Showing papers in "International Health in 2019"

TL;DR: This review highlights aspects of 'Survive, thrive and transform' that have had strong traction globally, namely quality of care and humanitarian settings for 'survive', early childhood development and adolescent health for 'thrive' and community engagement and a sustainable environment for 'transform'.

TL;DR: There is a continuing need for research to strengthen the evidence on disease risk at very low and very high levels of air pollution, identify the air pollution sources most responsible for disease burden and assess the public health effectiveness of actions taken to improve air quality.

TL;DR: Studies with high methodological quality provided sufficient evidence about diabetes prevalence among adults and the associated significant risk factors in Ghana.

TL;DR: Investigating the prevalence of depression and factors associated with this psychological health hazard among urban and semi-urban adolescents of the Dhaka region in Bangladesh found Sociodemographic factors including being female, residence and grade in school were significantly associated with depression.

TL;DR: New simple-to-use quantitative tests, and a momentum to eliminate malaria, create an opportunity to address the knowledge gap in the epidemiology of G6PD activity in females and its corresponding treatment ramifications.

TL;DR: The aims of this program were to establish and evaluate NBS-SCD as a health intervention in Tanzania and to determine the birth prevalence of SCD, which is of public health significance.

TL;DR: Water insecurity massively undermines health, especially among impoverished and marginalized communities, and water sharing systems have been almost invisible within global health research but need to be explored, because they can both support and undermine global public health interventions, planning and policy.

TL;DR: In the midst of the world's second largest ever recorded Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, it is reflected on six of the many lessons learnt from the epidemic, focusing on progress made and the challenges ahead in preparing for future threats.

TL;DR: Attitudes towards and perceptions of MDA for malaria elimination among policymakers and leading malariologists are explored, with concerns around the evidence base and concerns about promoting resistance.

TL;DR: Universities should target interventions to improve students’ access to health information and to developStudents’ ability to engage actively with healthcare providers to produce health professionals with improved health literacy levels who are sensitive to the health literacy needs of their patients from different population groups.

TL;DR: The role of gender and SES is brought attention to in producing and sustaining limitations to women's access to quality care in rural areas of Edo State, Nigeria.

TL;DR: Elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Nigeria will require the implementation of feasible, culturally acceptable and sustainable interventions to address the health system-related challenges.

TL;DR: An assessment of global development-related assistance for mental health between 2006 and 2016 found that development assistance specifically dedicated to mental health accounted for just 0.3% of all development assistance for health.

TL;DR: There is significant potential under-reporting of ADRs, which seems to be the result of several factors, including the lack of the knowledge of the national pharmacovigilance system.

TL;DR: Assessment and discussion on the policies and actions needed in Indonesia including comprehensive efforts to reduce tobacco use and unhealthy diet, the need to reorient the health systems for better NCD prevention and control, and the promotion of NCD-related research that are still lacking are provided.

TL;DR: Reporting of gender-disaggregated data is feasible and NTD programs consistently achieve at least equal levels of coverage for women, and Understanding gendered barriers to MDA for men and women remains a priority.

TL;DR: Assessment of recent medicine or medical device donations with WHO guidelines from 2009 onwards found that 40-70% of donated medical devices are not used as they are not functional, appropriate, or staff lack training.

TL;DR: The past decade reviews the past decade of neglected tropical diseases and offers a glimpse of what the future might hold for NTDs as a litmus test of SDG achievements.

TL;DR: Fun activity opportunities involving walking or swimming and in the local neighbourhood may be popular for both males and females, and future research could explore uptake and maintenance of activity options, based on preferred activity attributes.

TL;DR: Smartphone cameras may be a useful aid for monitoring in resource-limited settings and trachoma appears to have been eliminated from this area of Burkina Faso.

TL;DR: In women, the higher socio-economic strata were associated with elevated total cholesterol and HDL-c, while lower total cholesterol, LDL-c and TG levels were found in those with higher education levels, and individuals in the highest socio- economic category are the ones at higher risk for dyslipidemia.

TL;DR: Strengthening the construction of healthy organizations and enhancing workers' job satisfaction may improve the mental health status or psychological well-being of this group of internal migrant workers.

TL;DR: The vast majority (98%) of stillbirths occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and this has been referred to as the ‘silent epidemic’.

TL;DR: The prevalence of FGM/C is practised mainly in Africa, with the highest prevalence in Somalia, Egypt, Mali and Sudan, where more than 80% of all women between 15 and 49 y of age have undergone Fgm/C.

TL;DR: More people need to be trained in countries to deliver, monitor and evaluate a systems approach to road safety, more solid evidence of what works in low-resource settings is needed and there needs to be a greater focus on optimising care and support for those injured in crashes if numbers come down in the next decade.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the role that the launch of new drugs has played in reducing the number of years of life lost (YLL) before three different ages due to 66 diseases in 27 countries.

TL;DR: The paper engages in a critical dialogue with sociological and epidemiological research that assesses migrant mental health states through the lens of the vulnerability or resilience of this social group, often reducing citiness to a series of environmental ‘stressors’.

TL;DR: Health care workers in this study had quite poor practice competences in managing noma, and knowledge scores of these health workers were moderate, which varied between different stages of noma disease.

TL;DR: Interventions that will reduce pregnancy in younger adolescent girls, poverty, and increase ANC provided by skilled attendants, are likely to improve deliveries assisted by skilled birth attendants among married adolescent girls in Nigeria.

TL;DR: An understanding of the current research landscape on injury among immigrants that can be used to assist policymakers, service providers, employers and researchers regarding injuries in this population is offered.