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Lancet Glob Health
January 2025
School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Background: Medication shortages are a pressing concern throughout the world. To gain insight into this issue, WHO and Health Action International (HAI) have constructed a validated method to survey medicine prices, availability, and affordability in low-income and middle-income countries. This paper aims to present an updated analysis of medicine affordability, availability, and pricing across 54 countries using the WHO-HAI method, highlighting disparities between public and private sectors.
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December 2024
Department of International Health, Berlin School of Business and Innovation, Berlin, Germany.
Historically, pandemics constitute a major nuisance to public health. They have a debilitating impact on global health with previous occurrences causing major mortalities worldwide. The adverse outcomes are not limited to health outcomes but ravage the social, economic, and political landscapes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEndeavour
December 2024
Department of Computer Science, VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Electronic address:
PLoS One
November 2024
Faculty of Humanities and Art, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China.
Based on the Health Belief Model (HBM), this study examined what messages about COVID-19 were presented on the World Health Organization (WHO)'s Facebook posts, and evaluated WHO's health promotion strategies by examining the public engagement and sentiment stimulated by different health promotion constructs. One issue with previous studies on HBM and social networking sites is that many researchers considered positive "online engagements" as evidence of "effective health promotion". However, online engagement measures such as shares and comments cannot reflect the sentiment's valence.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLancet Healthy Longev
November 2024
Shanghai Institute of Infectious Disease and Biosecurity, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety, Ministry of Education, Shanghai, China; Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Electronic address:
Background: To minimise severe cases and deaths from COVID-19 among high-risk populations such as older adults (aged 60 years and older), it is crucial to monitor and update vaccination strategies. In this study, we aim to provide a global profile of the current COVID-19 vaccination programmes for older adults, including vaccination policies, coverage rates, and vaccine demand.
Methods: We used publicly available data on the COVID-19 vaccines used, vaccination schedules, indicated age groups, and age-specific country-level vaccine coverage, updated through to July 20, 2024.
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