Towards safe drinking water and clean cooking for all.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Global rollout of dolutegravir-based antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been hampered in part by insufficient safety data in pregnancy. We compared birth outcomes among women initiating dolutegravir-based ART with those among women initiating efavirenz-based ART in pregnancy in Botswana. METHODS:In this obser...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Zash R,Jacobson DL,Diseko M,Mayondi G,Mmalane M,Essex M,Gaolethe T,Petlo C,Lockman S,Holmes LB,Makhema J,Shapiro RL

更新日期：2018-07-01 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：: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:The population exposed to potentially hazardous substances through inappropriate and unsafe management practices related to disposal and recycling of end-of-life electrical and electronic equipment, collectively known as e-waste, is increasing. We aimed to summarise the evidence for the association between s...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Grant K,Goldizen FC,Sly PD,Brune MN,Neira M,van den Berg M,Norman RE

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bereavement increases children's risk for psychological disorders, highlighting the need for effective interventions, especially in areas where orphanhood is common. We aimed to assess the effects of an eight-session support group intervention on the psychological health of bereaved female adolescents in Sou...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Thurman TR,Luckett BG,Nice J,Spyrelis A,Taylor TM

更新日期：2017-06-01 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 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: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: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: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: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：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 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: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:Breast cancer has distinct causes, prognoses, and outcomes and effects in patients at premenopausal and postmenopausal ages. We sought to assess the global burden and trends in breast cancer by menopausal status. METHODS:We did a population-based analysis of global breast cancer incidence and mortality amon...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Heer E,Harper A,Escandor N,Sung H,McCormack V,Fidler-Benaoudia MM

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Detection of dengue virus antibodies is important for understanding future dengue virus risk and for prevaccination screening. We aimed to evaluate the performance of a dengue IgG indirect ELISA in determining dengue seroprevalence in a cohort of children in the Philippines, using a focus reduction neutralis...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Lopez AL,Adams C,Ylade M,Jadi R,Daag JV,Molloy CT,Agrupis KA,Kim DR,Silva MW,Yoon IK,White L,Deen J,de Silva AM

更新日期：2021-01-01 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

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: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: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:2·6 million stillbirths occur annually worldwide. The association between malaria in pregnancy and stillbirth has yet to be comprehensively quantified. We aimed to quantify the association between malaria in pregnancy and stillbirth, and to assess the influence of malaria endemicity on the association. METH...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Moore KA,Simpson JA,Scoullar MJL,McGready R,Fowkes FJI

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In malarious areas, pregnant women are more likely to have detectable malaria than are their non-pregnant peers, and the excess risk of infection varies with gravidity. Pregnant women attending antenatal clinic for their first visit are a potential pragmatic sentinel group to track the intensity of malaria t...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： van Eijk AM,Hill J,Noor AM,Snow RW,ter Kuile FO

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：:Child stunting is a global problem and is only modestly responsive to dietary interventions. Numerous observational studies have shown that water quality, sanitation, and handwashing (WASH) in a household are strongly associated with linear growth of children living in the same household. We have completed three rando...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Pickering AJ,Null C,Winch PJ,Mangwadu G,Arnold BF,Prendergast AJ,Njenga SM,Rahman M,Ntozini R,Benjamin-Chung J,Stewart CP,Huda TMN,Moulton LH,Colford JM Jr,Luby SP,Humphrey JH

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the effects of socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes is important to implement specific preventive actions. We assessed socioeconomic disparities in mortality indicators in a rural South African population over the period 2001-13. METHODS:We used data from 21 villages of the Agincourt H...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Kabudula CW,Houle B,Collinson MA,Kahn K,Gómez-Olivé FX,Tollman S,Clark SJ

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Social protection interventions might improve tuberculosis outcomes and could help to control the epidemic in Brazil. The aim of this study was to evaluate the independent effect of the Bolsa Familia Programme (BFP) on tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Brazil. METHODS:We prospectively recruited and followe...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Oliosi JGN,Reis-Santos B,Locatelli RL,Sales CMM,da Silva Filho WG,da Silva KC,Sanchez MN,de Andrade KVF,de Araújo GS,Shete PB,Pereira SM,Riley LW,Lienhardt C,Maciel ELN

更新日期：2019-02-01 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: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: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: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