Overall, anti-malarial, and non-malarial effect of intermittent preventive treatment during pregnancy with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine on birthweight: a mediation analysis.

abstract：BACKGROUND:To contribute to the WHO initiative, VISION 2020: The Right to Sight, an assessment of global vision impairment in 2020 and temporal change is needed. We aimed to extensively update estimates of global vision loss burden, presenting estimates for 2020, temporal change over three decades between 1990-2020, an...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： GBD 2019 Blindness and Vision Impairment Collaborators.,Vision Loss Expert Group of the Global Burden of Disease Study.

更新日期：2021-02-01 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:The need for multiple clinical visits remains a barrier to women accessing safe legal medical abortion services. Alternatives to routine clinic follow-up visits have not been assessed in rural low-resource settings. We compared the effectiveness of standard clinic follow-up versus home assessment of outcome ...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Iyengar K,Paul M,Iyengar SD,Klingberg-Allvin M,Essén B,Bring J,Soni S,Gemzell-Danielsson K

更新日期：2015-09-01 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: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:Tuberculosis is recognised as a major cause of morbidity and mortality in children, with most cases in children going undiagnosed and resulting in poor outcomes. Household contact management, which aims to identify children with active tuberculosis and to provide preventive therapy for those with HIV or thos...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Dodd PJ,Yuen CM,Becerra MC,Revill P,Jenkins HE,Seddon JA

更新日期：2018-12-01 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:Timely access to emergency care can substantially reduce mortality. International benchmarks for access to emergency hospital care have been established to guide ambitions for universal health care by 2030. However, no Pan-African database of where hospitals are located exists; therefore, we aimed to complet...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Ouma PO,Maina J,Thuranira PN,Macharia PM,Alegana VA,English M,Okiro EA,Snow RW

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Policies for early detection of breast cancer, including clinical breast examinations and mammographic screening, were introduced in Brazil in 2004, but their effect on disease stage at diagnosis is unclear. We aimed to assess whether these policies have led to a decrease in the prevalence of late-stage brea...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Dos-Santos-Silva I,De Stavola BL,Renna NL Junior,Nogueira MC,Aquino EML,Bustamante-Teixeira MT,Azevedo E Silva G

更新日期：2019-06-01 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: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: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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few population-based studies of cerebral palsy have been done in low-income and middle-income countries. We aimed to examine cerebral palsy prevalence and subtypes, functional impairments, and presumed time of injury in children in Uganda. METHODS:In this population-based study, we used a nested, three-stag...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Kakooza-Mwesige A,Andrews C,Peterson S,Wabwire Mangen F,Eliasson AC,Forssberg H

更新日期：2017-12-01 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：: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:The intermittent administration of seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) is recommended to prevent malaria among children aged 3-59 months in areas of the Sahel subregion in Africa. However, the cost-effectiveness and cost savings of SMC have not previously been evaluated in large-scale studies. METHODS:We...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Gilmartin C,Nonvignon J,Cairns M,Milligan P,Bocoum F,Winskill P,Moroso D,Collins D

更新日期：2021-02-01 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: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：BACKGROUND:Caesarean section prevalence is increasing in Asia and Latin America while remaining low in most African regions. Caesarean section delivery is effective for saving maternal and infant lives when they are provided for medically-indicated reasons. On the basis of ecological studies, caesarean delivery prevale...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Belizán JM,Minckas N,McClure EM,Saleem S,Moore JL,Goudar SS,Esamai F,Patel A,Chomba E,Garces AL,Althabe F,Harrison MS,Krebs NF,Derman RJ,Carlo WA,Liechty EA,Hibberd PL,Buekens PM,Goldenberg RL

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:More timely estimates of malaria prevalence are needed to inform optimal control strategies and measure progress. Since 2014, Tanzania has implemented nationwide malaria screening for all pregnant women within the antenatal care system. We aimed to compare malaria test results during antenatal care to two po...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Kitojo C,Gutman JR,Chacky F,Kigadye E,Mkude S,Mandike R,Mohamed A,Reaves EJ,Walker P,Ishengoma DS

更新日期：2019-12-01 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:Few studies have reported long-term data on mortality rates for children admitted to hospital with pneumonia in Africa. We examined trends in case fatality rates for all-cause clinical pneumonia and its risk factors in Malawian children between 2001 and 2012. METHODS:Individual patient data for children (<5...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Lazzerini M,Seward N,Lufesi N,Banda R,Sinyeka S,Masache G,Nambiar B,Makwenda C,Costello A,McCollum ED,Colbourn T

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The rise in contraceptive use has largely been driven by short-acting methods of contraception, despite the high effectiveness of long-acting reversible contraceptives. Several countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have made important progress increasing the use of modern contraceptives, but important...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Ponce de Leon RG,Ewerling F,Serruya SJ,Silveira MF,Sanhueza A,Moazzam A,Becerra-Posada F,Coll CVN,Hellwig F,Victora CG,Barros AJD

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Amid rapid urbanisation, the HIV epidemic, and increasing rates of non-communicable diseases, people in sub-Saharan Africa are especially vulnerable to kidney disease. Little is known about the epidemiology of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in sub-Saharan Africa, so we did a systematic review and meta-analysis...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Stanifer JW,Jing B,Tolan S,Helmke N,Mukerjee R,Naicker S,Patel U

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In South Africa, sputum smear microscopy has been replaced with Xpert MTB/RIF as the initial diagnostic test for tuberculosis. In a pragmatic parallel cluster-randomised trial, we evaluated the effect on patient and programme outcomes. METHODS:We randomly allocated 20 laboratories (clusters) in medium-burde...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Churchyard GJ,Stevens WS,Mametja LD,McCarthy KM,Chihota V,Nicol MP,Erasmus LK,Ndjeka NO,Mvusi L,Vassall A,Sinanovic E,Cox HS,Dye C,Grant AD,Fielding KL

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Haiti has an integrated bite case management (IBCM) programme to counsel animal-bite victims on the risk of rabies and appropriate treatment, as well as the Haiti Animal Rabies Surveillance Program (HARSP) to examine the animals. We assessed the usefulness of the IBCM programme to promote best practices for ...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Etheart MD,Kligerman M,Augustin PD,Blanton JD,Monroe B,Fleurinord L,Millien M,Crowdis K,Fenelon N,Wallace RM

更新日期：2017-10-01 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 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: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:Insufficient physical activity is a leading risk factor for non-communicable diseases, and has a negative effect on mental health and quality of life. We describe levels of insufficient physical activity across countries, and estimate global and regional trends. METHODS:We pooled data from population-based ...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Guthold R,Stevens GA,Riley LM,Bull FC

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00