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

Introduction Given rising rates of mental health difficulties among young people, early intervention is crucial to mitigate ...

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 ...

Introduction Rabies remains a life-threatening disease affecting children in endemic regions including Thailand. The ...

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 ...