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Improving access to family planning services through community pharmacies: Experience from The Challenge Initiative in three counties in Kenya

Frontiers in Global Women's Health, 2023
Pharmacies play a vital role in improving access to family planning (FP) services in urban areas. They complement the resource-limited public health system and are viewed as key access points for contraceptives among young people (10–24 years) and the ...
Nancy Aloo, Paul Nyachae, Njeri Mbugua, Morine Sirera, Kenneth Owino, Peter Kagwe, Njeri Nyamu, Mohammed Hanif, Miriam Ndirangu   +8 more
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Key factors to facilitate locally driven family planning programming: a qualitative analysis of urban stakeholder perspectives in Africa and Asia

Globalization and Health, 2021
Background There has been greater recognition of the importance of country ownership in global health and development. However, operationalising country ownership to ensure the scale up and sustainability of proven interventions remains elusive at best ...
Lisa Mwaikambo, Sarah Brittingham, Saori Ohkubo, Ruwaida Salem, Denis Joel Sama, Fatimata Sow, Deepti Mathur, Nneoma Nonyelum Anieto   +7 more
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[The groundwater compliance point in contaminated sites between avulsed application practices and difficulties of interpretation]

Acque Sotterranee, 2022
[The groundwater Point of Compliance (POC) in contaminated sites represents a strategic tool for directing environmental actions and resource protection criteria, as well as for achieving the ultimate goals of restoration.
Andrea Sottani, Angelo Merlin
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Case identification of mental health and related problems in children and young people using the New Zealand Integrated Data Infrastructure

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2020
Background In a novel endeavour we aimed to develop a clinically relevant case identification method for use in research about the mental health of children and young people in New Zealand using the Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI).
Nicholas Bowden, Sheree Gibb, Hiran Thabrew, Jesse Kokaua, Richard Audas, Sally Merry, Barry Taylor, Sarah E Hetrick   +7 more
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“Nourish to Flourish”: complementary feeding for a healthy infant gut microbiome—a non-randomised pilot feasibility study

Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2022
Background The introduction of complementary foods and changes in milk feeding result in modifications to gastrointestinal function. The interplay between indigestible carbohydrates, host physiology, and microbiome, and immune system development are ...
Amy L. Lovell, Hannah Eriksen, Starin McKeen, Jane Mullaney, Wayne Young, Karl Fraser, Eric Altermann, Olivier Gasser, Martin Kussmann, Nicole C. Roy, Warren C. McNabb, Clare R. Wall   +11 more
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Sustainable financing of AYSRH programs by local governments through the TCI model

Frontiers in Global Women's Health, 2023
IntroductionDespite the existence of a legal policy framework, financing of adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health (AYSRH) services has remained weak.
Levis Otondi, Nancy Aloo, Peter Kagwe, Assumpta Matekwa, Kenneth Miriti, Lilly Njoki, Denis Joel Sama, Kenneth Owino, Paul Nyachae   +8 more
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[The renewability of the groundwater resource in clean-up interventions: legal assumptions and technical implications of environmental sustainability]

Acque Sotterranee, 2021
[This Technical Note highlights some legal aspects and technical principles closely related to the concept of ground water renewability, in as far as this concept is considered when designing and implementing environmental clean-up projects and works ...
Andrea Sottani, Angelo Merlin, Paolo Cerutti   +2 more
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A prediction model for childhood obesity in New Zealand

Scientific Reports, 2021
Several early childhood obesity prediction models have been developed, but none for New Zealand's diverse population. We aimed to develop and validate a model for predicting obesity in 4–5-year-old New Zealand children, using parental and infant data ...
Éadaoin M. Butler, Avinesh Pillai, Susan M. B. Morton, Blake M. Seers, Caroline G. Walker, Kien Ly, El-Shadan Tautolo, Marewa Glover, Rachael W. Taylor, Wayne S. Cutfield, José G. B. Derraik, COPABS Collaborators   +11 more
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High urban tuberculosis case notification rates can be misleading: evidence from an urban setting in Ethiopia

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem. Its magnitude the required interventions are affected by changes in socioeconomic condition and urbanization.
Daniel Datiko, Ameha Hadgu, Degu Jerene, Pedro G. Suarez   +3 more
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The Application of Terrestrial LiDAR for Geohazard Mapping, Monitoring and Modelling in the British Geological Survey

Remote Sensing, 2021
Geomatics is the discipline of electronically gathering, storing, processing, and delivering spatially related digital information; it continues to be one of the fastest expanding global markets, driven by technology.
Lee Jones, Peter Hobbs
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