Anne Nordrehaug Åstrøm

TL;DR: In sub-Saharan Africa, male children under five years of age are more likely to become stunted than females, which might suggest that boys are more vulnerable to health inequalities than their female counterparts in the same age groups.

TL;DR: Of four socio-economic indicators, mothers' education is the best predictor for health and nutrition inequalities among infants and young children in rural Uganda, and the finding that boys are adversely affected by poverty more than their female counterparts corroborates evidence from previous studies.

TL;DR: Rural residents are at a higher overall injury risk than urban residents, partly as a reflection of livelihoods and infrastructure, and may be important in the development of injury prevention strategies.

TL;DR: Schoolchildren with fair/poor oral hygiene were less likely than their counterparts with good oral hygiene to be diagnosed with a midline shift and an open bite, and were associated with environmental factors in terms of caries experience and residing in a less affluent district.

TL;DR: The trial demonstrated that a simple intervention, such as a letter to the spouse, could increase couple antenatal clinic attendance by 10%.