SNAC for enhanced oral bioavailability: An updated review
The delivery of proteins and peptides via an oral route poses numerous challenges to improve the oral bioavailability and patient compliance. To overcome these challenges, as well as to improve the...
View ArticleIs Pakistan’s fertility transition stalling?
This study examines the question as to whether Pakistan’s fertility transition is stalling. The paper reviews the trajectories of fertility and its various determinants and compares Pakistan’s trends...
View ArticleFactors influencing community-facility linkage for case management of...
Despite evidence showing the feasibility and acceptability of implementing the World Health Organization’s guidelines on managing possible serious bacterial infections (PSBI) in Kenya, the initial...
View ArticleThe Radical Power of Education
When education works, people thrive and societies flourish alongside economies. We have made real progress on primary enrollment on the global scale, with 90% of children enrolling in school. However,...
View ArticleThe Radical Power of Education—Brief
This research brief summarizes the findings of GEJE’s recent report on the impact of education across society.
View ArticleMentoring in group-based adolescent girl programs in low- and middle-income...
Adolescent girls face distinct challenges that require tailored and girl-centered responses. This brief draws on the knowledge of program implementers and researchers who work on community-based girl...
View ArticleEmbedding implementation research to cross the quality of care chasm during...
Michael Peters and colleagues argue that concerted efforts to embed implementation research can improve health services, even in the most challenging operating environments.
View ArticleCountry level data for the "The Radical Power of Education" report
Data accompanying the The Radical Power of Education prepared for the Gender, Education, Justice and Equity Initiative (GEJE) of the Population Council.
View ArticleAccidental traffickers: Qualitative findings on labour recruitment in Ethiopia
Background: The growth of labour migration and associated risks of human trafficking and exploitation remain significant global human rights and health challenges. There is increasing policy interest...
View Article“I have to do it in secrecy”: Provider perspectives on HIV service delivery...
Key populations (KPs) experience suboptimal outcomes along the HIV care and prevention continua, but there is limited study of the challenges service providers encounter delivering HIV services to...
View ArticleAchieving maternal and neonatal mortality development goals effectively: A...
Each year, 295,000 women die during and just after pregnancy, and 2.4 million babies die in the first month of their lives. In 2019, 2,160,000 neonatal deaths and 275,000 maternal deaths occurred in...
View ArticleDo income and income inequality have any impact on morbidity? Evidence from...
Rising income inequality, along with the increasing trend of morbidity, poses a serious concern in India. The objective of this chapter is to examine whether income and income inequality have any...
View ArticleTransition in dietary quality: Evidence from India
Despite significant economic growth over the past decades, poor nutritional status in India is a serious concern. The social transformation led by growth in income influences both the composition of...
View ArticleA shot at economic prosperity: Long-term effects of India’s childhood...
Routine childhood vaccinations are among the most cost-effective child health interventions. In recent years, the broader benefits of vaccines, which include improved cognitive and schooling outcomes,...
View ArticleMotivations for entering and remaining in volunteer service: findings from a...
Background: A high burden of HIV in many sub-Saharan African countries has triggered renewed interest in volunteer-based community health programmes as a way to support treatment roll-out and to...
View ArticleLeveraging responsive feedback to redesign a demand generation strategy:...
Use of modern contraceptives in Nigeria is low (12%) despite very high knowledge of modern methods (92%). Knowledge of modern methods of contraception in Lagos and Kaduna is high at nearly 100% and...
View ArticlePattern and determinants of contraceptive use among the muslim women in Wajir...
Background: Improving access to family planning (FP) is associated with positive health benefits that includes averting nearly a third of all maternal deaths and 10% of childhood deaths. Kenya has...
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