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BMJ Global Health
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BMJ Global Health: Insight for a healthier, more equal world. #globalhealth #medicine #research
Joined November 2015
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    “The message is clear: the greater the inequality in income or in access to high-quality care within a country, the greater were excess deaths during the first 2 years of the pandemic” 📣 New Editorial on equity & pandemic preparedness ➡️ gh.bmj.com/content/7/9/e0…
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    “Evidence increasingly suggests that ... it is often not race, but racism, that is largely the root cause of racialised health disparities” 📣 New systematic review & meta-analysis on pregnancy outcomes & racism ➡️ gh.bmj.com/content/7/8/e0…
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    “Only 9.7% of health centres, 43.8% of general hospitals and 21.7% of primary hospitals are [fully functional]. None of the health facilities are operating at prewar level” New study explores the impact of war in Tigray, #Ethiopia on health facilities ➡️ gh.bmj.com/content/7/4/e0…
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    “Overdiagnosis and overuse of tests are widespread in LMICs and generate significant harm and waste. Better understanding of the problems and robust evaluation of solutions is needed” 📣 New scoping review ➡️ gh.bmj.com/content/7/10/e…
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    “Terminology used to divide the world into the haves and the have nots has continually changed since colonial times … But every new term continues to imply and allude to an inherent unevenness” 📣 New Editorial on labels in global health & development ➡️ gh.bmj.com/content/7/6/e0…
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    Dr @seyeabimbola's passion and determination to highlight culturally complex issues and refusal to shy away from politically sensitive areas have won him many plaudits, including Vox’s The 2023 Future Perfect 50 for his work on fighting global poverty and health threats.
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    Diversity in the editorial boards of global health journals gh.bmj.com/content/4/5/e0…
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    “The latest classification positions 137 countries in the LMIC categories ... Such a broad classification in global health scholarship requires consideration both in terms of its utility and its implications” 📣 New Editorial on referring to “LMICs” ➡️ gh.bmj.com/content/7/6/e0…
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    “Human rights are not a panacea nor do they guarantee a preordained result, but they are an important tool to ensure health is seen and realised as a global good not only for some but for all” 📣 New Editorial on global health & human rights ➡️ gh.bmj.com/content/7/8/e0…
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    "Each person has a moral right not to be treated as inferior. This moral right has found different forms of protection under dignity-based mechanisms. But these mechanisms do not extend.. to epistemic wrongs, harms and injustices." 📣 New Commentary ➡️ gh.bmj.com/content/8/8/e0…
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    We are committed to publishing first class research that will have an impact in global health. To thank our authors, editors, readers & reviewers for their contributions, our top cited articles are free to access ow.ly/PjE350AkJIc
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    "Essential packages of health services only have impact when implemented, yet in many countries there is still a large implementation gap." @AwadMataria 📣 New Article ➡️ gh.bmj.com/content/8/Supp…
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    ‘Decentralisation, even if well intentioned, can have unintended consequences.’ 📣New Research ➡️ gh.bmj.com/content/8/12/e…
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    ‘Decentralising editorial boards, addressing the language bias towards English and establishing independent regional-level citation databases can contribute to improving the quality and representation of Global South journals.’ 📣 New Commentary ➡️ gh.bmj.com/content/8/12/e…