Journal of Global Health
Journal Data
| Type | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Publisher | University of Edinburgh (GB) |
| ISSN | 2047-2978 / 2047-2986 |
| Scopus | 21100787508 |
| Wikidata | Q26853824 |
| OpenAlex | S2736978234 |
| MAG | 2736978234 |
| Website | http://jogh.org |
| Total publications | 2.814 |
| Coverage period | 2012 - 2026 |
| Country | GB |
| Language | EN |
| Access | Open Access |
| Indexing | DOAJ indexed • Scopus indexed |
| Impact factor | 0.764 |
| SJR | 1.299 (Q1) |
| SNIP | 1.521 |
| CiteScore | 6.2 |
| Overton policy citations | 1 |
| Female authorship share | 49.0% |
This journal focuses on global health, which is a significant area of study within medical anthropology. It frequently publishes work on health disparities, cultural contexts of health, and social determinants of well-being, making it highly relevant to social anthropology
Health Policy · Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health · Breastfeeding Practices and Influences · Child and Adolescent Health · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Climate Change and Health Impacts · COVID-19 and healthcare impacts · COVID-19 and Mental Health · COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies · COVID-19 epidemiological studies
Beyond global comparability
Universal health coverage (UHC) is a central objective of the global health agenda, supported by internationally standardised indicators that facilitate monitoring and accountability across countries. Although standardised global UHC indicators, such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UHC service coverage index, and out-of-pocket healthcare expenditures, support international accountability and collaboration, they do not fully capture d…
Association between endometriosis and cardiovascular disease
Background: The relationship between endometriosis and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk remains unclear. This study aimed to evaluate the association between endometriosis and CVD risk, to examine whether the association was affected by age group, and to exploratorily assess the mediating role of medications in these associations. Methods: A historical, population-based cohort study was conducted based on the Beijing Medical Claim Data for Emplo…
Frontline healthcare worker barriers impacting tuberculosis service demand and access in high burden settings
Background: Extensive literature exists on health-seeking behaviour and barriers related to the uptake of tuberculosis (TB)-related services in high TB burden settings. However, prior reviews have focused on patient- and health facility/systems-level barriers to TB-related care. In this scoping review, we aimed to synthesise frontline healthcare worker (FLHCW)-related barriers that limit individuals' demand for, access to, and retention in TB ser…
Maternal and perinatal outcomes across China's one-child, two-child, and three-child policy periods
Background: China has sequentially implemented the one-child, two-child and three-child policies over the past 15 years, yet long-term effects of these fertility policy adjustments on maternal and perinatal health remain understudied. This study aimed to evaluate such impacts. Methods: A single-centre retrospective cohort analysis was conducted on 43,439 parturients delivering at a Guangxi hospital between 2011 and 2025. All participants were gro…
The relationship between prolonged travel and mortality among women with complicated deliveries in rural Kenya
Background: In many low- and middle-income settings, deliveries often take place in primary health facilities that are not equipped to address life-threatening complications. Emergency referral systems seek to rapidly transport women and newborns facing complications but inevitably introduce delays. Estimating the mortality impact of these delays is challenging due to potential selection bias. As an alternative approach, we examine the relationsh…
Ceemdan-decomposed time series forecasting of reported hepatitis B cases using KOA-optimised deep learning
Background: Hepatitis B remains a leading notifiable infection in mainland China, with a persistent burden shaped by chronic reservoirs, varied immunity, and shifting surveillance practices. Reliable short- to medium-term forecasts of reported hepatitis B cases are therefore valuable for planning diagnostics, care pathways, antiviral supply, and targeted prevention. Methods: , Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Mean Absolut…
Epidemiologic trends and mortality in nontuberculous mycobacterial lung disease
Background: Nontuberculous mycobacterial lung disease (NTM-LD), a condition characterised by a heterogeneous course and complex multidrug treatment, is becoming an increasingly prevalent global health concern. Given that population-based data on real-world management and outcomes are limited, we aimed to characterise nationwide trends in treatment initiation, real-world treatment courses, and cause-specific mortality among patients treated for NT…
Oral amoxicillin for management of fast breathing or chest indrawing pneumonia without danger signs in children aged 2–59 months
Revolutionising healthcare access
Background: Karachi, Pakistan's largest metropolitan city, faces profound healthcare disparities, with an estimated 45-49% of the population residing in underserved informal settlements. Within these communities, the primary healthcare system is not merely under-resourced but structurally fractured, leaving patients to navigate prohibitively expensive private providers or overcrowded public hospitals. To address these systemic gaps, the Humanity …
Extreme wealth loss and subsequent mental well-being among adults aged ≥50 years
Background: The association of extreme wealth loss with subsequent mental well-being in later life, as well as whether this association varies across countries with different levels of economic development, remains unclear. Methods: Our study included 23,817 participants, of which 3282 were from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (2011-2018), 11,838 from the Health and Retirement Study (2008-2019), and 8697 from the Mexican Health…
Rates and causes of neonatal and under-five mortality
Background: Neonatal and under-five mortality rates are critical indicators of a country's health status and progress toward Sustainable Development Goals. Despite a decline in mortality rates globally, preventable child deaths continue to occur, particularly in Pakistan, which has one of the highest child mortality rates in the world. In this analysis, we present the latest cause-specific neonatal and under-five mortality estimates determined th…
Global prevalence trends and predictions of Hodgkin lymphoma from 1990 to 2021
Background: Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is a highly curable malignancy with distinctive aetiological subtypes. Given recent therapeutic advances and demographic changes, an up-to-date assessment of the global HL burden is needed to inform evidence-based resource allocation and health policy planning. This study described the global prevalence trend of HL and analysed its age cohort and transnational inequality. Methods: We used data from the Global Bur…
‘Leave no one behind’
Background: Cochlear implantation (CI) is the standard of care for severe-to-profound hearing loss. While traditionally performed under general anaesthesia (GA), GA poses significant logistical and safety challenges during humanitarian missions in low-resource settings, often excluding patients with complex medical comorbidities. Regional anaesthesia (RA) offers a practical alternative that avoids GA-related risks, reduces operative time, and all…
Exploring mortality patterns in Pakistani children and adolescents aged 5–19
Background: While under-five mortality has declined by approximately 50% globally since 2000, mortality among older children and adolescents has fallen by only 31% since 1990. The age group 5-19-year-olds constitute over a third of Pakistan's population, yet estimates of mortality in this population, which are necessary for identifying preventable causes of death and developing interventions to improve health outcomes, have been limited. We aimed…
Understanding stillbirths and maternal deaths in Pakistan
Background: The global impact of stillbirths and maternal deaths is enormous, with over two million deaths occurring each year, affecting public health outcomes and global development practices. Despite Pakistan's commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals, the country faces a substantial burden of stillbirths and maternal deaths. However, data on cause-specific mortality and the timing of deaths remains limited. In this context, we aimed to…
Clinical inertia in cardiovascular risk management
Background: Clinical inertia, defined as the failure to initiate or intensify therapy when clinically indicated, represents a major and under-addressed barrier to achieving cardiovascular risk (CVR) factor control in primary care. Despite the availability of evidence-based guidelines and effective pharmacological treatments, many patients with uncontrolled hypertension, diabetes, or dyslipidaemia do not receive appropriate treatment intensificati…
A verbal and social autopsy study to improve estimates of mortality determinants in Pakistan
Background: Reducing newborn, child, adolescent, and maternal mortality is a global priority, yet Pakistan continues to bear a high burden of preventable deaths. Routine civil registration does not capture causes or social determinants for most of these deaths. The verbal and social autopsy (VASA) methodology fills this gap by combining symptom-based identification of the cause of death with structured assessment of social and care-seeking factor…
Institutional long-term care as a climate vulnerability hotspot
Association of pre-pregnancy body mass index and first-trimester remnant cholesterol level with risk of large for gestational age
Background: To evaluate the associations of pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) and first-trimester remnant cholesterol (RC) level with the risk of large for gestational age (LGA) infants. Methods: A prospective cohort study was conducted in Southeastern China, including 11,319 pregnant women. Logistic regression was used to examine the associations of pre-pregnancy BMI and RC level with LGA. Restricted cubic spline regression was applied to asse…
Dynamic trajectories of serum sodium and urine output and their association with prognosis in sepsis
Background: Serum sodium and urine output (UO) are routinely monitored indicators of electrolyte homeostasis, renal perfusion, and organ function in sepsis. However, the prognostic relevance of their combined longitudinal patterns remains unclear. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study using the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care IV database. Group-based multi-trajectory modelling identified combined trajectories of serum sod…
Operationalising the Essence principles for equitable global health research partnerships in low- and middle-income countries
Despite growing calls to decolonise global health, many research capacity strengthening initiatives in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) remain externally driven, short-term, and focused primarily on individual training rather than sustainable institutional ecosystems. Drawing on experiences from the RESPIRE collaboration across South and Southeast Asia, we reflect on key lessons and enabling mechanisms for operationalising equitable globa…
Short-term effects of ambient PM 2.5 on respiratory healthcare utilisation in older adults
Background: concentrations and respiratory healthcare utilisation among older adults living near a newly established industrial area in central Thailand. Methods: . We used single-lag and moving-average models to assess delayed effects, adjusting for temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, day of the week, and temporal trends. Results: at lag 4 was associated with a 5.5% increase in respiratory healthcare visits (IRR = 1.055, 95% confidence i…
Multilevel genomic, transcriptomic, and epidemiologic evidence linking diabetic retinopathy to Alzheimer disease
Background: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) and Alzheimer disease (AD) share metabolic and vascular dysfunctions, but the extent to which they reflect overlapping genetic susceptibility and neurovascular-metabolic regulatory pathways remains unclear. We combined multi-omics analyses with population-based data to examine the genetic convergence, cellular pathways, and longitudinal association between DR and AD. Methods: We performed a two-sample Mendeli…
Unmasking bias in the evidence ecosystem
Traditional secondary meta-analysis workflows are highly labour-intensive, time-consuming, and difficult to update in real time. Currently, there is a lack of comprehensive artificial intelligence frameworks capable of automating the entire meta-analysis workflow, including literature screening, data extraction, and quality assessment. Furthermore, a large-scale structured database for systematically analysing the global landscape of published me…
Delayed treatment initiation is associated with worse survival in screening-detected patients with upper gastrointestinal cancer in rural China
Background: Time to treatment initiation (TTI) following cancer detection is a critical component of effective cancer control. In low-resource and rural settings, delays in TTI often reflect health system constraints and may undermine the survival benefits of screening programmes. However, evidence on the association between TTI and long-term survival among screening-positive patients with upper gastrointestinal cancer (UGC) in China is unknown. …
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Typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever
Typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever: Systematic review to estimate global morbidity and mortality for 2010 Background Typhoid and paratyphoid fever remain important causes of morbidity worldwide. Accurate disease burden estimates are needed to guide policy decisions and prevention and control strategies
Assessing available information on the burden of sepsis
Assessing available information on the burden of sepsis: global estimates of incidence, prevalence and mortality Objective Sepsis is a complex and hard-to-define condition with many different interactions with other disorders. Presently, there are no estimates of the burden of sepsis and septicaemia at the global level and it was not included in the initial Global Burden of Disease study. Non-maternal sepsis has only recently received attention a…
Mental health spillovers and the Millennium Development Goals
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A prescription for health inequity
y family has already purchased a coffin for me," Naeema explained, enervated though she was. "The medicine we got from the local clinic has not helped. I am getting worse. We have spent almost all of our money going to regional hospitals to get a diagnostic test and request government subsidized medicine. My parents have sold everything we had -our crops, our land, and our livestock -to pay for my medicine. My family does not have any more money …
Floods in Southeast Asia
Out of all the natural disasters, floods are the most common in both developed and developing countries, accounting for approximately 40% of all natural disasters. Flooding has severe implications on human health before, during, and after the onset of a flood. Southeast Asia is a region that is especially prone to frequent and severe natural disasters. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is comprised of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, B…
An estimate of the prevalence of dementia in Africa
BACKGROUND: The burden of non-communicable diseases is growing, particularly in developing countries. The greatest economic burden is due to dementia, the prevalence of which is rising with increasing longevity. In Africa, where the rate of increase of elderly persons is the fastest in the world, dementia is normally dismissed as a part of normal ageing. The lack of awareness means that many patients are suffering undiagnosed. This review aims to…
Setting priorities for development of emerging interventions against childhood diarrhoea
An expert panel exercise was conducted to assess feasibility and potential effectiveness of 10 emerging health interventions against childhood diarrhoea. Twelve international experts were invited to take part in a CHNRI priority setting process. This group used 12 different criteria relevant to successful development and implementation of the emerging interventions, nine of which were retained in the final analysis. They showed most collective op…
Reducing mortality from childhood pneumonia and diarrhoea
Pneumonia and diarrhoea have been the leading causes of global child mortality for many decades. The work of Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group (CHERG) has been pivotal in raising awareness that the UN's Millennium Development Goal 4 cannot be achieved without increased focus on preventing and treating the two diseases in low- and middle-income countries. Global Action Plan for Pneumonia (GAPP) and Diarrhoea Global Action Plan (DGAP) group…
Global visibility for global health
Despite a large body of research in global health (almost 9000 articles published in PubMed until 2012), the term “global health” is not included in the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) of the NLM – its controlled vocabulary thesaurus which NLM uses to index articles in MEDL INE. There are only 6 journals currently covered by PubMed which specialize in global health, including Journal of Global Health
Helping Haiti’s transportation issues
ecently, I went on my first medical mission to Les Cayes, Haiti. I was amazed and astonished at the number of Haitian' s riding motorcycles. However, what was even more astonishing was the lack of safety that was being practiced by the drivers and passengers. This was compounded by the absence of clear traffic laws to govern the use of automobiles and motorcycles alike. I did not realize the gravity of the issue until we got on ground at our medi…
Scaling up access to oral rehydration solution for diarrhea
We identified a number of characteristics of successful ORS scale-up programs, including involvement of a broad range of key players, addressing supply and demand generation together, and working with both public and private sectors. Dedicated efforts are needed to launch and sustain success, including monitoring and evaluation plans to track program costs and impacts. These case studies were designed to inform programmatic decision-making; thus,…
The reform of the essential medicines system in China
To achieve universal health care coverage, the Government of China invested in large–scale health care reform. One of the major reform components focuses on improving access to essential medicines to reduce high out–of–pocket medicines spending. The reform policies were comprehensive, and included systematic selection of essential medicines to improve availability, centralized procurement and tendering at provincial levels, pricing policies, prov…
Diarrhea as a risk factor for acute lower respiratory tract infections among young children in low income settings
BACKGROUND: Diarrhea and acute lower respiratory tract infections (ALRI) are leading causes of morbidity and mortality among children under 5 years of age. We sought to quantify the correlation of diarrhea and respiratory infections within an individual child and to determine if infection with one illness increases the risk of infection with the other during the same time period. METHODS: We quantified the likelihood of an ALRI and a diarrhea epi…
Survey of caregivers in Kenya to assess perceptions of zinc as a treatment for diarrhea in young children and adherence to recommended treatment behaviors
BACKGROUND: In 2004, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) revised their recommendations for management of acute diarrhea in children to include zinc treatment as well as oral rehydration solution (ORS). Little is known about how caregivers in low-resource settings perceive and use zinc treatment. METHODS: Using a semi-structured quantitative survey, we interviewed Kenyan caregivers who had used zinc …
Global action plan for childhood diarrhoea
BACKGROUND: Childhood diarrhoea remains a major public health problem responsible for the deaths of approximately 800 000 children annually, worldwide. The present study was undertaken to further define research priorities for the prevention and treatment of diarrhoea in low and middle income countries. We used the Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI) process for defining research priorities. This provided a transparent, systema…
Treatment of diarrhea in young children
BACKGROUND: Diarrheal disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among children under five. Although oral rehydration solution (ORS) has tremendous therapeutic benefits, coverage of and demand for this product have remained low in many developing countries. This study surveyed caregivers and health care providers in India and Kenya to gather information about perceptions and use of various diarrhea treatments, assess reasons for low OR…
Availability, prices and affordability of essential medicines in Haiti
BACKGROUND: Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and faces numerous challenges, including inadequate medication access for its residents. The objective of this study was to determine the availability, prices, and affordability of essential medicines in Haiti and compare these findings to other countries. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional nationwide survey in 2011 of availability and consumer prices of 60 essential medicine…
US medical specialty global health training and the global burden of disease
BACKGROUND: Rapid growth in global health activity among US medical specialty education programs has lead to heterogeneity in types of activities and global health training models. The breadth and scope of this activity is not well chronicled. METHODS: Using a standardized search protocol, we examined the characteristics of US medical residency global health programs by number of programs, clinical specialty, nature of activity (elective, researc…
Beyond access to medicines
n recent decades, debates surrounding access to medicines have moved on to discussions on new ways of conducting research and development (R&D) to ensure equitable access from the outset. The market failure in the current R&D system and the need for new models has been apparent for decades A new framework for research and development to address health gaps primarily affecting lowand middle-income countries (LMICs) is currently one of the most con…
MHealth Series
BACKGROUND: An important issue for mHealth evaluation is the lack of information for sample size calculations. OBJECTIVE: To explore factors that influence sample size calculations for mHealth-based studies and to suggest strategies for increasing the participation rate. METHODS: We explored factors influencing recruitment and follow-up of participants (caregivers of children) in an mHealth text messaging data collection cross-over study. With he…
Foreign–trained medical professionals
Definitions of the term “International Medical Graduate” vary but the Medical Council of Canada defines an IMG to be a graduate of a medical school outside of Canada or the United States, with the exception of US schools of osteopathic medicine
MHealth Series
BACKGROUND: Effective interventions in maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH), if achieving high level of population coverage, could prevent most of deaths in children under five years of age. High-quality measurements of MNCH coverage are essential for tracking progress and making evidence-based decisions. METHODS: MNCH coverage data are mainly collected through fieldworkers' interview with preselected households in standard programs of Demog…
MHealth Series
BACKGROUND: We set up a collaboration between researchers in China and the UK that aimed to explore the use of mHealth in China. This is the first paper in a series of papers on a large mHealth project part of this collaboration. This paper included the aims and objectives of the mHealth project, our field site, and the detailed methods of two studies. FIELD SITE: The field site for this mHealth project was Zhao County, which lies 280 km south of…
Strength in numbers? Grouping, fund allocation and coordination amongst the neglected tropical diseases
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) is a term used to describe a heterogeneous group united not by pathophysiology or geography, but by their perpetuating the poverty of “invisible people”. Their burden is laid on one billion of the world’s poorest, who are both at greater risk of contracting the diseases, and of being trapped in poverty by the ensuing effects on their health [1]. The diseases tend to co–exist and can be found in 149 of the 193 co…
MHealth series
The use of mobile devices in healthcare, or mHealth, has the potential to play an important role in low- and middle-income countries in a wide range of areas. A particular area with great potential to improve global health is using mHealth for data collection. We propose three ideas: (i) to validate and conduct household surveys, (ii) to monitor large-scale programs, and (iii) to measure the global burden of disease. We need to know more about mH…