Ali Kiadaliri

TL;DR: Although the prevalence of lymphatic filariasis infection has declined since 2000, MDA is still necessary across large populations in Africa and Asia, and these mapped estimates can be used to identify areas where the probability of meeting infection thresholds is low, and to indicate additional data collection or intervention might be warranted before MDA programmes cease.

TL;DR: High-resolution geospatial estimates of access to drinking water and sanitation facilities in low-income and middle-income countries from 2000 to 2017 identify areas with successful approaches or in need of targeted interventions to enable precision public health to effectively progress towards universal access to safe water and sanitary facilities.

TL;DR: This study is the first to produce and map subnational estimates of ORS, RHF, and ORT coverage and attributable child diarrhoeal deaths across LMICs from 2000 to 2017, and can support subnational needs assessments aimed at furthering policy makers' understanding of within-country disparities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate the excess healthcare use and work disability attributable to knee OA in the first 5 years following diagnosis, using a survival-adjusted regression technique controlling for sociodemographic characteristics and pre-diagnosis outcome and comorbidity.

TL;DR: The national recommendation was associated with reduction in use of knee arthroscopy in public health care in southern Sweden, however, still 4.5% of these patients underwent knee ar throatsopy in 2015 implying that more efforts are required to achieve the recommended target.