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Probability of males to outlive females: an international comparison from 1751 to 2020

BMJ Open, 2022
Objective To measure sex differences in lifespan based on the probability of males to outlive females.Design International comparison of national and regional sex-specific life tables from the Human Mortality Database and the World Population Prospects ...
Marie-Pier Bergeron-Boucher, Virginia Zarulli, Ilya Kashnitsky, Jesús-Adrian Alvarez   +3 more
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Housing and health outcomes: evidence on child morbidities from six Sub-Saharan African countries

BMC Pediatrics, 2023
Background The connection between healthy housing status and health is well established. The quality of housing plays a significant role in infectious and non-communicable as well as vector-borne diseases.
Kanyiva Muindi, Samuel Iddi, Hellen Gitau, Blessing Mberu   +3 more
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"I was tricked": understanding reasons for unintended pregnancy among sexually active adolescent girls

Reproductive Health, 2021
Résumé Contexte Alors que le gouvernement kenyan déploie des stratégies de haut niveau pour mettre fin aux grossesses chez les adolescentes d'ici 2030, il est nécessaire de bien cerner les facteurs qui favorisent les grossesses précoces non planifiées ...
Anthony Idowu Ajayi, Sally Atieno Odunga, Clement Oduor, Ramatou Ouedraogo, Boniface Ayanbekongshie Ushie, Yohannes Dibaba Wado   +5 more
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Sex-differences in excess death risk during the COVID-19 pandemic: an analysis of the first wave across Italian regions. What have we learned?

Genus, 2022
In this commentary, we bring together knowledge on sex-differences in excess death during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, one of the most hit European countries.
Silvia Rizzi, Cosmo Strozza, Virginia Zarulli   +2 more
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Adolescent sexual and reproductive health research in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review of substantive focus, research volume, geographic distribution and Africa-led inquiry

BMJ Global Health, 2021
Background Previous review studies have not systematically mapped the existing body of knowledge on adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
Anthony Idowu Ajayi, Boniface Ayanbekongshie Ushie, Meggie Mwoka, Emmanuel Oloche Otukpa, Caroline W. Kabiru   +4 more
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Effect of HIV status on fertility intention and contraceptive use among women in nine sub-Saharan African countries: evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys [PDF]

Global Health Action, 2014
Background: Expanding access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) means that HIV is no longer a death sentence. This change has implications for reproductive decisions and behaviors of HIV-infected individuals.
Joyce N. Mumah, Abdhalah K. Ziraba, Estelle M. Sidze   +2 more
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Experimental evolution of a pheromone signal

Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Sexual signals are important in speciation, but understanding their evolution is complex as these signals are often composed of multiple, genetically interdependent components.
Thomas Blankers, Elise Fruitet, Emily Burdfield‐Steel, Astrid T. Groot   +3 more
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Interactions With Plant Defences Isolate Sympatric Populations of an Herbivorous Mite

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Host plant specialisation can promote evolutionary divergence between herbivore populations associated with different plant species. While the mechanisms by which specialist species exploit their hosts have been studied widely across taxa, less is known ...
Ernesto Villacis-Perez, Ernesto Villacis-Perez, Juan Manuel Alba, Julien Cotte, Zeno van Loon, Johannes A. J. Breeuwer, Thomas Van Leeuwen   +6 more
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Progression of the smoking epidemic in high-income regions and its effects on male-female survival differences: a cohort-by-age analysis of 17 countries

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Of all lifestyle behaviours, smoking caused the most deaths in the last century. Because of the time lag between the act of smoking and dying from smoking, and because males generally take up smoking before females do, male and female smoking ...
Maarten Wensink, Jesús-Adrián Alvarez, Silvia Rizzi, Fanny Janssen, Rune Lindahl-Jacobsen   +4 more
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Juvenile Spider Mites Induce Salicylate Defenses, but Not Jasmonate Defenses, Unlike Adults

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020
When plants detect herbivores they strengthen their defenses. As a consequence, some herbivores evolved the means to suppress these defenses. Research on induction and suppression of plant defenses usually makes use of particular life stages of ...
Jie Liu, Jie Liu, Saioa Legarrea, Juan M. Alba, Lin Dong, Rachid Chafi, Steph B. J. Menken, Merijn R. Kant   +7 more
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