That quality scientific and technical health information is essential for health policy makers, healthcare providers and health researchers to develop, improve, and implement efficient and effective healthcare systems and services. That inequitable access to quality health information could result in poor health planning and healthcare delivery which adversely affect the health conditions of th...

INTRODUCTION In 2006, the World Health Organization launched the Global Age-Friendly Cities Project to support active aging. Canada has a large number of age-friendly initiatives; however, little is known about the effectiveness and outcomes of age-friendly community (AFC) initiatives. In addition, stakeholders report that they lack the capacity and tools to develop and conduct evaluations of t...

BACKGROUND Global health programs, as supported by organizations such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), stand to make significant contributions to international medical outcomes. Traditional systems of monitoring and evaluation, however, fail to capture downstream, indirect, or collateral advantages (and threa...

introduction: diet behavior plays an important role in non-communicable disease. the theme of world health day 2015 was “improve food safety from farm to plate (always and everywhere)”. the present study assessed the diets of employees at a medical university in tehran, iran on iran health day 2015. methods: this cross-sectional study assessed the diets of 468 employees of a medical university ...

shiffman has argued that some actors have a great deal of power in global health, and that more reflection is needed on whether such forms of power are legitimate. global health is a new and evolving field that builds upon the historical fields of public and international health, but is more multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary in nature. this article argues that the distribution of power ...

This article addresses the increasing influence of economic rationalities in global health over the past 30 years by examining the genealogy of one economic strategy - taxation - that has become central to international anti-smoking initiatives in the global South. It argues that this genealogy sits uncomfortably with the usual story about economics and global health, which reduces the economis...

The health of children and adolescents pose multiple challenges for health professionals in these times of rapid socioeconomic, political, cultural, epidemiological and health system changes. The health promoting schools approach and accompanying national models, regional and global initiatives, provide a mechanism for integrating health promotion and core nursing functions into schools and com...

This paper comments on the new Media Lab global initiatives such as the 2B1 Foundation, Center for Future Children, and Junior Summit. Ideas are presented for how existing Media Lab technologies can be integrated within the goals of these enterprises. These ideas are not necessarily limited to children and are mostly in the areas of health and education.