Table of Contents
Editorials
| Our infancy period | PDF HTML XML |
| Stig Wall, Anne Bindslev |
Guest Editorials
| Climate change, direct heat exposure, health and well-being in low and middle income countries | PDF HTML XML |
| Tord Kjellstrom |
Original Articles
| Knowledge, attitudes and practice about malaria in rural Tigray, Ethiopia | PDF HTML XML |
| Johan Paulander, Henrik Olsson, Hailemariam Lemma, Asefaw Getachew, Miguel San Sebastian |
| The implications of policy changes on the uptake of a PMTCT programme in rural Malawi: first three years of experience | PDF HTML XML |
| Fyson Kasenga, Peter Byass, Maria Emmelin, Anna-Karin Hurtig |
| A practical approach to identifying maternal deaths missed from routine hospital reports: lessons from Indonesia | PDF HTML XML |
| Siti Nurul Qomariyah, Jacqueline S. Bell, Eko S. Pambudi, Trisari Anggondowati, Kamaluddin Latief, Endang L. Achadi, Wendy J. Graham |
| Financial incentives to influence maternal mortality in a low-income setting: making available ‘money to transport’ - experiences from Amarpatan, India | PDF HTML XML |
| Ayesha De Costa, Rajkumar Patil, Sugriv Singh Kushwah, Vinod Kumar Diwan |
| Survey of ENT services in Africa: need for a comprehensive intervention | PDF HTML XML |
| Johan J. Fagan, Marian Jacobs |
| Decreasing childhood mortality and increasing proportion of malaria deaths in rural Burkina Faso | PDF HTML XML |
| Heribert Ramroth, Robert P. Ndugwa, Olaf Müller, Yazoume Yé, Ali Sié, Bocar Kouyaté, Heiko Becher |
| Associations between urbanisation and components of the health-risk transition in Thailand. A descriptive study of 87,000 Thai adults | PDF HTML XML |
| Lynette L-Y. Lim, Tord Kjellstrom, Adrian Sleigh, Suwanee Khamman, Sam-Ang Seubsman, Jane Dixon, Cathy Banwell |
| Towards reduction of maternal and perinatal mortality in rural Burkina Faso: communities are not empty vessels | PDF HTML XML |
| Sennen H. Hounton, Peter Byass, Bassane Brahima |
| Ethnomedicine in healthcare systems of the world: a Semester at Sea pilot survey in 11 countries | PDF HTML XML |
| Nancy E. Muleady-Mecham, Stephanie Schley |
| Epidemiologic transition in rural Bangladesh, 1986-2006 | PDF HTML XML |
| Zunaid Ahsan Karar, Nurul Alam, Peter Kim Streatfield |
| Willingness to volunteer in a Phase I/II HIV vaccine trial: a study among police officers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | PDF HTML XML |
| Edith A.M. Tarimo, Anna Thorson, Muhammad Bakari, Joachim Mwami, Eric Sandström, Asli Kulane |
| Epidemiology without borders: an anational view of global health | PDF Hres PDF Lres HTML XML |
| Peter Byass |
| Floods and health in Gambella region, Ethiopia: a qualitative assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of coping mechanisms | PDF HTML XML |
| Samson Wakuma Abaya, Nicodemus Mandere Mandere, Göran Ewald |
| Climate change could threaten blood supply by altering the distribution of vector-borne disease: an Australian case-study | PDF HTML XML |
| Hilary J. Bambrick, Rosalie E. Woodruff, Ivan C. Hanigan |
| Economic aspects of chronic diseases in Vietnam | PDF HTML XML |
| Hoang Van Minh, Dao Lan Huong, Kim Bao Giang, Peter Byass |
Short Communications
| Providing free maternal health care: ten lessons from an evaluation of the national delivery exemption policy in Ghana | PDF HTML XML |
| Sophie Witter, Sam Adjei, Margaret Armar-Klemesu, Wendy Graham |
| Low cost liquid medium for in vitro cultivation of Leishmania parasites in low-income countries | PDF HTML XML |
| Geremew Tasew, Amha Kebede, Dawit Wolday, Endalamaw Gadisa, Sven Britton, Liv Eidsmo, Hannah Akuffo |
Commentary
| The United States and global health: inseparable and synergistic? The Institute of Medicine's report on global health | PDF HTML XML |
| Mohammed Ali, K.M. Venkat Narayan |
Current Debates
| The role of ethics and ideology in our contribution to global health | PDF HTML XML |
| Claudio Schuftan |
PhD Reviews
| Dying to count: mortality surveillance in resource-poor settings | PDF HTML XML |
| Edward Fottrell |
| Invited Commentary to the paper 'Dying to count: mortality surveillance in resource-poor countries' by Edward Fottrell | PDF HTML XML |
| Heiko Becher |
Climate change and global health: linking science with policy
| Climate change and global health: linking science with policy | PDF (3MB) |
| Complete Cluster, Table of Contents |
| Foreword | PDF HTML XML |
| Maria Neira |
| Invited Editorial: Health as a crucial driver for climate policy | PDF HTML XML |
| Rainer Sauerborn, Tord Kjellstrom, Maria Nilsson |
Heat, work and health: implications of climate change
| The thermal environment of the human being on the global scale | PDF HTML XML |
| Gerd Jendritzky, Birger Tinz |
| Issues in health risk assessment of current and future heat extremes | PDF HTML XML |
| Yasushi Honda, Masaji Ono |
| Comparing approaches for studying the effects of climate extremes - a case study of hospital admissions in Sweden during an extremely warm summer | PDF HTML XML |
| Joacim Rocklöv, Bertil Forsberg |
| Maintaining health, comfort and productivity in heat waves | PDF HTML XML |
| Ken Parsons |
| Workplace heat stress, health and productivity – an increasing challenge for low and middle-income countries during climate change | PDF HTML XML |
| Tord Kjellstrom, Ingvar Holmer, Bruno Lemke |
| Effects of heat on workers’ health and productivity in Taiwan | PDF HTML XML |
| Ro-Ting Lin, Chang-Chuan Chan |
| Work-related heat stress concerns in automotive industries: a case study from Chennai, India | PDF HTML XML |
| Ayyappan Ramalingam, Sankar Sambandam, Rajkumar Paramasivan, Balakrishnan Kalpana |
| Heat stress assessment among workers in a Nicaraguan sugarcane farm | PDF HTML XML |
| Orlando Delgado Cortez |
| A pilot field evaluation on heat stress in sugarcane workers in Costa Rica: What to do next? | PDF HTML XML |
| Jennifer Crowe, Berna van Wendel de Joode, Catharina Wesseling |
| The 'Hothaps' programme for assessing climate change impacts on occupational health and productivity: an invitation to carry out field studies | PDF HTML XML |
| Tord Kjellström, Sabine Gabrysch, Bruno Lemke, Keith Dear |
Climate change and infectious diseases
| Climate change, its impact on health in the Arctic and the public health response to threats of emerging infectious diseases | PDF HTML XML |
| Alan J. Parkinson, Birgitta Evengård |
| Effects of climate change on tularemia disease activity in Sweden | PDF HTML XML |
| Patrik Rydén, Anders Sjostedt, Anders Johansson |
| Milder winters in northern Scandinavia may contribute to larger outbreaks of haemorrhagic fever virus | PDF HTML XML |
| Magnus Evander, Clas Ahlm |
| Local scale prediction of Plasmodium falciparum malaria transmission in an endemic region using temperature and rainfall | PDF HTML XML |
| Ye Yazoume, Moshe Hoshen, Catherine Kyobutungi, Valérie R. Louis, Rainer Sauerborn |
| Meningococcal disease and climate | PDF HTML XML |
| Helena Palmgren |
| Climate variability and increase in incidence and magnitude of dengue incidence in Singapore | PDF HTML XML |
| Yien Ling Hii, Joacim Rocklöv, Nawi Ng, Choon Siang Tang, Fung Yin Pang, Rainer Sauerborn |
| Climate impacts on environmental risks evaluated from space: a conceptual approach to the case of Rift Valley Fever in Senegal | PDF HTML XML |
| Yves M. Tourre, Jean-Pierre Lacaux, Cécile Vignolles, Murielle Lafaye |
| Vulnerability to episodes of extreme weather: Butajira, Ethiopia, 1998 - 1999 | PDF HTML XML |
| Anders Emmelin, Mesganaw Fantahun, Yemane Berhane, Stig Wall, Peter Byass |
| Using high spatial resolution remote sensing for risk mapping of malaria occurrence in the Nouna district Burkina Faso | PDF HTML XML |
| Peter Dambach, Ali Sié, Jean-Pierre Lacaux, Cécile Vignolles, Vanessa MAchault, Rainer Sauerborn |
| Cooking fuels and the push for cleaner alternatives: a case study from Burkina Faso | PDF HTML XML |
| Shelby Yamamoto, Ali Sié, Rainer Sauerborn |
| Climate change influences infectious diseases both in the Arctic and the tropics: joining the dots | PDF HTML XML |
| Birgitta Evengård, Rainer Sauerborn |
| Climate change and population health in Africa: where are the scientists? | PDF HTML XML |
| Peter Byass |
Supplement 1, 2009
| Risk factors for chronic non-communicable disease: the burden in Asian INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance Sites | PDF (3mb) |
| Complete Supplement, incl Table of Contents |
| Foreword | PDF HTML XML |
| Osman Sankoh, INDEPTH Network |
| Foreword | PDF HTML XML |
| Ala Alwan, World Health Organization |
| Guest Editorial: Strengthening NCD prevention through risk factor surveillance | PDF HTML XML |
| Ruth Bonita |
| Using the INDEPTH HDSS to build capacity for chronic non-communicable disease risk factor surveillance in low and middle income countries | PDF HTML XML |
| Nawi Ng, Hoang Van Minh, Sanjay Juvekar, Abdur Razzaque, Tran Huu Bich, Uraiwan Kanungsukkasem, Ali Ashraf, Syed Masud Ahmed, Kusol Soonthornthada |
| Self-reported use of tobacco products in nine rural INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems in Asia | PDF HTML XML |
| Ali Ashraf, M. A. Quaiyum, Nawi NG, Hoang Van Minh, Abdur Razzaque, Syed Masud Ahmed, Abdullahel Hadi, Sanjay Juvekar, Uraiwan Kanungsukkasem, Kusol Soonthornthada, Tran Huu Bich |
| Patterns of alcohol consumption in diverse rural adults populations in the Asian region | PDF HTML XML |
| Tran Huu Bich, Pham Thi Quyng Nga, La Ngoc Quang, Hoang Van Minh, Nawi Ng, Sanjay Juvekar, Abdur Razzaque, Ali Ashraf, Syed Masud Ahmed, Kusol Soonthornthada, Uraiwan Kanungsukkasem |
| Fruit and vegetable consumption in rural adults population in INDEPTH HDSS sites in Asia | PDF HTML XML |
| Uraiwan Kanungsukkasem, Nawi Ng, Hoang Van Minh, Abdur Razzaque, Ali Ashraf, Sanjay Juvekar, Syed Masud Ahmed, Tran Huu Bich |
| Prevalence of physical inactivity in nine rural INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems in five Asian countries | PDF HTML XML |
| Nawi Ng, Mohammad Hakimi, Hoang Van Minh, Sanjay Juvekar, Abdur Razzaque, Ali Ashraf, Syed Masud Ahmed, Uraiwan Kanungsukkasem, Kusol Soonthornthada, Tran Huu Bich |
| Social factors and overweight: evidence from nine Asian INDEPTH Network sites | PDF HTML XML |
| Abdur Razzaque, Lutfun Nahar, Hoang Van Minh, Nawi Ng, Sanjay Juvekar, Ali Ashraf, Syed Masud Ahmed, Kusol Soonthornthada, Uraiwan Kanungsukkasem, Tran Huu Bich |
| Blood pressure in adult rural INDEPTH population in Asia | PDF HTML XML |
| Hoang Van Minh, Kusol Soonthornthada, Nawi Ng, Sanjay Juvekar, Abdur Razzaque, Ali Ashraf, Syed Masud Ahmed, Tran Huu Bich, Uraiwan Kanungsukkasem |
| Clustering of chronic non-communicable disease risk factors among selected Asian populations: levels and determinants | PDF HTML XML |
| Syed Masud Ahmed, Abdullahel Hadi, Abdur Razzaque, Ali Ashraf, Sanjay Juvekar, Nawi Ng, Uraiwan Kanungsukkasem, Kusol Soonthornthada, Hoang Van Minh, Tran Huu Bich |
| A Role for INDEPTH Asian sites in translating research to action for non-communicable disease prevention and control: a case study from Ballabgarh, India | PDF HTML XML |
| Anand Krishnan, Baridalyne Nongkynrih, Suresh Kumar Kapoor, Chandrakant Pandav |
Global Health Action ISSN 1654-9880 (online)
Supplements to Global Health Action ISSN 1654-9880 (online), 1654-9716 (print)
This journal is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. Responsible editor: Stig Wall.