Sexual and reproductive health self-care in humanitarian and fragile settings: where should we start?

Universal Health Coverage in Fragile and Humanitarian Contexts

Cultural competence and health care in Massachusetts: where are we? Where should we be?

President of CEO Services, providing clinical, educational , and organizational services with an emphasis on culturally competent, integrated systems of care. She is a practicing psychologist in Quincy, MA, with 30 years of clinical, consulting, and management experi

Where Do We Start? Building Consensus on Drivers of Health Sector Corruption in Nigeria and Ways to Address It

Background Corruption is widespread in Nigeria’s health sector but the reasons why it exists and persists are poorly understood and it is often seen as intractable. We describe a consensus building exercise in which we asked health workers and policy-makers to identify and prioritise feasible responses to corruption in the Nigerian ...

Self-management in heart failure: where have we been and where should we go?

Chronic conditions such as heart failure (HF) place a tremendous strain on patients, their families, the community, and the health care system because there are no real "cures". Adding to the burden are longer life expectancies and increased numbers of people living with multiple chronic conditions. Today, whether engaging in a health-promoting activity, such as exercise, or living with a chron...

Parasitic manipulation: where are we and where should we go?

Review Parasitic manipulation: where are we and where should we go? Frédéric Thomasa,∗, Shelley Adamob, Janice Moorec a Centre d’Etude sur le Polymorphisme des Micro-Organismes, GEMI/UMR CNRS-IRD 2724, Equipe: “Evolution des Systèmes Symbiotiques”, IRD, 911 Avenue Agropolis, B.P. 5045, 34032 Montpellier Cedex 1, France b Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada c Departme...