Low-cost liquid medium for in vitro cultivation of Leishmania parasites in low-income countries.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We assessed the availability of essential medicines for mental healthcare (MH) across levels of the public healthcare system to aid in future systems planning. DESIGN:Non-expired MH medications were assessed in 24 public health facilities and 13 district warehouses across Sofala Province, Mozambique, from Ju...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Wagenaar BH,Stergachis A,Rao D,Hoek R,Cumbe V,Napúa M,Sherr K

更新日期：2015-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In India, 50-65% of the population face difficulties in accessing medicines. The Health Impact Fund (HIF) is a novel proposal whereby pharmaceutical companies would be paid based on the measured global health impact of their drugs. We conducted a key stakeholder analysis to explore access to medicines in Ind...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： McMullan P,Ajay VS,Srinivas R,Bhalla S,Prabhakaran D,Banerjee A

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Dengue fever is an important vector-transmitted disease that affects more than 100 countries worldwide. Locations where individuals tend to gather may play an important role in disease transmission in the presence of the vector. By controlling mosquitoes' breeding places, this study aims to analyze the eff...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Hernández-Suárez CM,Mendoza-Cano O

更新日期：2016-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 4-year (2007-2011) Revitalizing Health for All international research program (http://www.globalhealthequity.ca/projects/proj_revitalizing/index.shtml) supported 20 research teams located in 15 low- and middle-income countries to explore the strengths and weaknesses of comprehensive primary health care (...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Labonté R,Sanders D,Packer C,Schaay N

更新日期：2014-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Bangladesh has historically been cholera endemic, with seasonal cholera outbreaks occurring each year. In collaboration with the government of Bangladesh, the Infectious Diseases Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) initiated operational research to test strategies to re...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Khan IA,Khan AI,Rahman A,Siddique SA,Islam MT,Bhuiyan MAI,Chowdhury AI,Saha NC,Biswas PK,Saha A,Chowdhury F,Clemens JD,Qadri F

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The double burden of tuberculosis (TB) and diabetes mellitus (DM) is hitting certain Asian countries harder than other areas. In a global estimate, 15% of all TB cases could be attributable to DM, with 40% of those cases coming from India and China. Many other countries of South, East, and South-East Asia ar...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Zheng C,Hu M,Gao F

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hazardous alcohol use is detrimental to persons with HIV (PWH), impacting medication adherence and liver function, yet globally resources to target alcohol use behavior in this population are limited. Few studies have identified the costs of integrating alcohol reduction interventions into HIV care. OBJECTI...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Blackburn NA,Go VF,Bui Q,Hutton H,Tampi RP,Sripaipan T,Ha TV,Latkin C,Golden S,Golin C,Chander G,Frangakis C,Gottfredson N,Dowdy DW

更新日期：2020-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nutrition is the intake of food in relation to the body's dietary needs. Malnutrition results from the intake of inadequate or excess food. This can lead to reduced immunity, increased susceptibility to disease, impaired physical and mental development, and reduced productivity. OBJECTIVE:To perform a syste...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Arthur SS,Nyide B,Soura AB,Kahn K,Weston M,Sankoh O

更新日期：2015-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vietnam has achieved great improvements in maternal healthcare outcomes, but there is evidence of increasing inequity. Disadvantaged groups, predominantly ethnic minorities and people living in remote mountainous areas, do not gain access to maternal health improvements despite targeted efforts from policyma...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Binder-Finnema P,Lien PT,Hoa DT,Målqvist M

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The collaborative quality improvement approach proposed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement has the potential to improve coverage of evidence-based maternal and newborn health practices. The Safe Care, Saving Lives initiative supported the implementation of 20 evidence-based maternal and newborn care...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Hanson C,Zamboni K,Prabhakar V,Sudke A,Shukla R,Tyagi M,Singh S,Schellenberg J

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Worldwide, there is an increased reliance on casual staff in the health sector. Recent policy attention in South Africa has focused on the interrelated challenges of agency nursing and moonlighting in the health sector. OBJECTIVE:This paper examines the potential health system consequences of agency nursing...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Rispel LC,Blaauw D

更新日期：2015-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Globally, opportunities to validate government reports through external audits are rare, notably in India. A cross-sectional maternal health study in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, compares government administrative data and externally collected data on maternal health service indicators. Obje...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Phillips BS,Singhal S,Mishra S,Kajal F,Cotter SY,Sudhinaraset M

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The main cardio-metabolic diseases - mostly cardiovascular diseases such as stroke and ischemic heart disease - share common clinical markers such as raised blood pressure and blood glucose. The pathways of development of many of these conditions are also interlinked. In this regard, a higher level of co-o...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Haregu TN,Oti S,Ngomi N,Khayeka-Wandabwa C,Egondi T,Kyobutungi C

更新日期：2016-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Individuals in conflict-affected areas rarely get appropriate care for chronic or non-infectious diseases. The prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is increasing worldwide, and new evidence shows conclusively that the negative effects of hyperglycemia occur even at mild glucose elevations and th...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Gilder ME,Zin TW,Wai NS,Ner M,Say PS,Htoo M,Say S,Htay WW,Simpson JA,Pukrittayakamee S,Nosten F,McGready R

更新日期：2014-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health systems, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, are commonly plagued by poor access, poor performance, inefficient use and inequitable distribution of resources. To improve health system efficiency, equity and effectiveness, the World Development Report of 1993 proposed a first wave of heal...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Mbau R,Gilson L

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Women in sub-Saharan Africa bear the brunt of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic, and older married women and those in cohabiting relationships are regarded as the largest HIV risk group. Although preventing HIV infection in married or stable relationships is an international HIV prevention prio...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Madiba S,Ngwenya N

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical schistosomiasis in endemic countries is treated with a single dose of praziquantel per 40 mg/kg body weight. Treating according to weight, in resource-poor settings when thousands of doses are to be administered in mass treatment campaigns, is considered problematic. A calibrated dose-pole based on ...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Nordin P,Poggensee G,Mtweve S,Krantz I

更新日期：2014-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Support supervision is one of the strategies used to check the quality of services provided at health facilities. From 2013 to 2015, Makerere University School of Public Health strengthened support supervision in the district of Kibuku, Kamuli and Pallisa in Eastern Uganda to improve the quality of maternal ...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Kisakye AN,Muhumuza Kananura R,Ekirapa-Kiracho E,Bua J,Akulume M,Namazzi G,Namusoke Kiwanuka S

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community-based research on child survival in sub-Saharan Africa has focussed on the increased provision of curative health services by a formalised cadre of lay community health workers (CHWs), but we have identified a particular configuration, that deserves closer scrutiny. We identified a two-tiered CHW system, wit...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Leon N,Sanders D,Van Damme W,Besada D,Daviaud E,Oliphant NP,Berzal R,Mason J,Doherty T

更新日期：2015-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early medical checkups during and after delivery are key strategies to detect, prevent and treat maternal health concerns. Knowledge of interrelationships between early Antenatal Care (ANC), skilled delivery and early postnatal care (EPNC) is essential for focused and well-targeted interventions. This paper ...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Atuhaire R,Atuhaire LK,Wamala R,Nansubuga E

更新日期：2020-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Stability of measures in quantitative social science research is crucial to understand. There is very little evidence on the stability of violence against women and girls measures in the global South. Objective: To assess the test-retest stability of violence against women and girls measures, amongst young...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Gibbs A,Pretorius L,Jewkes R

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There have been various consultations on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by different groups. However, even if it is clear that the health sector has led the development success of the MDGs, only a few MDG reports consider public health experts' points of view and these are mainly government driven. ...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Lomazzi M,Laaser U,Theisling M,Tapia L,Borisch B

更新日期：2014-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The burden of diabetes mellitus in Sub-Saharan Africa is growing rapidly, and yet the prevalence and patient characteristics are still largely unknown. OBJECTIVES:We analyzed clinical and demographic characteristics of Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) patients attending a diabetes clinic in Guinea-Bissau from Februar...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Byberg S,Bundesen C,Rudolf F,Haraldsdottir TL,Indjai L,Barai R,Beck-Nielsen H,Sodemann M,Jensen DM,Bjerregaard-Andersen M

更新日期：2020-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental and social changes associated with climate change are likely to have impacts on the well-being, health, and productivity of many working populations across the globe. The ramifications of climate change for working populations are not restricted to increases in heat exposure. Other significant risks to w...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Bennett CM,McMichael AJ

更新日期：2010-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:India's older population is projected to increase up to 96 million by 2011 with older people accounting for 18% of its population by 2051. The Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health aims to improve empirical understanding of health and well-being of older adults in developing countries. OBJECTIVES:To exami...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Hirve S,Juvekar S,Lele P,Agarwal D

更新日期：2010-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Infants exposed to maternal HIV infection who remain HIV-uninfected (HIV-exposed/uninfected; HIV-EU) may be at increased risk of growth retardation, which could be due both to directly HIV-related effects and to socio-economic factors overrepresented among HIV-positive women. OBJECTIVE:To investigate growth...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： König Walles J,Balcha TT,Winqvist N,Björkman P

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ghana is classified as being in the malaria control phase, according to the global malaria elimination program. With many years of policy development and control interventions, malaria specific mortality among children less than 5 years old has declined from 14.4% in 2000 to 0.6% in 2012. However, the same level of su...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Awine T,Malm K,Bart-Plange C,Silal SP

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study explores violence against women in a low-income setting in relation to residency and literacy. SETTING:The study was conducted within the Butajira Rural Health Programme (a Health and Demographic Surveillance Site), which includes rural and semi-urban settings in south-central Ethiopia. DESIGN:Th...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Deyessa N,Berhane Y,Ellsberg M,Emmelin M,Kullgren G,Högberg U

更新日期：2010-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to learn about the progress of the prevention and control of major non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China from 1990 to 2009 and to determine what prevention and control gaps remain based on the opinions of a group of panellists. DESIGN:Sixty-four panellists, who are members of th...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Lv J,Liu M,Jiang Y,Li LM

更新日期：2013-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Initiation of breastfeeding later than 1 hour after birth is associated with increased neonatal morbidity and mortality. OBJECTIVE:To determine the prevalence and factors associated with delayed initiation of breastfeeding. METHODS:We conducted a survey in 2016 of 930 children under the age of 2 years in L...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Mukunya D,Tumwine JK,Nankabirwa V,Ndeezi G,Odongo I,Tumuhamye J,Tongun JB,Kizito S,Napyo A,Achora V,Odongkara B,Tylleskar T

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00