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Gail Davey
Researcher at Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Publications - 233
Citations - 26521
Gail Davey is an academic researcher from Brighton and Sussex Medical School. The author has contributed to research in topics: Podoconiosis & Population. The author has an hindex of 45, co-authored 222 publications receiving 21055 citations. Previous affiliations of Gail Davey include University of Sussex & Addis Ababa University.
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Factors influencing place of delivery for women in Kenya: an analysis of the Kenya demographic and health survey, 2008/2009
TL;DR: Living in urban areas, being wealthy, more educated, using antenatal care services optimally and lower parity strongly predicted where women delivered, and so did region, ethnicity, and type of facilities used.
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The burden of neglected tropical diseases in Ethiopia, and opportunities for integrated control and elimination
TL;DR: To achieve success in integrated control of NTDs, integrated mapping, rapid scale up of interventions and operational research into co implementation of intervention packages will be crucial.
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Podoconiosis: non-infectious geochemical elephantiasis.
TL;DR: This article reviews peer-reviewed publications and book chapters on the history, epidemiology, genetics, ecology, pathogenesis, pathology and management of podoconiosis (endemic non-filarial elephantiasis).
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Economic costs of endemic non-filarial elephantiasis in Wolaita Zone, Ethiopia.
TL;DR: Endemic non‐filarial elephantiasis or podoconiosis is a chronic and debilitating geochemical disease occurring in individuals exposed to red clay soil derived from alkalic volcanic rock.
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HLA Class II Locus and Susceptibility to Podoconiosis
Fasil Tekola Ayele,Adebowale Adeyemo,Chris Finan,Elena Hailu,Paul Sinnott,Natalia Diaz Burlinson,Abraham Aseffa,Charles N. Rotimi,Melanie J. Newport,Gail Davey +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, a genomewide significant association of podoconiosis with the single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs17612858, located 5.8 kb from the HLA-DQA1 locus, was found.