The U.S. Global Health Initiative (GHI) represents the Obama administration’s new strategy for international … development assistance in health. With a pledge of $63 billion over six years, GHI aims to fund PEPFAR and a set of broader global … health issues (e.g., maternal and child health, nutrition, and neglected tropical diseases). GHI is also being framed as …

A global health treaty, a Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) – grounded in the right to health, with the … central goal of reducing immense domestic and global health inequities – could serve as a robust global governance instrument … essential conditions for a healthy life – public health, health care, and the positive social determinants of health – while …

, within the broader context of non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention, is an important pathway to global health and …

Prenatal care is an essential segment of maternal health-care. In this paper an attempt has been made to examine the … sufficient iron supplementation respectively has been taken from Indian Demographic and Health Survey (IDHS) 2005-6. To estimate … into individual characteristics of the woman, household characteristics, health-related characteristics, community …

The Sustainable Development Goal 3 targets aim to ensure that individuals achieve universal health coverage and that … and global health risks including emerging infectious diseases outbreaks is strengthened. Funding for the achievement of …. Universal health coverage is achievable with formulated social health insurance programs that ensure consistent and predictable …

International law has responded weakly to the inequities in health care, public health, and the broader determinates of … health that collectively cause the greatest loss of lives and human potential every year. Approximately one-third of global … deaths can be attributed to enduring and unconscionable inequities. Despite significant progress in improving global health …