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ABSTRACT This study aimed to assess the coverage of essential nutrition interventions delivered through the health system and explored the relationship between co‐coverage and child‐ and maternal‐level factors, household‐level factors, and access to healthcare facilities.
Alemnesh Petros +15 more
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The Effect of Brazil's Family Health Program on Cognitive Skills
ABSTRACT This paper examines the effect of Brazil's Family Health Program (Programa Saude da Familia, FHP) on cognitive skills (measured by test scores) of fifth‐grade students. We use biennial data from national exams between 2007 and 2015, and variation in the FHP implementation date across municipalities, birth cohort, and test year to identify the ...
Pinar Mine Gunes, Magda Tsaneva
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A Breath of Fresh Air: BCG Prevents Adult Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Objectives: The efficacy of childhood BCG vaccination in the prevention of adult pulmonary tuberculosis is not universally accepted. Methods: We reviewed the published literature and summarized studies of BCG vaccination reporting long-term protection ...
David de Gijsel, C. Fordham von Reyn
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ABSTRACT This paper adds to the growing evidence on the impacts of early childhood development (ECD) programming by examining one of the world's largest home visitation programmes, the Happy Child Programme in Brazil, and its impacts on child vaccination and preventable death rates.
Raquel Tebaldi +2 more
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BCG Vaccination and Tuberculosis in Japan.
This paper summarizes Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination and revaccination policies in Japan, its cost-effectiveness, side effects, proposed selective vaccination strategy, and present tuberculosis situation in Japanese perspectives based on Medline database and other published reports.
Rahman, Mahbubur +3 more
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Mucosal‐Associated Invariant T Cells in Health and Disease
The roles of MAIT cells in health and disease and their therapeutic applications. In healthy individuals, riboflavin metabolites secreted by commensal bacteria at mucosal sites are presented by MR1, leading to the activation of MAIT cells. Activated MAIT cells can maintain the barrier integrity of mucosal tissues in a steady state or migrate to the ...
Yu Zhao +5 more
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We investigated how BCG vaccination affects the levels of certain eicosanoids, namely Leukotriene B4, 15-epimer of LXA4, prostaglandin F2, Lipoxin A4, Prostaglandin E2 and Resolvin D1 in the plasma of healthy elderly individuals (aged 60–80) before ...
Pavan Kumar Nathella +7 more
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Past and Present Vaccinations in Sweden
Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.
Sven Arne Silfverdal
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ABSTRACT Background and Aims This narrative review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of tuberculosis (TB) in Sudan, focusing on prevalence, drug resistance patterns, and associated challenges while identifying knowledge gaps in scientific research and data needed for effective management.
Mohammad Azhar Kamal +3 more
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