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BACKGROUND:Costa Rica, like other developing countries, is experiencing an increasing burden of chronic conditions such as diabetes mellitus (DM), especially among its elderly population. This article has two goals: (1) to assess the level of metabolic control among the diabetic population age >or= 60 years old in Costa Rica, and (2) to test whether diabetic elderly patients of community health centers differ from patients in other health care settings in terms of the level of metabolic control.
METHODS:Data come from the project CRELES, a nationally representative study of people aged 60 and over in Costa Rica. This article analyzes a subsample of 542 participants in CRELES with self-reported diagnosis of diabetes mellitus. Odds ratios of poor levels of metabolic control at different health care settings are computed using logistic regressions.
RESULTS:Lack of metabolic control among elderly diabetic population in Costa Rica is described as follows: 37% have glycated hemoglobin >or= 7%; 78% have systolic blood pressure >or= 130 mmHg; 66% have diastolic blood pressure >or= 80 mmHg; 48% have triglycerides >or= 150 mg/dl; 78% have LDL >or= 100 mg/dl; 70% have HDL journal_name journal_title authors doi subject pub_date pages issn pii journal_volume pub_type
abstract：BACKGROUND:Smoking is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally. There is therefore need to identify relevant factors associated with smoking among adolescents in order to better tailor public health interventions aimed at preventing smoking. METHODS:We used data from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) c...
journal_title：BMC international health and human rights
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/1472-698X-8-1
更新日期：2008-01-14 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Estimation of the size of populations at risk of HIV is a key activity in the surveillance of the HIV epidemic. The existing framework for considering future research needs may provide decision-makers with a basis for a fair process of deciding on the methods of the estimation of the size of key populations ...
journal_title：BMC international health and human rights
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12914-018-0141-y
更新日期：2018-01-30 00:00:00
abstract：:BACKGROUND: Only governments sensitive to the demands of their citizens appropriately respond to needs of their nation. Based on Professor Amartya Sen's analysis of the link between famine and democracy, the following null hypothesis was tested: "Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevalence is not associated with gov...
journal_title：BMC international health and human rights
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/1472-698X-5-4
更新日期：2005-04-25 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Diversity in Europe has both increased and become more complex posing challenges to both national and local welfare state regimes. Evidence indicates specific barriers for migrant, faith and minority ethnic groups when accessing healthcare. However, previous studies of health in diverse cities in European co...
journal_title：BMC international health and human rights
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12914-015-0055-x
更新日期：2015-06-28 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) is an important component of national HIV programs, which are necessary to realize the right to health. VCT data also provide valuable information on regional HIV epidemiology. METHODS:The study examines data on the population that obtained HIV VCT in Kenema District,...
journal_title：BMC international health and human rights
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/1472-698X-10-4
更新日期：2010-03-09 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Women, especially those who marry as children, experience various forms and degrees of exclusion and discrimination. Early marriage is a harmful traditional practice that continues to affect millions around the world. Though it has declined over the years, it is still pervasive in developing countries. In Et...
journal_title：BMC international health and human rights
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12914-020-00249-5
更新日期：2020-12-14 00:00:00
abstract：UNLABELLED: BACKGROUND:While there are biomedical drugs for managing diabetes mellitus, some patients with diabetes use traditional medicine. The aim of the study was to explore why patients with diabetes use traditional medicine for the treatment of diabetes. METHODS:The study was conducted in Iganga and Bugiri dist...
journal_title：BMC international health and human rights
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/1472-698X-13-1
更新日期：2013-01-02 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:A traditional pathway for developing new health products begins with public research institutes generating new knowledge, and ends with the private sector translating this knowledge into new ventures. But while public research institutes are key drivers of basic research in sub-Saharan Africa, the private se...
journal_title：BMC international health and human rights
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/1472-698X-10-S1-S10
更新日期：2010-12-13 00:00:00
abstract：:The current political crisis, conflicts and riots in many Middle Eastern and African countries have led to massive migration waves towards Europe. European countries, receiving these migratory waves as first port of entry (POE) over the past few years, were confronted with several challenges as a result of the sheer v...
journal_title：BMC international health and human rights
pub_type： 信件
doi：10.1186/s12914-018-0150-x
更新日期：2018-02-08 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Traditional birth attendants (TBAs) are likely to deliver lower quality maternity care compared to professional health workers. It is important to characterize women who are assisted by TBAs in order to design interventions specific to such groups. We thus conducted a study to assess if socio-economic status...
journal_title：BMC international health and human rights
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/1472-698X-9-7
更新日期：2009-04-02 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Refugees are one of the most vulnerable groups in our society. They are at risk of poor physical and mental health outcomes, much of this attributed to traumatic events prior to migration and the additional risk factors refugees face in the host nations. However, how migration factors shape the health of res...
journal_title：BMC international health and human rights
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12914-019-0198-2
更新日期：2019-04-30 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Wars and violent domestic conflicts have forced millions of people to move outside their homes. Meeting the basic health needs of those people requires an understanding of research activity and research output on this topic. The objective of this study was to shed light on the quantity and impact of medicine...
journal_title：BMC international health and human rights
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12914-017-0116-4
更新日期：2017-03-20 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) is a significant aspect of adolescents' growth, safeguarded by SRH rights (SRHR). Despite various global efforts to promote adolescents SRHR (ASRHR), the majority of adolescents still lack awareness and autonomy to access SRH related information and services. This researc...
journal_title：BMC international health and human rights
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12914-017-0113-7
更新日期：2017-02-23 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:To determine whether training of providers participating in franchise clinic networks is associated with increased Family Planning service use among low-income urban families in Pakistan. METHODS:The study uses 2001 survey data consisting of interviews with 1113 clinical and non-clinical providers working i...
journal_title：BMC international health and human rights
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/1472-698X-10-26
更新日期：2010-11-09 00:00:00
abstract：UNLABELLED: BACKGROUND:Given that many low income countries are heavily reliant on external assistance to fund their health sectors the acceptance of obligations of international assistance and cooperation with regard to the right to health (global health obligations) is insufficiently understood and studied by intern...
journal_title：BMC international health and human rights
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/1472-698X-12-31
更新日期：2012-11-15 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Armed conflict potentially poses serious challenges to access and quality of maternal and reproductive health (MRH) services, resulting in increased maternal morbidity and mortality. The effects of armed conflict may vary from one setting to another, including the mechanisms/channels through which the confli...
journal_title：BMC international health and human rights
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12914-015-0045-z
更新日期：2015-04-03 00:00:00
abstract：:BACKGROUND: The number of potential life years lost due to accidents and injuries though poorly studied has resulted in tremendous economic and social loss to Nigeria. Numerous socio-cultural, economic and political factors including the current epidemic of ethnic and religious conflicts act in concert in predisposing...
journal_title：BMC international health and human rights
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/1472-698x-2-5
更新日期：2002-08-15 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Albinism is an inherited condition with a relatively high prevalence in populations throughout sub-Saharan Africa. People with oculocutaneous albinism have little or no pigment in their hair, skin and eyes; thus they are visually impaired and extremely sensitive to the damaging effect of the sun on their ski...
journal_title：BMC international health and human rights
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12914-018-0144-8
更新日期：2018-01-12 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Public health research is shifting focus to the role of socioeconomic indicators in the promotion of health. As such an understanding of the roles that socio-economic factors play in improving health and health-seeking behaviour is important for public health policy. This is because the share of resources de...
journal_title：BMC international health and human rights
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/1472-698X-6-1
更新日期：2006-01-20 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:The issue of child marriage is a form of human rights violation among young women mainly in resource-constrained countries. Over the past decades, child marriage has gained attention as a threat to women's health and autonomy. This study explores the prevalence of child marriage among women aged 20-24 years ...
journal_title：BMC international health and human rights
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12914-019-0219-1
更新日期：2019-12-19 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:The care and protection of the estimated 143,000,000 orphaned and abandoned children (OAC) worldwide is of great importance to global policy makers and child service providers in low and middle income countries (LMICs), yet little is known about rates of child labour among OAC, what child and caregiver chara...
journal_title：BMC international health and human rights
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/1472-698X-11-1
更新日期：2011-01-13 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:One of the main treatment procedures is through medicine prescription. Considering the rising burden of drug costs, we conducted this study to estimate the impoverishing effects of medicine on Iranian households. METHOD:We carried out calculations based on the Iranian National Household Survey for the year ...
journal_title：BMC international health and human rights
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12914-019-0210-x
更新日期：2019-07-31 00:00:00
abstract：: Corruption is a serious threat to global health outcomes, leading to financial waste and adverse health consequences. Yet, forms of corruption impacting global health are endemic worldwide in public and private sectors, and in developed and resource-poor settings alike. Allegations of misuse of funds and fraud in glo...
journal_title：BMC international health and human rights
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/1472-698X-12-23
更新日期：2012-10-22 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Worldwide, thousands of children are acting in different roles in armed groups. Whereas human rights activism and humanitarian imperatives tend to emphasize the image of child soldiers as incapable victims of adults' abusive compulsion, this image does not fully correspond with prevailing pedagogical and jur...
journal_title：BMC international health and human rights
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12914-015-0068-5
更新日期：2015-10-14 00:00:00
abstract：:Vaccines have made a major contribution to public health, including the eradication of one deadly disease, small pox, and the near eradication of another, poliomyelitis.Through the introduction of new vaccines, such as those against rotavirus and pneumococcal diseases, and with further improvements in coverage, vaccin...
journal_title：BMC international health and human rights
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/1472-698X-9-S1-S2
更新日期：2009-10-14 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:This paper broadly discusses the role of the State of Bangladesh in the context of the health system and human rights. The interrelation between human rights, health and development are well documented. The recognition of health as a fundamental right by WHO and subsequent approval of health as an instrument...
journal_title：BMC international health and human rights
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/1472-698X-6-4
更新日期：2006-04-12 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Indian Ocean region, including Mauritius. National records suggest a prevalence of HIV in Mauritius of < 1% in the general population, which is one of the lowest prevalence rates in southern Africa. However, HIV-positive cases have been increasing recently i...
journal_title：BMC international health and human rights
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/1472-698X-7-8
更新日期：2007-10-05 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Men's participation is crucial to the success of family planning programs and women's empowerment and associated with better outcomes in reproductive health such as contraceptive acceptance and continuation, and safer sexual behaviors. Limited choice and access to methods, attitudes of men towards family pla...
journal_title：BMC international health and human rights
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12914-014-0033-8
更新日期：2014-12-02 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:The health status and lifestyle of migrants is often poorer than that of the general population of their host countries. The Nepalese represent a relatively small, but growing, immigrant community in the UK, about whom very little is known in term of public health. Therefore, our study examined the health an...
journal_title：BMC international health and human rights
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/1472-698X-8-6
更新日期：2008-05-23 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Vietnam is shifting toward integrating HIV services into the public health system using social health insurance (SHI), and the HIV service delivery system is becoming decentralized. The study aim was to investigate current SHI coverage and patients' perspectives on this transition. METHODS:A survey of 1348 ...
journal_title：BMC international health and human rights
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1186/s12914-019-0221-7
更新日期：2020-01-10 00:00:00
