Xpert MTB/RIF versus sputum microscopy as the initial diagnostic test for tuberculosis: a cluster-randomised trial embedded in South African roll-out of Xpert MTB/RIF.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Low blood glucose concentrations are common in sick children who present to hospital in low-resource settings and are associated with increased mortality. The cutoff blood glucose concentration for the diagnosis and treatment of hypoglycaemia currently recommended by WHO (2·5 mmol/L) is not evidence-based. W...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Baker T,Ngwalangwa F,Masanjala H,Dube Q,Langton J,Marrone G,Hildenwall H

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Global efforts to increase births at health-care facilities might not reduce maternal or newborn mortality if quality of care is insufficient. However, little systematic evidence exists for the quality at health facilities caring for women and newborn babies in low-income countries. We analysed the quality o...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Kruk ME,Leslie HH,Verguet S,Mbaruku GM,Adanu RMK,Langer A

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In accordance with the age parameters specified in Sustainable Development Goal target 3.4, current policy and monitoring of non-communicable disease (NCD) mortality trends focus on people aged 30-69 years. This approach excludes the majority of NCD deaths, which occur at older ages. We aimed to compare card...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Lloyd-Sherlock P,Ebrahim S,Martinez R,McKee M,Ordunez P

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The reduction by a third of premature non-communicable disease (NCD) mortality by 2030 is the ambitious target of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.4. However, the indicator is narrowly defined, including only four major NCDs (cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory diseases) an...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Martinez R,Lloyd-Sherlock P,Soliz P,Ebrahim S,Vega E,Ordunez P,McKee M

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many countries are implementing health system reforms to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) by 2030. To understand the progress towards UHC in Bangladesh, we estimated trends in indicators of the health service and of financial risk protection. We also estimated the probability of Bangladesh's achieving...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Rahman MS,Rahman MM,Gilmour S,Swe KT,Krull Abe S,Shibuya K

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2007, WHO launched a global initiative for the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of syphilis (congenital syphilis). An important aspect of the initiative is strengthening surveillance to monitor progress towards elimination. In 2008, using a health systems model with country data inputs, WHO est...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Wijesooriya NS,Rochat RW,Kamb ML,Turlapati P,Temmerman M,Broutet N,Newman LM

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intervention coverage-the proportion of the population with a health-care need who receive care-does not account for intervention quality and potentially overestimates health benefits of services provided to populations. Effective coverage introduces the dimension of quality of care to the measurement of intervention ...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Marsh AD,Muzigaba M,Diaz T,Requejo J,Jackson D,Chou D,Cresswell JA,Guthold R,Moran AC,Strong KL,Banerjee A,Soucat A,Effective Coverage Think Tank Group.

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Trials of intermittent preventive treatment (IPTp) of malaria in pregnant women that compared dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine with the standard of care, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, showed dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine was superior at preventing malaria infection, but not at improving birthweight. We aimed to ...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Roh ME,Kuile FOT,Rerolle F,Glymour MM,Shiboski S,Gosling R,Gutman J,Kakuru A,Desai M,Kajubi R,L'Ianziva A,Kamya MR,Dorsey G,Chico RM

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The age-specific association between blood pressure and vascular disease has been studied mostly in high-income countries, and before the widespread use of brain imaging for diagnosis of the main stroke types (ischaemic stroke and intracerebral haemorrhage). We aimed to investigate this relationship among ad...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Lacey B,Lewington S,Clarke R,Kong XL,Chen Y,Guo Y,Yang L,Bennett D,Bragg F,Bian Z,Wang S,Zhang H,Chen J,Walters RG,Collins R,Peto R,Li L,Chen Z,China Kadoorie Biobank collaborative group.

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Progress in reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) in Kenya has been inconsistent over the past two decades, despite the global push to foster accountability, reduce child mortality, and improve maternal health in an equitable manner. Although several cross-sectional assessments have been ...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Keats EC,Ngugi A,Macharia W,Akseer N,Khaemba EN,Bhatti Z,Rizvi A,Tole J,Bhutta ZA

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Buruli ulcer can cause disfigurement and long-term loss of function. It is underdiagnosed and under-reported, and its current distribution is unclear. We aimed to synthesise and evaluate data on Buruli ulcer prevalence and distribution. METHODS:We did a systematic review of Buruli ulcer prevalence and used ...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Simpson H,Deribe K,Tabah EN,Peters A,Maman I,Frimpong M,Ampadu E,Phillips R,Saunderson P,Pullan RL,Cano J

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2002-04, we did a randomised controlled trial in southern Nepal, and reported that children born to mothers taking multiple micronutrient supplements during pregnancy had a mean birthweight 77 g greater than children born to mothers taking iron and folic acid supplements. Children born to mothers in the s...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Devakumar D,Chaube SS,Wells JC,Saville NM,Ayres JG,Manandhar DS,Costello A,Osrin D

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Avahan is a large-scale, HIV preventive intervention, targeting high-risk populations in south India. We assessed the cost-effectiveness of Avahan to inform global and national funding institutions who are considering investing in worldwide HIV prevention in concentrated epidemics. METHODS:We estimated cost...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Vassall A,Pickles M,Chandrashekar S,Boily MC,Shetty G,Guinness L,Lowndes CM,Bradley J,Moses S,Alary M,Charme India Group.,Vickerman P

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Brazil ranks second worldwide in total number of COVID-19 cases and deaths. Understanding the possible socioeconomic and ethnic health inequities is particularly important given the diverse population and fragile political and economic situation. We aimed to characterise the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil and a...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Baqui P,Bica I,Marra V,Ercole A,van der Schaar M

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The public health community has tried for decades to show, through evidence-based research, that safe water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and clean cooking fuels that reduce household air pollution are essential to safeguard health and save lives in low-income and middle-income countries. In the past 40 decades, the...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Ray I,Smith KR

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Improving access to reproductive health services and commodities is central to development. Efforts to assess progress on this front have been largely focused on national estimates, but such analyses can mask local disparities. We assessed progress in reproductive health services subnationally in India. MET...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： New JR,Cahill N,Stover J,Gupta YP,Alkema L

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The way in which a government chooses to finance a health intervention can affect the uptake of health interventions and consequently the extent of health gains. In addition to health gains, some policies such as public finance can insure against catastrophic health expenditures. We aimed to evaluate the hea...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Verguet S,Olson ZD,Babigumira JB,Desalegn D,Johansson KA,Kruk ME,Levin CE,Nugent RA,Pecenka C,Shrime MG,Memirie ST,Watkins DA,Jamison DT

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Scrub typhus (caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi), murine typhus (caused by Rickettsia typhi), and leptospirosis are common causes of febrile illness in Asia; meningitis and meningoencephalitis are severe complications. However, scarce data exist for the burden of these pathogens in patients with CNS disease i...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Dittrich S,Rattanavong S,Lee SJ,Panyanivong P,Craig SB,Tulsiani SM,Blacksell SD,Dance DA,Dubot-Pérès A,Sengduangphachanh A,Phoumin P,Paris DH,Newton PN

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chagas disease is currently prevalent in European countries hosting large communities from Latin America. Whether asymptomatic individuals at risk of Chagas disease living in Europe should be screened and treated accordingly is unclear. We performed an economic evaluation of systematic Chagas disease screeni...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Requena-Méndez A,Bussion S,Aldasoro E,Jackson Y,Angheben A,Moore D,Pinazo MJ,Gascón J,Muñoz J,Sicuri E

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The average age at which people start smoking has been decreasing in many countries, but insufficient evidence exists on the adult hazards of having started smoking in childhood and, especially, in early childhood. We aimed to investigate the association between smoking habits (focusing on the age when smoke...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Thomson B,Rojas NA,Lacey B,Burrett JA,Varona-Pérez P,Martínez MC,Lorenzo-Vázquez E,Constantén SB,Morales Rigau JM,Hernández López OJ,Martínez Morales MÁ,Alomá IA,Estupiñan FA,González MD,Muñoz NR,Asencio MC,Emberson J,P

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The effects of political regimes on health are unclear because empirical evidence is neither strong nor robust. Traditional econometric tools do not allow the direction of causality to be established clearly. We used a new method to investigate whether political transition into democracy affected child morta...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Pieters H,Curzi D,Olper A,Swinnen J

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:On Dec 1, 2006, Mexico's public health-care insurance scheme, Seguro Popular, implemented the Medical Insurance Century XXI (SMSXXI) programme, to provide insurance to children younger than 5 years without social security. SMSXXI aims to increase access to health services, decrease out-of-pocket health expen...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Celhay P,Martinez S,Muñoz M,Perez M,Perez-Cuevas R

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A quarter of a century ago, two global events-the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, and the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing-placed gender equality and reproductive health and rights at the centre of the development agenda. Progress towards these goals has been slowe...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Slaymaker E,Scott RH,Palmer MJ,Palla L,Marston M,Gonsalves L,Say L,Wellings K

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As the incomes of many AIDS-burdened countries grow and donors' budgets for helping to fight the disease tighten, national governments and external funding partners increasingly face the following question: what is the capacity of countries that are highly affected by AIDS to finance their responses from dom...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Resch S,Ryckman T,Hecht R

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:No study of long-term protection following killed oral cholera vaccination has been done outside of the historically cholera-endemic areas of south Asia, or has examined protection after a single-dose vaccination regimen. To address this, we examined the duration of protection of the standard two-dose regime...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Franke MF,Ternier R,Jerome JG,Matias WR,Harris JB,Ivers LC

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The risk of severe COVID-19 if an individual becomes infected is known to be higher in older individuals and those with underlying health conditions. Understanding the number of individuals at increased risk of severe COVID-19 and how this varies between countries should inform the design of possible strateg...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Clark A,Jit M,Warren-Gash C,Guthrie B,Wang HHX,Mercer SW,Sanderson C,McKee M,Troeger C,Ong KL,Checchi F,Perel P,Joseph S,Gibbs HP,Banerjee A,Eggo RM,Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases COVID-19 wo

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The burden of dengue virus (DENV) infection across geographical regions of India is poorly quantified. We estimated the age-specific seroprevalence, force of infection, and number of infections in India. METHODS:We did a community-based survey in 240 clusters (118 rural, 122 urban), selected from 60 distric...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Murhekar MV,Kamaraj P,Kumar MS,Khan SA,Allam RR,Barde P,Dwibedi B,Kanungo S,Mohan U,Mohanty SS,Roy S,Sagar V,Savargaonkar D,Tandale BV,Topno RK,Sapkal G,Kumar CPG,Sabarinathan R,Kumar VS,Bitragunta S,Grover GS,L

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Low birthweight (LBW) of less than 2500 g is an important marker of maternal and fetal health, predicting mortality, stunting, and adult-onset chronic conditions. Global nutrition targets set at the World Health Assembly in 2012 include an ambitious 30% reduction in LBW prevalence between 2012 and 2025. Esti...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Blencowe H,Krasevec J,de Onis M,Black RE,An X,Stevens GA,Borghi E,Hayashi C,Estevez D,Cegolon L,Shiekh S,Ponce Hardy V,Lawn JE,Cousens S

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Attainment of universal health coverage is a global health priority. The Myanmar Government has committed to attainment of universal health coverage by 2030, but progress so far has not been assessed. We aimed to estimate national and subnational health service coverage and financial risk protection. METHOD...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Han SM,Rahman MM,Rahman MS,Swe KT,Palmer M,Sakamoto H,Nomura S,Shibuya K

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Knowledge of the relation between health-system factors and child mortality could help to inform health policy in low-income and middle-income countries. We aimed to quantify modifiable health-system factors and their relation with provincial-level heterogeneity in under-5, infant, and neonatal mortality ove...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Fernandes QF,Wagenaar BH,Anselmi L,Pfeiffer J,Gloyd S,Sherr K

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00