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50 Studies Every Global Health Provider Should Know presents a diverse series of studies that illustrate key issues in health systems and delivery, policy, ethics, bias, and social determinants of health. Selected not only for their content using a rigorous methodology, these studies were specifically chosen to represent research conducted in low- and middle-income countries by a global array of authors. For each study, a concise summary is presented with an emphasis on the results and limitations of the study, other relevant studies and information, and the implications for practice. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to learn more about the complexity of the burden of disease and healthcare delivery in low-resource areas.
- Showcases research performed in low- and middle-income countries and with global authorship
- Shows the evidence behind the interventions touted by public and global health and health policy
- Includes critique from a less heard point of view of studies that have impacted—negatively or positively—the provision of health care globally
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Introduction
Health Systems and Healthcare Delivery
1. The Rwandan Experience: The Impact of Health Systems Strengthening Interventions in the Context of Prioritizing Health Equity
2. Can Informal Providers Be Trained to Provide Good Quality Care?
3. Can Under- 5 Mortality Be Reduced by Proactive Community Case Management? The Effect of Proactive Community Case Management by Community Health Workers in a Peri- Urban Area in Mali
4. A Participatory Intervention with Women’s Groups for Reducing Neonatal Mortality and Maternal Depression: The Ekjut Trial
5. A Case Management Strategy for Treating Childhood Pneumonia in a Community Setting?
6. Can Checklists Improve Perinatal Outcomes? The Better Birth Trial
7. The SimCard Trial
8. DOTS- Plus: Advent of Outpatient Care for MDR- TB
9. Does Home- Based Neonatal Care of Sepsis Improve Neonatal Mortality?
Social Medicine and Ethics
10. Early Life Deprivation and Developmental Origins of Adult Metabolic Disease: Thrifty Phenotype Hypothesis/ Barker Hypothesis
11. Gender Disparity and Heart Diseases in South Africa
12. Economic Growth and Child Undernourishment
13. Can Social Interventions Prevent Tuberculosis? The Papworth Experiment (1918- 1943) Revisited
14. Socioeconomic Status and Heart Disease: Whitehall Revisited
15. Implicit Bias in Pain Management: Manifestations in Patient Care
16. Race- Based Medicine- Is It Biological or Profit Driven? The African- American Heart Failure Trial (A- HeFT)
17. How Do Locals Feel about Expats in Global Health?
18. Azithromycin to Reduce Childhood Mortality in Sub- Saharan Africa: The MORDOR Trial
Infectious Diseases and Neglected Tropical Diseases
19. Prevention of HIV: The Partners PrEP Trial
20. Reduced Risk of Post- Natal Transmission of HIV with Extended Antiretroviral Prophylactic Regimen: PEPI Trial (Post- Exposure Prophylaxis of Infants)
21. When to Start HIV Treatment? A Global Question
22. Safety and Efficacy of Sulfamethoxazole/ Trimethoprim Chemoprophylaxis for Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia in AIDS
23. Isoniazid for Preventing TB in HIV- Positive People
24. Impact of Improved Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases on HIV Infection in Rural Tanzania: Randomized Controlled Trial
25. A National Program to Introduce Impregnated Bednets to Address Malaria in Gambia
26. Artesunate versus Quinine for Severe Falciparum Malaria: The South East Asian Quinine Artesunate Malaria Trial (SEAQUAMAT)
27. BPaL, A New Oral Regimen for Drug- Resistant Tuberculosis: The Nix- TB Study
28. Can Household Contact Investigation Reduce Tuberculosis?
29. Solidarity Trial: The Dawn of a New Era
30. Corticosteroids for Bacterial Meningitis in Adults in Sub- Saharan Africa
31. Oral Maintenance Therapy for Cholera in Adults
Child Health
32. Efficacy of Zinc to Control Diarrhea in Developing Nations
33. Fluids in Pediatric Sepsis: Are the Recommendations in the Global North and Global South the Same? The FEAST Trial
34. Does Helping Babies Breathe Training Help Reduce Neonatal Mortality?
35. Bubble CPAP as a Cost- Effective Technology to Reduce Need for Mechanical Ventilation in Neonates
36. Sickle Cell Anemia in Children in Sub- Saharan Africa- What Is the Best Medicine? The REACH Trial
Women’s Health
37. Does Prenatal Aspirin Prevent Preterm Preeclampsia? Aspirin versus Placebo in Pregnancies at High Risk for Preterm Preeclampsia
38. Can Tranexamic Acid Stop Postpartum Hemorrhage? The WOMAN Trial
39. Magnesium Sulphate for Seizure Prophylaxis in Women with Preeclampsia: The Magpie Trial
40. Effects of Partograms on Birthing Outcomes in Developing Nations
41. What Is a Cost- Effective Way to Screen for Cervical Cancer in Resource- Denied Settings?
Mental Health
42. Can Community Health Workers Effectively Provide Cognitive Behavioral Therapy- Based Services?
43. Improving Mental Health Access Where There Is No Psychiatrist: Collaborative Care Model for Depression in Rural Nepal
44. Nonphysician- Led Multidisciplinary Stepped- Care Program vs. Usual Primary Care Program for Females with Major Depression
Noncommunicable Diseases
45. Aspirin in Acute Stroke: When Thrombolysis Is Not Available
46. Unavailability of Cardiac Catheterization: Thrombolysis Is Safe and Effective in Myocardial Infarction
47. SPRINT Trial: Hypertension Management in Resource- Denied Settings
Surgery
48. Where There Is No Anesthetist, Is Ketamine a Good Alternative?
49. Do Checklists Improve Surgical Outcomes in Under- Resourced Settings?
50. Task- Shifting for Caesarean Section: Can Clinical Officers Provide Equivalent Quality of Care Where There Are No Doctors?
Index
