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Shedding light on quality of care: a study protocol for a randomized trial evaluating the impact of the Solar Suitcase in rural health facilities on maternal and newborn care quality in Uganda

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2019
Background Continued progress in reducing maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality in low-income countries requires a renewed focus on quality of delivery care.
Slawa Rokicki, Brian Mwesigwa, Laura Schmucker, Jessica L. Cohen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Poverty and Casino Gambling in Buffalo [PDF]

, 2011
The Buffalo Creek Casino will exacerbate Buffalo’s poverty. Casinos, especially urban casinos, attract many gamblers living at or near the poverty line, and problem or pathological gamblers often fall from the middle class into poverty.
Magavern, Sam, Mulé, Elaina
core   +1 more source

Estimating Poverty for Indigenous Groups in Chile by Matching Census and Survey Data [PDF]

, 2008
It is widely held that indigenous Chileans experience greater rates of poverty and indigence than non-indigenous Chileans, yet the evidence to date has been based on surveys that are not representative by ethnicity.
Agostini, Claudio A., Brown, Philip H., Roman, Andrei   +2 more
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Cellular liquid biopsy provides unique chances for disease monitoring, preclinical model generation and therapy adjustment in rare salivary gland cancer patients

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
We quantified and cultured circulating tumor cells (CTCs) of 62 patients with various cancer types and generated CTC‐derived tumoroid models from two salivary gland cancer patients. Cellular liquid biopsy‐derived information enabled molecular genetic assessment of systemic disease heterogeneity and functional testing for therapy selection in both ...
Nataša Stojanović Gužvić, Florian Lüke, Steffi Treitschke, Andrea Coluccio, Martin Hoffmann, Giancarlo Feliciello, Adithi Ravikumar Varadarajan, Xin Lu, Kathrin Weidele, Catherine Botteron, Silvia Materna–Reichelt, Felix Keil, Katja Evert, Florian Weber, Thomas Schamberger, Michael Althammer, Jirka Grosse, Dirk Hellwig, Christian Schulz, Stephan Seitz, Peter Ugocsai, Anke Schlenska‐Lange, Roman Mayr, Ulrich Kaiser, Wolfgang Dietmaier, Bernhard Polzer, Jens Warfsmann, Kamran Honarnejad, Tobias Pukrop, Daniel Heudobler, Christoph A. Klein, Christian Werno   +31 more
wiley   +1 more source

Causal effects of education on sexual and reproductive health in low and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis

SSM: Population Health, 2019
Background: Despite strong theoretical grounding, important gaps in knowledge remain regarding the degree to which there is a causal relationship between education and sexual and reproductive health, as many claims have been made based on associations ...
Stephanie R. Psaki, Erica K. Chuang, Andrea J. Melnikas, David B. Wilson, Barbara S. Mensch   +4 more
doaj  

Socioeconomic inequalities in avoidable mortality in Italy: results from a nationwide longitudinal cohort

BMC Public Health
Background Disparities in avoidable mortality have never been evaluated in Italy at the national level. The present study aimed to assess the association between socioeconomic status and avoidable mortality.
Alessio Petrelli, Martina Ventura, Anteo Di Napoli, Marilena Pappagallo, Silvia Simeoni, Luisa Frova   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Recurrent child mortality risks and parity transition in Nigeria

Reproductive Health, 2019
Background Fertility rates remain persistently high in Nigeria, with little difference across socioeconomic groups. While the desire for large family size is culturally rooted, there is little understanding of how repeated child mortality experiences ...
Abiodun Idowu Adanikin, Sabu S. Padmadas, Nuala McGrath   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond unidimensional poverty analysis using distributional copula models for mixed ordered-continuous outcomes [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
Poverty is a multidimensional concept often comprising a monetary outcome and other welfare dimensions such as education, subjective well-being or health, that are measured on an ordinal scale. In applied research, multidimensional poverty is ubiquitously assessed by studying each poverty dimension independently in univariate regression models or by ...
arxiv  

Closing Racial-Ethnic Gaps in Poverty: How Government Programs Compare [PDF]

, 2019
In this data snapshot, authors Marybeth Mattingly and Jessica Carson explore the role of government programs in alleviating poverty for people with different racial-ethnic identities.
Carson, Jessica A, Mattingly, Marybeth J.   +1 more
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Combined spatially resolved metabolomics and spatial transcriptomics reveal the mechanism of RACK1‐mediated fatty acid synthesis

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
The authors analyzed the spatial distributions of gene and metabolite profiles in cervical cancer through spatial transcriptomic and spatially resolved metabolomic techniques. Pivotal genes and metabolites within these cases were then identified and validated.
Lixiu Xu, Jinqiu Li, Junqi Ma, Ayshamgul Hasim   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source