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Brian Houle
Researcher at Australian National University
Publications - 62
Citations - 1885
Brian Houle is an academic researcher from Australian National University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 47 publications receiving 1516 citations. Previous affiliations of Brian Houle include University of Colorado Boulder & University of Washington.
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Development and validation of the Current Opioid Misuse Measure.
Stephen F. Butler,Simon H. Budman,K. Fernandez,Brian Houle,Christine Benoit,Nathaniel P. Katz,Robert N. Jamison +6 more
TL;DR: The Current Opioid Misuse Measure (COMM) was found to have promise as a brief, self‐report measure of current aberrant drug‐related behavior, demonstrating excellent internal consistency and test–retest reliability.
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Prevalence of HIV among those 15 and older in rural South Africa
Francesc Xavier Gómez-Olivé,Nicole Angotti,Brian Houle,Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch,Chodziwadziwa W. Kabudula,Jane Menken,Jill Williams,Stephen Tollman,Samuel J. Clark +8 more
TL;DR: The high prevalence among older adults suggests likely HIV infection at older ages, and prevention activities need to expand to older adults to reduce new infections.
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Cardiometabolic disease risk and HIV status in rural South Africa: establishing a baseline
Samuel J. Clark,F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé,Brian Houle,Brian Houle,Brian Houle,Margaret Thorogood,Margaret Thorogood,Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch,Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch,Nicole Angotti,Chodziwadziwa W. Kabudula,Jill Williams,Jill Williams,Jane Menken,Jane Menken,Stephen Tollman +15 more
TL;DR: Sub-Saharan Africa is facing intersecting epidemics of HIV and hypertension, and around half the adult population require long-term care for at least one of HIV, hypertension or diabetes, which may have serious implications for the South African health care system.
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Progression of the epidemiological transition in a rural South African setting: findings from population surveillance in Agincourt, 1993–2013
Chodziwadziwa W. Kabudula,Chodziwadziwa W. Kabudula,Brian Houle,Brian Houle,Brian Houle,Mark A. Collinson,Mark A. Collinson,Kathleen Kahn,Kathleen Kahn,Francesc Xavier Gómez-Olivé,Samuel J. Clark,Stephen Tollman,Stephen Tollman +12 more
TL;DR: This typical rural South African population is experiencing a protracted epidemiological transition, characterized by persistent gender differences with more rapid positive progression in females than males, which will impact on continued progress in reducing preventable mortality and improving health across the life course.
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Assessing Changes in Household Socioeconomic Status in Rural South Africa, 2001–2013: A Distributional Analysis Using Household Asset Indicators
Chodziwadziwa W. Kabudula,Brian Houle,Brian Houle,Brian Houle,Mark A. Collinson,Mark A. Collinson,Kathleen Kahn,Kathleen Kahn,Stephen Tollman,Stephen Tollman,Samuel J. Clark +10 more
TL;DR: Comparability of the easy-to-compute absolute index to other SES indices constructed using more advanced statistical techniques in assessing household SES is demonstrated, which suggests that the improvement in SES has been slower for poorer households.