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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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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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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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Kerr-Schild--Kundt Metrics are Universal [PDF]
, 2017 We define (non-Einsteinian) universal metrics as the metrics that solve the source-free covariant field equations of generic gravity theories. Here, extending the rather scarce family of universal metrics known in the literature, we show that the Kerr ...
Gurses, Metin +2 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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Are Smell-Based Metrics Actually Useful in Effort-Aware Structural Change-Proneness Prediction? An Empirical Study [PDF]
, 2019 Bad code smells (also named as code smells) are symptoms of poor design choices in implementation. Existing studies empirically confirmed that the presence of code smells increases the likelihood of subsequent changes (i.e., change-proness).
Jia, Ru +4 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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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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On Special Berwald Metrics [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper, we study a class of Finsler metrics which contains the class of Berwald metrics as a special case. We prove that every Finsler metric in this class is a generalized Douglas-Weyl metric.
Peyghan, Esmaeil, Tayebi, Akbar
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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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