We write in response to the editorial by Smith et al1 on ‘violence in Palestine’ and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza that has ensued. This one-sided editorial deserves a response that takes a broader ...

What are the new findings? This new approach to analyse AMR policy documents can be used to quantify and identify the current policy gaps which include lack of policies in the environment, plant and ...

Objective To provide insights into the nature, risk factors, impact and existing measures for reporting and preventing violence in the healthcare system. The under-reporting of violence against ...

There is growing interest in the potential for complex systems perspectives in evaluation. This reflects a move away from interest in linear chains of cause-and-effect, towards considering health as ...

Summary box Using data for evidence-based planning and decision-making in humanitarian crises is necessary for the success of interventions. Data sharing between humanitarian agencies increases the ...

This paper reports self-reported levels and socioeconomic patterns in the distribution of tuberculosis (TB) cases in India, based on information collected under the National Family Health Survey-Round ...

‘ We know what we have to do, but we don't know how to do it’ has been a recurring comment among global health actors for a long time. In 2010, for example, the United Nations affirmed that ‘we know ...

Background Chronic exposure to aflatoxins is associated with liver cancer, impaired child growth, and compromised immune function. The Childhood Acute Illness and Nutrition (CHAIN) Network cohort was ...

The recently published 2024 WHO Guidance for human genome data collection, access, use and sharing1 introduces a granularity maximisation principle, requiring informed consent to be ‘as granular as ...

Summary box The rising prevalence of obesity coupled with globalisation of healthcare has resulted in an increasing number of people travelling to access bariatric and metabolic surgery. Bariatric and ...

Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic is this century’s largest public health emergency and its successful management relies on the effective dissemination of factual information. As a social media ...

High-burden cholera outbreaks, spreading beyond the traditional cholera-endemic countries, have been reported since 2021 in the WHO African region. Member states in the region have committed to the ...