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Latest Articles
- Health Care Service Readiness and Quality of Care for Sexual Violence in Garissa, Kwale, Narok, and West Pokot Counties, Kenya: A Mixed-Methods Study
Sexual violence survivors in surveyed counties in Kenya face a dual barrier to effective care: community-level obstacles—including stigma, lack of awareness, and reliance on informal justice systems—delay health facility access beyond the critical 72-hour window, while health system gaps prevent those who do seek care from receiving complete, quality-assured care and treatment.
- IMPACT: A Structured Human-Centered Design Process for Integrating Community Health Worker Insights Into Program Policy in Pakistan
A human-centered design competition successfully engaged community health workers in policy design to improve polio vaccination.
- Trends and Patterns in Wealth Index Assets: Observations From 68 Countries
This commentary outlines 4 practical lessons derived from analyzing a country-specific measure of wealth available for use in 68 countries, serving as axioms for development practitioners to simplify questions related to identifying relative poverty and project design and implementation.
- A User-Centered Approach to Achieving High Degree of Digital Health Technology Utilization for Community HIV Case Management and Data Collection in Ethiopia
A mobile health application, co-designed with frontline CHWs and local partners, enabled standardized HIV case management and high-quality, real-time community data collection, analysis, and use that informed program decision-making.
- Patterns and Drivers of Packaged (Fortified) Maize Flour Purchase in Urban and Peri-Urban Kenya
Two of three residents living in and around two major Kenyan cities—Nairobi and Kisumu—are reached by large-scale fortification of maize flour. Both poor and non-poor consumers benefit, although price is a deterrent in some settings.
- Enhancing Service Quality and Empowerment in Government Clinics Through Continuous Quality Improvement of Community Score Cards: A Case Study From the Dominican Republic
A comprehensive Community Score Card monitoring and evaluation toolkit, integrating quantitative and qualitative data over multiple cycles of the intervention, helped drive continuous quality improvement in social accountability leading to the empowerment of health service providers, users, and youth to work together to improve government-run health clinics in the Dominican Republic.
About Global Health: Science and Practice
Global Health: Science and Practice (GHSP) is a no-fee, open-access, peer-reviewed online journal that publishes evidence and insights from global health programs, especially in low- and middle-income countries. The journal is published by the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs. GHSP is editorially independent and does not necessarily represent the views or positions of the Johns Hopkins University or other publishing partners.
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