Global health funding calls can act as gatekeepers—favoring well-resourced institutions while creating heavy, often wasted proposal burdens. This Opinion calls for fairer, more transparent, & efficient commissioning to broaden participation & reduce inequities. 🌍📄
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NEW research: Global study links happiness & hypertension: countries with higher well-being tend to have lower hypertension rates. GDP, social support, and healthy life expectancy play key roles—highlighting the need for equity-focused public health strategies. 🌍💡
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New study validates a low-cost, reliable method to assess prosthetic foot wear—crucial for monitoring performance in resource-limited settings. Findings support scalable, community-based tracking to improve device design, maintenance, and patient outcomes.
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Authors choose us because understanding health means understanding people, behavior and context.
Tomoka Nakamura and colleagues show how Japan’s COVID‑19 contact patterns shifted with behaviour, policy, and social dynamics.
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Proposal development, compliance, and institutional overhead costs remain significant barriers for "localization" of global public health efforts.
The prevalence of hypertension around the world is high while hypertension control is relatively low. The objective of this study is to investigate the association between happiness and hypertension p...
Global health funding calls can act as gatekeepers—favoring well-resourced institutions while creating heavy, often wasted proposal burdens. This Opinion calls for fairer, more transparent, & efficient commissioning to broaden participation & reduce inequities. 🌍📄
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Authors choose us because public health challenges do not exist in isolation.
Research from Maurizio Porfiri and colleagues shows how mass shootings shape gun‑related discourse in the US Congress, connecting public health, politics, and computational analysis.
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Catch up on research that's making an impact across global mental health, global health security, infectious diseases and more.
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New research explores how minorities in Ontario experience healthcare through a Right to Development lens. Findings highlight social isolation & inequitable access—underscoring the need for inclusive policies, stronger support systems, & fair resource distribution.
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The Right to Development is the UN-recognised principle that frames development as a human right, emphasising equitable access to resources and opportunities. As enshrined in the UN Declaration on Hum...
Recognizing that code is as essential a research artifact as the data it analyzes, this Editorial outlines how PLOS Medicine is strengthening its code sharing policy to further ensure reproducibility and trust in the scientific record 🧪 #MedSky #OpenScience
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PLOS Global Public Health
Madhu Pai, MD, PhD
Recognizing that code is as essential a research artifact as the data it analyzes, this Editorial outlines how PLOS Medicine is strengthening its code sharing policy to further ensure reproducibility ...
