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Open AccessGender, health and ageing in Fiji: a mixed methods analysis
Women are disadvantaged by ageing: older women are more likely than older men to suffer from ill-health, have less access to health care and suffer discrimination within the health care system. Globally, there...
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Open AccessExploring the relationship between functional limitations of the older adults and the health-related quality of life of their spouse in Shaanxi Province, China
With trends towards longer life expectancy, lifetime with disability has also been prolonged. It is increasingly recognized that not only the person with disability but also those around them are affected. The...
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Open AccessA social ecological approach to understanding service utilization barriers among male survivors of sexual violence in three refugee settings: a qualitative exploratory study
Post-sexual violence service utilization is often poor in humanitarian settings. Little is known about the service uptake barriers facing male survivors specifically.
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Open AccessMisoprostol for the prevention of post-partum haemorrhage in Mozambique: an analysis of the interface between human rights, maternal health and development
Mozambique has high maternal mortality which is compounded by limited human resources for health, weak access to health services, and poor development indicators. In 2011, the Mozambique Ministry of Health (Mo...
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Open AccessRegulation of nursing professionals in Cambodia and Vietnam: a review of the evolution and key influences
In 2006, the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) signed the Mutual Recognition Arrangements (MRA) in relation to nursing services in the region. This agreement was part of a set of ...
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Engaging Migrant and Refugee Young People with Sexual Health Care: Does Generation Matter More Than Culture?
Young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds in Australia are recognised as under-utilising mainstream sexual and reproductive health care. A qualitative study was undertaken in Sydney, Australia, to expl...
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Open AccessMigration and health: a global public health research priority
With 244 million international migrants, and significantly more people moving within their country of birth, there is an urgent need to engage with migration at all levels in order to support progress towards ...
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Beyond Compliance Checking: A Situated Approach to Visual Research Ethics
Visual research methods like photography and digital storytelling are increasingly used in health and social sciences research as participatory approaches that benefit participants, researchers, and audiences....
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Open AccessFair publication of qualitative research in health systems: a call by health policy and systems researchers
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Open AccessMechanisms underpinning interventions to reduce sexual violence in armed conflict: A realist-informed systematic review
Sexual violence is recognised as a widespread consequence of armed conflict and other humanitarian crises. The limited evidence in literature on interventions in this field suggests a need for alternatives to ...
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Open AccessPolicy context and narrative leading to the commissioning of the Australian Indigenous Burden of Disease study
Burden of disease (BoD) studies have been conducted in numerous international settings since the early 1990’s. Two national BoD studies have been undertaken in Australia, in 1998 and 2003, although neither stu...
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Open AccessChanging the malaria treatment protocol policy in Timor-Leste: an examination of context, process, and actors’ involvement
In 2007 Timor-Leste, a malaria endemic country, changed its Malaria Treatment Protocol for uncomplicated falciparum malaria from sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine to artemether-lumefantrine. The change in treatment p...
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Open AccessDid the first Global Fund grant (2003–2006) contribute to malaria control and health system strengthening in Timor-Leste?
In 2003, Timor-Leste successfully obtained its first Global Fund grant for a three-year programme for malaria control. The grant aimed to reduce malaria-related morbidity and mortality by 30 % by the end of th...
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Open AccessBrain Gains: a literature review of medical missions to low and middle-income countries
Healthcare professionals’ participation in short-term medical missions to low and middle income countries (LMIC) to provide healthcare has become common over the past 50 years yet little is known about the qua...
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Open AccessAnalysis of policy implications and challenges of the Cuban health assistance program related to human resources for health in the Pacific
Cuba has extended its medical cooperation to Pacific Island Countries (PICs) by supplying doctors to boost service delivery and offering scholarships for Pacific Islanders to study medicine in Cuba. Given the ...
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Open AccessProspective policy analysis: how an epistemic community informed policymaking on intentional self poisoning in Sri Lanka
Policy analysis is often retrospective and not well suited to hel** policy makers decide what to do; in contrast prospective policy analysis seeks to assist in formulating responses to challenging public pol...
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Open AccessMalaria control in Timor-Leste during a period of political instability: what lessons can be learned?
Malaria is a major global health problem, often exacerbated by political instability, conflict, and forced migration.
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Open AccessIncreasing the use of evidence in health policy: practice and views of policy makers and researchers
Better communication is often suggested as fundamental to increasing the use of research evidence in policy, but little is known about how researchers and policy makers work together or about barriers to excha...
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Open AccessCommunity perceptions of mental health needs: a qualitative study in the Solomon Islands
Psychosocial and mental health needs in the aftermath of conflict and disaster have attracted substantial attention. In the Solomon Islands, the conceptualisation of mental health, for several decades regarded...
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Open AccessTowards enhancing national capacity for evidence informed policy and practice in falls management: a role for a "Translation Task Group"?
There has been a growing interest over recent years, both within Australia and overseas, in enhancing the translation of research into policy and practice. As one mechanism to improve the dissemination and upt...
