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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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Use of evidence to support healthy public policy: a policy effectiveness-feasibility loop [PDF]

, 2012
Public policy plays a key role in improving population health and in the control of diseases, including non-communicable diseases. However, an evidence-based approach to formulating healthy public policy has been difficult to implement, partly on ...
Ahmad, B, Ben Romdhane, H, Bowman, S, Capewell, S, Critchley, J, Fouad, F, Husseini, A, Khatib, R, Maziak, W, Phillimore, P, Shoaibi, A, Unal, B, Unwin, N, Zaman, S   +13 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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Navigating public health chemicals policy in Australia: a policy maker’s and practitioner’s guide [PDF]

, 2012
Chemicals are ubiquitous in everyday life. Environmental health practitioners rely on a complex web of regulators and policy bodies to ensure the protection of public health, yet few understand the full extent of this web.
Adam Capon, James Gillespie, Wayne Smith
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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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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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Transport policy and health inequalities: a health impact assessment of Edinburgh's transport policy [PDF]

, 2003
Health impact assessment (HIA) can be used to examine the relationships between inequalities and health. This HIA of Edinburgh's transport policy demonstrates how HIA can examine how different transport policies can affect different population groupings ...
Conway, L., Douglas, M.J., Gorman, D, Hanlon, P.W., Noble, P.W.   +4 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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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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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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