Health Information System (HIS) studies in developing countries have a strong focus on upward information flow; from the lower to the higher levels. This paper contributes to HIS in developing countries debates by showing the importance of horizontal flow of information both at facility and community levels in defaulter tracing information system in maternal and child healthcare in developing c...

factors influencing cross-national diffusion of mental health policy are important to understand but complex to research. this commentary discusses shen’s research study on cross-national diffusion of mental health policy; examines the extent to which the three questions researched by shen (whether countries are more likely to have a mental health policy (a) the earlier a country becomes a memb...

there are two dominant approaches to describe and understand the anatomy of complete health and well-being systems internationally. yet, neither approach has been able to either predict or explain occasional but dramatic crises in health and well-being systems around the world and in developed emerging market or developing country contexts. as the impacts of such events can be measured not simp...