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Strengths and Weaknesses of Digital Diaries as a Means to Study Patient Pathways: Experiences With a Study of Hypertension in the Philippines

International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2021
The rise of digital mobile communications has made possible novel research methods that can provide a better understanding of patients’ experience of non-communicable diseases.
Jhaki Mendoza, Maureen L. Seguin, Gideon Lasco, Lia M. Palileo-Villanueva, Arianna Amit, Alicia Renedo, Martin McKee, Benjamin Palafox, Dina Balabanova   +8 more
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Rates of and factors associated with exclusive and any breastfeeding at six months in Canada: an analysis of population-based cross-sectional data

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2023
Background Breastfeeding has many health, economic and environmental benefits for both the infant and pregnant individual. Due to these benefits, the World Health Organization and Health Canada recommend exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months ...
Christina Ricci, Victoria Otterman, Terri-Lyn Bennett, Stephanie Metcalfe, Elizabeth Darling, Sonia Semenic, Susie Dzakpasu, for the Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System   +7 more
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Diverse and competing interests around tobacco: qualitative analysis of two decades of parliamentary questions in India

BMJ Global Health, 2021
Introduction India continues to enhance tobacco control regulations protecting the public health while housing a widespread tobacco industry. This implies complexities in regulating tobacco.
Upendra Bhojani, Amiti Varma, Latha Chilgod   +2 more
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LifeFirst: Impact of a school-based tobacco and supari cessation intervention among adolescent students in Mumbai, India

Population Medicine, 2021
Introduction The youth are a vulnerable populationgroup for tobacco-related harms. Schools are an excellent setting for health promotion; yet there is a dearth of schoolbased cessation interventions, rarely evaluated for their impact. Here, we assess the
Upendra Bhojani, Amiti Varma, Pragati B. Hebbar, Gauri Mandal, Himanshu Gupte   +4 more
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Disparities in multiple chronic conditions within populations [PDF]

, 2013
Disadvantaged populations are disproportionately affected by multiple chronic conditions (MCCs), yet few studies examine the prevalence, outcomes, or effectiveness of MCC interventions in minority and socioeconomically deprived individuals and ...
Shadmi, Efrat
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MSF experiences of providing multidisciplinary primary level NCD care for Syrian refugees and the host population in Jordan: an implementation study guided by the RE-AIM framework

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background In response to the rising global NCD burden, humanitarian actors have rapidly scaled-up NCD services in crisis-affected low-and-middle income countries. Using the RE-AIM implementation framework, we evaluated a multidisciplinary, primary level
Éimhín Ansbro, Tobias Homan, Jamil Qasem, Karla Bil, Mohammed Rasoul Tarawneh, Bayard Roberts, Pablo Perel, Kiran Jobanputra   +7 more
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Nutrition and Chronic Conditions [PDF]

Nutrients, 2019
This editorial discusses and analyses the role of dietary interventions in the management of chronic conditions in recognition of the global increase of these diseases, the rise in the ageing population, and the significant cost to health services around the world.
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No longer diseases of the wealthy : prevalence and health-seeking for self-reported chronic conditions among urban poor in Southern India [PDF]

, 2013
Background: The burden of chronic conditions is high in low-and middle-income countries and poses a significant challenge to already weak healthcare delivery systems in these countries. Studies investigating chronic conditions among the urban poor remain
Beerenahalli, Thriveni S, Bhojani, Upendra, Criel, Bart, Devadasan, Narayanan, Devadasan, Roopa, Kolsteren, Patrick, Munegowda, CM   +6 more
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Adapting clinical guidelines to take account of multimorbidity [PDF]

, 2012
Most people with a chronic condition have multimorbidity, but clinical guidelines almost entirely focus on single conditions. It will never be possible to have good evidence for every possible combination of conditions, but guidelines could be made more ...
Alderson, P., Guthrie, B., McMurdo, M.E.T., Mercer, S.W., Payne, K.   +4 more
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Disparities in Cancer-Specific Survival Between Māori and Non-Māori New Zealanders, 2007-2016

JCO Global Oncology, 2020
PURPOSE While cancer survival is improving across most developed nations, those improvements are not shared equally within their population. Using high-quality national data, we have reviewed the extent to which cancer survival inequities are persisting ...
Jason Gurney, James Stanley, Melissa McLeod, Jonathan Koea, Chris Jackson, Diana Sarfati   +5 more
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