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Global Health: Science and Practice (GHSP), a new no fee, open-access journal, was developed for global health professionals, particularly program implementers, to validate their experiences and program results by peer reviewers and to share them with the greater global health community.
Reaching major global health goals means that there have been successes along the way. These smaller "wins" culminate over time and lead to big picture gains. This second installment of the Global Health: Science and Practice journal is all about highlighting those "wins" in various program areas, with the intent of sharing new learnings about what works and how you might apply it to your programs. The GHSP editorial staff is thrilled to feature articles ranging from how to change perceptions among health care providers so they can support family planning within an Islamic context to how limited electricity affects health facilities. We hope you find the information valuable, and that it will improve the impact of your programs.
View highlighted articles by topic below or the entire current issue online.
Making the most of food aid to help prevent child and maternal deaths
Advances in child nutrition over the last several decades are creating momentum for a programmatic push to reduce undernutrition worldwide. The contribution of food aid may be small, but, nonetheless, U.S. food aid policy should be revamped to benefit more effectively and more efficiently the children and mothers in need.
Bruce Cogill
Achieving better maternal and newborn outcomes: Coherent strategy and pragmatic, tailored implementation
Maternal and newborn health program effort needs to shift from mere contact to the actual content or substance of care; respond better to local context; ensure delivery of all key interventions needed during pregnancy, labor and delivery, and postnatally; and actively monitor performance to manage and improve programs.
Stephen Hodgins
Multiplicity in public health supply systems: A learning agenda
Supply chain integration – merging products for health programs into a single supply chain – tends to be the dominant model in health sector reform. However, multiplicity in a supply system may be justified as a risk management strategy that can better ensure product availability, advance specific health program objectives, and increase efficiency.
Alan Bornbusch, James Bates
mHealth innovations as health system strengthening tools: 12 common applications and a visual framework
This new framework lays out 12 common mHealth applications used as health systems strengthening innovations across the reproductive health continuum.
Alain B Labrique, Lavanya Vasudevan, Erica Kochi, Robert Fabricant, Garrett Mehl
Islam and family planning: changing perceptions of health care providers and medical faculty in Pakistan
Training health care providers and medical college faculty about the supportive nature of Islam toward family planning principles addressed their misconceptions and enhanced their level of comfort in providing family planning services and teaching the subject.
Ali Mohammad Mir, Gul Rashida Shaikh
Limited electricity access in health facilities of sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review of data on electricity access, sources, and reliability
Only 34 percent of hospitals have reliable electricity access in surveyed sub-Saharan African countries. However, analysis in two countries indicates modest improvements in electricity access over time. Ambitious plans to improve health service delivery in sub-Saharan Africa need to address this critical issue.
Heather Adair-Rohani, Karen Zukor, Sophie Bonjour, Susan Wilburn, Annette Kuesel, Ryan Hebert, Elaine Fletcher
Operations research to add postpartum family planning to maternal and neonatal health to improve birth spacing in Sylhet District, Bangladesh
This quasi-experimental study integrated family planning, including the Lactational Amenorrhea Method, into community-based maternal and newborn health care and encouraged transition to other modern methods after 6 months to increase birth-to-pregnancy intervals. Community-based distribution of pills, condoms and injectables and referral for clinical methods were added to meet women’s demand.
Salahuddin Ahmed, Maureen Norton, Emma Williams, Saifuddin Ahmed, Rasheduzzaman Shah, Nazma Begum, Jaime Mungia, Amnesty LeFevre, Ahmed Al-Kabir, Peter J Winch, Catharine McKaig, Abdullah H Baqui
Successful use of tablet personal computers and wireless technologies for the 2011 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey
Using tablet personal computers and wireless technologies in place of paper-based questionnaires to administer the Nepal DHS in a geographically diverse setting appeared to improve data quality and reduce data collection time. Challenges include inconsistent electricity supply, safe storage and transport of equipment, and screen readability issues under direct sunlight, which limited confidential interview spaces.
Deepak Paudel, Marie Ahmed, Anjushree Pradhan, Rajendra Lal Dangol
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GHSP is supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development and published by the Knowledge for Health project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs in collaboration with the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.
Learn more about GHSP on their website www.ghspjournal.org.
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