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Nutritional interventions for preventing stunting in children (birth to 59 months) living in urban slums in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC).

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2015
BACKGROUND Nutritional interventions to prevent stunting of infants and young children are most often applied in rural areas in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Few interventions are focused on urban slums.
S. Goudet, B. Bogin, N. Madise, P. Griffiths   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

PKRxiv: A Best Practice Model for Advancing Pharmacoequity Through Open Pharmacokinetic Data Sharing

Clinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.
Model‐informed drug development is increasingly integrated across the drug development continuum, enabling more efficient, cost‐effective, and targeted trials while reducing reliance on animal studies. Achieving pharmacoequity requires not only equitable access to medicines but also to the data and knowledge that inform drug development and regulatory ...
Shakir Atoyebi, Prajith Venkatasubramanian, Abdulafeez Akinloye, Oluwasegun Eniayewu, Brookie M. Best, Laura Else, Adeniyi Olagunju   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Projecting Progress: Are Cities on Track to Achieve the SDGs by 2030? [PDF]

, 2016
This report explores for the first time the scale of the challenge for 20 cities across the world to reach selected targets set out in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Amina Khan, Christopher Hoy, Paula Lucci, Tanvi Bhatkal   +3 more
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Advancing Maternal Health with Long‐Acting Therapeutics: Priorities, Efficacy and Safety Considerations, and Emerging Technologies

Clinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.
Maternal health remains a critical global concern, particularly in underserved populations and in low‐ and middle‐income countries where access to safe and effective therapeutics is limited. Despite the use of medications by most women during pregnancy, the exclusion of pregnant and lactating women from clinical trials has resulted in significant data ...
Rachel K. Scott, Sharon Nachman, Ethel D. Weld, Rachel Daley, Shakir Atoyebi, Robert Bies, Catriona Waitt, Adeniyi Olagunju   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Medico-religious collaboration: A model for mental health care in a resource poor country

Nigerian Journal of Medicine, 2017
Background: Reducing the treatment gap for the treatment of people with psychiatric disorders (also known as the ‘mental health gap’) is of increasing importance worldwide.
Y O Oshodi, E R Ogbolu, Oluseun Peter Nubi, A T Onajole, G Thornicroft, J D Adeyemi   +5 more
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Advancing Pharmacoequity Globally: Reflections from the ASCPT Development, Regulatory, and Outcomes Network

Clinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.
ASCPT has a mission to advance clinical pharmacology and translational sciences to reduce health disparities. The development, regulatory, and outcomes (DRO) network within ASCPT strives to advance pharmacoequity globally. Pharmacoequity, coined by Utibe Essien (2021), is the principle that all individuals, regardless of race, ethnicity, geography, or ...
Priya Jayachandran, Mayur K. Ladumor, Georgios Vlasakakis, Andrew Riselli, Katarina V. Ilic, Rob C. van Wijk, Mohamed Elmeliegy, Jatinder Kaur Mukker, Aarti Sawant‐Basak, Tao Long, Juyao Dong, Noha Rayad, Tao Zhang, on behalf of the DRO Network   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

A roadmap for offering MOOC from an LMIC institution

, 2017
MOOCs are massive open online courses that are globally accessible, free of charge. Given their cost-free and open accessibility, it is surprising that only a few institutions have offered MOOCs from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
S. Abidi, Aamna Pasha, Gregg Moran, Syed Ali   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A call for ethical, equitable, and effective artificial intelligence to improve care for all people with epilepsy: A roadmap. A report by the ILAE Global Advocacy Council and Big Data Commission

Epilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is upon us. It will inevitably form a central component of epilepsy workflows and patient advocacy. Therefore, it behooves us as health care providers to ride the crest of this wave and guide its direction for the benefit of all people with epilepsy.
Colin B. Josephson, Sandor Beniczky, Spiros Denaxas, Akio Ikeda, Lara Jehi, Angelina Kakooza Mwesige, Nathalie Jette, Gabriel Davis Jones, Philippe Ryvlin, Arjune Sen, Chahnez Charfi Triki, Gabriella Waters, Alla Guekht, J. Helen Cross   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Calibrating models in economic evaluation: a comparison of alternative measures of goodness of fit, parameter search strategies and convergence criteria.

, 2011
BACKGROUND: The importance of assessing the accuracy of health economic decision models is widely recognized. Many applied decision models (implicitly) assume that the process of identifying relevant values for a model's input parameters is sufficient to
Karnon, Jonathan, Vanni, Tazio
core   +1 more source

Panamerican Trauma Society: The first three decades [PDF]

, 2017
Panamerican Trauma Society was born 30 years ago with the mission of improving trauma care in the Americas by exchange of ideas and concepts and expanding knowledge of trauma and acute illness.
Aboutanos, Michel, Ivatury, Rao R.
core   +2 more sources