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Disaggregating proportional multistate lifetables by population heterogeneity to estimate intervention impacts on inequalities

Population Health Metrics, 2022
Background Simulation models can be used to quantify the projected health impact of interventions. Quantifying heterogeneity in these impacts, for example by socioeconomic status, is important to understand impacts on health inequalities.
Patrick Andersen, Anja Mizdrak, Nick Wilson, Anna Davies, Laxman Bablani, Tony Blakely   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reviewing disease burden among rural Indian women [PDF]

, 2004
The disease burden of rural Indian women is reviewed by utilizing the data from the 'Survey of Causes of Death (rural)' annual reports of Registrar General of India supplemented with National family health survey (NFHS-II).
Agnihotram V, Dr. Ramanakumar
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Epidemiology and disease burden of tuberculosis in children: a global perspective [PDF]

, 2014
Our understanding of the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic in children is incomplete due to challenges in diagnosis and reporting. Children have also been largely excluded from research and advocacy.
Seddon, JA, Shingadia, D
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Bayesian modelling of population trends in alcohol consumption provides empirically based country estimates for South Africa

Population Health Metrics, 2021
Background Alcohol use has widespread effects on health and contributes to over 200 detrimental conditions. Although the pattern of heavy episodic drinking independently increases the risk for injuries and transmission of some infectious diseases, long ...
Annibale Cois, Richard Matzopoulos, Victoria Pillay-van Wyk, Debbie Bradshaw   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Service delivery models for enhancing linkage to and retention in HIV care services for adolescent girls and young women and adolescent boys and young men: a protocol for an overview of systematic reviews

BMJ Open, 2022
Introduction Recent advances in the HIV care continuum have shown that an individual diagnosed with HIV should be initiated on antiretroviral therapy as soon as possible regardless of the CD4 count levels and retained in HIV care services.
Witness Chirinda, Trisha Ramraj, Ferdinand C Mukumbang, Edward Nicol, Catherine Mathews, Babalwa Zani, Wisdom Basera, Kim Jonas, Ngcwalisa Jama, Tracy McClinton Appollis, Desiree Pass, Darshini Govindasamy   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sirolimus for Extracranial Arteriovenous Malformations: A Scoping Review of the Evidence in Syndromic and Non‐Syndromic Cases

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are rare, high‐flow, vascular anomalies that can occur either sporadically or as part of a genetic syndrome. AVMs can progress with serious morbidity and even mortality if left unchecked. Sirolimus is an mTOR inhibitor that is effective in low‐flow vascular malformations; however, its role in AVMs is unclear.
Will Swansson, Ingrid Winship, Gary Hammerschlag, Laura Scardamaglia   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Further evidence of misclassification of the injury deaths in South Africa: When will the barriers to accurate injury death statistics be removed?

South African Medical Journal, 2023
Background. Contrary to the World Health Organization’s internationally recommended medical certificate of cause of death, the South African (SA) death notification form (DNF) does not allow for the reporting of the manner of death to permit ...
P Groenewald, N Kallis, C Holmgren, T Glass, A Anthony, P Maud, Y Akhalwaya, E Afonso, I Niewoudt, L J Martin, C de Vaal, M Cheyip, D Morof, M Prinsloo, R Matzopoulos, D Bradshaw   +15 more
doaj   +1 more source

Global burden of cardiovascular disease [PDF]

Heart, 2007
It was estimated in 1998 that 85% of the global burden of cardiovascular diseases occurred in low and middle income countries.1,2 Furthermore, about half the deaths in the 1990s attributable to cardiovascular diseases in these countries were in those below the age of 70 years compared with only a quarter in the developed countries.2 Although the ...
Sanderson, J, Mayosi, B, Yusuf, S, Reddy, S, Hu, S, Chen, Z, Timmis, A   +6 more
openaire   +1 more source

A Conceptual Model: The Impact of Sociodemographic on Coronary Heart Disease [PDF]

, 2020
The paper aims to examine the conceptual model on the impact of sociodemographic towards coronary heart disease. There is still limited study on the association between cost of living particularly the cost of food and housing and its impact on coronary ...
Azim, Zainal Azhar Zainal, Kassim, Aza Azlina Md, Mohamed, Juliza   +2 more
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Needs assessment to strengthen capacity in water and sanitation research in Africa:experiences of the African SNOWS consortium [PDF]

, 2014
Despite its contribution to global disease burden, diarrhoeal disease is still a relatively neglected area for research funding, especially in low-income country settings. The SNOWS consortium (Scientists Networked for Outcomes from Water and Sanitation)
A Hyder, A McCallin, AE While, AH Ahmed, Anders Dalsgaard, B Greenwood, BH Kam, C McCormack, D Mara, D Nakanjako, DE Elsayed, Edgar Mulogo, Edward W Muchiri, Eileen Chappell, Esi Awuah, F Furedi, H Geber, I Bates, Ingrid Mokgobu, Jeroen HJ Ensink, LM Lenters, M Coccia, M Hennink, M Moran, ME Redshaw, Mike van der Es, Natasha Potgieter, NE Kass, Paul R Hunter, PH Caldwell, PR Hunter, Prince Antwi-Agyei, S Barnard, S Marjanovic, Samira H Abdelrahman, Samuel N Odai, Sandy Cairncross, TF Clasen, World Health Organization, United Nations Children’s Fund, Å Gornitzka   +39 more
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