The recent drafting of the Sustainable Development Goals challenges the research community to rethink the traditional approach to global health and provides the opportunity for science, technology, engineering, and mathematical (STEM) disciplines, particularly engineering, to demonstrate their benefit to the field. Higher education offers a platform for engineering to intersect with global heal...

Heart failure (HF) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in high income countries. Shortage of population based HF studies from Low and Middle Income countries (LMIC) make global prevalence estimates difficult. In this editorial we discuss the possibility of generating HF data in LMICs by initiating HF surveillance systems integrated into the existing health surveillance system.

This study, carried out in five fishing communities along the Kenyan coast, examined fisheries-derived income of fishers and traders in two different invertebrate fisheries (octopus and sea cucumber) and tested if differences in global market integration of these two products could explain differences in income inequalities among actors involved in the two fisheries. The structure of the value ...

The distributional incidence of growth is generally analyzed by comparing the quantiles of the preand post-growth income distribution -e.g. the so-called Growth Incidence Curves. Such an approach based on an implicit re-ranking of individual incomes ignores income mobility by assuming that only post-growth income matters in social welfare. By contrast, this paper takes the view that "status quo...

Introduction: Timber and its products are key carriers of carbon stocks can cause a hysteresis effect release in the cycle forest ecosystems. The literature regarding cross-regional flow timber stock mainly pays attention to production- consumption-based perspectives, which cannot reflect how primary inputs drive flow. income-based perspective accounting identify influence input suppliers suppl...

This paper presents a simple model to show that, in addition to technological development and global outsourcing, heterogeneous lifetime preferences for leisure are essential to income inequality. Allocating leisure time to studying is viewed as suffering in exchange for future comfort, and income inequality in a country arises when some prefer the leisure trade-off but others prefer smooth lei...

Embodied in the very concept of Global Mental Health (an area that is emerging as both a field of study and a global movement), mental health is conceptualised as being ‘global’; mental disorders are constructed as having ‘a physical basis in the brain....they can affect everyone, everywhere’ and are understood to be ‘truly universal’ (WHO, 2001a:x, 22). The construction of ‘mental disorder’ as...

OBJECTIVE To explore what can be learnt about the current composition of the "global landscape" of health research and development (R&D) from data on the World Health Organization's International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP). METHODS A random 5% sample of the records of clinical trials that were registered as interventional and actively recruiting was taken from the ICTRP databas...

Crucial to the success of the proposed Framework Convention on Tobacco Control will be an understanding of the political and economic context for tobacco control policies, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries. Policy studies in Thailand and Zimbabwe employed the analytical perspective of political economy and a research strategy that used political mapping, a technique for cha...