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University of Zambia
Education•Lusaka, Lusaka, Zambia•
About: University of Zambia is a education organization based out in Lusaka, Lusaka, Zambia. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Health care. The organization has 2593 authors who have published 4402 publications receiving 122411 citations. The organization is also known as: UNZA.
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25 Apr 2016
TL;DR: Results suggest that interventions to improve institutional birthing in Nigeria should address the cultural practice of home birth in ethnic communities with high levels of ethnic diversity.
Abstract: Maternal health remains poor in Nigeria. Over 60% of women in Nigeria do not give birth to their babies in a health facility. Our study examined the association between ethnic diversity and health facility birthing. Data from the 2008 Nigeria Demographic and Health survey were used, and the analytical sample consists of 17,542 women aged 15–49 years who gave birth to their last child in the 5 years preceding the survey. The results show that ethnic diversity was significantly associated with the use of a health facility for childbirth. Living in highly ethnically diverse communities was associated with higher odds of giving birth in a health facility compared to living in ethnically homogeneous communities. Maternal education in the community, household wealth index, and exposure to family planning messages also were strongly associated with health facility birthing. Results suggest that interventions to improve institutional birthing in Nigeria should address the cultural practice of home birth in ethnic...
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University of Barcelona1, University of Washington2, Stellenbosch University3, National Health Laboratory Service4, University of Cape Town5, Harvard University6, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro7, McGill University8, College of Health Sciences, Bahrain9, University of Zimbabwe10, Ministry of Health and Child Welfare11, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich12, University of Zambia13, University of KwaZulu-Natal14, University of London15, South African Medical Research Council16, University of the Witwatersrand17, University of California, San Francisco18
TL;DR: An individual patient data meta-analysis was performed to examine improvements in patient outcomes associated with Xpert MTB/RIF, and reduction in mortality among HIV-positive patients in a secondary analysis suggests the possibility of population-level impact.
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University of Alabama at Birmingham1, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy2, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh3, University of Zambia4, University of California, Merced5, RTI International6, University of South Carolina7, Western Kentucky University8, National Institutes of Health9
TL;DR: This trial of home-based, parent provided EDI in children resuscitated at birth provides evidence of treatment benefits on cognitive and psychomotor outcomes.
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TL;DR: The alignment of incentives (to promote access and quality for those intended to be covered by the public budget) and the effective decentralisation of control over key resources--seem to us the key tools to address the stubborn problems of hospitals.
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TL;DR: Physical fighting and bullying victimization experience is common among in-school adolescents in Barinas, Venezuela, and the fact that victims of bullying were more likely to have engaged in physical fighting may be evidence supporting the notion that "violence begets more violence".
Abstract: Violence among adolescents has untoward psycho-social and physical health effects among this age group. Most of the literature on this topic has been from high-income nations, and little information has come from middle- and low-income nations. This study was done to assess the relationship between physical fighting and bullying victimization among Venezuelan school-going adolescents in Barinas. We used data from the 2003 Global School-Based Health Survey conducted among in-school adolescents in Barinas, Venezuela. We estimated the prevalence of bullying victimization and physical fighting. We also conducted Logistic regression analysis to assess the association between a selected list of explanatory variables and physical fighting. We hypothesized that there would be a dose-response relationship between physical fighting and number of times the adolescent reported being a bullied in the past 30 days. A total of 2,249 adolescent students participated in the survey. However data on sex (gender) were available for only 2,229 respondents, of whom 31.2 (47.4% males and 17.0% females) reported having been involved in a physical fight in the last 12 months. Some 31.5% (37.0% males and 27.0% females) reported having been bullied in the past 30 days. There was a dose-response relationship between bullying victimization and physical fighting (p-trend < 0.001). Compared to subjects who were not bullied, those who reported being bullied were more likely to engage in physical fighting after controlling for age, sex, substance use (smoking, alcohol drinking or drug use), and parental supervision. Physical fighting and bullying victimization experience is common among in-school adolescents in Barinas, Venezuela. The fact that victims of bullying were more likely to have engaged in physical fighting may be evidence supporting the notion that "violence begets more violence".
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| Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alimuddin Zumla | 100 | 747 | 43284 |
| David Clark | 73 | 652 | 24857 |
| Sten H. Vermund | 69 | 606 | 22181 |
| Paul A. Kelly | 68 | 208 | 16836 |
| Francis Drobniewski | 67 | 293 | 17371 |
| Ayato Takada | 67 | 273 | 14467 |
| Karl Peltzer | 60 | 880 | 18515 |
| Hirofumi Sawa | 55 | 325 | 11735 |
| Peter Godfrey-Faussett | 52 | 173 | 8486 |
| Igor J. Koralnik | 52 | 197 | 10186 |
| Peter Mwaba | 48 | 132 | 7386 |
| Alison M. Elliott | 48 | 299 | 7772 |
| Kelly Chibale | 47 | 337 | 7713 |
| Chihiro Sugimoto | 47 | 325 | 7737 |
| Sian Floyd | 47 | 163 | 6791 |