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Key Considerations for Accountability and Gender in Health Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This article poses questions, challenges, and dilemmas for health system researchers striving to better understand how gender shapes...

We Have the Internet in Our Hands’: Bangladeshi College Students’ Use of ICTs For Health Information

Published by: BioMed Central

Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) which enable people to access, use and promote health information through digital technology, promise important health systems innovations which can challenge gatekeepers’ control of information, through processes of disintermediation.

Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation in Urbanising Contexts

Published by: Routledge

The world’s urban population is expected to rise from 3.9 to 6.4 billion people between 2014 and 2050, with 90% of this increase in Asia and Africa (UN, 2014).

Pathways to Success: Bringing a Gender Lens to the Scientific Leadership of Global Challenges

Published by: GenderInSITE

Over the past 50 years, the organisation of science has been completely transformed by globalisation and digitisation. This is...

Accountability in Health Systems and the Potential of mHealth

Published by: IDS

The rapid spread of information and communication technologies (ICTs) (and of mobile phones in particular) across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has generated considerable excitement in development circles regarding their potential to revolutionise service delivery in health systems.

ICT-Facilitated Accountability and Engagement in Health Systems: a Review of Making All Voices Count mHealth for Accountability Projects

Published by: IDS

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) and mHealth innovations hold great potential to improve health systems and health outcomes while at the same time enhancing citizen engagement and accountability. Yet there has been little assessment of the impact of mHealth innovations on the ground.

Views from Many Worlds: Unsettling Categories in Interdisciplinary Research on Endemic Zoonotic Diseases

Interdisciplinary research on zoonotic disease has tended to focus on ‘risk’ of disease transmission as a conceptual common...

Socio-Cultural Determinants of Human-Bat Interaction in Rural Ghana

Bats are known to be a natural reservoir for a lot of disease pathogens and can spread several diseases. All 11 genera of fruit bat...