Showing papers in "Public Health in 2014"

TL;DR: The adverse consequences for infants born at 38 and 39 weeks gestation are also of a higher risk than those for infants Born at 40 weeks gestation, with the neonatal mortality risk increasing again in infants born beyond the 42nd week of gestation.

TL;DR: The findings demonstrated the utility of HBM constructs in understanding vaccination intention and uptake and there is an urgent need to improve health promotion and information campaigns to enhance the benefits and reduce the barriers to HPV vaccination.

TL;DR: Digital technologies offer a potentially important new development for prevention and treatment in medicine, according to the World Health Organization.

TL;DR: The level of resilience and quality of life after an earthquake was associated with the level of social support, and indicates that more focus needs to be placed on policies that aim for the provision of early mental health intervention and social support to improve thequality of life of earthquake survivors.

TL;DR: It is argued that this prevalent conceptual framework of 'two communities', whilst having been extremely helpful in theorizing the difficulties of connecting policy needs with research findings, bears several important limitations when analysing structural collaboratives between researchers and policy makers or professionals.

TL;DR: Knowledge brokering is a potentially promising knowledge translation strategy for public health, though additional feasibility and cost-effectiveness data are still needed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assessed dentists' readiness to discuss the HPV vaccine with female patients and found that the majority of participants (97%) fell into the pre-contemplation and contemplation stages of discussing the vaccine with patients.

TL;DR: Government initiated interventions and policies are powerful strategies by which organizational capacity to improve health literacy may be affected and organizations may improve the impact of health literacy interventions through supported distributed leadership.

TL;DR: Implementing perinatal regionalization programs is correlated with improvements inPerinatal outcomes, but it is not possible to establish a causal link.

TL;DR: The evolving role of WHO in the development and implementation of human rights for global health is analyzed, the current state of human human rights leadership in the WHO Secretariat is reviewed, and future institutions to reclaim the mantle of human Rights as a normative framework forglobal health governance are looked to.

TL;DR: The WHO-RF relationship from the 1940s to the 1960s is examined, tracing its ebbs and flows, key moments, challenges, and quandaries, concluding with a reflection on the role of the Cold War in both fully institutionalizing the RF's dominant disease-control approach and limiting its smaller social medicine efforts, even as theRF's quotidian influence at WHO diminished.

TL;DR: It is found that IPV was associated with adverse maternal outcomes including preterm labour, caesarean section, antenatal hospitalization and vaginal bleeding, which adds to the existing literature and can be used to inform healthcare practices in developing countries.

TL;DR: Improved training and adoption of standardized protocols has led to increased antenatal detection of fetal growth restriction, and this in turn has resulted in significant reductions in stillbirths in areas with high uptake of the training programme.

TL;DR: Evidence found drought followed by re-wetting can have a substantial effect on water table levels, vegetation, and aquatic predators; all factors which influence mosquito populations.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the literature on the cost of prematurity according to gestational age at birth was carried out using the following databases: Medline, ScienceDirect, The Cochrane Library, Econlit and Business Source Premier, and a French Public-Health database.

TL;DR: In this article, a two-stage stratified sampling method was used to select a representative sample of Malaysian adults aged 16 years and above, and face-to-face interviews were conducted using the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ), short version.

TL;DR: The study found that in SE Asia, urban exposure was positively associated with coronary heart disease, diabetes and respiratory diseases in children and Urban exposure was negatively associated with rheumatic heart diseases.

TL;DR: A considerable number of lives could be saved if Canadians adhered to the national dietary intake recommendations, and priority should be given to recommendations for fruit and vegetable intake.

TL;DR: WHO should be split in two, separating its technical and political stewardship functions into separate entities, with collaboration in areas of overlap, and strengthened political decision-making and scientific independence.

TL;DR: A historical perspective on the changing position of WHO in the global health architecture over the past two decades is taken, which shows it has to some extent been bypassed for funding, and it lost some of its authority and its ability to set a global health agenda.

TL;DR: Social capital, at least in a U.S. context, is shown to be associated with the state-level uptake of vaccination against the 2009 A(H1N1) pandemic.

TL;DR: The studies showed that concept mapping is a way to integrate practical and scientific knowledge with careful selection of participants that represent the different perspectives, and is a valuable method for evidence-based public health policy.

TL;DR: Children's AT to school is associated with parental AT to work and other locations, and interventions should be considered that enable whole family AT, ameliorate safety concerns and decrease the need for parental supervision, such as walking school buses.

TL;DR: The available research relating to digital media use in public health is dominated by studies relating to eHealth, telehealth or social marketing; emphasising the passive reception of messages and a focus on individual behaviour change approaches.

TL;DR: The article focuses attention on the need for collaboration between local statutory and voluntary organizations in applying local concepts of well-being to public health policy; and engaging with healthcare interventions grounded within local context and needs.

TL;DR: Hospital supervised home phototherapy appears as safe and effective as outpatient therapy and provides equality of access for patients who cannot attend for outpatient therapy.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of the Health Belief Model (HBM) on the education of mothers for promoting safety and preventing injury among children aged was evaluated in a randomized controlled trial.

TL;DR: WHO guidelines need further improvement, most importantly in the rigor of their development (i.e., use of evidence reviews).

TL;DR: Results suggest that the pharmacy environment and concerns about privacy need to be recognized as potential barriers to service delivery, as well as the development of pharmacy-based alcohol screening to be assessed for acceptability and feasibility from multiple perspectives.

TL;DR: DID estimates suggest that the financial crisis led to higher prevalence of reporting poor health in Greece but not in Ireland, and contextual factors including policy responses may have contributed to the different effect of the crisis on the health of the two countries.