The pandemic of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) poses substantial challenges
to the health financing sustainability in high-income and low/middle income countries …

Background The shift in the global burden of disease from communicable to
noncommunicable was a factor in mobilizing support for a broader post-Millennium …

Ischemic heart disease (IHD) is the greatest single cause of mortality and loss of disability-
adjusted life years worldwide, and a substantial portion of this burden falls on low-and …

The past few decades have seen a massive increase in the number of international
organizations focusing on global health. Campaigns to eradicate or stem the spread of …

Background There is a growing recognition of China's role as a global health donor, in
particular in Africa, but there have been few systematic studies of the level, destination …

In the 1980s, health was a marginal issue on the international political agenda, and it barely
figured into donor states' foreign aid allocation. Within a generation, health had developed a …

This article explores BRICS'engagement in the global movement for Universal Health
Coverage (UHC) and the implications for global health governance. It is based on primary …

This paper explores the extent to which global health governance–in the context of the early
implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals is grounded in the right to health …

Background Cambodia developed its public health system along the principles of the district
model and geared its services towards managing communicable diseases and maternal …

A progressive erosion of the democratic space appears as one of the emerging challenges
in global health today. Such delimitation of the political interplay has a particularly evident …