Health and Nutrition
Our health and nutrition work brings new understanding and action on health tackling epidemics, antimicrobial resistance and zoonotic...
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Our health and nutrition work brings new understanding and action on health tackling epidemics, antimicrobial resistance and zoonotic...
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.
Published by: BioMed Central
The aim of this paper is to contribute to debates about how governments and other stakeholders can influence the application of ICTs to increase access to safe, effective and affordable treatment of common illnesses, especially by the poor.
Read the winning five short stories which in our recent 50th Anniversary short story competition.
As part of its 50th anniversary celebrations, IDS ran a short story competition open to staff, students, alumni and organisational partners with a story to tell about development.
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This article is concerned with the ways in which gender and development discourses and frameworks have been appropriated into a...
Development studies is an uneasy discipline. It has a relatively short history that is linked particularly to decolonisation and the...
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Abortion has become an ever more controversial issue, provoking strong reactions both ‘for’ and ‘against’. The very language...
Published by: IDS
Many low and middle-income countries have pluralistic health systems with a variety of providers of health-related goods and services in terms of their level of training, their ownership (public or private) and their relationship with the regulatory system.
Published by: IDS
Abortion has become an ever more controversial issue, provoking strong reactions both 'for' and 'against'. Language used in disputes over whether or not women should have access to safe and legal abortion indicates just how polarised debates have become: pro-choice versus pro-life; pro-abortion versus anti-choice.