SETTING Motor vehicle injuries are increasingly being recognized as a growing public health issue in the developing world. Pakistan is a developing country in South Asia where motor vehicle use has increased since independence in 1947. OBJECTIVE This paper explores the magnitude and impact of injuries from motor vehicle crashes in Pakistan. METHODS An exhaustive review of published and gray...

Purpose The current pandemic and ongoing climate risks highlight the limited capacity of various systems, including health social ones, to respond population-scale long-term threats. Practices reduce impacts on well-being populations must evolve from a reactive mode preventive, proactive concerted actions beginning at individual community levels. Experiences lessons learned will help better pre...

Primary HPV prevention may be the key to reducing incidence and burden of cervical cancer particularly in resource-poor countries. Vaccination programmes are already established in several developed regions, but several grey areas stand in the path of similar success in developing countries. This review sought to identify challenges of HPV vaccination in developing countries and discuss vaccine...

Written by a group of political science researchers, this commentary focuses on the contributions of political science to public health and proposes research avenues to increase those contributions. Despite progress, the links between researchers from these two fields develop only slowly. Divergences between the approach of political science to public policy and the expectations that public hea...

We analytically characterize the aggregate productivity loss from distortions in presence of sectoral production linkages and show key role input substitutability. analyze various forces behind non-monotonic effect substitutability on loss. then use second-order approximation to find that for moderate distortions, low reduces intermediate-input suppliers. Moreover, when elasticity substitution ...

This paper presents a novel policy framework to support government responses COVID-19 in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) low and middle-income countries. It focuses on issues that are of specific relevance Brazilian policy-settings, including examples its local implementation. The CIAT Framework combines summarizes broad elements for an emergency strategy address the potential effects COVID-1...

BACKGROUND For more than 30 years policy action across sectors has been celebrated as a necessary and viable way to affect the social factors impacting on health. In particular intersectoral action on the social determinants of health is considered necessary to address social inequalities in health. However, despite growing support for intersectoral policymaking, implementation remains a challe...