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WEB2 days ago — BMJ Global Health is an open access, online journal dedicated to publishing high-quality peer-reviewed content relevant to those involved in global health, including policy makers, funders, researchers, clinicians and frontline healthcare workers.BMJ Global Health adheres to the highest possible industry standards concerning publication ethics.. Access the journal's blog and follow BMJ Global ...
The empirical evidence underpinning the concept and practice of …
WEBIntroduction Person-centred care has become internationally recognised as a critical attribute of high-quality healthcare. However, the concept has been criticised for being poorly theorised and operationalised. Serious illness is especially aligned with the need for person-centredness, usually necessitating involvement of significant others, management of clinical uncertainty, high-quality ...
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WEBBMJ Global Health is an Open Access, online journal from BMJ dedicated to publishing high-quality peer-reviewed content relevant to those involved in global health, including policy makers, funders, researchers, clinicians and frontline healthcare workers. To find out more about the journal’s vision, please read the introductory editorial from the journal’s Editor-in-Chief, Dr Seye Abimbola.
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WEBBMJ Global Health is an open access journal and levies an Article Processing Charge (APC) of 3,410 GBP (exclusive of VAT for UK and EU authors) for Original research, Analysis and Practice papers. The APC for Editorials and Commentaries is 1,705 GBP (exclusive of VAT for UK and EU authors). There are no …
Community-based surveillance of infectious diseases: a systematic ...
WEBIntroduction Community-based surveillance may improve early detection and response to disease outbreaks by leveraging the capacity of community members to carry out surveillance activities within their communities. In 2021, the WHO published a report detailing the evidence gaps and research priorities around community-centred approaches to health emergencies. In response, we carried out a ...
Advancing collaborative research for health: why does …
WEBThe COVID-19 pandemic has made it clear that the impact of research is not limited to advancing people’s health in the future. Research can also be impactful for current health threats.1 Research that was conducted very quickly led to the timely development of effective COVID-19 diagnostic tests, vaccines, therapeutics and public health interventions.2 Yet this success story should not ...
Whole of government and whole of society approaches: call for …
WEBOn 9 April 2020, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated, ‘this pandemic is much more than a health crisis. It requires a whole-of government and whole-of-society response’.1 To address the ongoing pandemic, national, regional and global policymakers continue to call for whole of government (WoG) and whole of society (WoS) strategies.2 3 Countries’ responses to COVID-19 ...
Essential Emergency and Critical Care: a consensus among global ...
WEBMethods In a Delphi process, consensus (>90% agreement) was sought from a diverse panel of global clinical experts. The panel iteratively rated proposed treatments and actions based on previous guidelines and the WHO/ICRC’s Basic Emergency Care. The output from the Delphi was adapted iteratively with specialist reviewers into a coherent and feasible package of clinical processes plus a list ...
Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) strategy: …
WEBIn 1998, the WHO African region adopted a strategy called Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR). Here, we present the current status of IDSR implementation; and provide some future perspectives for enhancing the IDSR strategy in Africa. In 2017, we used two data sources to compile information on the status of IDSR implementation: a pretested rapid assessment questionnaire sent ...
Effective community entry: reflections on community engagement …
WEBEffective community entry processes influence community participation and acceptance of public health interventions. Though there is a growing body of literature on the importance of community partnerships, there is a lack of pragmatic and practical documentation of the experiences involved in the community entry process as it relates to culturally sensitive topics such as child marriage which ...