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PLoS Medicine
PLoS Medicine is the leading open-access medical journal, providing an innovative and influential venue for research and comment on the major challenges to human health worldwide. We specifically seek to publish papers which have relevance across a range of settings and that address the major environmental, social, and political determinants of health, as well as the biological.
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Global child and Adolescent Mental Health: The Orphan of Development Assistance for Health
One-quarter of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for mental disorders and substance abuse is borne by those 24 years old or younger, the age group that accounted for more than 40% of the world...
Section:Policy Forum
by Chunling Lu | Published On 09 Mar 2018
Talking Sensibly about Depression
The slogan for World Health Day is “let’s talk,” emphasizing the central role of disclosure “as a vital component of recovery” by targeting the stigma surrounding mental illness, which acts as a bar...
Section:Essays
by Vikram Patel | Published On 04 Apr 2017
The Clinical and Public Health Challenges of Diabetes Prevention: A Search for Sustainable Solutions
The economic cost of dealing with the consequences of diabetes is not only a threat to health systems but is a far broader economic and social problem and thus a threat to future long-term sustainable...
Section:Editorial
by Nicholas J Wareham | Published On 26 Jul 2016
Increased Duration of Paid Maternity Leave Lowers Infant Mortality in Low- and MiddleIncome Countries: A Quasi-Experimental Study
Maternity leave reduces neonatal and infant mortality rates in high-income countries. However, the impact of maternity leave on infant health has not been rigorously evaluated in low- and middle-incom...
Section:Research Papers
by Arjit Nandi | Published On 29 Mar 2016
Public Health and International Partnerships in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Published reports on public health in DPRK are uncommon, but recent planning and financial sustainability exercises, population-based surveys, and other reports, all available online, indicate recover...
Section:Policy Forum
by John Grundy | Published On 29 Dec 2015
Upgrading a Piped Water Supply from Intermittent to Continuous Delivery and Association with Waterborne Illness: A Matched Cohort Study in Urban India
Intermittent delivery of piped water can lead to waterborne illness through contamination in the pipelines or during household storage, use of unsafe water sources during intermittencies, and limite...
Section:Research Papers
by Ayse Ercumen | Published On 27 Oct 2015
Monitoring Mortality in Forced Migrants—Can Bayesian Methods Help Us to Do Better with the (Little) Data We Have?
The global number of forced migrants is currently the highest since the Second World War. This is a major concern to public health: lack of access to safe water, food, sanitation, and inadequate shel...
Section:Essays
by Peter Heudtlass | Published On 20 Oct 2015
Assessing Development Assistance for Mental Health in Developing Countries: 2007–2013
Despite an expanding body of evidence suggesting that sustainable mental health care can be effectively integrated into existing health systems at relatively low cost, mental health has not received s...
Section:Policy Forum
by Barnabas J Gilbert | Published On 02 Jun 2015
Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in India
While Universal health coverage (UHC)is not new to India, it was only in 2011 that the government appointed a high level expert group to develop a strategy to achieve UHC. Many of the recommendations...
Section:Research Papers
by Thiagrajan Sundararaman | Published On 22 Sep 2014
Scaling up Rural Sanitation in India
The WHO-UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program (JMP) for Water and Sanitation, which tracks progress towards the water and sanitation targets of the Millennium Development Goals, estimates that 36% of the wo...
Section:Perspectives
by Clarissa Brocklehurst | Published On 01 Aug 2014
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