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Improving the Policy Utility of Cause of Death Statistics in Sri Lanka: An Empirical Investigation of Causes of Out-of-Hospital Deaths Using Automated Verbal Autopsy Methods

Frontiers in Public Health, 2021
Background: Setting public health policies and effectively monitoring the impact of health interventions requires accurate, timely and complete cause of death (CoD) data for populations.
Lene Mikkelsen, Sunil de Alwis, Sridharan Sathasivam, Vindya Kumarapeli, Ajith Tennakoon, Palitha Karunapema, Kapila Jayaratne, Rajitha Jayasuriya, Saman Gamage, Roshan Hewapathirana, Rangana Wadugedara, Manoj Dissanayake, Chamika H. Senanayake, Pasyodun Koralage Buddhika Mahesh, Deirdre McLaughlin, Alan D. Lopez   +15 more
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Ensuring the right to food for indigenous children: a case study of stakeholder perspectives on policy options to ensure the rights of tamariki Māori to healthy food

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2021
Background The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child confirms a child’s right to adequate food, and to the highest attainable standard of health. For indigenous children, these rights are also recognised in the UN Declaration on the Rights
Christina McKerchar, Cameron Lacey, Gillian Abel, Louise Signal   +3 more
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COVID-19 and Brazilian Indigenous Populations [PDF]

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2020
The newly discovered SARS-CoV-2 is the cause of COVID-19, including severe respiratory symptoms with an important lethality rate and high dissemination capacity. Considering the indigenous people of Brazil, it is feared that COVID-19 will spread to these communities, causing another stage of decimation. Despite advances in indigenous health care in the
Cupertino, Graziela Almeida, Cupertino, Marli do Carmo, Gomes, Andréia Patrícia, Braga, Luciene Muniz, Siqueira-Batista, Rodrigo   +4 more
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Surveillance for Antimicrobial Resistance in Gonorrhea: The Alberta Model, 2012–2016

Antibiotics, 2018
Alberta established a surveillance system in 2001 to monitor resistance to antibiotics used for the treatment of gonorrhea. A retrospective review of gonorrhea cases during the last five years was conducted.
Jennifer Gratrix, Anmmd Kamruzzaman, Irene Martin, Petra Smyczek, Ron Read, Lindsay Bertholet, Prenilla Naidu, Ameeta E. Singh   +7 more
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Rewriting Human History and Empowering Indigenous Communities with Genome Editing Tools. [PDF]

, 2020
Appropriate empirical-based evidence and detailed theoretical considerations should be used for evolutionary explanations of phenotypic variation observed in the field of human population genetics (especially Indigenous populations). Investigators within
Fox, Keolu, Komor, Alexis C, Rallapalli, Kartik Lakshmi   +2 more
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research and the conduct of longitudinal studies: issues for debate

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2003
The National Health and Medical Research Council, Research Agenda Working Group (RAWG), and the literature on Indigenous health have identified the need to fill gaps in descriptive data on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and noted both the ...
Natalie Grove, Mark Brough, Condy Canuto, Annette Dobson   +3 more
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Comparative analysis of clinical, electrocardiographic, angiographic and echocardiographic data of indigenous and non-indigenous residents of Yakutia with coronary artery atherosclerosis [PDF]

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2013
Aim . The aim of the study is to compare clinical, angiographic, electrocardiographic, echocardiographic data between indigenous and non-indigenous residents of Yakutia. Study design .
Natalya Vladimirovna Makharova, Michael Ivanovich Voevoda, Faina Fedorovna Lyutova, Irina Andreevna Pinigina, Vera Evstafievna Tarasova   +4 more
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A Review on Medicinal Plants Used in the Management of Headache in Africa

Plants, 2021
The use of medicinal plants in the management of diverse ailments is entrenched in the culture of indigenous people in African communities. This review provides a critical appraisal of the ethnobotanical uses of medicinal plants for the management of ...
Ebenezer Kwabena Frimpong, John Awungnjia Asong, Adeyemi Oladapo Aremu   +2 more
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Maximizing Indigenous Student Learning in the Mainstream with Language and Culture [PDF]

, 2009
In this paper, we explore the importance of being conscious of the needs of indigenous students within the education system in order to increase their learning process and decrease their dropout rates. Specifically, we discuss how Mayan language, culture,
Jaimes-Domínguez, J. Luis, Schwieter, John W.   +1 more
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Maternal perceptions of childhood vaccination: explanations of reasons for and against vaccination

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background Understanding reasons for and against vaccination from the parental perspective is critical for designing vaccination campaigns and informing other interventions to increase vaccination uptake in Canada.
Deborah A. McNeil, Melissa Mueller, Shannon MacDonald, Sheila McDonald, Vineet Saini, James D. Kellner, Suzanne Tough   +6 more
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