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The impacts of health systems financing fragmentation in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review protocol

Systematic Reviews, 2021
Background Health systems are often fragmented in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This can increase inefficiencies and restrict progress towards universal health coverage.
Marina Siqueira, Maíra Coube, Christopher Millett, Rudi Rocha, Thomas Hone   +4 more
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Responding to the COVID-19 second wave in Thailand by diversifying and adapting lessons from the first wave

BMJ Global Health, 2021
Thailand’s first wave of COVID-19 in March 2020 was triggered from boxing events and nightclubs in Bangkok, which spread to 68 provinces. The nation responded rapidly with strong public health and social measures on 26 March 2020.
Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Rapeepong Suphanchaimat, Titiporn Tuangratananon, Nattadhanai Rajatanavin   +3 more
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Public health nutrition and food policy [PDF]

, 2004
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Acheson, Atkins, Barthes, Baum, Bettcher, Blair, Boseley, Brannen, Brownell, Caballero, Caraher, Castells, Charles, Charles, Chopra, Coveney, Coveney, Cranbrook, Crister, Crotty, Crotty, Dobson, Dowler, Goldsmith, Guldan, Heasman, Heasman, John Coveney, Klein, Köhler, Lang, Lang, Lawrence, Lawrence, Lee, Martin Caraher, Meedeniya, Norman, Paxton, Reardon, Ritzer, Ritzer, Sherman, Smith, Sokolov, Vanclay   +45 more
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Childhood stunting in Thailand: when prolonged breastfeeding interacts with household poverty

BMC Pediatrics, 2018
Background Childhood stunting, defined as the height-for-age standardized score lower than minus two, is one of the key indicators for assessing well-being and health of a child; and can be used for monitoring child health inequalities. Thailand has been
Nisachol Cetthakrikul, Chompoonut Topothai, Rapeepong Suphanchaimat, Kanjana Tisayaticom, Supon Limwattananon, Viroj Tangcharoensathien   +5 more
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Scandals in health-care: Their impact on health policy and nursing [PDF]

, 2015
Through an analysis of several high-profile scandals in health care in the UK, this article discusses the nature of scandal and its impact on policy reform.
Hutchison, Jacqueline S.
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Gender differences in hospital admissions for major cardiovascular events and procedures in people with and without diabetes in England: a nationwide study 2004–2014

Cardiovascular Diabetology, 2017
Background Secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) has improved immensely during the past decade but controversies persist on cardiovascular benefits among women with diabetes.
Anthony A. Laverty, Alex Bottle, Sung-Hee Kim, Bhakti Visani, Azeem Majeed, Christopher Millett, Eszter P. Vamos   +6 more
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Perceived difficulty of getting help to reduce or abstain from substances among sexual and gender minority men who have sex with men (SGMSM) and use methamphetamine during the early period of the COVID-19 pandemic

Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2021
Background This study examined the perceived difficulty of getting help with substance use among sexual and gender minorities who have sex with men (SGMSM) who use methamphetamine during the early COVID-19 period.
Kiffer Card, Madison McGuire, Jordan Bond-Gorr, Tribesty Nguyen, Gordon A. Wells, Karyn Fulcher, Graham Berlin, Nicole Pal, Mark Hull, Nathan J. Lachowsky   +9 more
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Smoking prevalence and attributable deaths in Thailand: predicting outcomes of different tobacco control interventions

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background Despite substantial positive impacts of Thailand’s tobacco control policies on reducing the prevalence of smoking, current trends suggest that further reductions are needed to ensure that WHO’s 2025 voluntary global target of a 30% relative ...
Suchunya Aungkulanon, Siriwan Pitayarangsarit, Kanitta Bundhamcharoen, Chutima Akaleephan, Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong, Ratsida Phoncharoen, Viroj Tangcharoensathien   +6 more
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Qualitative study of barriers and facilitators to HIV detection and treatment among women who inject drugs during the war against Ukraine

AIDS Research and Therapy, 2023
Background The Russian Federation’s invasion in Ukraine has resulted social hardship, millions of internally displaced persons, the destruction of medical infrastructure, and limited access to HIV services. There is no available information regarding the
Olena Karagodina, Oksana Kovtun, Myroslava Filippovych, Oleksandr Neduzhko   +3 more
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Health, Nutrition, and Public Policy [PDF]

Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 2010
The relationship between health and the economy is complex and hardly a matter of unidirectional cause and consequence. With health increasingly being understood as a stimulus for the economy, nutrition directly assumes the status of an economic identifier.
Frenk, J., le Coutre, J., van Bladeren, P.J., Blum, S.   +3 more
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