% of global diabetes deaths amid rapid ...

Background Arab countries have seen an increased commitment towards improving access to family planning (FP) in recent ...

Twelve years after the 2014–2016 West African Ebola epidemic and 6 years after COVID-19 exposed profound weaknesses in health ...

Background Acute and emergency general surgery in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) faces critical disparities. Despite ...

Hip fractures cause substantial morbidity, mortality and healthcare costs among older adults. While advances in surgical and ...

Social community context is one of the five non-medical determinants of health and refers to the impact of social ...

Background Sub-Saharan Africa has high under-5 mortality and low childhood immunisation rates. Vaccine-preventable diseases cause one-third of under-5 deaths. Text messaging reminders improve ...

The Global Alcohol Action Plan 2022-30 (GAAP) represents an important milestone in policy implementation at the global level on alcohol and health. There has, however, been little attention paid to ...

Health taxes are effective policy instruments to save lives, raise government revenues and improve equity. Health taxes, however, directly conflict with commercial actors’ interests. Both pro-tax ...

Introduction More than half of global cervical cancer cases occur among women older than 50. However, global estimates regarding the human papillomavirus (HPV) prevalence among this population are ...