Community-directed interventions for integrated delivery of a health package against major health problems in rural Uganda: perceptions on the strategy and its effectiveness.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Community health workers (CHWs) are an essential cadre in the health systems of many low- and middle-income countries. These workers provide a wide variety of services and are key to ongoing processes of task shifting within human immunodeficiency virus programmes in particular. Ward-based outreach teams (WB...

journal_title：International health

authors： Jobson G,Naidoo N,Matlakala N,Marincowitz G,Railton J,McIntyre JA,Struthers HE,Peters RPH

更新日期：2020-07-01 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: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：:Mental health services reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean in the last 20 years have led to a significant improvement of mental health services. They also contributed to the development of new evidence that may help the implementation of future reforms. These advances, however, were clearly insufficient to resp...

journal_title：International health

authors： Caldas de Almeida JM

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Declines in late-life cognitive functioning differ greatly between socio-economic status (SES) groups, but little is known about whether these effects are related to child and adult SES versus SES effects that accumulate over the individual's life course. METHODS:An 18-year longitudinal national sample of o...

journal_title：International health

authors： Chiao C,Botticello A,Fuh JL

更新日期：2014-12-01 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 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：Background:Knowledge, attitudes and practices of health care professionals towards pharmacovigilance are strongly associated with reporting adverse drug reactions, as proven by a number of studies. This study aims to evaluate the levels of knowledge, attitudes and practices towards pharmacovigilance among physicians wo...

journal_title：International health

authors： Shroukh WA,Shakhatreh FM,Yasein NA,Sharkas GF

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In recent years there have been several reports of outbreaks of dengue fever (DF) in Yemen. This study aimed to describe the prevailing knowledge, attitude and preventive practices regarding DF, and to investigate the factors associated with poor preventive practices in rural areas of Yemen. METHODS:A popul...

journal_title：International health

authors： Saied KG,Al-Taiar A,Altaire A,Alqadsi A,Alariqi EF,Hassaan M

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oxygen is an essential medical therapy that is poorly available globally. We evaluated the quality of oxygen therapy in 12 secondary-level Nigerian hospitals, including access to oxygen equipment, equipment functionality, healthcare worker knowledge and appropriateness of use. METHODS:We conducted a three-p...

journal_title：International health

authors： Bakare AA,Graham H,Ayede AI,Peel D,Olatinwo O,Oyewole OB,Fowobaje KR,Qazi S,Izadnegahdar R,Duke T,Falade AG

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A secondary analysis was conducted of two separate datasets to observe the association between maternal age and interpregnancy interval (IPI). METHODS:The IPI in a middle-income country (Guatemala) was compared with that of a very-high-income country (USA) among women with two pregnancies. RESULTS:A regres...

journal_title：International health

authors： Harrison MS

更新日期：2020-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Strategies are urgently needed to mitigate the risk of zoonotic disease emergence in southern China, where pathogens with zoonotic potential are known to circulate in wild animal populations. However, the risk factors leading to emergence are poorly understood, which presents a challenge in developing approp...

journal_title：International health

authors： Li HY,Zhu GJ,Zhang YZ,Zhang LB,Hagan EA,Martinez S,Chmura AA,Francisco L,Tai H,Miller M,Daszak P

更新日期：2020-02-12 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

abstract：Background:Although screen time (ST) and insufficient physical activity (PA) are fairly common among adolescents, it is unclear whether these conditions are jointly associated with adolescents' psychosocial difficulties. This study aimed to examine interactive associations of ST and PA with psychosocial difficulties am...

journal_title：International health

authors： Khan A,Uddin R,Burton NW

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Malaysia is an upper-middle income country with a tax-based health financing system. Health care is relatively affordable, and safety nets are provided for the needy. The objectives of this study were to determine the out-of-pocket health spending, proportion of catastrophic health spending (out-of-pocket sp...

journal_title：International health

authors： Sukeri S,Mirzaei M,Jan S

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:People affected by neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are frequently the target of social stigmatization. To date not much attention has been given to stigma in relation to NTDs. The objective of this review is to identify the extent of social stigma and the similarities and differences in the causes, manife...

journal_title：International health

authors： Hofstraat K,van Brakel WH

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

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：: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:Written personalized asthma action plans are recommended as part of patient education and self-management. Objectives:To enable asthmatic adults to proactively self-manage bronchial asthma and sustain asthma quiescent status through utilization of the Asthma Action Plan (AAP), and to establish a feasible as...

journal_title：International health

authors： Farag H,Abd El-Wahab EW,El-Nimr NA,Saad El-Din HA

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance is a key strategy used by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) to measure progress towards reaching the global eradication goal. Supported by a global polio laboratory network, AFP surveillance is conducted in 179 of 194 WHO member states. Active surveillance visits...

journal_title：International health

authors： Tangermann RH,Lamoureux C,Tallis G,Goel A

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:In Papua New Guinea, TB is considered to be a major public health problem, but little is known about the prevalence and prognosis of presumed TB in children. Methods:As part of a prospective hospital-based surveillance on the northern coast of mainland Papua New Guinea, the authors investigated the admissio...

journal_title：International health

authors： Watch V,Aipit J,Kote-Yarong T,Rero A,Bolnga JW,Lufele E,Laman M

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Governance of a country may have widespread effects on the health of its population, yet little is known about the effect of governance on child mortality in a country that is undergoing urbanization, economic development, and disease control. METHODS:We obtained indicators of six dimensions of governance (...

journal_title：International health

authors： Lin RT,Chien LC,Chen YM,Chan CC

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Every year more than 1.35 million people lose their lives on the road and tens of millions more are injured, some permanently. Since the early 2000s there has been renewed focus on the issue, with the United Nations, World Health Organization and the World Bank placing the issue higher on their agendas. Guided by the ...

journal_title：International health

authors： Peden MM,Puvanachandra P

更新日期：2019-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：Background:This study aims to determine the indicators for assessing the functionality of clubfoot clinics in a low-resource setting. Methods:The Delphi method was employed with experienced clubfoot practitioners in Africa to rate the importance of indicators of a good clubfoot clinic. The consistency among the partic...

journal_title：International health

authors： Smythe T,Mudariki D,Foster A,Lavy C

更新日期：2018-09-01 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：:Policy-makers require information on the potential benefits of and economic case for pneumococcal conjugate vaccination in middle-income countries. We built decision analysis models to evaluate a three-dose infant series of the 7-, 10- or 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccines in 77 middle-income countries compared...

journal_title：International health

authors： Nakamura MM,Tasslimi A,Lieu TA,Levine O,Knoll MD,Russell LB,Sinha A

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:In 2015, over 850 000 refugees, asylum seekers and migrants arrived in Greece. In response to an overwhelming need for access to healthcare for them, Doctors of the World established the Refugee Ferry Project, which comprised of a clinic providing primary health care, and integrated mental health and psychos...

journal_title：International health

authors： Shortall CK,Glazik R,Sornum A,Pritchard C

更新日期：2017-09-01 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:Anaemia is a global public health problem affecting both developing and developed countries with major consequences for human health and socioeconomic development. This paper examines the possible relationship between Hb concentration and severity of anaemia with individual and household characteristics of c...

journal_title：International health

authors： Gayawan E,Arogundade ED,Adebayo SB

更新日期：2014-03-01 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