Health issues vary in the amount of attention and resources they receive from global health
organisations and national governments. How issues are framed could shape differences in …

The 48 sovereign countries of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are at various stages of their
demographic and fertility transitions. All have experienced specific, sometimes unique …

Over the past two decades, a sociology of global health has emerged. While this new
subfield takes up some themes and issues that are familiar to the discipline as a whole …

During the early 1990s, global health experts developed a new model of emergency
obstetric care: post-abortion care or PAC. In developing countries with restrictive abortion …

A social epidemiologist looks at health inequalities in terms of the upstream factors that
produced them. A political sociologist sees these same inequalities as products of …

Scholars and practitioners of international development often note the use of 'development
buzzwords': terms that represent hot topics in the field. Buzzwords characterise a …

Background Proponents have promoted sexuality education as a means of empowering
adolescents, yet it has been thwarted in many low and middle-income countries. Nigeria …

This study provides a first descriptive mapping of support for women's equal rights in 34
African countries and assesses diverse theoretical explanations for variability in this support …

When does fertility in a country become so low or so high that a government needs to
intervene? This paper sheds light on this population policy question, based on a worldwide …

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Senegal between 2010 and 2011, I
demonstrate how health professionals have deployed indicators such as number of women …