Do unequal societies cause death among the elderly? A study of the health effects of inequality in Swedish municipalities in 2006

S？ren Edvinsson,Erling H？ggstr？m Lundevaller,Gunnar Malmberg

Public health in Vietnam: scientific evidence for policy changes and interventions

Nguyen DucHinh,Hoang Van Minh

Handwashing among schoolchildren in an ethnically diverse population in northern rural Vietnam

Le Thi Thanh Xuan,Luu Ngoc Hoat

‘Elastic band strategy’: women's lived experiences of coping with domestic violence in rural Indonesia

Elli Nur Hayati,Malin Eriksson,Mohammad Hakimi,Ulf H？gberg

Alcohol consumption and household expenditure on alcohol in a rural district in Vietnam

Kim Bao Giang,Hoang Van Minh,Peter Allebeck

Compensation for environmental asbestos-related diseases in South Africa: a neglected issue

Ntombizodwa Ndlovu,Jim teWater Naude,Jill Murray

A rapid assessment of a community health worker pilot programme to improve the management of hypertension and diabetes in Emfuleni sub-district of Gauteng Province, South Africa

Tshipfuralo Ndou,Greer van Zyl,Salamina Hlahane,Jane Goudge

Analysing post-apartheid gender and racial transformation in medical education in a South African province

Taskeen Khan,Leena S. Thomas,Shan Naidoo

Factors associated with job satisfaction among commune health workers: implications for human resource policies

Bach Xuan Tran,Minh Van Hoang,Hinh Duc Nguyen

The non-fatal disease burden caused by type 2 diabetes in South Africa, 2009

Melanie Y. Bertram,Aneil V.S. Jaswal,Victoria Pillay Van Wyk,Naomi S. Levitt

Implementation of misoprostol for postabortion care in Kenya and Uganda: a qualitative evaluation

Joachim Osur,Traci L. Baird,Brooke A. Levandowski,Emily Jackson

A South African university-practitioner partnership to strengthen capacity in social and behaviour change communication

Nicola J. Christofides,Sara Nieuwoudt,Shereen Usdin,Susan Goldstein

Is global health really global?

Peter Byass

Critical realism: a practical ontology to explain the complexities of smoking and tobacco control in different resource settings

Dunsi Oladele,Alexander M. Clark,Solina Richter,Lory Laing

An analysis of the health status of the United Arab Emirates: the ‘Big 4’ public health issues

Tom Loney,Tar-Ching Aw,Daniel G. Handysides,Raghib Ali

Mining: South Africa's legacy and burden in the context of occupational respiratory diseases

Rajen N. Naidoo

Urban–rural and gender differences in tobacco and alcohol use, diet and physical activity among young black South Africans between 1998 and 2003

Nasheeta Peer,Debbie Bradshaw,Ria Laubscher,Nelia Steyn

Improving the use of health data for health system strengthening

Tara Nutley,Heidi W. Reynolds

Teaching handwashing with soap for schoolchildren in a multi-ethnic population in northern rural Vietnam

Le Thi Thanh Xuan,Thilde Rheinl？nder,Luu Ngoc Hoat,Anders Dalsgaard

Restructuring brain drain: strengthening governance and financing for health worker migration

Tim K. Mackey,Bryan A. Liang

A taxonomy for community-based care programs focused on HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care in resource-poor settings

Beth Rachlis,Sumeet Sodhi,Barry Burciul,James Orbinski

Global health education: a pilot in trans-disciplinary, digital instruction

Heather Wipfli,David J. Press,Virginia Kuhn

Knowledge of the health consequences of tobacco smoking: a cross-sectional survey of Vietnamese adults

Dao Thi Minh An,Hoang Van Minh,Le Thi Huong,Kim Bao Giang

Occupational respiratory diseases in the South African mining industry

Gill Nelson

Outreach services to improve access to health care in South Africa: lessons from three community health worker programmes

Nonhlanhla Nxumalo,Jane Goudge,Liz Thomas

Health system capacity: maternal health policy implementation in the state of Gujarat, India

Linda Sanneving,Asli Kulane,Aditi Iyer,Bengt Ahgren

Determinants of antiretroviral treatment adherence among HIV/AIDS patients: a multisite study

Bach Xuan Tran,Long Thanh Nguyen,Nga Hoang Nguyen,Quynh Van Hoang

FOREWORD

Nguyen DucHinh

Public health in South Africa 1975–89: reflections on a momentous past

John Gear

Reflections on Public Health in South Africa, 1993–2002

William Pick

Theoretical impact of insecticide-impregnated school uniforms on dengue incidence in Thai children

Eduardo Massad,Marcos Amaku,Francisco Antonio Bezerra Coutinho,Pattamaporn Kittayapong

Moving towards universal coverage in South Africa? Lessons from a voluntary government insurance scheme

Veloshnee Govender,Matthew F. Chersich,Bronwyn Harris,Olufunke Alaba

Acknowledgment

Alcohol use in early and late adolescence among the Birth to Twenty cohort in Soweto, South Africa

Leane Ramsoomar,Neo K. Morojele,Shane A. Norris

Routine vaccination coverage in low- and middle-income countries: further arguments for accelerating support to child vaccination services

Wenjing Tao,Max Petzold,Birger C. Forsberg

A comparative study of two communication models in HIV/AIDS coverage in selected Nigerian newspapers

Onjefu Okidu

Medical causes of admissions to hospital among adults in Africa: a systematic review

Anthony O. Etyang,John Anthony Gerard Scott

The role of home-based records in the establishment of a continuum of care for mothers, newborns, and children in Indonesia

Keiko Osaki,Tomoko Hattori,Soewarta Kosen

“Even if I were to consent, my family will never agree”: exploring autopsy services for posthumous occupational lung disease compensation among mineworkers in South Africa

Audrey V. Banyini,David Rees,Leah Gilbert

Road traffic injury among young people in Vietnam: evidence from two rounds of national adolescent health surveys, 2004–2009

Linh Cu Le,Robert W. Blum

Comparing the job satisfaction and intention to leave of different categories of health workers in Tanzania, Malawi, and South Africa

Duane Blaauw,Prudence Ditlopo,Fresier Maseko,Maureen Chirwa

Supplementary immunization activities (SIAs) in South Africa: comprehensive economic evaluation of an integrated child health delivery platform

Stéphane Verguet,Waasila Jassat,Melanie Y. Bertram,Stephen M. Tollman

Addressing the social determinants of health through health system strengthening and inter-sectoral convergence: the case of the Indian National Rural Health Mission

Amit Mohan Prasad,Gautam Chakraborty,Sajjan Singh Yadav,Salima Bhatia

Alcohol-related harm among university students in Hanoi, Vietnam

Pham Bich Diep,Ronald A. Knibbe,Kim Bao Giang,Nanne De Vries

Bringing evidence to policy to achieve health-related MDGs for all: justification and design of the EPI-4 project in China, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam

Sarah Thomsen,Nawi Ng,Xu Biao,G？ran Bondjers

Exploring the paradox: double burden of malnutrition in rural South Africa

Elizabeth W. Kimani-Murage

Survival probability and prognostic factors for breast cancer patients in Vietnam

Nguyen H. Lan,Wongsa Laohasiriwong,John F. Stewart

Only an integrated approach across academia, enterprise, governments, and global agencies can tackle the public health impact of climate change

Gunhild A. Stordalen,Joacim Rockl？v,Maria Nilsson,Peter Byass

Comparative evaluation of the influence of television advertisements on children and caries prevalence

Neeta Ghimire,Arathi Rao

Self-reported health and health care use in an ageing population in the Agincourt sub-district of rural South Africa

Francesc Xavier Gómez-Olivé,Margaret Thorogood,Benjamin Clark,Kathleen Kahn