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| Title |
Medicine for global health: can “simple interventions” improve the worldwide burden of disease?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medicine, March 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1741-7015-11-72 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Gretchen Birbeck |
| Abstract |
Improvements to medical practice and delivery of treatment has been the focus of many international collaborations aiming to address the delivery of appropriate health care in low- and middle-income countries. However, this is compounded by various social, cultural as well as resource allocation issues. This Editorial marks the launch of an article collection on Medicine for Global Health (http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcmed/series/medicine_for_global_health), and here, guest editor Gretchen Birbeck discusses the challenges, importance and increasing relevance of global health. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 17 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 18% |
| Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 2 | 12% |
| Mexico | 2 | 12% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 6% |
| Colombia | 1 | 6% |
| Pakistan | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 7 | 41% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 11 | 65% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 5 | 29% |
| Scientists | 1 | 6% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 25 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 25 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 3 | 12% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 3 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 12% |
| Researcher | 3 | 12% |
| Other | 2 | 8% |
| Unknown | 8 | 32% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 13 | 52% |
| Social Sciences | 2 | 8% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 1 | 4% |
| Linguistics | 1 | 4% |
| Psychology | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 7 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 May 2014.
All research outputs
#1,878,162
of 24,673,288 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#1,309
of 3,816 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,830
of 200,409 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#44
of 93 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,673,288 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 92nd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,816 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 44.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 65% of its peers.
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