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Yellow fever in plain sight: assessing disease surveillance officers’ knowledge and self-efficacy in identification and reporting in Kwara State, Nigeria

BMC Public Health
Introduction Yellow fever (YF) poses a significant threat to public health in Nigeria, which bears the highest burden of the disease. Timely identification and reporting by disease surveillance officers are critical in preventing and controlling ...
Oladayo D. Awoyale, Magbagbeola D. Dairo, Adeniyi F. Fagbamigbe, Simiat Adeogun, Oluwatosin E. Fakayode, Olufunmilayo Fawole   +5 more
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Trade and income inequality in developing countries [PDF]

, 2009
We use a dynamic specification to estimate the impact of trade on within-country income inequality in a sample of 65 developing countries (DCs) over the 1980-1999 period.
Abramovitz, Acemoglu, Aghion, Alarcón, Alvarez, Arbache, Arellano, Atkinson, Attanasio, Autor, Barro, Barro, Barro, Berman, Berman, Berman, Blalock, Blundell, Bourguignon, Bruno, Bun, Calderón, Chamarbagwala, Cline, Coe, Coe, Cornia, Cornia, Cragg, Deininger, Dollar, Easterly, Edwards, Elena Meschi, Feenstra, Feenstra, Feliciano, Galbraith, Galbraith, Gourdon, Grossman, Hanson, Hanushek, Judson, Kiviet, Krugman, Kuznets, Lall, Leamer, Leamer, Lee, Li, Lundberg, Machin, Marco Vivarelli, Melitz, Montobbio, Oxfam, Perkins, Ravallion, Robbins, Rodrik, Schiff, Stiglitz, Verbeek, Vivarelli, Wood, Wood, Xu, Yeaple, Zhu   +70 more
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A Quality Improvement Initiative to Standardize Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia Prophylaxis in Pediatric Patients With Solid Tumors

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pediatric patients with extracranial solid tumors (ST) receiving chemotherapy are at an increased risk for Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP). However, evidence guiding prophylaxis practices in this population is limited. A PJP‐related fatality at our institution highlighted inconsistent prescribing approaches and concerns about
Kriti Kumar, Denise M. Connolly, Ellen Kellington, Elyse Zelunka, Karla Kerrigan, Furqan Shaikh, Paul C. Nathan, Meredith S. Irwin, Sarah Cohen‐Gogo   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Outbreak of Chikungunya in the Republic of Congo and the global picture

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2011
Chikungunya fever is a crippling disease caused by an arthropod-borne virus (arbovirus) transmitted to humans through mosquitoes.  Although Chikungunya virus is not often associated with mortality, the effects of virus outbreaks are often devastating ...
Alyson Ann Kelvin
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The what, who and how of socio-ecological justice: Tailoring a new justice model for earth system law

Earth System Governance, 2021
Since modernity, the mechanistic paradigm has determined how Western and Westernised societies live, produce knowledge, and regulate their interactions and institutions, profoundly influencing law and undermining ecological integrity. This paradigm's key
Kamila Pope, Michelle Bonatti, Stefan Sieber   +2 more
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Changes in Body Composition in Children and Young People Undergoing Treatment for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ongoing evidence indicates increased risk of sarcopenic obesity among children and young people (CYP) with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), often beginning early in treatment, persisting into survivorship. This review evaluates current literature on body composition in CYP with ALL during and after treatment.
Lina A. Zahed, Raquel Revuelta Iniesta, Mary Fewtrell, Julie Lanigan, Breeana Gardiner, Graeme O'Connor   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Zika: the new arbovirus threat for Latin America

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2015
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Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales
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Measuring Subjective Wellbeing in Developing Countries. [PDF]

, 2004
The paper explores the conceptual and methodological issues entailed in using subjective measures of well-being in developing countries. In the first part I define, situate and contrast subjective quality of life (QoL), subjective well-being (SWB), and ...
Camfield, Laura
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Parent‐to‐Child Information Disclosure in Pediatric Oncology

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Despite professional consensus regarding the importance of open communication with pediatric cancer patients about their disease, actual practice patterns of disclosure are understudied. Extant literature suggests a significant proportion of children are not told about their diagnosis/prognosis, which is purported to negatively ...
Rachel A. Kentor, Flora Hoodin, Michelle Byrd, Kristin A. Kullgren, Leah LaLonde, Lauren Benkoske, Patrick Smith, Dawn Carson, Karen MacDonald, Susumu Inoue, Brenda Kitchen, Kate Gowans, Gregory A. Yanik   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of land use and land cover (LULC) and vegetation degradation state from wildfire within the scope of forest landscape restoration (FLR) in Cameroon

European Journal of Remote Sensing
Forest-Savannah transition zones are increasingly vulnerable due to their position between the savannah and forest ecosystems, and their ecological and biophysical characteristics.
Kueshi Sémanou Dahan, Hamza Moluh Njoya, Shibire Bekele Eshetu, Kossi Hounkpati, Harifidy Rakoto Ratsimba, Stefan Sieber, Katharina Löhr   +6 more
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