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  1. Arab Americans have a high burden of diabetes and poor outcomes compared to the general U.S. population. Diabetes self-management (DSM) requires a partnership between patients and providers that fosters mutual...

    Authors: Heather Fritz, Rosanne DiZazzo-Miller, Elizabeth A. Bertran, Fredrick D. Pociask, Sandra Tarakji, Judith Arnetz, Catherine L. Lysack and Linda A. Jaber
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2016 16:22
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC International Health and Human Rights 2016 16:24

  2. In 2005, the World Health Assembly (WHA) of the World Health Organization (WHO) urged member states to aim at achieving affordable universal coverage and access to key promotive, preventive, curative, rehabili...

    Authors: John Koku Awoonor-Williams, Paulina Tindana, Philip Ayizem Dalinjong, Harry Nartey and James Akazili
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2016 16:21
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  3. Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) are a unique group that are often overlooked in many developing countries due to systemic weaknesses, lack of political commitment and inadequate support from government and no...

    Authors: Joslin Dogbe, Ellis Owusu-Dabo, Anthony Edusei, Gyikua Plange-Rhule, Nicholas Addofoh, Sandra Baffour-Awuah, Osei Sarfo-Kantanka, Charles Hammond and Michael Owusu
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2016 16:20
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  5. Stigma and discrimination harm the wellbeing of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and contribute to migration from contexts of sexual persecution and criminalization. Yet LGBT newcomers and ...

    Authors: Carmen H. Logie, Ashley Lacombe-Duncan, Nakia Lee-Foon, Shannon Ryan and Hope Ramsay
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2016 16:18
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  6. A human rights approach to maternal health is considered as a useful framework in international efforts to reduce maternal mortality. Although fundamental human rights principles are incorporated into legal an...

    Authors: Andrea Solnes Miltenburg, Fleur Lambermon, Cees Hamelink and Tarek Meguid
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2016 16:17
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  7. The prevalence of HIV in Malawi is one of the highest in sub-Saharan Africa, and misconceptions about its mode of transmission are considered a major contributor to the continued spread of the virus.

    Authors: Yujiro Sano, Roger Antabe, Kilian Nasung Atuoye, Lucia Kafui Hussey, Jason Bayne, Sylvester Zackaria Galaa, Paul Mkandawire and Isaac Luginaah
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2016 16:16
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  8. Although health is a right of all individuals without any distinction, the realisation of this right has remained very difficult for the marginalised populations of poor countries. Inequitable distribution of ...

    Authors: John Barugahare and Reidar K. Lie
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2016 16:15
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  9. Achieving development outcomes requires the inclusion of marginalised populations that have the least opportunity to participate in and benefit from development. Slum dwellers often see little of the ‘urban ad...

    Authors: Martha Morrow, Greg Armstrong, Prarthna Dayal and Michelle Kermode
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2016 16:14
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  10. Childhood immunization rates are at an all-time high globally, and national data for China suggests close to universal coverage. Refugees from North Korea and their children may have more limited health care a...

    Authors: Hyun Jung Chung, Seung Hyun Han, Hyerang Kim and Julia L. Finkelstein
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2016 16:13
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  11. Equitable access to health care is a challenge in many low-income countries. The most vulnerable segments of any population face increased challenges, as their vulnerability amplifies problems of the general p...

    Authors: Stine Hellum Braathen, Lifah Sanudi, Leslie Swartz, Thomas Jürgens, Hastings T Banda and Arne Henning Eide
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2016 16:12
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  12. The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights states that the right to health is closely related to, and dependent upon, the realization of other human rights, including the right to food, water, educa...

    Authors: Bernadette Ann-Marie O’Hare, Delan Devakumar and Stephen Allen
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2016 16:11
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  13. More than 14 % of Ugandan children are orphaned and many live in children’s homes. Ugandan authorities have targeted adolescent girls as a priority group for nutrition interventions as safeguarding nutritional...

    Authors: Line Erikstad Vogt, Byaruhanga Rukooko, Per Ole Iversen and Wenche Barth Eide
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2016 16:10
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. Existing evidence shows that the majority of people with epilepsy in lower and middle income countries are not receiving appropriate treatment and care. Although this problem has been reported as one of the fa...

    Authors: Mpoe Johannah Keikelame and Leslie Swartz
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2016 16:9
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  16. Pre- and post-migration trauma due to forced migration may impact negatively on parents’ ability to care for their children. Little qualitative work has examined Somali-born refugees’ experiences. The aim of t...

    Authors: Fatumo Osman, Marie Klingberg-Allvin, Renée Flacking and Ulla-Karin Schön
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2016 16:7
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  17. Relatively little research on the issue of child marriage has been conducted in European countries where the overall prevalence of child marriage is relatively low, but relatively high among marginalized ethni...

    Authors: David R. Hotchkiss, Deepali Godha, Anastasia J. Gage and Claudia Cappa
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2016 16:6
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  18. Conflict and post-conflict communities in sub-Saharan Africa have a high under recognised problem of intimate partner violence (IPV). Part of the reason for this has been the limited data on IPV from conflict ...

    Authors: Eugene Kinyanda, Helen A Weiss, Margaret Mungherera, Patrick Onyango-Mangen, Emmanuel Ngabirano, Rehema Kajungu, Johnson Kagugube, Wilson Muhwezi, Julius Muron and Vikram Patel
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2016 16:5
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  19. Kangaroo mother care has been highlighted as an effective intervention package to address high neonatal mortality pertaining to preterm births and low birth weight. However, KMC uptake and service coverage hav...

    Authors: Anne-Marie Bergh, Joseph de Graft-Johnson, Neena Khadka, Alyssa Om’Iniabohs, Rekha Udani, Hadi Pratomo and Socorro De Leon-Mendoza
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2016 16:4
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  20. The rights of women and people living with HIV (PLHIV) are protected under South African law, yet there is a gap in the application of these laws. While there are numerous systemic and social barriers to women...

    Authors: Lauren M. Hill, Suzanne Maman, David Holness and Dhayendre Moodley
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2016 16:3
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  21. The relationship between users and health services is considered essential to strengthen the quality of care. However, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender population suffer from prejudice and discrimin...

    Authors: Grayce Alencar Albuquerque, Cintia de Lima Garcia, Glauberto da Silva Quirino, Maria Juscinaide Henrique Alves, Jameson Moreira Belém, Francisco Winter dos Santos Figueiredo, Laércio da Silva Paiva, Vânia Barbosa do Nascimento, Érika da Silva Maciel, Vitor Engrácia Valenti, Luiz Carlos de Abreu and Fernando Adami
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2016 16:2
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  22. Early childhood development (ECD) is a critical period that continues to impact human health and productivity throughout the lifetime. Failing to provide policies and programs that support optimal developmenta...

    Authors: Agnes Binagwaho, Kirstin W. Scott and Sardis H. Harward
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2016 16:1
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  23. Non-commercial clinical research plays an increasingly essential role for global health. Multiple partners join in international consortia that operate under the limited timeframe of a specific funding period....

    Authors: Raffaella Ravinetto, Katelijne De Nys, Marleen Boelaert, Ermias Diro, Graeme Meintjes, Yeka Adoke, Harry Tagbor and Minne Casteels
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015 15:34
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  24. To attain a successful treatment outcome, Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) treatment for people living with HIV requires more than 95 % adherence level. The adherence level varies depending on different population...

    Authors: Shiferaw Letta, Asrat Demissie, Lemessa Oljira and Yadeta Dessie
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015 15:33
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC International Health and Human Rights 2016 16:8

  25. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that 100–140 million girls and women have undergone female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C). FGM/C is an ancient cultural practice prevalent in 26 countries i...

    Authors: Yvonne Zurynski, Premala Sureshkumar, Amy Phu and Elizabeth Elliott
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015 15:32
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  26. HIV/AIDS continues to be a serious challenge to public health and human rights in the new millennium. The objective of this survey was to identify the correlation between socio-demographic characteristics and ...

    Authors: Zorica Terzic-Supic, Milena Santric-Milicevic, Momcilo Mirkovic, Svetlana Karic and Ivan Soldatovic
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015 15:31
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  27. As the human cost of the global economic crisis becomes apparent the ongoing discussions surrounding the post-2015 global development framework continue at a frenzied pace. Given the scale and scope of increas...

    Authors: Jennifer Prah Ruger, Rachel Hammonds, Gorik Ooms, Donna Barry, Audrey Chapman and Wim Van Damme
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015 15:30
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  28. There are several million war-refugees worldwide, majority of whom stay in the recipient countries for years. However, little is known about their long-term mental health. This review aimed to assess prevalenc...

    Authors: Marija Bogic, Anthony Njoku and Stefan Priebe
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015 15:29
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  29. Worldwide, thousands of children are acting in different roles in armed groups. Whereas human rights activism and humanitarian imperatives tend to emphasize the image of child soldiers as incapable victims of ...

    Authors: Ilse Derluyn, Wouter Vandenhole, Stephan Parmentier and Cindy Mels
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015 15:28
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  30. Previous studies suggest that countries with a higher child mortality rate are more susceptible to armed conflict onset as well as recurrence. Studies do not explain conditions under which child mortality decl...

    Authors: Madhav Joshi
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015 15:27
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  31. Human rights approaches now dominate the HIV prevention landscape across sub-Saharan Africa, yet little is known about how they are viewed by the populations they are designed to serve. Health interventions ar...

    Authors: Choolwe Muzyamba, Elena Broaddus and Catherine Campbell
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015 15:26
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  32. Rehabilitation care is fundamental to health and human dignity and a human right enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The provision of rehabilitation is import...

    Authors: Dimitrios Skempes and Jerome Bickenbach
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015 15:25
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  33. As globalisation has opened remote parts of the world to foreign investment, global leaders at the United Nations and beyond have called on multinational companies to foresee and mitigate negative impacts on t...

    Authors: Kendyl Salcito, Jürg Utzinger, Gary R. Krieger, Mark Wielga, Burton H. Singer, Mirko S. Winkler and Mitchell G. Weiss
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015 15:24
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  34. Child marriage (<18 years) is prevalent in Pakistan which is associated with negative health outcomes including intimate partner violence (IPV). Our aim is to describe the types and circumstances of IPV agains...

    Authors: Muazzam Nasrullah, Rubeena Zakar, Muhammad Zakria Zakar, Safdar Abbas and Rabia Safdar
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015 15:23
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  35. The Millennium Development Goals expire at the end of 2015 and global negotiations are underway to finalise the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals. Much activism has occurred encouraging a post-2015 healt...

    Authors: Claire E. Brolan, Peter S. Hill and Gorik Ooms
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015 15:22
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  36. Childhood sexual abuse is a major social problem in Africa including Ethiopia. Moreover, little has been explored about the pattern of childhood sexual abuse in the context of high school students in Ethiopia ...

    Authors: Aleme Mekuria, Aderajew Nigussie and Muluemebet Abera
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015 15:21
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  37. Immigration, both voluntary and forced, is driven by social, political and economic factors. Accordingly, some discussions and debates have emerged in recent years about the impact of migration on the health s...

    Authors: Sara Shishehgar, Leila Gholizadeh, Michelle DiGiacomo and Patricia M. Davidson
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015 15:20
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  38. Timely mouth-to-mouth ventilation is critical to resuscitate drowning victims. While drowning is frequent, there are no lay persons trained in cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in rural Bangladesh. As part ...

    Authors: Tom Stefan Mecrow, Aminur Rahman, Saidur Rahman Mashreky, Fazlur Rahman, Nahida Nusrat, Justin Scarr and Michael Linnan
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015 15:19
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  39. A significant proportion of neonatal mortality can be prevented by the provision of the minimum neonatal care package. However, about 3 million neonates die each year globally because of lack of appropriate ca...

    Authors: Gurmesa Tura, Mesganaw Fantahun and Alemayehu worku
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015 15:18
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  40. There is an emerging global consensus on the importance of universal health coverage (UHC), but no unanimity on the conceptual definition and scope of UHC, whether UHC is achievable or not, how to move towards...

    Authors: Gilbert Abotisem Abiiro and Manuela De Allegri
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015 15:17
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  41. Diversity in Europe has both increased and become more complex posing challenges to both national and local welfare state regimes. Evidence indicates specific barriers for migrant, faith and minority ethnic gr...

    Authors: Jenny Phillimore, Hannah Bradby, Michi Knecht, Beatriz Padilla, Tilman Brand, Sin Yi Cheung, Simon Pemberton and Hajo Zeeb
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015 15:16
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  42. An assessment of self-efficacy and social capital may have the potential to detect an effect of dynamic, complex and comprehensive collective actions in community-based health promotion. In 2003, a healthy vil...

    Authors: Motoyuki Yuasa, Yoshihisa Shirayama, Keiichi Osato, Cesar Miranda, Julia Condore and Roxana Siles
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015 15:15
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  43. Identity registration is not only a matter of human rights but it also serves as an important instrument for planning about health, education and overall development. This paper examines the chances of a child...

    Authors: Joshua Amo-Adjei and Samuel Kobina Annim
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015 15:14
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  44. In recent years, border control and migration-related detention have become increasingly widespread practices affecting the lives of undocumented migrants, their families, and communities at large. In spite of...

    Authors: Francesca Esposito, José Ornelas and Caterina Arcidiacono
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015 15:13
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  45. In this article we describe a phenomenological lifeworld study based on the theory of communicative action of 13 women with noncommunicable disease (NCDs) in a rural area in South Africa. The purpose of the st...

    Authors: Daniel Lopes Ibanez-Gonzalez and Stephen M. Tollman
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015 15:12
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  46. Health is intertwined with human rights as is clearly reflected in the right to life. Promotion of health practices in the context of human rights can be accomplished if there is a better understanding of the ...

    Authors: Ronald Wesonga, Abraham Owino, Agnes Ssekiboobo, Leonard Atuhaire and Peter Jehopio
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015 15:11
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  47. Muslim women are one sub-population in Ghana among whom the rate of skilled maternal health services accessibility and utilisation is very low. However, there are no studies in Ghana that explore the maternity...

    Authors: John Kuumuori Ganle
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015 15:10
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  48. Despite the instruments on the right to adequate food adopted by the United Nations, there exists limited information on how this right is perceived. Following a major 2010 landslide disaster in the Bududa dis...

    Authors: Peter M Rukundo, Per O Iversen, Bård A Andreassen, Arne Oshaug, Joyce Kikafunda and Byaruhanga Rukooko
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015 15:9
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  49. Karen refugees have suffered traumatic experiences that affect their physical and mental health in resettlement. The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends assessing traumatic hist...

    Authors: Tonya L Cook, Patricia J Shannon, Gregory A Vinson, James P Letts and Ehtaw Dwee
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015 15:8
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  50. Armed conflict potentially poses serious challenges to access and quality of maternal and reproductive health (MRH) services, resulting in increased maternal morbidity and mortality. The effects of armed confl...

    Authors: Primus Che Chi, Patience Bulage, Henrik Urdal and Johanne Sundby
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015 15:7
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