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BMJ Global Health: Insight for a healthier, more equal world. #globalhealth #medicine #research
Joined November 2015
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“The message is clear: the greater the inequality in income or in access to high-quality care within a country, the greater were excess deaths during the first 2 years of the pandemic”. 📣 New Editorial on equity & pandemic preparedness ➡️
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“Evidence increasingly suggests that . it is often not race, but racism, that is largely the root cause of racialised health disparities”. 📣 New systematic review & meta-analysis on pregnancy outcomes & racism ➡️
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“Only 9.7% of health centres, 43.8% of general hospitals and 21.7% of primary hospitals are [fully functional]. None of the health facilities are operating at prewar level”. New study explores the impact of war in Tigray, #Ethiopia on health facilities ➡️
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“Overdiagnosis and overuse of tests are widespread in LMICs and generate significant harm and waste. Better understanding of the problems and robust evaluation of solutions is needed”. 📣 New scoping review ➡️
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“Terminology used to divide the world into the haves and the have nots has continually changed since colonial times … But every new term continues to imply and allude to an inherent unevenness”. 📣 New Editorial on labels in global health & development ➡️
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Dr @seyeabimbola's passion and determination to highlight culturally complex issues and refusal to shy away from politically sensitive areas have won him many plaudits, including Vox’s The 2023 Future Perfect 50 for his work on fighting global poverty and health threats.
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Diversity in the editorial boards of global health journals .
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“The latest classification positions 137 countries in the LMIC categories . Such a broad classification in global health scholarship requires consideration both in terms of its utility and its implications”. 📣 New Editorial on referring to “LMICs” ➡️
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“Human rights are not a panacea nor do they guarantee a preordained result, but they are an important tool to ensure health is seen and realised as a global good not only for some but for all”. 📣 New Editorial on global health & human rights ➡️
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"Each person has a moral right not to be treated as inferior. This moral right has found different forms of protection under dignity-based mechanisms. But these mechanisms do not extend. to epistemic wrongs, harms and injustices.". 📣 New Commentary ➡️
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We are committed to publishing first class research that will have an impact in global health. To thank our authors, editors, readers & reviewers for their contributions, our top cited articles are free to access
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"Essential packages of health services only have impact when implemented, yet in many countries there is still a large implementation gap." @AwadMATARIA. 📣 New Article ➡️
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‘Decentralisation, even if well intentioned, can have unintended consequences.’. 📣New Research ➡️
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‘Decentralising editorial boards, addressing the language bias towards English and establishing independent regional-level citation databases can contribute to improving the quality and representation of Global South journals.’. 📣 New Commentary ➡️
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"Initiatives to address [social determinants of health (SDH)] focused on policy-level interventions . Few global efforts have considered the role of the health sector itself in mitigating adverse SDH". 📣 New paper on trends in social prescribing ➡️
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"Despite their high profile in the global health architecture, there is scant evidence that these meetings influence financing or domestic policy implementation without attendant work from countries, UN agencies and civil society.". 📣 New Analysis ➡️
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The 2nd most read articles in 2020 with more than 60,000 reads is . 🔗A vulnerability index for COVID-19: spatial analysis at the subnational level in Kenya by @Pete_M_M et al.#YearInReview
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Congratulations to Dr Jason Alapaca (@jace_rnMD) from The Philippines, who is the winner of the 2020 BMJ Global Health Grant. Find out more about his research at
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New collection on addressing non-communicable diseases in humanitarian settings:. “The costs of investing in prevention and early response, to tackle the root causes of health crises, are minute compared with the costs of paying for the consequences”. ➡️
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“Peace and health are inextricably connected, and the two must go hand in hand if we are to offer people basic protections and build secure and healthy societies”. 📣 New Special Issue with WHO on relationships between health & peace ➡️
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📣 New analysis of gender distributions at the World Health Assembly (WHA):. “Over 1948–2021, 82.9% of delegations were composed of a majority of men, and no WHA had more than 30% of women Chief Delegates”. ➡️
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“In spite of numerous appeals, mainly from anthropologists, to accord greater importance to culture in global health, it continues to receive scant attention by major organisations, donors and academics”. 📣 New Commentary on culture ➡️
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“Perhaps, as we look for new ways to ‘fix’ the discipline, we can lean into the complexity of the wake, and . accept the uncomfortable path which works in search of social change in true partnership with the voices of everyday people”. New Editorial ➡️
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An open letter to the #WLGH18 : The movement for gender equity does not currently appear to take an intersectional approach to ensure inclusivity, Only 2/56 appear to be from LMIC , says @SalmaMHAbdalla @zr_z @MariamParwaiz #WomeninGH.
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India needs to put equity in the heart and soul of its #COVID19 vaccination policy writes @DrSoumyadeepB .
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New systematic review on community-based disease surveillance:. “[Surveillance] preparedness is more likely to be both successful and sustainable within communities that are actively engaged in designing and implementing . public health solutions”. ➡️
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Article processing charges are stalling the progress of African researchers: a call for urgent reforms.
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“The current social contract, which focuses on the nation-state’s responsibility for its population’s access . struggles to sufficiently address the global provision of pharmaceutical products during an international health crisis”. 📣 New Commentary ➡️
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"Health system resilience is more than the object of a technocratic or managerialist exercise; it forces us to engage with the messiness of power, politics and governance in a turbulent world.". 📣 New Article ➡️
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A systematic review on ethical challenges of ‘field�� research in low-income and middle-income countries: respect, justice and beneficence for research staff?.
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"Future policy analyses on global health priorities should explicitly consider discerning temporal patterns and incorporating the three intersecting but distinct (of issue, of actors and of network) aspects of legitimacy.". 📣 New Article ➡️
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ICYMI : BMJ Global Health pledges that in the next two years, we will achieve parity in representation (between people based in LMIC & HICs; and between men & women) on our editorial board .
Editorial boards of global health journals are mostly not diverse : finds new study by @DrSoumyadeepB & @jjagnoor80
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"Taking an evidence-based functional and adaptive approach to achieving equity in #globalhealth requires collaborative engagement, trust and is needed in LMICs and HICs." @dtsh2. 📣 New Article ➡️
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We will receive our first impact factor in 2020. Thank you to all peer reviewers, authors and readers who have contributed towards the journal's success over the past 3 years.💖.
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"It is vital that citizens can imagine, contest, and negotiate what to legitimately expect from their health system.". 📣 New Analysis ➡️
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" #AI tools trained on structurally biased datasets reproduce, double down and 'hallucinate' outputs that reinscribe symbolically violent, radicalised and abusive imagery in global health.". 📣 New Editorial ➡️
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"In order to overcome global health inequities and systemic failures, investments must be made in meaningful youth inclusion, training, and leadership across all dimensions of global health governance.". 📣 New Commentary ➡️
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Dear world, we turn 5 today! Happy Birthday to us!.Today's message: The lack of representativeness of authorship in academic global health must be understood also in terms of the lack of representativeness of the knowledge that's available in literature.
It's 5yrs since @GlobalHealthBMJ was launched! . Here's the first editorial I wrote — "The information problem in global health" If I was writing the editorial today, here's what I'd write — "The uses of knowledge in global health"
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What is considered as global health scholarship? A meta-knowledge analysis of global health journals and definitions.
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“This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of the resolutions adopted by the World Health Assembly since 1948 . [&] identifies the complex structure of this normative network.”. 📣 New Research ➡️
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“Conversation on decolonisation is not helpful if it does not examine how colonial power interacted with the power of in-country elites … [to] preserve the privileged positions of the elites and often to the detriment of public health”. New Editorial ➡️
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"Government sponsored insurance expansion. has reduced the out-of-pocket health payment burden in many of the countries but. there is a lack of access,.availability and affordability for diagnostic-related services" @divyasrivast .📣 New practice ➡️
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"The traditional paradigm of diagnosis and treatment is not enough. We must also consider the infrastructure. and ensure that patients are able to access the care they need without incurring catastrophic expenditures on healthcare.". 📣 New Article ➡️
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Human health is inextricably linked to the health of the planet, says @seyeabimbola of @GlobalHealthBMJ. Over 200 health journals are calling for emergency action on a #HealthyClimate #ActOnClimate
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“Lack of political will is frequently invoked … to explain the gap between commitment and action for health reforms in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, the concept remains vague, ill defined and risks being used as a scapegoat”. 📣 New scoping review ➡️
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“There is strong evidence that malnutrition impairs neurodevelopment and academic achievement in childhood which has significant implications for future well-being and prospects”. 📣 New systematic review on consequences of childhood malnutrition ➡️
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“The way health is framed in discourse can influence the recognition of, explanations for and responses to health challenges. We need . to understand what different stakeholders are saying”. New discourse analysis on commercial determinants of health ➡️
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“The current COVID-19 crisis showcases that no single entity has the resources and capacity to effectively address a global pandemic … a timely stimulus for research that helps to accelerate efforts to work across societies”. 📣 New Editorial ➡️
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📣 New analysis of a national health insurance effort in Benin:. “Supporting countries in documenting policy processes will ease learning across the tries on their progress towards Universal Health Coverage, as several tries can be anticipated”. ➡️
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📣 New research on gender inequities in academic publishing:. “The greatest magnitude of authorship inequity is in papers from sub-Saharan Africa, where men comprised 61% of first authors, 65% of last authors and 66% of single authors”. ➡️
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"As we learnt from the COVID-19 and previous public health events, the healthier a population is when faced with a pandemic, the healthier the population will be coming out of it.". 📣 New Editorial ➡️
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"Health journals are rapidly increasing the amount they publish on climate change and health, but despite climate change being the major threat to global health many journals had until recently published little or nothing.". 📣 New Research ➡️
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Why do people purchase antibiotics over-the-counter? A qualitative study with patients, clinicians and dispensers in central, eastern and western Nepal .
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“Health literacy development must underpin local and national policy … to create enabling environments that reduce people’s exposures to NCD risk factors promulgated through misinformation, disinformation and advertising”. 📣 New Practice paper ➡️
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Medicine is a social science: COVID-19 and the tragedy of residential care facilities in high-income countries .
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Factors influencing diagnosis and treatment initiation for multidrug-resistant/rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis in six sub-Saharan African countries: a mixed-methods systematic review .
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Power analysis in health policy and systems research: a guide to research conceptualisation .
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New study on the promotion of unhealthy foods on TikTok, including via hashtag challenges. “User-generated content from these challenges collectively receives millions—and sometimes billions—of views [&] frequently features branding and product images”. ➡️
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"Addressing equity in a world of sustained decline requires explicit considerations and informed choices about resource management to avoid sacrificing the health and well-being of the most vulnerable populations.". 📣 New Commentary ➡️
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We publsihed this a while back: Assessing global preparedness for the next pandemic: development and application of an Epidemic Preparedness Index .
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📣 New narrative review explores progress towards universal health insurance in 16 African nations:. “At a minimum, our results confirm that [community-based health insurance] performs worse than public health insurance”. ➡️
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Whose voices should shape global health education? Curriculum codesign and codelivery by people with direct expertise and lived experience.
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"We urge editors to establish transparent policies stipulating what classes of adverts are allowed, guided by medical and public health consequences and national and international policies". New Commentary on breast milk substitute marketing in journals ➡️
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Our #Top10 articles of 2020 list is out now. #YearInReview . #4 How (not) to write about global health with 30k+ hits by @desmondtanko .
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“Community integrated care initiatives … improve the uptake of healthcare services and the health outcomes . This critical realist review unearthed the generative mechanisms, relevant structures and influential contextual elements”. 📣 New synthesis ➡️
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“The road construction programme greatly increased the proportion of women who gave birth in a clinic, but it did not translate into improved rates of neonatal mortality or postpartum complications”. 📣 New maternal & newborn health research from India ➡️
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"Power operates at all levels and ultimately gets translated into what services are delivered and in what manner, who gets access and on what terms, and who is excluded". 📣 New analysis explores power in sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programmes ➡️
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What is ‘global surgery’? Defining the multidisciplinary interface between surgery, anaesthesia and public health .@DrEdFitzgerald @MikeFBath @SaferSurgery @global_neuro
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Adaptive health technology assessment to facilitate priority setting in low- and middle-income countries .
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"Equity-oriented health information systems and barrier assessments can identify factors that influence suboptimal quality of care. and inform the development of health policies and services that address inequities." @AmyJStevens1. 📣 New Commentary ➡️
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"Growing evidence suggests that the key drivers of health workers' migration or intention to migrate are similar across geographical regions in LMICs." @drwariri, @LSHTM, @mrcunitgambia. 📣 New Research ➡️
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"Functional health facilities must be available within 10 km of every woman . [&] robust systems are needed to support travel of pregnant women from the community to a health facility". 📣 New study of travel & mortality among pregnant women in Lagos ➡️
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“With increasing attention and investment into [early childhood development (ECD)] programmes, consistent assessments of the relative cost-effectiveness of available interventions are urgently needed”. 📣 New study on ECD intervention cost-effectiveness ➡️
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“The Coca-Cola Company engages in a range of market and non-market activities … including expansive supply chains, corporate political activities, broad and influential marketing campaigns and public relations activities”. 📣 New study from East Asia ➡️
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Informal collectives and access to healthcare during India’s COVID-19 second wave crisis.
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📣 New review of health system strengthening (HSS) economic evaluations in LMICs: . Many "do not report the use of simulation methods, uncertainty analyses or distributional analyses" — approaches which could improve "reliability and generalisability". ➡️
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"[There are inequalities] between geographic regions, within geographic regions, and even within individual health facilities and families. [Therefore] effective coverage measures should be disaggregated". 📣 New Commentary on effective coverage & data ➡️
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Today, a global movement of 200+ health journals are calling on world leaders to take emergency climate action. Read our call for a #HealthyClimate: #ActOnClimate
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Research for Health Justice: an ethical framework linking global health research to health equity.
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Cash transfers can have multiple positive impacts on health, yet their potential for 274 million people requiring humanitarian assistance has not been fully evaluated. A new systematic review explores data on cash transfers in humanitarian settings ➡️
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"Academic publishing continues to be a colonised space that advantages those from wealthy and English-speaking countries.". 📣 New Research ➡️
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"Sri Lanka’s experience confirms that strong public health capacities, robust healthcare systems and intersectoral action are critical for pandemic response.". 📣 New Research ➡️
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We are totally in love with our authors and peer-reviewers now. They do not leak submitted manuscripts publicly ❤️.
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30 years of polio campaigns in Ethiopia, India and Nigeria: the impacts of campaign design on vaccine hesitancy and health worker motivation .
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A working list of the #GlobalSouth experts is now available. Keep the names coming using #GlobalSouth or #GlobalVoices while we compile a more formal one. Don't forget to tag us. Link : cc : @IlonaKickbusch @DrSoumyadeepB @seyeabimbola
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Defining global health: findings from a systematic review and thematic analysis of the literature .
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Close contact intervention between a mother and her premature baby may reduce risk of mortality by almost a third. 📣 New Research ➡️
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"Some countries may be at risk of losing donor resources for health from a multitude of sources around the same time. However, countries that have a strategic interest in bilateral donors may be spared from such funding cliffs.". 📣 New Research ➡️
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Conference equity in global health: a systematic review of factors impacting LMIC representation at global health conferences.
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“Long before the term global surgery was conceived, rural surgeons were striving to secure healthcare for the 5 billion individuals who lack access to safe, affordable, surgical and anaesthesia care”. New Commentary on amplifying rural surgery voices ➡️
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📣 New study with community health workers (CHWs) in Nigeria:. “By considering CHWs’ preferences … in policy formulation and implementation, feasible interventions to improve their motivation for sustained quality service delivery can be developed”. ➡️
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Whose voices should shape #globalhealth education? Curriculum codesign and codelivery by people with direct expertise and lived experience. #OpenScience.
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Institutionalising global health: a call for ethical reflection.
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The case for developing a cohesive systems approach to research across unhealthy commodity industries.
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"With resourcing, harnessing an engaged global community and establishing a global network of partners, a systems strengthening tool can be cocreated, disseminated and formatively evaluated.". 📣 New Practice ➡️
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📣 New data on youth depressive symptoms & poverty from #Mexico, #SouthAfrica & #Colombia. "The importance of specific dimensions of poverty for mental health varies across countries, and a multidimensional approach is needed". ➡️
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New systematic review/meta-analysis finds COVID-19 age-specific infection fatality rates in LMICs that are ~2x as high as rates in wealthier nations. The "findings underscore the urgency of disseminating vaccines and effective medications" worldwide. ➡️
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Editorial boards of global health journals are mostly not diverse : finds new study by @DrSoumyadeepB & @jjagnoor80
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