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: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:Total domestic and international funding for malaria is inadequate to achieve WHO global targets in burden reduction by 2030. We describe the trends of investments in malaria-related research in sub-Saharan Africa and compare investment with national disease burden to identify areas of funding strength and p...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Head MG,Goss S,Gelister Y,Alegana V,Brown RJ,Clarke SC,Fitchett JRA,Atun R,Scott JAG,Newell ML,Padmadas SS,Tatem AJ

更新日期：2017-08-01 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：:Development assistance for health (DAH), the value of which peaked in 2013 and fell in 2015, is unlikely to rise substantially in the near future, increasing reliance on domestic and innovative financing sources to sustain health programmes in low-income and middle-income countries. We examined innovative financing in...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Atun R,Silva S,Knaul FM

更新日期：2017-07-01 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: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: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: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:Dehydration due to diarrhoea is a leading cause of child death worldwide, yet no clinical tools for assessing dehydration have been validated in resource-limited settings. The Dehydration: Assessing Kids Accurately (DHAKA) score was derived for assessing dehydration in children with diarrhoea in a low-income...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Levine AC,Glavis-Bloom J,Modi P,Nasrin S,Atika B,Rege S,Robertson S,Schmid CH,Alam NH

更新日期：2016-10-01 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: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: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: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: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: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 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: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: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: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: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: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