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Duration and determinants of delayed tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment in high-burden countries: a mixed-methods systematic review and meta-analysis

Respiratory Research, 2021
Background Thirty countries with the highest tuberculosis (TB) burden bear 87% of the world’s TB cases. Delayed diagnosis and treatment are detrimental to TB prognosis and sustain TB transmission in the community, making TB elimination a great challenge,
Alvin Kuo Jing Teo, Shweta R. Singh, Kiesha Prem, Li Yang Hsu, Siyan Yi   +4 more
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Breast and prostate cancers harbor common somatic copy number alterations that consistently differ by race and are associated with survival

BMC Medical Genomics, 2020
Background Pan-cancer studies of somatic copy number alterations (SCNAs) have demonstrated common SCNA patterns across cancer types, but despite demonstrable differences in aggressiveness of some cancers by race, pan-cancer SCNA variation by race has not
Yalei Chen, Sudha M. Sadasivan, Ruicong She, Indrani Datta, Kanika Taneja, Dhananjay Chitale, Nilesh Gupta, Melissa B. Davis, Lisa A. Newman, Craig G. Rogers, Pamela L. Paris, Jia Li, Benjamin A. Rybicki, Albert M. Levin   +13 more
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Community engagement in health systems interventions and research in conflict-affected countries: a scoping review of approaches

Global Health Action, 2022
Background Healthcare research, planning, and delivery with minimal community engagement can result in financial wastage, failure to meet objectives, and frustration in the communities that programmes are designed to help.
Anna Durrance-Bagale, Manar Marzouk, Lam Sze Tung, Sunanda Agarwal, Zeenathnisa Mougammadou Aribou, Nafeesah Bte Mohamed Ibrahim, Hala Mkhallalati, Sanjida Newaz, Maryam Omar, Mengieng Ung, Ayshath Zaseela, Michiko Nagashima-​Hayashi, Natasha Howard   +12 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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Geographic Information System (GIS) in Public Health

Journal of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences, 2016
Remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) are a potential enabling technolo-gy used in public health. With the precise geo-graphic location of the incident these technolo-gies are potentially useful for infectious dis-ease ...
Dr. Geetha Srikanth
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Health system evaluation in conflict-affected countries: a scoping review of approaches and methods

Conflict and Health, 2023
Introduction Strengthening health systems in conflict-affected settings has become increasingly professionalised. However, evaluation remains challenging and often insufficiently documented in the literature.
Manar Marzouk, Anna Durrance-Bagale, Sze Tung Lam, Michiko Nagashima-Hayashi, Mengieng Ung, Zeenathnisa Mougammadou Aribou, Ayshath Zaseela, Nafeesah Mohamed Ibrahim, Sunanda Agarwal, Maryam Omar, Sanjida Newaz, Hala Mkhallalati, Natasha Howard   +12 more
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A qualitative exploration of factors that influence the uptake of tuberculosis services by low-skilled migrant workers in Singapore

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Introduction Singapore relies heavily on migrant workers to build its country and harbours a relatively large population of these workers. Importantly, tuberculosis (TB) remains a pernicious threat to the health of these workers and in line with the ...
Chuan De Foo, Shishi Wu, Fariha Amin, Natarajan Rajaraman, Alex R. Cook, Helena Legido-Quigley   +5 more
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Using peer review to distribute group work marks equitably between medical students

BMC Medical Education, 2017
Background Although peer assessment has been used for evaluating performance of medical students and practicing doctors, it has not been studied as a method to distribute a common group work mark equitably to medical students working in large groups ...
Alex R Cook, Mikael Hartman, Nan Luo, Judy Sng, Ngan Phoon Fong, Wei Yen Lim, Mark I-Cheng Chen, Mee Lian Wong, Natarajan Rajaraman, Jeannette Jen-Mai Lee, Gerald Choon-Huat Koh   +10 more
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Assessing the quality of care in sick child services at health facilities in Ethiopia

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background Quality of care depends on system, facility, provider, and client-level factors. We aimed at examining structural and process quality of services for sick children and its association with client satisfaction at health facilities in Ethiopia ...
Theodros Getachew, Solomon Mekonnen Abebe, Mezgebu Yitayal, Lars Åke Persson, Della Berhanu   +4 more
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Effects of neighborhood features on healthy aging in place: the composition and context of urban parks and traditional local coffeeshops in Singapore

BMC Geriatrics, 2022
Background Healthy aging in place is affected by what the neighborhood provides for older adults. The mixed-methods ethnographic study explored the built environmental and contextual effects of urban parks and traditional local coffeeshops (kopitiam) on ...
Huso Yi, Shu Tian Ng, Cheng Mun Chang, Cheryl Xue Er Low, Chuen Seng Tan   +4 more
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