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‘Love with Less Salt’: evaluation of a sodium reduction mass media campaign in China

BMJ Open, 2022
Objective This study examines the impact of a salt reduction campaign on knowledge, attitudes, intentions, behaviours and barriers to behaviour change relating to salt consumption in two provinces of China.Methods In 2019, the ‘Love with Less Salt ...
Yu Chen, Xiaolei Guo, Juan Zhang, Laura K Cobb, Nandita Murukutla, Sandra Mullin, Yichao Wang, Ashish K Gupta, Tom E Carroll, Wenzhuo Liang, Yeji Chen   +10 more
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Psychosocial determinants of adherence to public health and social measures (PHSMs) in 18 African Union Member States during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: results of a cross-sectional survey

BMJ Open, 2022
Objective The objective of this study was to gain a better understanding of the psychosocial and sociodemographic factors that affected adherence to COVID-19 public health and social measures (PHSMs), and to identify the factors that most strongly ...
Andrew Johnson, Amanda McClelland, Nandita Murukutla, Akhona Tshangela, Ashish K Gupta, Meena Maharjan, Cecilia Fabrizio, Emily W Myers, Virginia Nkwanzi, Colby A Wilkason, Natalie Lacey, Benjamin Djoudalbaye   +11 more
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Control Strategies for Scabies [PDF]

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2018
Scabies is a neglected tropical disease of the skin, causing severe itching and stigmatizing skin lesions. Further, scabies leads to impetigo, severe bacterial infections, and post-infectious complications. Around 200 million people are affected, particularly among disadvantaged populations living in crowded conditions in tropical areas.
Daniel Engelman, Andrew C. Steer
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Questionnaire study suggests grave consequences of infectious laryngotracheitis, infectious coryza and mycoplasmosis in small chicken flocks

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica, 2023
Background A growing number of people in western countries keep small chicken flocks. In Sweden, respiratory disease is a common necropsy finding in chickens from such flocks.
Pernille Engelsen Etterlin, Arianna Comin, Helena Eriksson, Elisabeth Bagge, Tomas Jinnerot, Liv Jonare, Désirée S. Jansson   +6 more
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Enforcement agencies and smoke-free policy compliance: An observational study in Qingdao, China

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2021
Introduction In recent years, tobacco control policy initiatives have emerged at the subnational level in China. In 2013, for example, Qingdao enacted a 100% smokefree policy that gave regulatory authority to multiple enforcement agencies.
Connie Hoe, Hanaa Ahsan, Xuejuan Ning, Xiaojing Wang, Dafei Li, Kathy Wright, Ryan D. Kennedy   +6 more
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Birth companionship in a government health system: a pilot study in Kigoma, Tanzania

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2021
Background Having a companion of choice throughout childbirth is an important component of good quality and respectful maternity care for women and has become standard in many countries. However, there are only a few examples of birth companionship being
Paul Chaote, Nguke Mwakatundu, Sunday Dominico, Alex Mputa, Agnes Mbanza, Magdalena Metta, Samantha Lobis, Michelle Dynes, Selemani Mbuyita, Shanon McNab, Karen Schmidt, Florina Serbanescu   +11 more
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Global Regulatory Strategies for Tobacco Control [PDF]

, 2007
Recent tobacco control regulation in North America and Western Europe has had a salutary effect, even if smoking remains a pressing public health hazard.
Gostin, Lawrence O.
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Detection and molecular characterisation of Cryptosporidium spp. in Swedish pigs

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica, 2020
Background Cryptosporidium is a genus of apicomplexan parasites that cause enteric disease in vertebrates. In pigs, infections are most often asymptomatic, but may result in diarrhoea and poor growth. The most common species detected in pigs are C.
Emelie Pettersson, Harri Ahola, Jenny Frössling, Per Wallgren, Karin Troell   +4 more
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Determinants of self-rated health among shanghai elders: a cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health, 2017
Background As the most populous nation in the world, China has now becoming an emerging ageing society. Shanghai is the first city facing the challenge of ageing demographics.
Weizhen Dong, Jin Wan, Yanjun Xu, Chun Chen, Ge Bai, Lyuying Fang, Anjiang Sun, Yinghua Yang, Ying Wang   +8 more
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Vehicle power supply management strategies

Вестник СибАДИ, 2023
Introduction. To optimize the performance of the vehicle electrical system, it is necessary to improve the control principles and strategies. The control principles may be based on voltage constancy, ensuring battery charge, reducing fuel consumption ...
A. V. Puzakov
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