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COVID-19 vaccine adoption and hesitancy among older Veterans

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Older adults are particularly at risk for severe illness or death from COVID-19. Accordingly, the Veterans Health Administration (VA) has prioritized this population group in its COVID-19 vaccination strategy.
Tamar Wyte-Lake, Cari Levy, Sona Hovsepian, Yvonne Mudoh, Cheryl Schmitz, Aram Dobalian   +5 more
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Exposing the impact of Citizens Advice Bureau services on health: a realist evaluation protocol [PDF]

, 2016
Introduction Welfare advice services can be used to address health inequalities, for example, through Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB). Recent reviews highlight evidence for the impact of advice services in improving people's financial position and ...
Carr, Susan, Dalkin, Sonia, Forster, Natalie, Hodgson, Philip, Lhussier, Monique   +4 more
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Measures of excess body weight and anthropometry among adult Albertans: cross-sectional results from Alberta’s tomorrow project cohort

BMC Public Health, 2017
Background Excess body weight during adulthood has been consistently associated with all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease, and cancer at multiple sites among other chronic diseases.
Darren R. Brenner, Abbey E. Poirier, Tiffany R. Haig, Alianu Akawung, Christine M. Friedenreich, Paula J. Robson   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comparison of Medicine Availability Measurements at Health Facilities: Evidence from Service Provision Assessment Surveys in Five Sub-Saharan African Countries. [PDF]

, 2013
With growing emphasis on health systems strengthening in global health, various health facility assessment methods have been used increasingly to measure medicine and commodity availability.
A Cameron, A Demirchyan, AK Rowe, J Robertson, Ministry of Health and Social Services, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Paul Ametepi, The Glbal Fund: Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, Yoonjoung Choi   +11 more
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Non-Disclosure of abuse in children and young adults with disabilities: Reasons and mitigation strategies Northwest Region of Cameroon

African Journal of Disability, 2022
Background: Child abuse is a serious public health issue in low- and middle-income countries, and children with disabilities are at greater risk of abuse.
Glory T. Tsangue, Jacque Chirac Awa, Josephine Nsono, Charlotte W. Ayima, Pius M. Tih   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 infection

Preventive Medicine Reports, 2023
To determine if people infected with SARS-CoV-2 were at higher risk of developing selected medical conditions post-recovery, data were extracted from the database of a large health maintenance organization (HMO) in Israel between March 2020 and May 2021.
Kertes Jennifer, Shapiro Ben David Shirley, Porath Avi, Rahamim-Cohen Daniella, Shamir Stein Naama, Ekka Zohar Anat, Mizrahi-Reuveni Miri   +6 more
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Smoking cessation patterns by socioeconomic status in Alaska

Preventive Medicine Reports, 2018
The ongoing disparity in smoking prevalence across levels of socioeconomic status (SES) is a significant concern in the tobacco control field, and surveillance of cessation-related activity is key to understanding progress.
Barbara Pizacani, Kathryn Pickle, Julie Maher, Kristen Rohde, Andrea Fenaughty   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The rationale of e-health evaluation: The case of NHS Direct [PDF]

, 2009
An important area of research is that of the evaluation of e-health services. A holistic e-health evaluation framework should address the aspects that are hampering healthcare services from embracing the full potential of information and communication ...
Alalwany, H, Alshawi, S
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The HIT Network for Children and Adolescents With CNS Tumors Facilitates Improvements of Diagnostic Assessments, Multimodal Treatments, Individual Counseling, and Research in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The HIT network was established in 2000 to create a population‐based structure aiming to improve survival rates and reduce late effects for children with central nervous system (CNS) tumors by conducting comprehensive clinical trials.
Stefan Rutkowski, Michael C. Frühwald, Gudrun Fleischhack, Stephan Tippelt, Pablo Hernáiz‐Driever, Olaf Witt, Astrid Gnekow, Christof Kramm, Matthias Eyrich, Johannes E. A. Wolf, Hermann Müller, Carsten Friedrich, Uwe R. Kordes, Denise Obrecht‐Sturm, Petra Ketteler, Barbara von Zezschwitz, Pascal Johann, Dominik Sturm, Karoline Nemes, Stefan Schönberger, Till Milde, Brigitte Bison, Monika Warmuth‐Metz, Torsten Pietsch, Ulrich Schüller, Arend Koch, David Capper, Martin Hasselblatt, Christian Thomas, Christian Hagel, Stefan M. Pfister, Felix Sahm, David T. W. Jones, Martin U. Schuhmann, Jürgen Krauss, Pedram Emami, Ahmed El Damaty, Rolf D. Kortmann, Rudolf Schwarz, Jürgen Debus, Mechthild Krause, Fabian Pohl, Holger Ottensmeier, Lisa Bußenius, Katja Baust, Andreas Faldum, Cecile Ronckers, Desiree Grabow, Martin Benesch, Thomas Perwein, Karin Dieckmann, Irene Slavc, Johannes Gojo, Nicolas U. Gerber, André O. von Bueren, Katrin Scheinemann, Gabriele Calaminus, Beate Timmermann, Ulrich‐Wilhelm Thomale, Martin Mynarek   +59 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of content and online public responses to media articles that raise awareness of the opt-out system of consent to organ donation in England

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
BackgroundPreceded by a national media campaign, in May 2020, England switched to a soft opt-out system of organ donation which rests on the assumption that individuals meeting specific criteria have consented to organ donation unless they have expressed
Georgia Faherty, Lorraine Williams, Jane Noyes, Leah Mc Laughlin, Jennifer Bostock, Nicholas Mays   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source