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Cost effectiveness of a community based prevention and treatment of acute malnutrition programme in Mumbai slums, India [PDF]

, 2018
Children in slums are at high risk of acute malnutrition and death. Cost-effectiveness of community-based management of severe acute malnutrition programmes has been demonstrated previously, but there is limited evidence in the context of urban slums ...
Bogin, B, Chanani, S, Devleesschauwer, Brecht, Goudet, S, Griffiths, P, Jayaraman, A, Madise, N, Osrin, D   +7 more
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Acceptability and feasibility of digital technology for training community health workers to deliver brief psychological treatment for depression in rural India.

Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 2019
INTRODUCTION Digital technology offers opportunities to train community health workers to deliver psychological treatments towards closing the gap in existing mental health services in low-resource settings.
Shital S Muke, R. Shrivastava, Lauren Mitchell, Azaz Khan, Vaibhav Murhar, Deepak Tugnawat, R. Shidhaye, V. Patel, J. Naslund   +8 more
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Discovery and Targeted Proteomic Studies Reveal Striatal Markers Validated for Huntington's Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Clinical trials for Huntington's disease (HD) enrolling persons before clinical motor diagnosis (CMD) lack validated biomarkers. This study aimed to conduct an unbiased discovery analysis and a targeted examination of proteomic biomarkers scrutinized by clinical validation. Methods Cerebrospinal fluid was obtained from PREDICT‐HD and
Daniel Chelsky, Cara Joyce, H. Jeremy Bockholt, Paul A. Rudnick, William H. Adams, Fiona McAllister, Justin W. Smock, Michael A. Newton, Jane S. Paulsen   +8 more
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Cognitive Status in People With Epilepsy in the Republic of Guinea: A Prospective, Case–Control Study

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective People with epilepsy (PWE) may experience cognitive deficits but fail to undergo formal evaluation. This study compares cognitive status between PWE and healthy controls in the West African Republic of Guinea. Methods A cross‐sectional, case–control study was conducted in sequential recruitment phases (July 2024–July 2025) at Ignace ...
Maya L. Mastick, Cheick O. Soumah, Malé Doré, Oumar Mara, Desiré Neldje, Fodé A. Cissé, Toure M. Lamine, Aminata Diallo, Seungwon Lee, Siddharth Satish, Alexander J. X. Chen, Alice Liu, Nomin Enkhtsetseg, Farrah J. Mateen, The Guinea Epilepsy Project   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Factors enabling community health workers and volunteers to overcome socio-cultural barriers to behaviour change: meta-synthesis using the concept of social capital

Human Resources for Health, 2018
Background Community-based health workers and volunteers are not just low-level health workforce; their effectiveness is also due to their unique relationship with the community and is often attributed to social capital, an area not well studied or ...
Nicole Mohajer, Debra Singh
doaj   +1 more source

Improving local health through community health workers in Cambodia: challenges and solutions [PDF]

, 2018
Volunteer community health workers (CHWs) are an important link between the public health system and the community. The ‘Community Participation Policy for Health’ in Cambodia identifies CHWs as key to local health promotion and as a critical link ...
AE LeFevre, AZ Bhutta, B Jacobs, C Ingleby, C Lane, DL Strachan, DP Chandler, DP Chandler, E Chanboreth, E Peou, FE Aboud, GB Chimphamba, H Schneider, J Green, J Ledgerwood, J Raven, J Saldana, J Yasuoka, JF Naimoli, JF Naimoli, K Alam, K Bhattacharyya, K De Koning, K Schelzig, K Scott, K Tulenko, K Tulenko, Khem Thann, Kim Ozano, KR Chikaphupha, L Saprii, M B-Lajoie, M Douthwaite, M Godfrey, M O'Leary, M Phath, M Vaismorandi, M Wilson-Jones, MC Kok, Ministry of Health Cambodia - Royal Government of Cambodia, MR Berdal, NT Tran, NT Tran, P Annear, Padam Simkhada, PL Annear, R Chen, R Hong, Rose Khatri, S Ear, S Javanparast, S Kane, S Ui, SB Rifkin, SC Soeung, SD Kowitt, SE Canavati, U Flick, U Lehmann, W Jaskiewicz, World Health Organisation, World Health Organisation Study Group, Y Ruiz, Z Haq   +63 more
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Cutaneous Phosphorylated Alpha‐Synuclein in Lewy Body Dementia

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To determine the test performance of cutaneous phosphorylated alpha‐synuclein (P‐SYN) in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), individuals with reduced Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and healthy controls. Methods This is the first subgroup analysis of the Synuclein‐One study, a prospective, blinded study evaluating P‐SYN detection ...
Christopher H. Gibbons, Todd Levine, Charles H. Adler, Bailey Bellaire, Ningshan Wang, Pinky Agarwal, Georgina M. Aldridge, Alexandru Barboi, Daniel Claassen, Virgilio G. H. Evidente, Douglas Galasko, Alejandra Gonzalez‐Duarte, Ramon Gil, Mark Gudesblatt, Stuart H. Isaacson, Horacio Kaufmann, Pravin Khemani, Rajeev Kumar, Guillaume Lamotte, Andy J. Liu, Nikolaus R. McFarland, Mitchell G. Miglis, Adam Reynolds, Gregory A. Sahagian, Marie‐Helene Saint‐Hilaire, Julie B. Schwartzbard, Wolfgang Singer, Michael J. Soileau, Steven Vernino, Patricio Millar Vernetti, Oleg Yerstein, Roy Freeman   +31 more
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Facilitating access to voluntary and community services for patients with psychosocial problems: a before-after evaluation [PDF]

, 2008
Background: Patients with psychosocial problems may benefit from a variety of community, educational, recreational and voluntary sector resources, but GPs often under-refer to these through lack of knowledge and time.
Buszewicz, M, Cape, J, Grayer, J, Leibowitz, J, Orpwood, L   +4 more
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Community health workers for non-communicable diseases prevention and control in developing countries: Evidence and implications

PLoS ONE, 2017
Background National programs for non-communicable diseases (NCD) prevention and control in different low middle income countries have a strong community component.
Gursimer Jeet, J. Thakur, S. Prinja, Meenu Singh   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Variably Protease‐Sensitive Prionopathy: Two New Cases With Motor Neuron‐Dementia Syndrome

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We describe two patients with variably protease‐sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr) who developed progressive upper motor neuron symptoms, insomnia, behavioral and cognitive decline, compatible with primary lateral sclerosis associated with frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
María Elena Erro, María Victoria Zelaya, Hasier Eraña, Javier Sánchez Ruiz de Gordoa, Fermín García‐Amigot, Anika Simonovska‐Serra, María Cristina Caballero, Isidre Ferrer, Ellen Gelpi, Ivonne Jericó, Joaquín Castilla   +10 more
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