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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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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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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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A real-life study of the positive response to DAA-based therapies for hepatitis C in Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021
A retrospective cohort of 11,308 chronic hepatitis C infected patients treated with regimens that included Sofosbuvir (SOF), Daclatasvir (DCV), Simeprevir (SMV), or an association of Ombitasvir, Veruprevir/Ritonavir and Dasabuvir (3D) with or without ...
Simone Monzani Vivaldini, Rachel Abraão Ribeiro, Gláucio Mosimann Júnior, Karen Cristine Tonini, Gerson Fernando Mendes Pereira, Wildo Navegantes de Araújo   +5 more
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Physical activity and risk of testicular cancer: a systematic review

BMC Cancer, 2018
Background Physical activity has been implicated as a risk factor in the development of testicular cancer (TC), but the relationship remains controversial. This systematic review pooled available evidence regarding this association. Methods Using Boolean
Stephanie Huang, Virginia Signal, Diana Sarfati, Caroline Shaw, James Stanley, Katherine McGlynn, Jason Gurney   +6 more
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Health Information and Monitoring of Sexually Transmitted Infections (SIM study): a single-center, parallel, three-arm randomized controlled trial protocol for enhancing adherence to syphilis treatment and follow-up

Trials, 2022
Background Syphilis has recently resurfaced as a significant public health problem. Since the 2000s, isolated syphilis outbreaks have increasingly occurred in North America, Europe, and Australia; in Brazil, there have been progressive increases in both ...
Eliana M. Wendland, Vanessa M. de Oliveira, Luana Giongo Pedrotti, Flavia M. A. Souza, Gerson F. M. Pereira, Antonio Gerbase   +5 more
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Association between empirically derived dietary patterns with blood lipids, fasting blood glucose and blood pressure in adults - the India migration study

Nutrition Journal, 2018
Background Dietary patterns (DPs) in India are heterogenous. To date, data on association of indigenous DPs in India with risk factors of nutrition-related noncommunicable diseases (cardiovascular disease and diabetes), leading causes of premature death ...
Krithiga Shridhar, Ambika Satija, Preet K. Dhillon, Sutapa Agrawal, Ruby Gupta, Liza Bowen, Sanjay Kinra, A. V. Bharathi, D. Prabhakaran, K. Srinath Reddy, Shah Ebrahim, for the Indian Migration Study group   +11 more
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