Health
Selection of Antiretroviral Medications Provided Under U.S. Emergency Plan is Limited
U.S. Government Accountability Office
A 43-page U.S. study examining whether the selection criteria for ARVs being supplied under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief result in optimum cost-effectiveness
HealthPosted: 2005-02-01
Experiences of Seven Countries in Consolidating Their Food Safety Systems
U.S. Government Accountability Office
This 68-page U.S. report examines the approaches, challenges and outcomes of seven countries in consolidating their food safety functions
Public Safety & Disaster Mitigation, HealthPosted: 2005-02-23
Health Information Technology: HHS Is Taking Steps to Develop a National Strategy
U.S. Government Accountability Office
A 92-page U.S. study of lessons learned from domestic and overseas experiences in implementing health IT
HealthPosted: 2005-06-14
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria is responding.......
U.S. Government Accountability Office
This 66-page U.S. report examines the Global Fund's process for managing grants and disbursing funds, and recommends improvements
HealthPosted: 2005-06-15
Influenza Pandemic: Lessons Learned from the 2004-05 Influenza Vaccine Shortage
U.S. Government Accountability Office
A 16-page statement to a U.S. House committee on the lessons learned from the 2004 influenza vaccine shortage and their relevance to future outbreaks
Health, Public Safety & Disaster MitigationPosted: 2005-11-07
Global Malarial Control: U.S. and Multinational Investments and Implementation Challenges
U.S. Government Accountability Office
This 57-page correspondence reports on an investigation into U.S. investments in national malaria control programmes, describing key challenges to the implementation of such programmes and strategies for addressing those challenges
Health, International DevelopmentPosted: 2005-11-21
Global Health: U.S. AIDS Coordinator Addressing Some Key Challenges to Expanding Treatment, but Others Remain
U.S. Government Accountability Office
An 86-page U.S. study of major challenges to U.S. efforts to expand ARV treatment in resource-poor settings and the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator's response to those challenges
Health, International DevelopmentPosted: 2004-07-23
Infectious Disease Preparedness: Federal Challenges in Responding to Influenza Outbreaks
U.S. Government Accountability Office
A 17-page U.S. report indicating concern regarding the availability of influenza vaccines for common flu seasons and in the event of an influenza pandemic
HealthPosted: 2004-10-02
Climate Change and Your Health: Rising Temperatures, Worsening Ozone Pollution
UCSUCA
A 28-page US report finding that unchecked global warming could threaten public health and increase health costs by exacerbating ground-level ozone
Climate Change & Environment, HealthPosted: 2011-06-03
Financing the Response to AIDS in Low-income & Middle-income Countries
UNAIDS, Kaiser Family Foundation
An 18-page analysis of global AIDS assistance financing for 2010
Health, Public Safety & Disaster MitigationPosted: 2011-08-18
The Impact of Aids
United Nations Department of Social and Economic Affairs
This report documents the wide-ranging impact of AIDS on population, societies and the economy at large (single page with links to all sections/chapters)
HealthPosted: 2004-10-06
Downward Spiral: HIV/AIDS, State Capacity and Political Conflict in Zimbabwe
United States Institute of Peace
A 52-page study tracing the effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on the economy and governance of Zimbabwe and concluding with a set of policy recommendations for the international community
Health, Governance & PoliticsPosted: 2004-07-30
Matrix of Medicine Quality Reports Affecting USAID-assisted Countries
United States Pharmacopeia
This 63-page US publication is a repository of publicly-available information aiming to raise awareness of the problem of counterfeit and substandard medicines
Health, International DevelopmentPosted: 2010-02-20
Infants of Depressed Mothers Living in Poverty: Opportunities to Identify and Serve
Urban Institute
A 10-page US study of the characteristics and parenting approaches of poor, depressed mothers with infants, as well as the mothers’ access to services
Families, Children & Youth, HealthPosted: 2010-09-20
Reducing Obesity: Policy Strategies from the Tobacco Wars
Urban Institute
The 73-page report of a US forum held to consider strategies for reducing obesity
HealthPosted: 2009-07-31
The New Frontier: Neuroscience Advancements and Their Impact on Nonprofit Behavioural Health Care Providers
Urban Institute
This 28-page US study explains how advances in neuroscience will impact the abilities of nonprofit human service providers to organise and deliver behavioural health service in the future
HealthPosted: 2006-04-14
How Will Comparative Effectiveness Research Affect the Quality of Health Care?
Urban Institute
This 15-page US brief explores the concept of comparative effectiveness and describes areas of controversy that need to be addressed to make its research successful. Comparative effectiveness is the study of methods to prevent, diagnose, treat, and monitor a clinical condition or improve delivery of care so consumers, clinicians, purchasers, and policymakers can make informed decisions
HealthPosted: 2010-03-06
The Future of Long-Term Care: What Is Its Place in the Health Reform Debate?
Urban Institute
This 16-page US paper assesses proposals to restructure the delivery and financing of long-term care
Key Influences on Health Inequalities
VicHealth
An 8-page Australian brief presenting research relating to health inequalities
HealthPosted: 2008-05-15
People, Places, Processes: Reducing Health Inequalities Through Balanced Health Approaches
VicHealth
A 32-page Australian overview of current evidence from health promotion approaches
Health, Social PolicyPosted: 2008-05-15
Estimating the Economic Benefits of Eliminating Job Strain as a Risk Factor for Depression
Vichealth
A 36-page Australian report finding that \'job strain\', where workers have little control over their job, but who are under high pressure to perform, accounts for 17 per cent of depression in working women and 13 per cent in working men
Health, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2010-10-18
Responding to Mental Health Crises in the Community
Victorian Auditor-General's Office
This 71-page Australian report reviews the coordination, preparation and effectiveness of police, ambulance and mental health triage and Crisis Assessment and Treatment (CAT) service responses to mental health
HealthPosted: 2009-11-13
Communicating with Consumers and Carers
Victorian Quality Council
The 36-page report of an Australian project reviewing how existing evidence about effective communications strategies can be used to enhance the quality and safety of patient care
HealthPosted: 2007-08-06
Aid and AIDS: A Delicate Cocktail
Vox
An article examining the focus of developmental assistance targeting health
Health, International DevelopmentPosted: 2008-07-09
Global Tuberculosos Control: Surveillance, Planning, Financing
WHO
This 227-page 2007 report assesses the effectiveness of national TB control programmes worldwide
Health, International DevelopmentPosted: 2007-03-23
Multidrug and Extensively Drug-resistant TB (M/XDR-TB): 2010 Global Report on Surveillance and Response
WHO
A 71-page global report on TB surveillance and response
Health, Public Safety & Disaster MitigationPosted: 2010-03-28
World Health Report 2007: A Safer Future
WHO
This 96-page report reviews key issues concerning global health security in the 21st Century
HealthPosted: 2007-09-07
Public Health in an Interdependent World: Cash Commodities, Capacities, and Conspiracies
WHO
An 11-page lecture discussing the advances of public health in the first decade of the 21st century. The lecture comments that although the decade produced many gains like spurring the development of new vaccines, it also revealed some problems such as issues due to rapid urbanization and unhealthy lifestyles
Health, Public Safety & Disaster MitigationPosted: 2010-03-25
Nine Patient Safety Solutions
WHO
A document containing briefs for 9 patient safety solutions to reduce the harm caused by health care errors (single page with links to each item)
HealthPosted: 2007-05-18
Public Health Risk Assessment and Interventions - The Horn of Africa: Drought and Famine Crisis
WHO
This 29-page public health risk assessment for the The Horn of Africa: Drought and famine crisis is to provide health professionals in United Nations agencies, nongovernmental organizations, donor agencies and local authorities currently working with populations affected by this emergency, with up-to-date technical guidance on the major public health threats faced by the displaced population
Public Safety & Disaster Mitigation, HealthPosted: 2011-07-26
Tracking Progress in Maternal, Newborn & Child Survival: The 2008 Report
WHO
This 111-page report measures the coverage of basic health services proven to reduce maternal and child mortality
Health, International DevelopmentPosted: 2008-04-18
Preventing Mother-to-child Transmission of HIV During Breastfeeding
WHO
A 4-page policy brief on the efficacy of combination antiretroviral drugs during pregnancy, delivery and breastfeeding
Health, Families, Children & YouthPosted: 2011-01-14
World Malaria Report 2010
WHO
This 220-page report summarises information received from 106 malaria-endemic countries and other sources and updates the analyses presented in the 2009 Report
Health, Public Safety & Disaster MitigationPosted: 2010-12-15
WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2008
WHO
A 342-page comprehensive analysis of global tobacco use and control efforts
Drug Abuse, HealthPosted: 2008-02-08
Accelerating Work to Overcome the Global Impact of Neglected Tropical Diseases—A Roadmap for Implementation
WHO
To guide the effort against NTDs this 22-page document sets out a new strategy that sets targets for what can be achieved by the end of the decade
Health, International DevelopmentPosted: 2012-01-31
Hidden Cities: Unmasking and Overcoming Health Inequities in Urban Settings
WHO, UN-HABITAT
This 145-page report shows how ill-health is linked to poverty in cities, and not just among the poorest urban populations
Health, Urban IssuesPosted: 2010-11-26
Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Literature Review
Women's Health Victoria
A 20-page Australian literature review examining women's sexual health and sexuality as dynamic
HealthPosted: 2008-07-12
AIDS in South Asia: Understanding and Responding to a Heterogeneous Epidemic
World Bank
A 131-page report analyzing South Asia's HIV/AIDS epidemic and offering recommendations for halting its spread
Health, Public Safety & Disaster MitigationPosted: 2006-12-04
Healthy Development: The World Bank Strategy for Health, Nutrition and Population Results
World Bank
A 193-page strategy to assist developing countries strengthen their health systems
Health, International DevelopmentPosted: 2007-05-07
Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors
World Bank
This 552-page book summarizes the concepts and estimates of the burden of disease and the attribution of this burden to several key risk factors (single page linking to each chapter)
Health, International DevelopmentPosted: 2006-04-11
Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (2nd Edition)
World Bank
This report offers research, analyses and recommendations to significantly reduce the burden of disease in developing countries (single page linking to all sections)
HealthPosted: 2006-04-11
Priorities in Health
World Bank
A 212-page distillation of "Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries" (2nd edition), giving the essence of that report in a succinct and readable format
Health, International DevelopmentPosted: 2006-04-11
Economic Benefit of Tubercolosis Control
World Bank
A 59-page working paper spelling out the economic benefits attainable by an investment in tubercolosis control
Health, International DevelopmentPosted: 2007-12-18
The Fiscal Dimension of HIV/AIDS in Botswana, South Africa, Swaziland, and Uganda
World Bank
This 312-page report urges African governments and their development aid donors to do significantly more to prevent new HIV infections
Health, Public Safety & Disaster MitigationPosted: 2012-03-16
Public Policy and the Challenge of Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases
World Bank
A 218-page report warning that poor countries are catching up with richer nations in the incidence of noncommunicable diseases and chronic illnesses
HealthPosted: 2007-07-03
Environment Matters: Annual Review, 2005
World Bank
A 66-page report offering a focus on global environmental health
Health, Climate Change & EnvironmentPosted: 2005-10-12
The World Bank's Global HIV/AIDS Program of Action
World Bank
This 90-page program of action for fighting the AIDS pandemic argues that there is a heightened need for donors and developing countries to mobilize around common strategies for fighting the disease
HealthPosted: 2005-12-07
Rolling Back Malaria: The World Bank Global Strategy & Booster Program
World Bank
A 122-page document describing the World Bank's strategy for increasing efforts to control malaria
Health, International DevelopmentPosted: 2005-04-26
Avian and Human Influenza: Financing Needs and Gaps
World Bank
This 39-page paper quantifies the possible costs of responding to avian and human influenza worldwide and estimates the financing gaps in developing countries
HealthPosted: 2006-01-17
The World Bank's Commitment to HIV/AIDS in Africa
World Bank
This 146-page document outlines the World Bank's strategy for fighting HIV/AIDS in Africa
Health, Public Safety & Disaster MitigationPosted: 2008-05-19
Characterizing the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the Middle East and North Africa: Time for Strategic Action
World Bank
This 310-page report aims at addressing the dearth of strategic information on HIV spread in MENA through a joint effort of the World Bank, the United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), and the World Health Organization (WHO)
Health, Public Safety & Disaster MitigationPosted: 2010-07-15
Health Financing Revisited: A Practitioner's Guide
World Bank
A 324-page report addressing major changes in global health and financing policy over the past 10 years
HealthPosted: 2006-06-02
World Report on Disability
World Bank, World Health Organization
This 349-page report is the first comprehensive overview of global disability in 40 years and stresses that few low-income countries have enough programs and services in place to respond to the needs of people with disabilities
Disability, HealthPosted: 2011-06-15
Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Health Sythesis
World Health Organisation
A 64-page report assessing how ecosystem changes do, or could, affect human well-being
Climate Change & Environment, HealthPosted: 2005-12-14
Guidelines for Programmatic Management of Drug-Resistant TB
World Health Organisation
This 186-page report is based on the lessons learned from 46 projects investigating the effective treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in low-income countries)
HealthPosted: 2006-05-17
The World Health Report 2006 - Working Together for Health
World Health Organization
This report assesses the current crisis in the global health workforce (single page linking to each section)
HealthPosted: 2006-07-13
From Little Things, Big Things Grow: A Local Approach to System-Wide Maternity Services Reform
"Australia and New Zealand Health Policy"
A 12-page paper addressing a movement to expand midwifwery services in Australia
HealthPosted: 2007-10-04
Regulatory Axes on Food Advertising to Children on Television
"Australia and New Zealand Health Policy"
This 18-page Australian paper describes and evaluates some of the criteria on the basis of which food advertising to children on television could be regulated, including controls that revolve around the type of television programme, the type of product, the target audience and the time of day
Health, Families, Children & YouthPosted: 2009-02-03
From Little Things, Big Things Grow: A Local Approach to System-Wide Maternity Services Reform
"Australia and New Zealand Health Policy"
A 12-page paper addressing a movement to expand midwifwery services in Australia
HealthPosted: 2007-10-04
Nurses' Reports on Hospital Care in Five Countries
"Health Affairs"
This paper presents reports from hospitals in the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, and Germany in which nurses report similar shortcomings in their work environments and the quality of hospital care
Health, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2010-09-30
Public Health Response to Urgent Case Reports
"Health Affairs"
An article describing a test of the ability of local public health agencies in the U.S. to meet a preparedness standard for responding to urgent case reports of communicable diseases arising naturally or as a result of bioterrorism
Public Safety & Disaster Mitigation, HealthPosted: 2005-08-31
Quality of Care for Coronary Heart Disease in Two Countries
"Health Affairs"
This 13-page US study compares coronary heart disease treatment in the US and England
HealthPosted: 2010-09-30
Cost-Effective Allocation of Government Funds to Prevent HIV Infection
"Health Affairs"
This 12-page article reports on a U.S. study urging the adoption of cost-effective strategies to reduce HIV infection
HealthPosted: 2005-08-02
Toward High-Performance Health Systems: Adults' Health Care Experiences in Seven Countries
"Health Affairs"
This 18-page survey report compares adults' health care experiences in seven developed countries
HealthPosted: 2007-11-02
Contact Tracing to Control Infectious Disease: When Enough is Enough
"Health Care Management Science"
A 15-page US article comparing the efficiency of screening and contact tracing in the control of infectious disease
Health, Public Safety & Disaster MitigationPosted: 2008-01-22
Community-Based Care Coordination: Practical Applications for Childhood Asthma
"Health Promotion Practice"
This 12-page US paper examines the effectiveness of community-based care coordinators who bridge gaps between families, health care providers, and support services
Health, Families, Children & YouthPosted: 2012-02-22
Government Payment for Health Care: Causes and Consequences
"New England Journal of Medicine"
A 3-page US commentary on the role of Government in paying for health care
Health, Governance & PoliticsPosted: 2011-01-06
Healthy Steps for Young Children: Sustained Results at 5.5 Years
"Pediatrics", Commonwealth Fund
A 13-page US study investigating whether a low-cost programme to enhance the delivery of childhood behavioural and developmental services provided lasting benefits
Health, Families, Children & YouthPosted: 2007-10-12
Chronic Diseases (series)
"The Lancet"
A series of four articles highlighting the prevalence of chronic diseases globally, and in poorer countries especially (one page linking to all four articles)
Health, International DevelopmentPosted: 2005-10-12
Maternal and Child Undernutrition
"The Lancet"
The 12-page executive summary of a series of papers dealing with maternal and child undernutrition in developing countries
Health, International DevelopmentPosted: 2008-02-05
The Lancet Series on Health System Reform in China
"The Lancet"
A series of 19 commissioned research papers bringing together the most recent scientific evidence of China's major health challenges, its health strategies and its health future (single page linking to each paper)
HealthPosted: 2008-10-24
Self-Pay Markets in Health Care: Consumer Nirvana or Caveat Emptor?
'Health Affairs'
A US article investigating the extent of price-shopping in the self-pay sector of medical care
HealthPosted: 2007-02-08
The Problems of Stigma during end-of-life care at a Psychiatric Institution
'International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation'
A 20-page Australian paper examining the nature and impact of the stigma associated with mental illness in a study of end-of-life care in an Australian mental health institution
HealthPosted: 2007-07-09
Stimulant Prescribing for the Treatment of ADHD in Western Australia: Socioeconomic and Remoteness Differences
'Medical Journal of Australia'
An Australian article reporting on an investigation of differences in the prescribing of stimulants for the treatment of ADHD according to socioeconomic class and remoteness
HealthPosted: 2007-02-12
A Quality Use of Medicines Program for General Practitioners and Older People
'Medical Journal of Australia'
This Australian article reports how education and systems for medication review conducted by GPs can be used to improve use of medicines
The Mental Health and Well-Being of Children and Adolescents in Home-Based Foster Care
'Medical Journal of Australia'
This study identifies the prevalence of mental health problems, rates of suicidal ideation and behaviour and use of professional mental health services among children and adolescents in home-based foster care
Families, Children & Youth, HealthPosted: 2007-02-19
Principles for Characterizing the Potential Human Health Effects from Exposure to Nanomaterials: Elements of a Screening Strategy
'Particle and Fibre Toxicology'
A 35-page report presenting a broad data-gathering strategy applicable to this early stage in the development of a risk assessment process for nanomaterials
Health, Public Safety & Disaster MitigationPosted: 2005-10-25