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Review Articles
| Air pollution from household solid fuel combustion in India: an overview of exposure and health related information to inform health research priorities | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Kalpana Balakrishnan, Padmavathi Ramaswamy, Sankar Sambandam, Gurusamy Thangavel, Santu Ghosh, Priscilla Johnson, Krishnendu Mukhopadhyay, Vidhya Venugopal, Vijayalakshmi Thanasekaraan |
| An outbreak of suspected cutaneous leishmaniasis in Ghana: lessons learnt and preparation for future outbreaks | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Margaret A. Kweku, Shirley Odoom, Naiki Puplampu, Kwame Desewu, Godwin Kwakye Nuako, Ben Gyan, Greg Raczniak, Karl C. Kronmann, Kwadwo Koram, Silvia Botero, Daniel Boakye, Hannah Akuffo |
Original Articles
| The pathway of obstructed labour as perceived by communities in south-western Uganda: a grounded theory study | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Jerome K. Kabakyenga, Per-Olof Östergren, Maria Emmelin, Phionah Kyomuhendo, Karen Odberg Pettersson |
| Reproductive rights approach to reproductive health in developing countries | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Vijayan Kumara Pillai, Rashmi Gupta |
| Experience with low-cost telemedicine in three different settings. Recommendations based on a proposed framework for network performance evaluation | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Richard Wootton, Anton Vladzymyrskyy, Maria Zolfo, Laurent Bonnardot |
| Prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in rural women of Tamilnadu: implications for refining disease burden assessments attributable to household biomass combustion | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Priscilla Johnson, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Padmavathi Ramaswamy, Santu Ghosh, Muthukumar Sadhasivam, Omprakash Abirami, Bernard W.C. Sathiasekaran, Kirk R. Smith, Vijayalakshmi Thanasekaraan, Arcot S. Subhashini |
| Gender roles and their influence on life prospects for women in urban Karachi, Pakistan: a qualitative study | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Tazeen S. Ali, Gunilla Krantz, Raisa Gul, Nargis Asad, Eva Johansson, Ingrid Mogren |
| Screening of women for intimate partner violence: a pilot intervention at an outpatient department in Tanzania | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Rose Mjawa Laisser, Lennart Nyström, Gunilla Lindmark, Helena I. Lugina, Maria Emmelin |
| ‘If no one else stands up, you have to’: a story of community participation and water in rural Guatemala | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Ana Lorena Ruano, Kjerstin Dahlblom, Anna-Karin Hurtig, Miguel San Sebastían |
| Oral misoprostol for preventing postpartum haemorrhage in home births in rural Bangladesh: how effective is it? | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Hashima-E Nasreen, Shamsun Nahar, Mahfuz Al Mamun, Kaosar Afsana, Peter Byass |
| Building capacity for HIV/AIDS program leadership and management in Uganda through mentored Fellowships | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Joseph K.B. Matovu, Rhoda K. Wanyenze, Susan Mawemuko, Gakenia Wamuyu-Maina, William Bazeyo, Olico- Okui, David Serwadda |
| Marriage decision making, spousal communication, and reproductive health among married youth in Pakistan | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Saima Hamid, Rob Stephenson, Birgitta Rubenson |
Short Communications
| Misalignment between perceptions and actual global burden of disease: evidence from the US population | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Karen R. Siegel, Andrea B. Feigl, Sandeep P. Kishore, David Stuckler |
| Linnaeus: Alive and well | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Ruth Bonita, Anders Brändström, Gunnar Malmberg |
Current Debates
| Erosion of trust in humanitarian agencies: what strategies might help? | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Saroj Jayasinghe |
Study Design Articles
| Community Health Environment Scan Survey (CHESS): a novel tool that captures the impact of the built environment on lifestyle factors | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Fiona Wong, Denise Stevens, Kathleen O'Connor-Duffany, Karen Siegel, Yue Gao |
Capacity Building
| Sustainability of donor programs: evaluating and informing the transition of a large HIV prevention program in India to local ownership | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Sara Bennett, Suneeta Singh, Sachiko Ozawa, Nhan Tran, JS Kang |
PhD Reviews
| Strengthening fairness, transparency and accountability in health care priority setting at district level in Tanzania | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Stephen Oswald Maluka |
| Invited Commentary: Legitimacy and fairness in priority setting in Tanzania | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Norman Daniels |
| Profiles and outcome of traditional healing practices for severe mental illnesses in two districts of Eastern Uganda | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Catherine Abbo |
| Invited Commentary: Traditional healers for mental health care in Africa | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Vikram Patel |
| Challenging urban health: towards an improved local government response to migration, informal settlements, and HIV in Johannesburg, South Africa | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Joanna Vearey |
| Invited Commentary: Reframing urban health, reconnecting public health and contextualizing HIV. Lessons from South Africa | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Françoise Barten |
| Neonatal mortality: an invisible and marginalised trauma | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Mats Målqvist |
| Invited Commentary: Seeing the unseen: targeting neonatal mortality in rural Vietnam | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Zulfiqar A. Bhutta |
| Social capital and health - implications for health promotion | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Malin Eriksson |
| Invited Commentary: Embracing complexity: towards more nuanced understandings of social capital and health | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Catherine Campbell |
The Västerbotten Intervention Programme
| What about healthy participants? The improvement and deterioration of self-reported health at a 10-year follow-up of the Västerbotten Intervention Programme | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Yulia Blomstedt, Maria Emmelin, Lars Weinehall |
| Increasing physical activity, but persisting social gaps among middleaged people: trends in Northern Sweden from 1990 to 2007 | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Nawi Ng, Kerstin Söderman, Margareta Norberg, Ann Öhman |
| Changing patterns of tobacco use in a middle-aged population - the role of snus, gender, age, and education | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Margareta Norberg, Gunnar Lundqvist, Maria Nilsson, Hans Gilljam, Lars Weinehall |
Health and health systems impact of natural disasters
| Impacts of flood on health: epidemiologic evidence from Hanoi, Vietnam | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Tran Huu Bich, La Ngoc Quang, Le Thi Thanh Ha, Tran Thi Duc, Debarati Guha-Sapir |
| Disability and health-related rehabilitation in international disaster relief | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Jan D. Reinhardt, Jianan Li, James Gosney, Farooq A. Rathore, Andrew J. Haig, Michael Marx, Joel A. DeLisa, and On behalf of the Int Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine’s Sub-Committee on Rehabilitation Disaster Relief |
| Injury epidemiology after the 2001 Gujarat earthquake in India: a retrospective analysis of injuries treated at a rural hospital in the Kutch district immediately after the disaster | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Revati Phalkey, Jan D. Reinhardt, Michael Marx |
| Recurrent floods and prevalence of diarrhea among under five children: observations from Bahraich district, Uttar Pradesh, India | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Pooran C. Joshi, Sonia Kaushal, Bijaya S. Aribam, Prashant Khattri, Olivia D'Aoust, Mongjam M. Singh, Michael Marx, Debarati Guha-Sapir |
| Social capital and post-disaster mental health | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Tim R. Wind, Maureen Fordham, Ivan H. Komproe |
Vulnerable populations in the Arctic
| Vulnerable populations in the Arctic | PDF (2MB) |
| Complete cluster, incl. Table of Contents |
| Foreword: Vulnerable populations in the Arctic | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Gustaf Lind |
| Invited Editorial: Vulnerable populations in the Arctic | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Birgitta Evengard, Anthony McMichael |
| Climate change and health effects in Northwest Alaska | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Michael Brubaker, James Berner, Raj Chavan, John Warren |
| Facing the limit of resilience: perceptions of climate change among reindeer herding Sami in Sweden | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Maria Furberg, Birgitta Evengård, Maria Nilsson |
| What is known about the health and living conditions of the indigenous people of northern Scandinavia, the Sami? | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Per Sjölander |
| Infant mortality of Sami and settlers in Northern Sweden: the era of colonization 1750-1900 | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Peter Sköld, Per Axelsson, Lena Karlsson, Len Smith |
| Prevalence of self-reported suicidal thoughts in SLiCA. The survey of living conditions in the Arctic (SLiCA) | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Ann Ragnhild Broderstad, Bent-Martin Elisassen, Marita Melhus |
| Climate change and environmental impacts on maternal and newborn health with focus on Arctic populations | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Charlotta Rylander, Jon Ø Odland, Torkjel M. Sandanger |
| Climate change effects on human health in a gender perspective: some trends in Arctic research | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Natalia Kukarenko |
| Climate change and water security with a focus on the Arctic | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Birgitta Evengard, Jim Berner, Michael Brubaker, Gert Mulvad, Boris Revich |
| Climate change and consequences in the Arctic: perception of climate change by the Nenets people of Vaigach Island | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Alexander N. Davydov, Galina V. Mikhaylova |
| Thawing of permafrost may disturb historic cattle burial grounds in East Siberia | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Boris A. Revich, Marina A. Podolnaya |
| The impact of climate change on the expansion of Ixodes persulcatus habitat and the incidence of tickborne encephalitis in the north of European Russia | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Nikolay Tokarevich, Andrey A. Tronin, Olga V. Blinova, Roman V. Buzinov, Vitaliy P. Boltenkov, Elena D. Yurasova, Jo Nurse |
| Indications of decreasing human PTS concentrations in North West Russia | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Charlotta Rylander, Torkjel M. Sandanger, Natalya Petrenya, Alexei Konoplev, Evgeny Bojko, Jon Øyvind Odland |
| Frostbites in circumpolar areas | PDF HTML EPUB XML |
| Tiina Maria Ikäheimo, Juhani Hassi |
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