Vol 3 (2010) incl Supplements

Table of Contents

Editorials

Supplements used to advantage PDF HTML XML
Stig Wall, Peter Byass, Anne Bindslev, Caroline Sutton

Invited Editorials

What is global health? PDF HTML XML
Robert Beaglehole, Ruth Bonita

Original Articles

The evolution of HIV policy in Vietnam: from punitive control measures to a more rights-based approach PDF HTML XML
Pham Nguyen Ha, Anastasia Pharris, Nguyen Thanh Huong, Nguyen Thi Kim Chuc, Ruairi Brugha, Anna Thorson
The construction of an idealised urban masculinity among men with concurrent sexual partners in a South African township PDF HTML XML
Anders Ragnarsson, Loraine Townsend, Anna Mia Ekström, Mickey Chopra, Anna Thorson
'Maintaining balance and harmony': Javanese perceptions of health and cardiovascular disease PDF HTML XML
Fatwa S.T. Dewi, Lars Weinehall, Ann Öhman
Violence against women in relation to literacy and area of residence in Ethiopia PDF HTML XML
Negussie Deyassa, Yemane Berhane, Mary Ellsberg, Maria Emmelin, Gunnar Kullgren, Ulf Högberg
First experiences in the implementation of biometric technology to link data from Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems with health facility data PDF HTML XML
Adwoa Serwaa-Bonsu, Abraham J. Herbst, Georges Reniers, Wilfred Ijaa, Benjamin Clark, Chodziwadziwa Kabudula, Osman Sankoh
Prevalence of mental distress and use of health services in a rural district in Vietnam PDF HTML XML
Kim Bao Giang, Truong Viet Dzung, Gunnar Kullgren, Peter Allebeck

Short Communications

Improving public health training and research capacity in Africa: a replicable model for linking training to health and socio-demographic surveillance data PDF HTML XML
Jill R. Williams, Enid J. Schatz, Benjamin D. Clark, Mark A. Collinson, Samuel J. Clark, Jane Menken, Kathleen Kahn, Stephen M. Tollman
Three-dimensional modeling of a primary health care clinic in Ho, Ghana: its contribution to student engagement, fundraising, and program planning PDF HTML XML
Lalith Polepeddi, Elizabeth Barden

Current Debates

Defining features of the practice of global health research: an examination of 14 global health research teams PDF HTML XML
Craig Stephen, Ibrahim Daibes

Study Design Articles

Mobilising a disadvantaged community for a cardiovascular intervention: designing PRORIVA in Yogyakarta, Indonesia PDF HTML XML
Fatwa S.T. Dewi, Hans Stenlund, Ann Öhman, Mohammad Hakimi, Lars Weinehall

PhD Reviews

Making it happen: prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV in rural Malawi PDF HTML XML
Fyson Kasenga
Invited Commentary: Making it happen, level 2 PDF HTML XML
Thorkild Tylleskär
Adolescent pregnancies in the Amazon Basin of Ecuador: a rights and gender approach to adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health PDF HTML XML
Isabel Goicolea
Invited Commentary: Adolescent pregnancies: young people at risk PDF HTML XML
Johanne Sundby
Striving against adversity: the dynamics of migration, health and poverty in rural South Africa PDF HTML XML
Mark A. Collinson
Invited Commentary to the paper ‘Striving against adversity: the dynamics of migration, health and poverty in rural South Africa’ by Mark A. Collinson PDF HTML XML
Peter Kim Streatfield

Climate-Heat

The association between overall health, psychological distress, and occupational heat stress among a large national cohort of 40,913 Thai workers PDF HTML XML
Benjawan Tawatsupa, Lynette L-Y Lim, Tord Kjellstrom, Sam-ang Seubsman, Adrian Sleigh, Thai Cohort Study Team

The Västerbotten Intervention Programme

The Västerbotten Intervention Programme: background, design and implications PDF HTML XML
Margareta Norberg, Stig Wall, Kurt Boman, Lars Weinehall

Supplement 1, 2010

Analyses of mortality clustering at member HDSSs within the INDEPTH Network – an important public health issue PDF (3MB)
Complete Supplement, incl Table of Contents
Foreword: Clustering of mortality at INDEPTH member Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems PDF HTML XML
Osman Sankoh
Guest Editorial: Analyses of mortality clustering at member HDSSs within the INDEPTH Network - an important public health issue PDF HTML XML
Heiko Becher
Clustering of childhood mortality in the Kintampo Health and Demographic Surveillance System in Ghana PDF HTML XML
Ernest Nettey, Charles Zandoh, Abubakari Sulemana, Robert Adda, Seth Owusu-Agyei
Clustering of under-five mortality in the Navrongo HDSS in the Kassena- Nankana District of northern Ghana PDF HTML XML
Martin Adjuik, Ernest Kanyomse, Felix Kondayire, George Wak, Abraham Hodgson
Spatio-temporal clustering of mortality in Butajira HDSS, Ethiopia, from 1987 to 2008 PDF HTML XML
Peter Byass, Mesganaw Fantahun, Anders Emmelin, Mitike Molla, Yemane Berhane
Under-five mortality: spatial-temporal clusters in Ifakara HDSS in South-eastern Tanzania PDF HTML XML
Angelina Mageni Lutambi, Mathew Alexander, Jensen Charles, Chrisostom Mahutanga, Rose Nathan
Clustering of under-five mortality in Rufiji Health and Demographic Surveillance System in rural Tanzania PDF HTML XML
Josephine Michael Shabani, Angelina M. Lutambi, Victoria Mwakalinga, Honorati Masanja
Space and time clustering of mortality in rural South Africa (Agincourt HDSS), 1992-2007 PDF HTML XML
Benn Sartorius, Kathleen Kahn, Penelope Vounatsou, Mark A. Collinson, Stephen M. Tollman
Spatial and temporal clustering of mortality in Digkale HDSS in rural northern South Africa PDF HTML XML
Chifundo Kanjala, Marianne Alberts, Peter Byass, Sandra Burger
Spatio-temporal patterns of under-five mortality in Matlab HDSS in rural Bangladesh PDF HTML XML
Nurul Alam, M. Zahirul Haq, Peter Kim Streatfield
High concentration of childhood deaths in the low-lying areas of Chakaria HDSS, Bangladesh: findings from a spatial analysis PDF HTML XML
Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi, Muhammad Zahirul Haq, Rumesa Rowen Aziz, Abbas Bhuiya



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.