A pilot field evaluation on heat stress in sugarcane workers in Costa Rica: What to do next?

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:A woman's satisfaction with childbirth services can have a significant impact on her mental health and ability to bond with her neonate. Knowing postnatal women's opinions and satisfaction with services makes the services more women-friendly. Indian women's satisfaction with childbirth services has been expl...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Jha P,Larsson M,Christensson K,Skoog Svanberg A

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:More than 95% of the population in Burkina Faso uses some form of solid biomass fuel. When these fuels are burned in traditional, inefficient stoves, pollutant levels within and outside the home can be very high. This can have important consequences for both health and climate change. Thus, the push to swi...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Yamamoto S,Sié A,Sauerborn R

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In medical school, students may participate in various community involvement projects (CIP), which serve disadvantaged communities. However, several obstacles may arise during these projects. The authors conducted a qualitative study with the primary aim of understanding the obstacles and corresponding potentia...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Loh AZ,Tan JS,Lee JJ,Koh GC

更新日期：2015-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Amidst diverging discourses describing chronic non-communicable disease (NCD) and healthcare access, the hermeneutical tradition within sociology, particularly as exemplified in the work of Jurgen Habermas, provides a starting point for exploring and interpreting the experiences of chronic illness and health...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Lopes Ibanez-Gonzalez D

更新日期：2014-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mortality has been declining in Bangladesh since the mid- twentieth century, while fertility has been declining since the late 1970s, and the country is now passing through the third stage of demographic transition. This type of demographic transition has produced a huge youthful population with a growing nu...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Razzaque A,Nahar L,Akter Khanam M,Kim Streatfield P

更新日期：2010-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The World Health Organization emphasized that climate change is a significant and emerging threat to public health, especially in lower income populations and tropical/subtropical countries. However, people in Asia and Africa were the least likely to perceive global warming as a threat. In Vietnam, little re...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Toan do TT,Kien VD,Bao Giang K,Van Minh H,Wright P

更新日期：2014-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nearly all newborn deaths occur in low- or middle-income countries. Many of these deaths could be prevented through promotion and provision of newborn care practices such as thermal care, early and exclusive breastfeeding, and hygienic cord care. Home visit programmes promoting these practices were piloted i...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Sitrin D,Guenther T,Waiswa P,Namutamba S,Namazzi G,Sharma S,Ashish KC,Rubayet S,Bhadra S,Ligowe R,Chimbalanga E,Sewell E,Kerber K,Moran A

更新日期：2015-03-31 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：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:Non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs) have increased in South Africa over the past 15 years. While these usually manifest during mid-to-late adulthood, the development of modifiable risk factors that contribute to NCDs are usually adopted early in life. OBJECTIVE:To describe the urban-rural and gender pa...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Peer N,Bradshaw D,Laubscher R,Steyn N,Steyn K

更新日期：2013-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Environmentally acquired asbestos-related diseases (ARDs) are of concern globally. In South Africa, there is widespread contamination of the environment due to historical asbestos mining operations that were poorly regulated. Although the law makes provision for the compensation of occupationally acquired AR...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Ndlovu N,Naude Jt,Murray J

更新日期：2013-01-24 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：:Once an orphan field, 'global mental health' now has wide acknowledgement and prominence on the global health agenda. Increased recognition draws needed attention to individual suffering and the population impacts, but medicalizing global mental health produces a narrow view of the problems and solutions. Early framin...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Clark J

更新日期：2014-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:This study explores the perceptions of a wide range of stakeholders in Malawi towards the mental health impact of intimate partner violence (IPV) and the capacity of health services for addressing these. DESIGN:In-depth interviews (IDIs) and focus group discussions (FGDs) were conducted in th...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Chepuka L,Taegtmeyer M,Chorwe-Sungani G,Mambulasa J,Chirwa E,Tolhurst R

更新日期：2014-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:China has made impressive progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) for maternal and reproductive health, but ensuring that progress reaches all segments of the population remains a challenge for policy makers. The aim of this review is to map disadvantaged populations in terms of maternal healt...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Yuan B,Qian X,Thomsen S

更新日期：2013-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: mHealth applications assist workflow, help move towards equitable access to care, and facilitate care delivery. They have great potential to impact care in low-resource countries, but have significant ethical concerns pertaining to patient autonomy, safety, and justice. Objective: To achieve consensus amon...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Laflamme L,Chipps J,Fangerau H,Juth N,Légaré F,Sawe HR,Wallis L

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Global mental health (GMH) advocates for access to and the equitable provision of mental health care. Although the treatment gap is a useful construct to measure access and equitability of care, it fails to communicate the real-life consequences of the treatment gap and the urgent need to address care dispar...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Fekadu A,Thornicroft G

更新日期：2014-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mortality in a population may be clustered in space and time for a variety of reasons, including geography, socio-economics, environment and demographics. Analysing mortality clusters can therefore reveal important insights into patterns and risks of mortality in a particular setting. OBJECTIVE AND DESIGN:T...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Byass P,Fantahun M,Emmelin A,Molla M,Berhane Y

更新日期：2010-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS) is used to evaluate health services. Subunits of a population (lots) are accepted or rejected according to the number of failures in a random sample (N) of a given lot. If failures are greater than decision value (d), we reject the lot and recommend corrective actions in the lot (...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Pezzoli L,Kim SH

更新日期：2013-11-08 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:Despite the implementation of Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS) strategy in all public health centers in Papua Province, Indonesia, since 1998, the rate of loss to follow-up (LTFU) during tuberculosis (TB) treatment remains high (above 16%). OBJECTIVES:We aimed to identify factors associated w...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Ruru Y,Matasik M,Oktavian A,Senyorita R,Mirino Y,Tarigan LH,van der Werf MJ,Tiemersma E,Alisjahbana B

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diarrheal diseases are a major cause of child mortality and one of the main causes of medical consultation for children in sub-Saharan countries. This paper attempts to determine the risk factors and neighborhood inequalities of diarrheal morbidity among under-5 children in selected countries in sub-Saharan ...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Bado AR,Susuman AS,Nebie EI

更新日期：2016-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Based on previous data, road traffic injury (RTI) was a leading cause of non-fatal injury in all-age groups in Vietnam, and among the top causes of injury in children and adolescents. Specific analysis on RTIs in young people, however, has yet to be fully investigated. Using the results of two surveys in 200...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Le LC,Blum RW

更新日期：2013-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a significant contributor to Malawi's burden of disease. Despite a number of studies describing socio-economic differences in HIV prevalence, there is a paucity of evidence on socio-economic inequity in HIV testing in Malawi. OBJECTIVE:To assess horizontal inequity (HI)...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Kim SW,Skordis-Worrall J,Haghparast-Bidgoli H,Pulkki-Brännström AM

更新日期：2016-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study is to critically assess the possible roles of information and communications technology (ICT) in supporting global health goals. This is done by considering privilege and connectibility. In short, ICT can contribute by providing health information via four different kinds of access, each wi...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Boman M,Kruse E

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Legal empowerment of the poor is highly relevant to public health as it aims to relieve income poverty, a main determinant of health. The Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor (CLEP) has proposed legal empowerment measures in the following four domains: access to justice and the rule of law, property, ...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Borg J,Bergman AK,Östergren PO

更新日期：2013-11-15 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:Comzmercialization of health care has contributed to widen inequities between the rich and the poor, especially in settings with suboptimal regulatory frameworks of the health sector. Poorly regulated fee-for-service payment systems generate inequity and initiate a vicious circle in which access to quality h...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Stasse S,Vita D,Kimfuta J,da Silveira VC,Bossyns P,Criel B

更新日期：2015-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Participation of private practitioners in routine disease surveillance in India is minimal despite the fact that they account for over 70% of the primary healthcare provision. We aimed to investigate the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of private practitioners in the city of Pune toward disease surveilla...

journal_title：Global health action

authors： Phalkey RK,Kroll M,Dutta S,Shukla S,Butsch C,Bharucha E,Kraas F

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00