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Evaluation of the INTERGROWTH-21st project newborn standard for use in Canada.

PLoS ONE, 2017
ObjectiveTo evaluate the performance of the INTERGROWTH-21st Project newborn standard vis-a-vis the current Canadian birth weight-for-gestational age reference.MethodsAll hospital-based singleton live births in Canada (excluding Quebec) between 2002 and ...
Shiliang Liu, Amy Metcalfe, Juan Andrés León, Reg Sauve, Michael S Kramer, K S Joseph, Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System (Public Health Agency of Canada)   +6 more
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Systems medicine and the public's health [PDF]

Genome Medicine, 2011
Innovative 'systems' approaches to biomedical research offer substantial promise for advancing knowledge and improving health care, as outlined by Bousquet et al. in this issue. However, they are unlikely to improve population health without concurrent efforts to address environmental and social contributors to health, including conditions such as ...
Burke, Wylie, Trinidad, Susan Brown
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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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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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Public health in England in 2016—the health of the public and the public health system: a review [PDF]

British Medical Bulletin, 2017
This article describes the current state of the health of the public in England and the state of the public health professional service and systems.Data sources are wide ranging including the Global Burden of Disease, the Commonwealth Fund and Public Health England reports.There is a high burden of preventable disease and unacceptable inequalities in ...
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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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Beyond Antimalarial Stock-outs: Implications of Health Provider Compliance on Out-of-Pocket Expenditure during Care-Seeking for Fever in South East Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2013
To better understand how stock-outs of the first line antimalarial, Artemisinin-based Combination Therapy (ACT) and other non-compliant health worker behaviour, influence household expenditures during care-seeking for fever in the Ulanga District in ...
Abdallah, Gumi, Amuri, Baraka, de Savigny, Don, Khatib, Rashid, Manzi, Fatuma, Mikkelsen-Lopez, Inez, Njozi, Mustafa, Tediosi, Fabrizio   +7 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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