Introduction The Lancet Commission on High Quality Health Systems called for quality measures grounded in user experience.

Background The 2022 global mpox epidemic declined before modified Vaccinia Ankara–Bavarian Nordic (MVA-BN) vaccines were ...

Background Orthopaedic injuries are a major contributor to morbidity and mortality in low-income settings, driven by rising ...

Over 10% of the world’s population lives on islands.2 Yet in global health policy and systems research (HPSR), islands remain overlooked peripheries. This holds especially true for small, often ...

Introduction Chikungunya is a mosquito-borne arboviral disease posing an emerging global public health threat. Understanding the global burden of chikungunya is critical for designing effective ...

Introduction Concern for health inequalities is an important driver of health policy in India; however, much of the empirical evidence regarding health inequalities in the country is piecemeal ...

Introduction Healthful plant-based foods can improve youth nutrition and contribute to global targets such as Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 on ending malnutrition, SDG3 improving health and ...

Introduction Community-orientated primary care (COPC) is an approach to primary healthcare (PHC) that originated in South Africa and contributed to the formulation of the Declaration of Alma-Ata 40 ...

Background Cash transfer (CT) programmes are an increasingly common approach to alleviate poverty and inequality and improving child health and nutrition, as well as supporting other goals such as ...

Introduction The majority of low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) have incomplete death registration systems and so the proportion of deaths that occur at home (ie, home death percentage) is ...

At the start of 2025, the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) programme was paused due to the defunding of USAID, illustrating the fragility of the international data infrastructures on which many ...

The emergence of next-generation genomic sequencing (NGS) tests for use in clinical care has generated widespread interest around the globe, but little is known about the availability and funding of ...