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Anthony Barry Zwi

School of Social Sciences, The University of New South Wales
Verified email at unsw.edu.au
Cited by 28807

The world report on violence and health

EG Krug, JA Mercy, LL Dahlberg, AB Zwi - The lancet, 2002 - thelancet.com
Summary In 1996, the World Health Assembly declared violence a major public health
issue. To follow up on this resolution, on Oct 3 this year, WHO released the first World Report …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the burden of COVID-19 in developing countries: systematic review, meta-analysis and public policy implications

AT Levin, N Owusu-Boaitey, S Pugh, BK Fosdick… - BMJ Global …, 2022 - gh.bmj.com
Introduction The infection fatality rate (IFR) of COVID-19 has been carefully measured and
analysed in high-income countries, whereas there has been no systematic analysis of age …

[HTML][HTML] Brain gains: a literature review of medical missions to low and middle-income countries

ALC Martiniuk, M Manouchehrian, JA Negin… - BMC Health Services …, 2012 - Springer
Background Healthcare professionals' participation in short-term medical missions to low
and middle income countries (LMIC) to provide healthcare has become common over the …

[HTML][HTML] Pathways to “evidence-informed” policy and practice: a framework for action

S Bowen, AB Zwi - PLoS medicine, 2005 - journals.plos.org
Pathways to “Evidence-Informed” Policy and Practice: A Framework for Action | PLOS Medicine
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Our health and theirs: Forced migration, othering, and public health

NJ Grove, AB Zwi - Social science & medicine, 2006 - Elsevier
This paper uses 'othering'theory to explore how forced migrants are received in developed
countries and considers the implications of this for public health. It identifies a variety of …

Violence against women: a neglected public health issue in less developed countries

LL Heise, A Raikes, CH Watts, AB Zwi - Social science & medicine, 1994 - Elsevier
Violence against women is a significant public health issue in countries of both the
industrialized and less developed world. This paper describes the magnitude and health …

Increasing the use of evidence in health policy: practice and views of policy makers and researchers

DM Campbell, S Redman, L Rychentnik… - Australia and New …, 2009 - CSIRO Publishing
Background: Better communication is often suggested as fundamental to increasing the use
of research evidence in policy, but little is known about how researchers and policy makers …

Violence: a glossary

A Rutherford, AB Zwi, NJ Grove… - Journal of epidemiology & …, 2007 - jech.bmj.com
Violence has been explicitly identified as a significant public health problem. This glossary
clarifies widely used definitions and concepts of violence within the public health field …

[HTML][HTML] Migration and health: a global public health research priority

K Wickramage, J Vearey, AB Zwi, C Robinson… - BMC public health, 2018 - Springer
Background With 244 million international migrants, and significantly more people moving
within their country of birth, there is an urgent need to engage with migration at all levels in …

Public health and humanitarian interventions: developing the evidence base

N Banatvala, AB Zwi - Bmj, 2000 - bmj.com
Worldwide, millions of people are annually affected by conflict and over $2 bn was spent on
non-food emergency aid each year between 1991 and 1997. 1 Recently, 30 million people …