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 |
Review Articles
| Social capital and sexual behavior among Ugandan university students | PDF HTML XML |
| Anette Agardh, Maria Emmelin, Robert Muriisa, Per-Olof Östergren |
Original Articles
| Pregnant women’s responses to a tailored smoking cessation intervention: turning hopelessness into competence | PDF HTML XML |
| Zaino Petersen, Krisela Steyn, Katherine Everett-Murphy, Maria Emmelin |
| Determinants of survival in adult HIV patients on antiretroviral therapy in Oromiyaa, Ethiopia | PDF HTML XML |
| Andinet Worku Alemu, Miguel San Sebastián |
| Assessing a population’s exposure to heat and humidity: an empirical approach | PDF HTML XML |
| Peter Byass, Wayne Twine, Mark Collinson, Stephen Tollman, Tord Kjellstrom |
| 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
| Building capacity for public and population health research in Africa: the consortium for advanced research training in Africa (CARTA) model | PDF HTML XML |
| Alex C. Ezeh, Chimaraoke O. Izugbara, Caroline W. Kabiru, Sharon Fonn, Kathleen Kahn, Leonore Manderson, Ashiwel S. Undieh, Akinyinka Omigbodun, Margaret Thorogood |
| The Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) in Nouna, Burkina Faso, 1993-2007 | PDF HTML XML |
| Ali Sié, Valerie R. Louis, Adjima Gbangou, Olaf Müller, Louis Niamba, Gabriele Stieglbauer, Maurice Yé, Bocar Kouyaté, Rainer Sauerborn, Heiko Becher |
| Monitoring the millennium development goals: the potential role of the INDEPTH Network | PDF HTML XML |
| Martin Bangha, Alioune Diagne, Ayaga Bawah, Osman Sankoh |
| 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 obesity epidemic slows among the middle-aged population in Sweden while the socioeconomic gap widens | PDF HTML XML |
| Margareta Norberg, Kristina Lindvall, Hans Stenlund, Bernt Lindahl |
| Increasing glucose concentrations and prevalence of diabetes mellitus in northern Sweden, 1990-2007 | PDF HTML XML |
| Bernt Lindahl, Hans Stenlund, Margareta Norberg |
| The Västerbotten Intervention Programme: background, design and implications | PDF HTML XML |
| Margareta Norberg, Stig Wall, Kurt Boman, Lars Weinehall |
Climate change impacts on working people
| Invited Editorial: Climate change impacts on working people: how to develop prevention policies | PDF HTML XML |
| Maria Nilsson, Tord Kjellstrom |
| Perceptions of, and reactions to, environmental heat: a brief note on issues of concern in relation to occupational health | PDF HTML XML |
| Delia Rizpah Hollowell |
| The gender perspective in climate change and global health | PDF HTML XML |
| Raman Preet, Maria Nilsson, Barbara Schumann, Birgitta Evengård |
| Non-heat related impacts of climate change on working populations | PDF HTML XML |
| Charmian M. Bennett, Anthony J. McMichael |
| Climate change and occupational heat stress: methods for assessment | PDF HTML XML |
| Ingvar Holmér |
| Comparisons of urban and rural heat stress conditions in a hothumid tropical city | PDF HTML XML |
| Ahmed A. Balogun, Ifeoluwa A. Balogun, Zachariah D. Adeyewa |
| Case studies on heat stress related perceptions in different industrial sectors in southern India | PDF HTML XML |
| Kalpana Balakrishnan, Ayyappan Ramalingam, Venkatesan Dasu, Jeremiah Chinnadurai Stephen, Mohan Raj Sivaperumal, Deepan Kumarasamy, Krishnendu Mukhopadhyay, Santu Ghosh, Sankar Sambandam |
| Heat exposure in sugarcane workers in Costa Rica during the non-harvest season | PDF HTML XML |
| Jennifer Crowe, José Manuel Moya-Bonilla, Bryan Román-Solano, Andrés Robles-Ramírez |
| Health impact of climate change on occupational health and productivity in Thailand | PDF HTML XML |
| Uma Langkulsen, Nuntavarn Vichit-Vadakan, Sasitorn Taptagaporn |
| Climate change impacts on working people (the HOTHAPS initiative): findings of the South African pilot study | PDF HTML XML |
| Angela Mathee, Joy Oba, Andre Rose |
| Heat impact on schoolchildren in Cameroon, Africa: potential health threat from climate change | PDF HTML XML |
| Léonie N. Dapi, Joacim Rocklöv, Georges Nguefack-Tsague, Ekoe Tetanye, Tord Kjellstrom |
| Regional maps of occupational heat exposure: past, present, and potential future | PDF HTML XML |
| Olivia M. Hyatt, Bruno Lemke, Tord Kjellstrom |
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 |
Supplement 2, 2010
| Growing older in Africa and Asia: Multicentre study on ageing, health and well-being. An INDEPTH WHO-SAGE collaboration | PDF (1MB) |
| Complete Supplement, incl Table of Contents |
| Foreword: INDEPTH WHO-SAGE study | PDF HTML XML |
| Osman Sankoh |
| Foreword: The INDEPTH WHO-SAGE collaboration - coming of age | PDF HTML XML |
| Ties Boerma |
| Guest Editorial: The INDEPTH WHO-SAGE multicentre study on ageing, health and well-being among people aged 50 years and over in eight countries in Africa and Asia | PDF HTML XML |
| Richard Suzman |
| Participating sites | PDF HTML XML |
| List of Staff |
| Ageing and adult health status in eight lower-income countries: the INDEPTH WHO-SAGE collaboration | PDF HTML XML |
| Paul Kowal, Kathleen Kahn, Nawi Ng, Nirmala Naidoo, Salim Adbullah, Ayaga Bawah, Fred Binka, Nguyen T.K. Chuc, Cornelius Debpuur, Alex Ezeh, F. Xavier Gómez-Olive, Mohammad Hakimi, Siddhivinayak Hirve, Abraham Hodgson, Sanjay Juvekar, Catherine Kyobutungi, Jane Menken, Hoang Van Minh, Mathew A. Mwanyangala, Abdur Razzaque, Osman Sankoh, P. Kim Streatfield, Stig Wall, Siswanto Wilopo, Peter Byass, Somnath Chatterji, Stephen M. Tollman |
| Assessing health and well-being among older people in rural South Africa | PDF HTML XML |
| F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Margaret Thorogood, Benjamin D. Clark, Kathleen Kahn, Stephen M. Tollman |
| Health status and quality of life among older adults in rural Tanzania | PDF HTML XML |
| Mathew Alexander Mwanyangala, Charles Mayombana, Honorathy Urassa, Jensen Charles, Chrizostom Mahutanga, Salim Abdullah, Rose Nathan |
| The health and well-being of older people in Nairobi’s slums | PDF HTML XML |
| Catherine Kyobutungi, Thaddeus Egondi, Alex Ezeh |
| Self-reported health and functional limitations among older people in the Kassena-Nankana District, Ghana | PDF HTML XML |
| Cornelius Yayele Debpuur, Paul Welaga, George Wak, Abraham Hodgson |
| Patterns of health status and quality of life among older people in rural Viet Nam | PDF HTML XML |
| Hoang Van Minh, Peter Byass, Nguyen Thi Kim Chuc, Stig Wall |
| Socio-demographic differentials of adult health indicators in Matlab, Bangladesh: self-rated health, health state, quality of life and disability level | PDF HTML XML |
| Abdur Razzaque, Lutfun Nahar, Masuma Akter Khanam, Peter Kim Streatfield |
| Health and quality of life among older rural people in Purworejo District, Indonesia | PDF HTML XML |
| Nawi Ng, Mohammad Hakimi, Peter Byass, Siswanto Wilopo, Stig Wall |
| Social gradients in self-reported health and well-being among adults aged 50 and over in Pune District, India | PDF HTML XML |
| Siddhivinayak Hirve, Sanjay Juvekar, Pallavi Lele, Dhiraj Agarwal |
| Health inequalities among older men and women in Africa and Asia: evidence from eight Health and Demographic Surveillance System sites in the INDEPTH WHO-SAGE study | PDF HTML XML |
| Nawi Ng, Paul Kowal, Kathleen Kahn, Nimala Naidoo, Salim Abdullah, Ayaga Bawah, Fred Binka, Nguyen T.K. Chuc, Cornelius Debpuur, Thaddeus Egondi, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Mohammad Hakimi, Siddhivinayak Hirve, Abraham Hodgson, Sanjay Juvekar, Catherine Kyobutangi, Hoang Van Minh, Mathew A. Mwanyangala, Rose Nathan, Abdur Razzaque, Osman Sankoh, P. Kim Streatfield, Margaret Thorogood, Stig Wall, Siswanto Wilopo, Peter Byass, Stephen M. Tollman, Somnath Chatterji |
Global Health Action eISSN 1654-9880
Supplements to Global Health Action eISSN 1654-9880, ISSN 1654-9716
This journal is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. Responsible editor: Stig Wall.