Pay Matters: The Piece Rate and Health in the Developing World.

abstract：:There is a high demand for global health experiences among medical students. However, creating and engaging successful global health experiences for students is not without significant challenges for faculty. Lack of broad global health knowledge, first hand experiences in a variety of global health settings, and limi...

journal_title：Annals of global health

authors： Blackard JT

更新日期：2019-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：Background:There is consensus among many medical school deans that exposure to human rights is a necessary component of physician training [78], however little is known about the impact of engagement in human rights programs on students' personal and professional development [1516171819202122232425262728]. Objective:T...

journal_title：Annals of global health

authors： Schonholz SM,Edens MC,Epié AY,Kligler SK,Baranowski KA,Singer EK

更新日期：2020-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hands-only bystander CPR increases survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Video-based CPR instruction in schools has been proposed as a means to mass-educate laypersons in Hands-only CPR™ (HOCPR), in developed as well as developing countries. OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study is to determine wheth...

journal_title：Annals of global health

authors： Schmid KM,García RQ,Fernandez MM,Mould-Millman NK,Lowenstein SR

更新日期：2018-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Although the incidence of cervical cancer has declined in developed countries, cervical cancer remains a major problem in those that are developing. Past studies suggest that Indian women, who account for at least one-fourth of the global disease burden, are not routinely screened. Objectives:Among the wome...

journal_title：Annals of global health

authors： Reichheld A,Mukherjee PK,Rahman SM,David KV,Pricilla RA

更新日期：2020-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Tobacco smoking is recognized as a major preventable cause of disease worldwide and is linked to 6 million deaths annually, 30% of which are due to cancer. The negative health consequences of smoking currently represent one of the greatest global public health challenges. Additionally, secondhand smoke, which was decl...

journal_title：Annals of global health

authors： Perez-Warnisher MT,Carballosa de Miguel MDP,Seijo LM

更新日期：2019-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exposure to heavy metals at contaminated industrial and mining sites, known also as hot spots, is a significant source of toxic exposure and adverse health outcomes in countries around the world. The Toxic Sites Identification Program (TSIP) developed by Pure Earth, a New York-based nongovernmental organizat...

journal_title：Annals of global health

authors： Dowling R,Caravanos J,Grigsby P,Rivera A,Ericson B,Amoyaw-Osei Y,Akuffo B,Fuller R

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Climate change has myriad implications for the health of humans, our ecosystems, and the ecological processes that sustain them. Projections of rising greenhouse gas emissions suggest increasing direct and indirect burden of infectious and noninfectious disease, effects on food and water security, and other ...

journal_title：Annals of global health

authors： Machalaba C,Romanelli C,Stoett P,Baum SE,Bouley TA,Daszak P,Karesh WB

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Risk perception and recognition of danger signs are important cues for accessing obstetric care. These measures are not well documented in many resource-limited settings, including northern Nigeria, a region with poor maternal health indices. Objective:To assess community level obstetric risk perception, da...

journal_title：Annals of global health

authors： Iliyasu Z,Galadanci HS,Abdurrahim A,Jibo A,Salihu HM,Aliyu MH

更新日期：2019-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:European asbestos manufacturers and their expert witnesses have advanced the claim that recent exposures to asbestos are not of significance in the causation of malignant mesothelioma. They argue that in cases of prolonged exposure to asbestos only the earliest exposures contribute to mesothelioma induction....

journal_title：Annals of global health

authors： Landrigan PJ,Collegium Ramazzini.

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evidence from the developed world associates higher prevalence of hypertension with lower socioeconomic status (SES). However, patterns of association are not as clear in Africa and other developing countries, with varying levels of socioeconomic development and epidemiological transition. Using wealth and e...

journal_title：Annals of global health

authors： Osman S,Costanian C,Annan NB,Fouad FM,Jaffa M,Sibai AM

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Peers are people with lived experience of mental illness. Peer support is an established intervention in which peers offer support to others with mental illness. A large proportion of people living with severe mental illness receive no care. The care gap is largest in low- and middle-income countries, with d...

journal_title：Annals of global health

authors： Puschner B,Repper J,Mahlke C,Nixdorf R,Basangwa D,Nakku J,Ryan G,Baillie D,Shamba D,Ramesh M,Moran G,Lachmann M,Kalha J,Pathare S,Müller-Stierlin A,Slade M

更新日期：2019-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Waste from end-of-life electrical and electronic equipment, known as e-waste, is a rapidly growing global problem. E-waste contains valuable materials that have an economic value when recycled. Unfortunately, the majority of e-waste is recycled in the unregulated informal sector and results in significant ri...

journal_title：Annals of global health

authors： Perkins DN,Brune Drisse MN,Nxele T,Sly PD

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Western Asia comprises a large proportion of the world population with different ethnicities and religions inhabiting areas of diverse geographic features. The countries of this region have experienced rapid economic growth over the latter half of the 20th century, which continues to this day, resulting in m...

journal_title：Annals of global health

authors： Roshandel G,Boreiri M,Sadjadi A,Malekzadeh R

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypertension is the leading global risk factor for mortality. Hypertension treatment and control rates are low worldwide, and insufficient human resource capacity is among the contributing factors. Thus, a critical component of hypertension management is to develop novel and effective solutions to the human ...

journal_title：Annals of global health

authors： Vedanthan R,Kamano JH,Horowitz CR,Ascheim D,Velazquez EJ,Kimaiyo S,Fuster V

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Researchers across the world are emphasising the importance of hand-washing and limited touching of face to curb the spread of COVID-19. However, access to safe water and hygiene is inadequate in many places around the globe; hence T-zone touching restriction is considered more worthwhile compared to other p...

journal_title：Annals of global health

authors： Rahman J,Mumin J,Fakhruddin B

更新日期：2020-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is increasing evidence of a link between environmental pollution and preventable diseases in developing countries, including Thailand. Economic development has generated several types of pollution that can affect population health. While these environmental health effects can be observed throughout lif...

journal_title：Annals of global health

authors： Sinitkul R,Wongrathanandha C,Sirirattanapruk S,Plitponkarnpim A,Maude RJ,Marczylo EL

更新日期：2018-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Until recently, Colombia has been a country actively using asbestos. A major factory in Bogota manufactures friction products. Objective:To determine if the use of chrysotile asbestos in a friction products facility leads to workers developing disease. Methods:One hundred forty-eight factory workers, forme...

journal_title：Annals of global health

authors： Frank AL,Villamizar G,Bustillo Pereira JG

更新日期：2020-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Sierra Leone faces among the highest maternal mortality rates worldwide. Despite this burden, the role of life-saving critical care interventions in low-resource settings remains scarcely explored. A value-based approach may be used to question whether it is sustainable and useful to start and run an obstetr...

journal_title：Annals of global health

authors： Marotta C,Di Gennaro F,Pisani L,Pisani V,Senesie J,Bah S,Koroma MM,Caracciolo C,Putoto G,Amatucci F,Borgonovi E

更新日期：2020-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mozambique is an emerging lower income country (LIC) on the southeast coast of Africa. There are significant workforce shortages in medical and health professions in the country. Mozambique was one of 12 countries in Africa that was awarded a grant through the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) ...

journal_title：Annals of global health

authors： Noormahomed EV,Mocumbi AO,Ismail M,Carrilho C,Patel S,Nguenha A,Badaro R,Bickler S,Benson CA,Schooley RT

更新日期：2018-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：Background:More than one billion people worldwide live with a disability, yet rehabilitation professionals are scarce in low- and middle-income countries. Attempts to expand access to rehabilitation services have encountered barriers on multiple levels: limited resources on the systemic level, hierarchies on the profes...

journal_title：Annals of global health

authors： AlHeresh R,Cahn PS

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:In Peru, anemia has been a persistent health problem that is known to lead to irreversible cognitive and developmental deficits in children. The Peruvian government has recently made anemia a primary health concern by passing legislation in 2017 that makes anemia an intersectoral priority. This new legislati...

journal_title：Annals of global health

authors： Berky AJ,Robie E,Ortiz EJ,Meyer JN,Hsu-Kim H,Pan WK

更新日期：2020-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 1977 the World Health Organization created its first Model List of Essential Medicines-a list designed to aid countries in determining which medicines to prioritize on their National Essential Medicines Lists. In classifying drugs as "essential," the World Health Organization has historically stressed dru...

journal_title：Annals of global health

authors： Marks VA,Latham SR,Kishore SP

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Approximately 80% of individuals with disability reside in low- and middle-income countries where community-based rehabilitation (CBR) has been used as a strategy to improve disability. However, data relating to disability severity among CBR beneficiaries in low-income countries like Uganda remain scarce, pa...

journal_title：Annals of global health

authors： Hamid LN,Kobusingye O,Baine SO,Mayora C,Bentley JA

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Meeting health security capacity in sub-Saharan Africa will require strengthening existing health systems to prevent, detect, and respond to any threats to health. The purpose of this review was to examine the literature on health workforce, surveillance, and health governance issues for health systemsstreng...

journal_title：Annals of global health

authors： Ayanore MA,Amuna N,Aviisah M,Awolu A,Kipo-Sunyehzi DD,Mogre V,Ofori-Asenso R,Gmanyami JM,Kugbey N,Gyapong M

更新日期：2019-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The year-long position of chief medical resident is a time-honored tradition in the United States that serves to provide the trainee with an opportunity to gain further skills as a clinician, leader, teacher, liaison, and administrator. However, in most training programs in the developing world, this role do...

journal_title：Annals of global health

authors： Walker T,Dusabejambo V,Ho JJ,Karigire C,Richards B,Sofair AN

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Worldwide celebration of the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife boosts innovative efforts by academic nursing schools to change the narrative for the nursing profession globally. These innovations have the potential to disrupt narratives that perpetuate negative perspectives and to replace them with counter-narratives ...

journal_title：Annals of global health

authors： Bolan N,Ogbolu Y

更新日期：2020-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Viral hepatitis B is a disease condition of the liver caused by the hepatitis B virus, and it leads to complications such as cancer and cirrhosis. This poses an occupational hazard because about 66,000 health care workers get infected with the virus annually. Adequate knowledge and right attitude of health w...

journal_title：Annals of global health

authors： Aniaku JK,Amedonu EK,Fusheini A

更新日期：2019-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Ultrasound education has been provided to students in medical schools within and beyond the United States. A formal experiment with use of personal handheld ultrasound equipment by all first-year medical students has not been reported. Employing insonation (an application of ultrasound) at the personal leisu...

journal_title：Annals of global health

authors： Ireson M,Warring S,Medina-Inojosa JR,O'Malley MT,Pawlina W,Lachman N,Narula J,Bhagra A

更新日期：2019-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exposure to contaminant mixtures in developing countries is an important public health issue. Children are identified as the most susceptible group to adverse health effects due to the exposure. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to conduct a screening for mixture pollutants in Mexican children in urban ma...

journal_title：Annals of global health

authors： Flores-Ramírez R,Pérez-Vázquez FJ,Medellín-Garibay SE,Camacho Aldrete A,Vallejo-Pérez M,Díaz de León-Martínez L,Carrizales Yáñez L,Díaz-Barriga F

更新日期：2018-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Urogenital fistula is a debilitating condition that women can develop following obstructed labor. The primary objective of this study was to reveal illness narratives of Rwandan women with urogenital fistula to appreciate their unique experiences. The secondary aim was to identify common themes that emerged ...

journal_title：Annals of global health

authors： Kay A,Nishimwe A,Hampton BS

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00