Attached link to call for papers for a special issue of JAMA to be published next year on global health issues which may be of interest to some of you
Best wishes
David McDaid
LSE Health and Social Care
Global Health--Targeting Problems and Achieving Solutions: A Call for
Papers
Annette Flanagin and Margaret A. Winker
JAMA 2003;290 1382-1384
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/290/10/1382?etoc
".....To focus research, attention, and the awareness of the medical community on this challenge, JAMA plans to publish a theme issue on global health that targets the world's major health problems and focuses on developing countries. Thus, we invite papers that address avoidable and preventable health problems and diseases within the developing world. Reports of research and outcomes-based assessments of reductions in risk and exposure, interventions, programs, and health services to address these problems within developing countries will be given highest priority. Research aimed at improving local and global surveillance systems, tools, knowledge, and expertise to monitor, control, and prevent disease and promote health in locally relevant, affordable, and sustainable ways are welcome. We also encourage the submission of manuscripts that address ways to improve and sustain local research capacity and technology and knowledge transfer. Such studies must include locally defined and relevant applications and practice at national or community levels, and they should consider the potential for broader-global-applications of such research......."
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