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    Thematic Analysis and Mapping of Reproductive Empowerment Scales: A Tool for Family Planning Self-Care Programming and Research
    Holly M. Burke and Reana Thomas
    Global Health: Science and Practice June 2022, 10(3):e2100794; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00794

    Understanding the relationship between self-care and reproductive empowerment is necessary to improve family planning self-care interventions. We offer a thematic analysis of 5 validated scales measuring reproductive empowerment-related concepts that could be used by self-care family planning programmers and researchers.

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    What Do We Demand? Responding to the Call for Precision and Definitional Agreement in Family Planning’s “Demand” and “Need” Jargon
    Madeleine Short Fabic
    Global Health: Science and Practice February 2022, 10(1):e2200030; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-22-00030

    This commentary offers a response to the call to improve family planning language that describes “need” and “demand” and proposes a set of recommendations to add precision, improve measurement, and foster shared understanding in family planning.

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    Three Pivots for Improving Health Care Provider Performance
    Julia Bluestone, Erica Troncoso, Laura Fitzgerald, Lauretta Nagbe, Gladys Tetteh, Augustino Hellar and Edwin Ernest
    Global Health: Science and Practice February 2022, 10(1):e2100625; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00625

    We share recommendations on 3 important pivots away from longstanding approaches to continued professional development and in-service training programs that have demonstrated a measurable benefit across a diversity of health-related applications and projects.

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    Language and Measurement of Contraceptive Need and Making These Indicators More Meaningful for Measuring Fertility Intentions of Women and Girls
    Ilene S. Speizer, Jason Bremner and Shiza Farid FP2020 Performance, Monitoring, and Evidence Working Group
    Global Health: Science and Practice February 2022, 10(1):e2100450; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00450

    We examine current “need”-based family planning measures that are based on women’s fertility desires and contraceptive use, identify challenges with language and use of need-based measures, and recommend ways to improve language and measurement.

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    Maintaining Polio-Free Status in Indonesia During the COVID-19 Pandemic
    Luthfi Azizatunnisa’, Utsamani Cintyamena, Vinod Bura, Asik Surya, Hariadi Wibisono, Riris Andono Ahmad and Yodi Mahendradhata
    Global Health: Science and Practice February 2022, 10(1):e2100310; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00310

    Despite the negative impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on polio eradication efforts, ensuring the high coverage of polio immunization and high performance of surveillance are essential to maintaining Indonesia’s polio-free status and the reaching the 2023 global polio eradication target.

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    COVID-19 Partners Platform—Accelerating Response by Coordinating Plans, Needs, and Contributions During Public Health Emergencies: COVID-19 Vaccines Use Case
    Angela K. Shen, M. Anne Yu, Ann Lindstrand, Sanjiv M. Baxi, Océane Jousset, Katherine O'Brien and Lucy Boulanger
    Global Health: Science and Practice December 2021, 9(4):725-732; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00460

    The World Health Organization COVID-19 Partners Platform represents the first step towards a new model of health crisis information sharing across stakeholders and could evolve into an engagement mechanism of choice for future cross-border public health emergencies.

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    Motivation and Performance of Community Health Workers: Nothing New Under the Sun, and Yet…
    Eric Sarriot, Tom Davis, Melanie Morrow, Telesphore Kabore and Henry Perry
    Global Health: Science and Practice December 2021, 9(4):716-724; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00627

    We know that both financial and nonfinancial incentives matter if we want community health workers (CHWs) who are motivated and performing. What are the practical implications for CHWs themselves and for effective management of viable CHW programs?

  • Open Access
    What’s Next in Design for Global Health? How Design and Global Health Must Adapt for a Preferable Future
    Ayush Chauhan, Krista Donaldson, Ana Santos and Michael Ngigi
    Global Health: Science and Practice November 2021, 9(Supplement 2):S283-S294; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00280

    Integrating the practice of design with global health offers a way to ensure that all voices—from patients to policy makers—are all heard in conceiving and developing solutions that address the current misalignments and support efforts to make quality health care more affordable, accessible, and humanized for all.

  • Open Access
    Design Is an Essential Medicine
    Pragya Mishra and Jaspal S. Sandhu
    Global Health: Science and Practice November 2021, 9(Supplement 2):S195-S208; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00332

    We provide an analysis of design in global health through a systematic framework to understand what it is, the value it can add, and how it compares to other common problem-solving approaches in global health. We make the case that design is an essential approach when tackling complex global health challenges.

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    Complexity in Health: Can Design Help Support Interdisciplinary Solutions?
    Ledia Andrawes, Tracy Johnson and Michael Coleman
    Global Health: Science and Practice November 2021, 9(Supplement 2):S217-S225; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00222

    Public health challenges are increasingly complex and won’t be solved through traditional methods by the public health community alone. Design, with its people-centered approach and collaborative practice to harness a diversity of perspectives, can facilitate interdisciplinary efforts to creatively resolve tough global health challenges.

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