Compliance with human rights is an important element of health resilience, generating popular legitimacy and trust, legality legal certainty, favourable effects for the economy. Crucially, it will save lives when societies be confronted new pandemics.Comprehensive, structured evidence-based assessment national responses to pandemics their conformity possible. It requires a rigorous methodology....

Recent advances in research and practice on the prevention and treatment of youth mental health problems have emphasized the central role of the child's developing cognitions (Boxer & Dubow, 2002; Compton et ai., 2004; Guerra, Boxer, & Kim, 2005). Children actively participate in a variety of contexts (e.g., home, neighborhood, school) that provide the settings and experiences that shape their ...

In this comment, I build on Shiffman’s call for the global health community to more deeply investigate structural and productive power. I highlight two challenges we must grapple with as social scientists carrying out the types of investigation that Shiffman proposes: the politics of  challenging the powerful; and the need to investigate types of expertise that have traditionally been thought o...

Nepal moved from unitary system with a three-level federal system of government. As federalism accelerates, the national health system can also speed up its own decentralization process, reduce disparities in access, and improve health outcomes. The turn towards federalism creates several potential opportunities for the national healthcare system. This is because decision making has been devolv...