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Prioritizing Health Care Strategies to Reduce Childhood Mortality [PDF]

, 2022
IMPORTANCE: Although child mortality trends have decreased worldwide, deaths among children younger than 5 years of age remain high and disproportionately circumscribed to sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia.
Sesay, Tom, Fritz, Ashleigh, Mandomando, Inacio, Igunza, Kitiezo Aggrey, Swaray-Deen, Alim, Scott, J. Anthony G., Tapia, Milagritos D., Rees, Chris A, Ajanovic, Sara, Whitney, Cynthia G., Gurley, Emily S., Kotloff, Karen L, Xerinda, Elisio G, Mehta, Ashka, Keita, Adama M., Mutevedzi, Portia, Blau, Dianna M, Whitney, Cynthia G, Kelil, Yunus-Edris, Blau, Dianna M., Dufera, Tadesse, Assefa, Nega, Mannah, Margaret T., Ogbuanu, Ikechukwu U, Kotloff, Karen L., Seib, Katherine, Madhi, Shabir A, Tippett Barr, Beth A, Xerinda, Elisio G., Ogbuanu, Ikechukwu U., Madewell, Zachary J., Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance Network, Mahtab, Sana, Gurley, Emily S, Tippett Barr, Beth A., El Arifeen, Shams, Spotts Whitney, Ellen A, Madhi, Shabir A., Sow, Samba O., Madewell, Zachary J, Akelo, Victor, Tapia, Milagritos D, Onyango, Dickens, Agaya, Janet, Keita, Adama M, Spotts Whitney, Ellen A., Bassat, Quique, Madrid, Lola, Scott, J Anthony G, Velaphi, Sithembiso, Mannah, Margaret T, Sitoe, Antonio, Sow, Samba O, Rees, Chris A., Oele, Elizabeth   +54 more
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Does early childhood adversities affect physical, cognitive and language development in indian children? Evidence from a panel study

SSM: Population Health, 2020
Early childhood adversities are known to impair the development potential of children, however, there is limited evidence for the same in the Indian context. This study provides evidence of the effect of relevant biological and social risk factors during
Ronak Paul, Abhishek Singh
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Racial disparities in mortality in the adult hispanic population

SSM: Population Health, 2020
Objective: We addressed three research questions: (1) Are there racial mortality disparities in the adult Hispanic population that resemble those observed in the non-Hispanic population in the US? (2) Does nativity mediate the race-mortality relationship
Elizabeth Arias, Norman J. Johnson, Betzaida Tejada Vera   +2 more
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Trends in inequality in length of life in India: a decomposition analysis by age and causes of death

Genus, 2017
Background Studies dealing with trends in inequality in length of life in India are rare. Studies documenting the contribution of age and causes of death to the inequality in length of life are more limited. Objective The study aims to examine the trends
Abhishek Singh, Ankita Shukla, Faujdar Ram, Kaushalendra Kumar   +3 more
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A retrospective review of the contribution of rare diseases to paediatric mortality in Ireland

Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 2020
Aims To ascertain the number of paediatric deaths (0–14 years) with an underlying rare disease in the Republic of Ireland between the years 2006–2016, and to analyse bed usage by a paediatric cohort of rare disease inpatients prior to in-hospital death ...
Emer Gunne, Cliona McGarvey, Karina Hamilton, Eileen Treacy, Deborah M. Lambert, Sally Ann Lynch   +5 more
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Risky injection practices and HCV awareness in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand: a respondent-driven sampling study of people who inject drugs

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background People who inject drugs (PWID) are the most exposed to hepatitis C virus (HCV). In Thailand, drug use is highly criminalized, and harm reduction services are scarce. This study estimates risky injection practices and assesses the proportion of
Myrtille Prouté, Sophie Le Coeur, Métrey H. Tiv, Timothée Dub, Parinya Jongpaijitsakul, Anantika Ratnamhin, Chaisiri Angkurawaranon, Apinun Aramrattana, Marc Lallemant   +8 more
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Towards a Global Understanding of Tree Mortality [PDF]

Rates of tree mortality are increasing globally, with implications for forests and climate. Yet, how and why these trends vary globally remain unknown. Developing a comprehensive assessment of global tree mortality will require systematically integrating
Senf, Cornelius, International Tree Mortality Network, Holz, Andres   +2 more
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Perception, environmental determinants, and health complications of excess weight in India: a mixed methods approach

Scientific Reports, 2023
In light of the high and rising prevalence of obesity, we studied females and males aged 25–54 years with excess weight in the Kolkata metropolitan region, one of India's main cities, to understand the perception, environmental determinants and health ...
Somdutta Barua, Nandita Saikia
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Interaction of physical activity on the association of obesity-related measures with multimorbidity among older adults: a population-based cross-sectional study in India

BMJ Open, 2021
Objective To explore the associations between obesity-related measures and multimorbidity among older Indian adults and the interactive effects of physical activity in those associations.Design A cross-sectional study was conducted using large ...
Shobhit Srivastava, Vinod Joseph K J, Drishti Dristhi, T Muhammad   +3 more
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Child suicide rates during the COVID-19 pandemic in England

Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 2021
Background: There is concern about the impact of COVID-19, and the control measures to prevent the spread, on children's mental health. The aim of this work was to identify if there had been a rise of childhood suicide during the COVID pandemic.
David Odd, Tom Williams, Louis Appleby, David Gunnell, Karen Luyt   +4 more
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