According to the latest WHO Annual Global TB Report (WHO, 2017a), Tuberculosis (TB) remains the world’s top infectious diseases cause of death, being responsible for an estimated 1.674.000 deaths worldwide in 2016. Alarmingly, there were 600.000 cases of rifampicin-resistant TB of which 490.000 had multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB). Less than 50% of these patients survive after receiving currentl...

Multiple stakeholder need to collaborate govern and manage various aspects of the national digital health infrastructure. Unlike other sectors where minimal coordination is needed from outside entities, very complex requires good communications transparency even among competing groups. It therefore important that governments take a leading role in gathering all stakeholders creating an environm...

Nepal has one of the world’s highest Helen Keller International (HKI) and its rates of chronic malnutrition among partners implemented a study in Baitadi women and young children. The govdistrict in the Far Western Region of Neernment has developed a comprehenpal to test the impact of a multisectoral sive, multisectoral National Nutrition food production model on a range of food Action Plan (NN...

Based on the data collected in Uganda, Nepal, and Ethiopia, the papers included in this supplement fill a critical gap in evidence regarding multisectoral National Nutrition Action Plans. The studies offer new data and new thinking on how and why governance, effective financial decentralization, and improved accountability all matter for nutrition actions in low-income countries. This introduct...

BACKGROUND For the prevention and control of chronic diseases, two strategies are frequently highlighted: that public health should be evidence based, and that it should develop a multisectoral approach. At the end of a natural experimental study of the health impacts of new transport infrastructure, we took the opportunity of a knowledge exchange forum to explore how stakeholders assessed, neg...

Multisectoral actions for health, defined as actions undertaken by non-health sectors to protect the health of the population, are essential in the context of inter-linkages between three dimensions of sustainable development: economic, social, and environmental. These multisectoral actions can address the social and economic factors that influence the health of a population at the local, natio...

Multisectoral governance has been recognized to be vital regulate harmful commodity industries, yet countries struggle with reaching policy coherence due government agencies' conflicting mandates and industry interference. Limited empirical evidence is available on how interests, ideas, institutions intersect influence multisectoral in low- middle-income countries, particularly Pacific small is...