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Ministry of Health and Social Services
Government•Windhoek, Namibia•
About: Ministry of Health and Social Services is a government organization based out in Windhoek, Namibia. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Health care. The organization has 207 authors who have published 212 publications receiving 15838 citations.
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TL;DR: The AUDIT provides a simple method of early detection of hazardous and harmful alcohol use in primary health care settings and is the first instrument of its type to be derived on the basis of a cross-national study.
Abstract: The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) has been developed from a six-country WHO collaborative project as a screening instrument for hazardous and harmful alcohol consumption. It is a 10-item questionnaire which covers the domains of alcohol consumption, drinking behaviour, and alcohol-related problems. Questions were selected from a 150-item assessment schedule (which was administered to 1888 persons attending representative primary health care facilities) on the basis of their representativeness for these conceptual domains and their perceived usefulness for intervention. Responses to each question are scored from 0 to 4, giving a maximum possible score of 40. Among those diagnosed as having hazardous or harmful alcohol use, 92% had an AUDIT score of 8 or more, and 94% of those with non-hazardous consumption had a score of less than 8. AUDIT provides a simple method of early detection of hazardous and harmful alcohol use in primary health care settings and is the first instrument of its type to be derived on the basis of a cross-national study.
11,042 citations
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TL;DR: The results indicate that the chikungunya virus outbreak was initiated by a strain related to East-African isolates, from which viral variants have evolved following a traceable microevolution history and may be due to adaptation to the mosquito vector.
Abstract: A chikungunya virus outbreak of unprecedented magnitude is currently ongoing in Indian Ocean territories. In Reunion Island, this alphavirus has already infected about one-third of the human population. The main clinical symptom of the disease is a painful and invalidating poly-arthralgia. Besides the arthralgic form, 123 patients with a confirmed chikungunya infection have developed severe clinical signs, i.e., neurological signs or fulminant hepatitis.
1,085 citations
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University of Oslo1, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation2, Prince of Songkla University3, Harvard University4, The New School5, Ministry of Health and Social Services6, Birzeit University7, University of Ghana8, University College London9, Mandela Institute for Development Studies10, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp11
TL;DR: Ole Petter Ottersen, Jashodhara Dasgupta, Chantal Blouin, Paulo Buss, Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong, Julio Frenk, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Bience P Gawanas, Rita Giacaman, John Gyapong, Jennifer Leaning, Michael Marmot, Desmond McNeill, Gertrude I Mongella, Nkosana Moyo, Sigrun M
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TL;DR: Although the prevalence of hazardous and harmful alcohol consumption varied from country to country, there was a high degree of commonality in the structure and correlates of drinking behaviour and alcohol-related problems.
Abstract: This WHO collaborative project is the first phase of a programme of work aimed at developing techniques for early identification and treatment of persons with hazardous and harmful alcohol consumption. The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of hazardous and harmful alcohol use among patients attending primary health care facilities in several countries, and to examine the correlates of drinking behaviour and alcohol-related problems in these culturally diverse populations. The broader purpose was to determine whether there was justification for developing alcohol screening instruments for cross-national use. One thousand, eight hundred and eighty-eight subjects in Australia, Bulgaria, Kenya, Mexico, Norway and the USA underwent a comprehensive assessment of their medical history, alcohol intake, drinking practices, and any physical or psychosocial problems related to alcohol. After non-drinkers and known alcoholics had been excluded, 18% of subjects had a hazardous level of alcohol intake and 23% had experienced at least one alcohol-related problem in the previous year. Intrascale reliability coefficients were uniformly high for the drinking behaviour (dependence) and adverse psychological reactions scales, and moderately high for the alcohol-related problems scales. There were strong correlations between the various alcohol-specific scales, and between these scales and measures of alcohol intake. Although the prevalence of hazardous and harmful alcohol consumption varied from country to country, there was a high degree of commonality in the structure and correlates of drinking behaviour and alcohol-related problems. These findings strengthen the case for developing international screening instruments for hazardous and harmful alcohol consumption.
487 citations
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Bruce M Biccard1, Thandinkosi E. Madiba2, Hyla-Louise Kluyts3, Dolly M. Munlemvo +1059 more•Institutions (18)
TL;DR: Despite a low-risk profile and few postoperative complications, patients in Africa were twice as likely to die after surgery when compared with the global average for postoperative deaths, and Initiatives to increase access to surgical treatments in Africa should be coupled with improved surveillance for deteriorating physiology in patients who develop postoperative complication.
353 citations
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Pascal Bovet | 67 | 352 | 31182 |
Conrad F. Shamlaye | 38 | 109 | 4977 |
Howard E. Gary | 30 | 66 | 3250 |
Bruce D. Agins | 18 | 63 | 1272 |
David W. Lowrance | 17 | 47 | 971 |
Brooke E Nichols | 16 | 71 | 1055 |
Georgina Msemo | 13 | 20 | 831 |
Kofi Mensah Nyarko | 13 | 75 | 736 |
Monique Landry | 12 | 26 | 473 |
Petrina Uusiku | 11 | 22 | 588 |
George Madeleine | 11 | 13 | 539 |
Ndapewa Hamunime | 10 | 26 | 403 |
Anne Gabriel | 10 | 12 | 606 |
Stark Katokele | 9 | 12 | 396 |
Christopher Hugo-Hamman | 8 | 11 | 961 |