Executive summary Although health outcomes have improved in low-income and middle-
income countries (LMICs) in the past several decades, a new reality is at hand. Changing …

Background: A growing gap has emerged between people with mental illness and health
care professionals, which in recent years has been successfully closed through the adoption …

In 2016, at the start of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) era, pregnancy-related
preventable morbidity and mortality remains unacceptably high. While substantial progress …

Restrictive gender norms and gender inequalities are replicated and reinforced in health
systems, contributing to gender inequalities in health. In this Series paper, we explore how …

Acceleration of progress in nutrition will require effective, large-scale nutrition-sensitive
programmes that address key underlying determinants of nutrition and enhance the …

Objective To describe a framework for people making and using evidence-informed health
system and public health recommendations and decisions. Background We developed the …

Background Although community engagement (CE) is widely used in health promotion,
components of CE models associated with improved health are poorly understood. This …

Background Maternal and neonatal mortality rates remain high in many low-income and
middle-income countries. Different approaches for the improvement of birth outcomes have …

A challenge faced by many countries is to provide adequate human resources for delivery of
essential mental health interventions. The overwhelming worldwide shortage of human …

Studies examining mechanisms underlying associations between maternal depression and
adverse child outcomes (including behaviour, socioemotional adjustment, and emotion …