Introduction The underlying causes of supply-side and demand-side challenges in immunisation are poorly understood, leading to symptomatic solutions. This study engaged stakeholders to develop ...

Background Congenital anomalies are among the common health problems faced by children in low- and middle-income countries, ...

Africa renewed its efforts to document maternal and perinatal deaths in 2014 following the release of the WHO’s maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response (MPDSR) guidelines. Successful ...

Effective coverage measurement has emerged as a tool to help understand health system performance for the provision of ...

Priority Setting Partnership aimed to identify and prioritise unanswered questions important to adult patients, their families and health professionals with lived experience of critical care across ...

Introduction Motivated health workers are pivotal in providing adequate health services. This study aims to understand what motivates and demotivates maternal health workers. We do so in Somalia, an ...

Background As the threat of child malnutrition increases, the focus remains mostly on short-term consequences. Long-term ...

Population prevalence helps leaders to develop appropriate health strategies and approaches. Yet it can be challenging to ...

Introduction Pesticide self-poisoning accounts for 14%–20% of global suicides. South Korea banned paraquat and eight ...

Introduction The American Academy of Pediatrics and an editorial in The Lancet encouraged further comprehensive research on digital media’s impact on adolescent health. Given the lack of previous ...

Introduction Child stunting, a measure of malnutrition, is a major global health challenge affecting 148.1 million children in 2022. Global stunting rates have declined from 47.2% in 1985 to 22.3% in ...

The Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) programme was paused at the start of 2025 following deep cuts to the United States’ Agency for International Development (USAID). Since the middle of the 1980s, ...