Health Topics
- The Thai Health Promotion Foundation: Two Decades of Joint Contributions to Addressing Noncommunicable Diseases and Creating Healthy Populations
Globally, the current investment in preventive care is inadequate and ineffective for addressing noncommunicable diseases and their causes. The Thai Health Promotion Foundation, with its sustainable funding from 2% levies on tobacco and alcohol, together with partners, has been used to address noncommunicable diseases effectively.
- The Role of Adults in Poliovirus Transmission to Infants and Children
We draw attention to a neglected aspect of poliovirus transmission—the likely role of adults in sustaining transmission—which has important policy and practical implications for addressing the perplexing phenomenon of continued virus circulation.
- Couple-Years of Protection Indicator: New Global Guidance for Updating Existing Methods and Adding New Methods
Couple-years of protection is an important indicator for measuring coverage of family planning programs. Method-specific updates are required when a new method is introduced, a regulatory body changes the duration of use, or a significant change in presentation occurs.
- National Policy Influences of Contraceptive Prevalence and Method Mix Strategy: A Longitudinal Analysis of 59 Low- and Middle-Income Countries, 2010–2021
Evidence from over a decade of Contraceptive Security Indicators survey data across 59 countries reveals a subset of finance, governance, and logistics policies that boost modern contraceptive prevalence rate and method-mix strategy.
- Implementation and Cost Analysis of a Novel Silicosis Case-Finding Program For Mine Workers in Rural Rwanda
Implementing occupational lung disease case-finding in resource-limited settings is clinically and economically feasible and can be integrated into routine noncommunicable disease case-finding.
- Applying a Three-Tier Approach to Address Gaps in Oral Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Uptake and Continuity in Uganda: A Mixed Methods Approach
We introduced a transformative approach consisting of a gap analysis and root cause analysis to understand and address significant gaps in enrollment and continuity on oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and a national quality improvement collaborative to map interventions to address specific barriers in the PrEP cascade.
- Current Approaches to Following Up Women and Newborns After Discharge From Childbirth Facilities: A Scoping Review
This review found that follow-up after childbirth can be implemented using a variety of methods after discharge with high response rates in most studies and have the potential to be integrated into routine health care approaches.
- Adopting Data to Care to Identify and Address Gaps in Services for Children and Adolescents Living With HIV in Mozambique
Real-time learning and implementation of the Data to Care strategy within the context of a large HIV intervention program in Mozambique provided a useful opportunity to evaluate, refine, and scale up this evidence-based approach to improve outcomes for children and adolescents living with HIV.
- Transforming Supply Logistics for Health Commodity Security in Africa
Current efforts to ensure health commodity security in Africa must be extended to include transforming existing public and private logistics infrastructure for inventory management into a state of prudent multiplicity while also considering efforts to improve product selection, demand quantification, procurement, and service delivery.
- Addressing the Impact of Climate Change on Sexual and Reproductive Health Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
There is an urgent need to better understand the role of climate change on sexual and reproductive health outcomes, particularly among adolescent girls and young women in low- and middle-income countries. Stakeholders at all levels should apply a rights-based, gendered approach to climate action and adaptation.