abstract：Background:Our objective was to demonstrate the feasibility of integrated care for TB, HIV and diabetes mellitus (DM) in a pilot project in Ethiopia. Methods:Healthcare workers in four hospitals screened patients with TB for HIV and DM; patients with HIV for DM and TB; and patients with DM for TB. Fasting and random p...

journal_title：International health

authors： Jerene D,Hiruy N,Jemal I,Gebrekiros W,Anteneh T,Habte D,Melese M,Suarez P,Sangiwa G

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aims to understand the determinants of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria's dedicated channel for health systems strengthening (HSS) funding across countries and to analyze their health system priorities expressed in budgets and performance indicators. METHODS:We obtained pu...

journal_title：International health

authors： Fan VY,Tsai FJ,Shroff ZC,Nakahara B,Vargha N,Weathers S

更新日期：2017-01-01 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:There are conflicting reports of sex differences in HIV treatment outcomes in Africa. We investigated sex disparities in treatment outcomes for adults on first line antiretroviral treatment (ART) in Nigeria. METHODS:We compared clinical and immunologic responses to ART between HIV-infected men (n=205) and w...

journal_title：International health

authors： Musa BM,Garbati MA,Nashabaru IM,Yusuf SM,Nalado AM,Ibrahim DA,Simmons MN,Aliyu MH

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Employment is a key determinant of health disparity. We examined gender-specific relationships between employment status and health outcomes among Brazilian adults. METHODS:Nationally representative data (n=463 223) came from the 2003 and 2008 Brazilian National Household Surveys. Logistic regressions were ...

journal_title：International health

authors： Andrade FC,Wu F,An R,Stellrecht A

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Between June 2012 and December 2013 Médecins Sans Frontières launched a pilot project with the aim of testing a strategy for improving timely diagnosis of active pulmonary TB among migrants hosted in four centres of identification and expulsion (CIE) in Italy. METHODS:This is a descriptive study. For active...

journal_title：International health

authors： Crepet A,Repetto E,Al Rousan A,Sané Schepisi M,Girardi E,Prestileo T,Codecasa L,Garelli S,Corrao S,Ippolito G,Decroo T,Maccagno B

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preventing and responding to violence against children is an aim of the new Sustainable Development Goals. Numerous agencies are now collecting data from children about violence, including academics, non-governmental organisations, government agencies, consultants and others. Data are necessary to ensure appropriate p...

journal_title：International health

authors： Devries KM,Naker D,Monteath-van Dok A,Milligan C,Shirley A

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health aid to Nigeria increased tremendously in the last decade and a significant portion of the funds were earmarked for HIV-associated programs. Studies on the impact of HIV-specific aid on the delivery of non-HIV health services in sub-Saharan Africa have yielded mixed results. This study assessed if ther...

journal_title：International health

authors： Chima CC,Franzini L

更新日期：2016-03-01 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：BACKGROUND:This study was designed to identify the extent to which self-reported Mandrax use impacts condom-use beliefs amongst South African prison inmates. METHODS:Participants were inmates from four prisons in the provinces of KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga. In total, 357 inmates participated in the parent study of w...

journal_title：International health

authors： Stephens TT,Gardner D,Jones K,Sifunda S,Braithwaite R,Smith SE

更新日期：2016-03-01 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:We examined antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation and retention by sex and pregnancy status in rural Nigeria. METHODS:We studied HIV-infected ART-naïve patients aged ≥15 years entering care from June 2009 to September 2013. We calculated the probability of early ART initiation and cumulative incidence of ...

journal_title：International health

authors： Aliyu MH,Blevins M,Megazzini KM,Parrish DD,Audet CM,Chan N,Odoh C,Gebi UI,Muhammad MY,Shepherd BE,Wester CW,Vermund SH

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Limited data exist on malnutrition prevalence in Madagascar. We aimed to assess the point prevalence of childhood malnutrition in the Anivorano region, and to explore mothers' perceptions of barriers to proper nutrition. METHODS:In a mixed methods study we measured height and weight for 313 children, aged 6...

journal_title：International health

authors： Asgary R,Liu M,Naderi R,Grigoryan Z,Malachovsky M

更新日期：2015-11-01 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:Data on home-based records (HBRs) practices within national immunization programmes are non-existent, making it difficult to determine whether current efforts of immunization programmes related to basic recording of immunization services are appropriately focused. METHODS:During January 2014, WHO and the Un...

journal_title：International health

authors： Young SL,Gacic-Dobo M,Brown DW

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Migrant populations such as mine workers contributed to the spread of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. We used a mathematical model to estimate the community-wide impact of targeting treatment and prevention to male migrants. METHODS:We augmented an individual-based network model, EMOD-HIV v0.8, to include an age...

journal_title：International health

authors： Klein DJ,Eckhoff PA,Bershteyn A

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since HIV infection and its consequence, AIDS, were first described, many initial assumptions have proven to be wrong. In Africa, it is women who bear the greater burden of the disease. In many ways they are less visible than men, although at least as much at risk, often even more so. Marriage is no protection against...

journal_title：International health

authors： Cooper ES

更新日期：2014-12-01 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：BACKGROUND:India has been implementing smoke-free legislation since 2008 prohibiting smoking in public places. This study aimed to assess the level of compliance with smoke-free legislation (defined as the presence of no-smoking signage and the absence of active smoking, smoking aids, cigarette butts/bidi ends and smok...

journal_title：International health

authors： Kumar R,Goel S,Harries AD,Lal P,Singh RJ,Kumar AM,Wilson NC

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：BACKGROUND:This study assessed the prevalence of chronic disease among rural residents in Jiangxi, China, analyzed influencing factors and provided scientific rationale for chronic disease prevention and control. METHODS:Multi-stage stratified cluster random sampling was used to get a representative sample of rural re...

journal_title：International health

authors： Zhang L,Yuan Z,Maddock JE,Zou J,Zheng Z,Zhou W,Zheng H

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several strategies are used in the care of pregnant women accessing antenatal care in primary health centres in Nigeria, with the aim of reducing the burden of malaria and anaemia. The objective of the study was to appraise the prevalence of malaria parasitaemia and anaemia in pregnant women attending antena...

journal_title：International health

authors： Ugwu EO,Dim CC,Uzochukwu BS,Iloghalu EI,Ugwu AO

更新日期：2014-06-01 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：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：BACKGROUND:School surveys provide a convenient platform to obtain large child cohorts from multiple communities and are widely used as a proxy to determine community prevalence of neglected tropical diseases. The purpose of this study was to compare trachoma prevalence between preschool- and school-aged children and ch...

journal_title：International health

authors： King JD,Odermatt P,Utzinger J,Ngondi J,Bamani S,Kamissoko Y,Boubicar K,Hassan AS,Nwobi BC,Jip N,Amnie A,Teferi T,Mosher AW,Stewart AE,Cromwell EA,Emerson PM

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Access to prompt and effective treatment of malaria is a fundamental right of all populations at risk; many countries have not met the target of 60% of children treated with effective antimalarial drugs within 24 h of fever onset. While community case management of malaria is effective for increasing coverag...

journal_title：International health

authors： Siekmans K,Sohani S,Kisia J,Kiilu K,Wamalwa E,Nelima F,Otieno DO,Nyandigisi A,Akhwale W,Ngindu A

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:On 26 December 2004, 280 000 people lost their lives in the Asia-Pacific region. A massive earthquake struck Indonesia, triggering a tsunami that affected several countries, including Thailand. This tsunami had important implications for the health status of Thai citizens and health planning, and thus there ...

journal_title：International health

authors： Isaranuwatchai W,Guerriere D,Andrews GJ,Coyte PC

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study presents evidence on the cost of integrated preventive chemotherapy treatment (PCT) to control trachoma, schistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) in Niger. Integrated PCT costs are compared with the costs of vertical PCT control. METHODS:Data were analysed fo...

journal_title：International health

authors： Leslie J,Garba A,Boubacar K,Yayé Y,Sebongou H,Barkire A,Fleming FM,Mounkaila I,Adamou S,Jackou ML

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：:A retrospective record review was carried out in selected districts in Manicaland Province, Zimbabwe, to compare the number of patients diagnosed and started on anti-TB treatment with the number listed in the TB register. There were 574 patients (290 females) diagnosed and treated for TB during the first 6 months of 2...

journal_title：International health

authors： Murimwa TC,Sandy C,Mugurungi O,Edginton ME,Reid T

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertension is the most common cause of cardiovascular diseases, accounting for at least half of haemorrhagic and ischaemic strokes, heart failure and renal failure in sub-Saharan Africa. However, population-based data to inform policies are scarce. Using the WHO STEPwise approach to chronic disease risk factor surve...

journal_title：International health

authors： Msyamboza KP,Kathyola D,Dzowela T,Bowie C

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：:Mycobacterium ulcerans infection results in significant disfiguring morbidity, and treatment is expensive. To estimate the cost of treatment in the antibiotic era, a retrospective study of 71 patients diagnosed and treated for M. ulcerans in the Bellarine Peninsula (Victoria, Australia) between 1998 and 2006 was perfo...

journal_title：International health

authors： Pak J,O'Brien DP,Quek T,Athan E

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community sensitisation, as a component of community engagement, plays an important role in strengthening the ethics of community-based trials in developing countries and is fundamental to trial success. However, few researchers have shared their community sensitisation strategies and experiences. We report on our per...

journal_title：International health

authors： Lang TA,Gould J,von Seidlein L,Lusingu JP,Mshamu S,Ismael S,Liheluka E,Kamuya D,Mwachiro D,Olotu A,Njuguna P,Bejon P,Marsh V,Molyneux C

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community antibiotic utilization and its relationship with trachoma has been poorly characterized in areas with endemic trachoma. A survey of all drug-dispensing facilities in an area of rural Ethiopia was conducted. Antibiotic use was calculated using both retrospective and prospective methodology, and expressed as d...

journal_title：International health

authors： Ayele B,Belay T,Gebre T,Zerihun M,Amere A,Assefa Y,Habte D,Loh AR,Stoller NE,Keenan JD

更新日期：2011-12-01 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：:In industrial countries, a number of factors put indigenous peoples at increased risk of HIV infection. National surveillance data between 1999 and 2008 provided diagnoses for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Australia), First Nations, Inuit and Métis (Canada excluding Ontario and Quebec) and Māori (New Zealand...

journal_title：International health

authors： Shea B,Aspin C,Ward J,Archibald C,Dickson N,McDonald A,Penehira M,Halverson J,Masching R,McAllister S,Smith LT,Kaldor JM,Andersson N

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：:Snakebite is an important cause of mortality among rural dwellers in the savannah region of West Africa. We conducted a retrospective review of snakebite patients managed by experienced medical staff at Kaltungo in north-eastern Nigeria to determine the cause of death. During a 36 month period there were 94 deaths amo...

journal_title：International health

authors： Habib AG,Abubakar SB

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pica, an eating disorder in which non-nutritional objects are frequently eaten, has negative health implications. Despite this, pica is less studied in many African communities where it is believed to be highly prevalent. This study therefore sought to determine the prevalence of pica and its various forms among pregn...

journal_title：International health

authors： Mensah FO,Twumasi P,Amenawonyo XK,Larbie C,Jnr AK

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00