Monthly Archives: November 2013

Editorial starts new series on "Right time, Right place: improving access to health service through effective retention and distribution of health workers"

Mario Dal Poz

The editorial on ‘Right time, Right place: improving access to health service through effective retention and distribution of health workers’ just published [https://www.human-resources-health.com/content/11/1/60/] is opening the thematic series, sponsored by the Health Workforce Australia [https://www.hwa.gov.au/] . This series draws from studies in a range of countries and provides new insights into what can be done to… Read more »

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Infectious Diseases of Poverty celebrates its 1 Year anniversary

Natasha Salaria

Infectious Diseases of Poverty was launched on 25th October 2012 at the 2nd Global Symposium on Health Systems Research held in Beijing. The journal aims to publish interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research that specifically addresses essential public health questions relating to infectious diseases of poverty. These include various aspects of the biology of pathogens and vectors,… Read more »

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Helping the 15 million babies born too soon every year

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Natasha Salaria

This Sunday is World Prematurity Day 2013, a global effort to raise awareness about premature birth and its prevention. Published last year, Born Too Soon is a global action report which involved collaboration from more than 50 organisations and provides the first-ever national, regional and global estimates of preterm birth. The major findings of the report have… Read more »

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