Indicators to assess the functionality of clubfoot clinics in low-resource settings: a Delphi consensus approach and pilot study.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Malaria infections are the leading cause of death for children in Madagascar. Insecticide-treated bednets offer effective prevention, but it is unclear how well free bednet distribution programs reach young children. METHODS:We conducted a secondary analysis of a free bednet distribution program in Madagasc...

journal_title：International health

authors： Krezanoski PJ,Comfort AB,Tsai AC,Bangsberg DR

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Employment is a key determinant of health disparity. We examined gender-specific relationships between employment status and health outcomes among Brazilian adults. METHODS:Nationally representative data (n=463 223) came from the 2003 and 2008 Brazilian National Household Surveys. Logistic regressions were ...

journal_title：International health

authors： Andrade FC,Wu F,An R,Stellrecht A

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) Non-governmental Development Organization (NGDO) Network was established to engage in supporting both international and national LF elimination agendas covering areas such as assisting ministries of health as an on-the-ground link between communities and programmes, which additionally giv...

journal_title：International health

authors： Bush S,Richards FO,Zhang Y

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:After 30 years of treatment with Mectizan (ivermectin), cutaneous and ocular complications of Onchocerca volvulus infection are now scarce in endemic communities. Indeed, transmission has been interrupted and the O. volvulus- associated disease has disappeared in some African foci. Despite this success, onchocerciasis...

journal_title：International health

authors： Kamgno J,Nana-Djeunga HC,Pion SD,Chesnais CB,Klion AD,Mackenzie CD,Nutman TB,Boussinesq M

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Product Development Partnerships (PDPs) are playing an increasingly important role in the development of new medicines for neglected diseases of the developing world; however, there has been limited information on their funding and expenditure patterns. This paper analyses funding for the 14 PDPs working on neglected ...

journal_title：International health

authors： Moran M,Guzman J,Ropars AL,Illmer A

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trachoma is the leading cause of preventable blindness worldwide and is controlled with an integrated strategy of treatment and prevention which includes latrine provision and promotion. We aimed to evaluate the latrine uptake, construction, and usage in villages participating in latrine promotion programmes supported...

journal_title：International health

authors： Rotondo LA,Ngondi J,Rodgers AF,King JD,Kamissoko Y,Amadou A,Jip N,Cromwell EA,Emerson PM

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Snakebite is an important cause of mortality among rural dwellers in the savannah region of West Africa. We conducted a retrospective review of snakebite patients managed by experienced medical staff at Kaltungo in north-eastern Nigeria to determine the cause of death. During a 36 month period there were 94 deaths amo...

journal_title：International health

authors： Habib AG,Abubakar SB

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One crucial element of the timely detection and identification of the causative agent(s) of a health emergency is access to live and historical data about the health risks in the area of concern. Therefore, sharing data on health emergencies is essential to the early investigation and detection teams. Although, theore...

journal_title：International health

authors： Ahmed A

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We analyzed the role that the launch of new drugs has played in reducing the number of years of life lost (YLL) before three different ages (85, 70 and 55 y) due to 66 diseases in 27 countries. METHODS:We estimated two-way fixed-effects models of the rate of decline of the disease- and country-specific age-...

journal_title：International health

authors： Lichtenberg FR

更新日期：2019-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a group of diseases that disproportionately affect the poorest of the poor. While for years attention has focused on single diseases within this group, efforts during the past decade have resulted in their being grouped together to highlight that they are fundamentally diseases o...

journal_title：International health

authors： Malecela MN

更新日期：2019-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In industrial countries, a number of factors put indigenous peoples at increased risk of HIV infection. National surveillance data between 1999 and 2008 provided diagnoses for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Australia), First Nations, Inuit and Métis (Canada excluding Ontario and Quebec) and Māori (New Zealand...

journal_title：International health

authors： Shea B,Aspin C,Ward J,Archibald C,Dickson N,McDonald A,Penehira M,Halverson J,Masching R,McAllister S,Smith LT,Kaldor JM,Andersson N

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We examined antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation and retention by sex and pregnancy status in rural Nigeria. METHODS:We studied HIV-infected ART-naïve patients aged ≥15 years entering care from June 2009 to September 2013. We calculated the probability of early ART initiation and cumulative incidence of ...

journal_title：International health

authors： Aliyu MH,Blevins M,Megazzini KM,Parrish DD,Audet CM,Chan N,Odoh C,Gebi UI,Muhammad MY,Shepherd BE,Wester CW,Vermund SH

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With the popularization of smartphones in China, the conditions of smartphone use (SU) and problematic smartphone use (PSU) among migrant workers are unknown. This study explored the patterns and influencing factors of SU and PSU in migrant workers in Shanghai, China. Furthermore, the mediation effects of PS...

journal_title：International health

authors： Wang F,Lan Y,Li J,Dai J,Zheng P,Fu H

更新日期：2019-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of female-initiated HIV prevention options does not necessarily lead to their uptake. We investigated if married men were willing to support open or covert use of microbicides by their spouses in Pune, India. Data was collected using an interview-administered questionnaire from 151 consenting married ...

journal_title：International health

authors： Kohli R,Deshpande S,Tolley E,Karandikar N,Mehendale S

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：Introduction:Viral load (VL) monitoring for people on antiretroviral therapy (ART) is extremely challenging in resource-limited settings. We assessed the VL testing scale-up in six Médecins Sans Frontières supported health centres in Maputo, Mozambique, during 2014-15. Methods:In a retrospective cohort study, routine ...

journal_title：International health

authors： Swannet S,Decroo T,de Castro SMTL,Rose C,Giuliani R,Molfino L,Torrens AW,Macueia WSED,Perry S,Reid T

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Migrant populations such as mine workers contributed to the spread of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. We used a mathematical model to estimate the community-wide impact of targeting treatment and prevention to male migrants. METHODS:We augmented an individual-based network model, EMOD-HIV v0.8, to include an age...

journal_title：International health

authors： Klein DJ,Eckhoff PA,Bershteyn A

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:School surveys provide a convenient platform to obtain large child cohorts from multiple communities and are widely used as a proxy to determine community prevalence of neglected tropical diseases. The purpose of this study was to compare trachoma prevalence between preschool- and school-aged children and ch...

journal_title：International health

authors： King JD,Odermatt P,Utzinger J,Ngondi J,Bamani S,Kamissoko Y,Boubicar K,Hassan AS,Nwobi BC,Jip N,Amnie A,Teferi T,Mosher AW,Stewart AE,Cromwell EA,Emerson PM

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:On 26 December 2004, 280 000 people lost their lives in the Asia-Pacific region. A massive earthquake struck Indonesia, triggering a tsunami that affected several countries, including Thailand. This tsunami had important implications for the health status of Thai citizens and health planning, and thus there ...

journal_title：International health

authors： Isaranuwatchai W,Guerriere D,Andrews GJ,Coyte PC

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over recent decades, there has been a dramatic transformation in mechanization reaching all aspects of people's lives in Saudi Arabia. In the light of this, there was a significant change in physical behavior in the community. The aim of the current study was to investigate the national and regional distribu...

journal_title：International health

authors： Alqahtani BA,Alenazi AM,Alhowimel AS,Elnaggar RK

更新日期：2020-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Limited data exist on malnutrition prevalence in Madagascar. We aimed to assess the point prevalence of childhood malnutrition in the Anivorano region, and to explore mothers' perceptions of barriers to proper nutrition. METHODS:In a mixed methods study we measured height and weight for 313 children, aged 6...

journal_title：International health

authors： Asgary R,Liu M,Naderi R,Grigoryan Z,Malachovsky M

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several strategies are used in the care of pregnant women accessing antenatal care in primary health centres in Nigeria, with the aim of reducing the burden of malaria and anaemia. The objective of the study was to appraise the prevalence of malaria parasitaemia and anaemia in pregnant women attending antena...

journal_title：International health

authors： Ugwu EO,Dim CC,Uzochukwu BS,Iloghalu EI,Ugwu AO

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health aid to Nigeria increased tremendously in the last decade and a significant portion of the funds were earmarked for HIV-associated programs. Studies on the impact of HIV-specific aid on the delivery of non-HIV health services in sub-Saharan Africa have yielded mixed results. This study assessed if ther...

journal_title：International health

authors： Chima CC,Franzini L

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since HIV infection and its consequence, AIDS, were first described, many initial assumptions have proven to be wrong. In Africa, it is women who bear the greater burden of the disease. In many ways they are less visible than men, although at least as much at risk, often even more so. Marriage is no protection against...

journal_title：International health

authors： Cooper ES

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preventing and responding to violence against children is an aim of the new Sustainable Development Goals. Numerous agencies are now collecting data from children about violence, including academics, non-governmental organisations, government agencies, consultants and others. Data are necessary to ensure appropriate p...

journal_title：International health

authors： Devries KM,Naker D,Monteath-van Dok A,Milligan C,Shirley A

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While access to healthcare has been a focus of international development, populations around the world continue to lack proper access to care. Identifying at-risk demographic groups can help advance efforts both regionally and internationally. There are only a small number of studies that previously have ass...

journal_title：International health

authors： Ashworth HC,Roux TL,Buggy CJ

更新日期：2019-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Data on home-based records (HBRs) practices within national immunization programmes are non-existent, making it difficult to determine whether current efforts of immunization programmes related to basic recording of immunization services are appropriately focused. METHODS:During January 2014, WHO and the Un...

journal_title：International health

authors： Young SL,Gacic-Dobo M,Brown DW

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humanitarian agencies regularly carry out nutrition surveys to estimate the prevalence of acute malnutrition (wasting) and mortality as well as to collect data on a wide range of contributory or aggravating factors in order to identify interventions and to direct aid where it is most needed. In this study, the case of...

journal_title：International health

authors： Watson F,Negussie B,Dolan C,Shoham J,Hall A

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Global Trachoma Mapping Project (GTMP) is the largest infectious disease survey ever undertaken. With 60 partners, 2.6 million people were examined across 29 countries for the blinding neglected tropical disease (NTD) trachoma, establishing the prevalence of the disease globally. Such an achievement was only made ...

journal_title：International health

authors： Bartlett S,Haslam D,Bush S,Haddad D

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Humanitarian emergencies can disproportionately affect women of reproductive age, and children. Good data on reproductive maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) are vital to plan and deliver programmes to address RMNCH needs. There is currently a lack of information regarding the availability, use and ap...

journal_title：International health

authors： Dickinson FM,Pyone T,van den Broek N

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Ethiopia, evidence on the national burden of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) is limited. To address this gap, this systematic analysis estimated the burden of CVDs in Ethiopia using the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2017 study data. The age-standardized CVD prevalence, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) and mor...

journal_title：International health

authors： Ali S,Misganaw A,Worku A,Destaw Z,Negash L,Bekele A,Briant PS,Johnson CO,Alam T,Odell C,Roth GA,Naghavi M,Abate E,Mirkuzie AH

更新日期：2020-09-18 00:00:00