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Health system strategies to increase HIV screening among pregnant women in Mesoamerica
Population Health Metrics, 2018 Background To propose health system strategies to meeting the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations on HIV screening through antenatal care (ANC) services, we assessed predictors of HIV screening, and simulated the impact of changes in these ...
Charbel El Bcheraoui +12 more
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Ontology-based metrics computation for business process analysis [PDF]
, 2009 Business Process Management (BPM) aims to support the whole life-cycle necessary to deploy and maintain business processes in organisations. Crucial within the BPM lifecycle is the analysis of deployed processes.
Domingue, John, Pedrinaci, Carlos
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Percept of the duration of a vibrotactile stimulus is altered by changing its amplitude
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2015 There have been numerous studies conducted on time perception. However, very few of these have involved tactile stimuli to assess a subject’s capacity for duration discrimination. Previous optical imaging studies in non-human primates demonstrated that
Eric M Francisco +5 more
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On length spectrum metrics and weak metrics on Teichmüller spaces of surfaces with boundary [PDF]
, 2009 We define and study metrics and weak metrics on the Teichmüller space of a surface of topologically finite type with boundary. These metrics and weak metrics are associated to the hyperbolic length spectrum of simple closed curves and of properly ...
Liu, L. +3 more
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Globalization and Health, 2018 Background Skilled health professionals are a critical component of the effective delivery of lifesaving health interventions. The inadequate number of skilled health professionals in many low- and middle-income countries has been identified as a ...
Angela E Micah +4 more
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BMJ Global Health, 2021 Introduction In 2017, development assistance for health (DAH) comprised 5.3% of total health spending in low-income countries. Despite the key role DAH plays in global health-spending, little is known about the characteristics of assistance that may be ...
Angela E Micah +7 more
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Algorithms for Game Metrics [PDF]
, 2010 Simulation and bisimulation metrics for stochastic systems provide a quantitative generalization of the classical simulation and bisimulation relations. These metrics capture the similarity of states with respect to quantitative specifications written in
D.A. Martin +15 more
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Health Economics Review, 2017 Background One of the major challenges in estimating health care spending spent on each cause of illness is allocating spending for a health care event to a single cause of illness in the presence of comorbidities. Comorbidities, the secondary diagnoses,
Joseph L. Dieleman +14 more
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Mapping male circumcision for HIV prevention efforts in sub-Saharan Africa
BMC Medicine, 2020 Background HIV remains the largest cause of disease burden among men and women of reproductive age in sub-Saharan Africa. Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) reduces the risk of female-to-male transmission of HIV by 50–60%.
Michael A. Cork +25 more
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Assessment of the quality of the vital registration system for under-5 mortality in Yucatan, Mexico
Population Health Metrics, 2022 Introduction Vital registration is an important element in health information systems which can inform policy and strengthen health systems. Mexico has a well-functioning vital registration system; however, there is still room for improvement, especially
Bernardo Hernandez +10 more
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