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Body Mass Index Category Transitions in Childhood and Probability of Obesity at Age 13

Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim Understanding how children move between Body Mass Index (BMI) categories may improve early detection of those at risk of persistent obesity. This study explored transitions between BMI categories during childhood and their association with the probability of obesity at Age 13.
R. Ødegård, C. H. Edwards, V. Halsteinli, H. N. Bjørnsen, B. Pettersen, G. W. Bjørnelv   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Brokers, Collaborators and Knowledge Translators: Expanding the Role of Research Assistants in Geographic Research

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While ‘local’ research assistants (RA) often play a key role in knowledge production in fieldwork‐based disciplines like geography, their role and agency often remain silenced. This paper brings together scholarship in feminist geography and critical development studies to reposition RAs as brokers, collaborators, and knowledge translators.
Zali Fung
wiley   +1 more source

Vaccinations Do Not Increase Arthritis Flares in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Study of the Relationship between Routine Childhood Vaccinations on the Australian Immunisation Schedule and Arthritis Activity in Children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis. [PDF]

Int J Rheumatol, 2020
Alfayadh NM, Gowdie PJ, Akikusa JD, Easton ML, Buttery JP.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Varicella immunisation practice: Implications for provision of a recommended, non-funded vaccine

, 2009
Aim: In Australia in 2003 a two-tiered immunisation schedule was introduced consisting of funded (National Immunisation Program) and non-funded but recommended vaccines (Best Practice Schedule), including varicella vaccine.
Beilby, J., Marshall, H., Ryan, P., Roberton, D., Justin Beilby, Philip Ryan, Don Roberton, Helen Marshall   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Refining the treatment of immune checkpoint inhibitor–associated myocarditis: Challenges, innovations and rechallenge considerations

British Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI)‐associated myocarditis has emerged as a severe and clinically complex immune‐related toxicity that poses significant challenges for therapeutic decision‐making in routine cardio‐oncological care. High‐dose corticosteroids remain the first‐line therapy, yet their timing, dosage and tapering require careful clinical ...
Raluca I. Mincu, Lisa Zimmer, Dimitra Vlachopoulou, Elias Haj‐Yehia, Julia Hoffmann, Lars Michel, Elisabeth Livingstone, Dirk Schadendorf, Alpaslan Tasdogan, Matthias Totzeck, Tienush Rassaf   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global experience with chickenpox vaccines and future prospects for the Russian Federation

Биопрепараты: Профилактика, диагностика, лечение
INTRODUCTION. Chickenpox  is  a  highly  contagious  viral  disease  that  primarily  affects preschool children. A number of chickenpox vaccines are licensed worldwide, but there are still gaps in vaccination coverage.
A. S. Korovkin, D. V. Gorenkov, A. A. Soldatov, V. A. Merkulov   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Socioeconomic Inequalities and Oral Health Among Adults and Elderly People in Rural Riverside Communities in the Amazon, Brazil

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives To examine the extent to which socioeconomic and environmental characteristics are associated with oral health outcomes among adults and elderly people living in rural riverside communities in the Brazilian Amazon. The study also examined the mediating role of self‐reported dental status and reason for the last dental visit in these
Emmanuelle de Fátima Noberto Bezerra, Ana Paula Corrêa de Queiroz Herkrath, Fernando José Herkrath, Luiza Garnelo, Sully de Souza Sampaio, Mario Vianna Vettore   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Immunisation coverage and factors associated with incomplete immunisation in children under two during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sierra Leone

BMC Public Health
Background Routine childhood immunisation is one of the most important life-saving public health interventions. However, many children still have inadequate access to these vaccines and millions remain (partially) unvaccinated globally.
Myrte Wassenaar, Augustin E. Fombah, Haily Chen, Kwabena Owusu-Kyei, Julian Williams, Joe-Henry C. Sunders, Mireia Llach, Llorenç Quinto, Tom Sesay, Mohamed Samai, Clara Menéndez, Raquel González   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Datafication of Community Health Work: Discipline, Visibility and the State

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There has been a concerted drive to expand the scope of ‘data for development’, with a focus on novel technologies. This article highlights a relatively overlooked category of worker in the large‐scale production of such data: volunteers. The authors examine community health as the last frontier of the ‘datafication’ of health, but which forms
Kathy Dodworth, Jean‐Benoît Falisse
wiley   +1 more source

Attitudes and immunisation practices of Australian general practice nurses

, 2016
Background: Despite the decline in vaccine-preventable diseases, immunisation rates remain important. Nurses working in general practice (GPN) are often the first contact for childhood and adult immunisations and so impact vaccine provision.
Hickman, Louise (R12241), Halcomb, Elizabeth (R9671)   +1 more
core   +1 more source