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Three issues for mental health nurse educators preparing new preregistration programmes [PDF]

, 2020
Universities across the UK must develop and have in place new preregistration programmes by 2020. Unlike in the rest of the world, where initial nurse preparation is generic, preregistration education in the UK allows students to specialize in one of ...
Barlow, Emily-May, Chouliara, Zoe, Ion, Robin, Patrick, Leanne   +3 more
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Revising the WHO verbal autopsy instrument to facilitate routine cause-of-death monitoring

Global Health Action, 2013
Objective: Verbal autopsy (VA) is a systematic approach for determining causes of death (CoD) in populations without routine medical certification. It has mainly been used in research contexts and involved relatively lengthy interviews.
Jordana Leitao, Daniel Chandramohan, Peter Byass, Robert Jakob, Kanitta Bundhamcharoen, Chanpen Choprapawon, Don de Savigny, Edward Fottrell, Elizabeth França, Frederik Frøen, Gihan Gewaifel, Abraham Hodgson, Sennen Hounton, Kathleen Kahn, Anand Krishnan, Vishwajeet Kumar, Honorati Masanja, Erin Nichols, Francis Notzon, Mohammad Hafiz Rasooly, Osman Sankoh, Paul Spiegel, Carla Abouzahr, Marc Amexo, Derege Kebede, William Soumbey Alley, Fatima Marinho, Mohamed Ali, Enrique Loyola, Jyotsna Chikersal, Jun Gao, Giuseppe Annunziata, Rajiv Bahl, Kidist Bartolomeus, Ties Boerma, Bedirhan Ustun, Doris Chou, Lulu Muhe, Matthews Mathai   +38 more
doaj   +1 more source

Quality of demographic data in GGS Wave 1

Demographic Research, 2015
Background: A key feature of the Generations & Gender Programme (GGP) is that longitudinal micro-data from the Generations and Gender Surveys (GGS) can be combined with indicators from the Contextual Database (CDB) that provide information on the macro ...
Jorik Vergauwen, Jonas Wood, David De Wachter, Karel Neels   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Robust Registration of Calcium Images by Learned Contrast Synthesis

, 2015
Multi-modal image registration is a challenging task that is vital to fuse complementary signals for subsequent analyses. Despite much research into cost functions addressing this challenge, there exist cases in which these are ineffective. In this work,
Bogovic, John A., Hanslovsky, Philipp, Saalfeld, Stephan, Wong, Allan   +3 more
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Obstacles to birth registration in Niger: estimates from a recent household survey

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2019
Despite progress made towards increasing birth registration rates over the last dozen years, almost one in two children may still not get registered at birth in Niger according to a recent nationally representative household survey.
Quentin Wodon, Ali Yedan
doaj   +1 more source

An introduction to the civil registration and vital statistics systems with applications in low- and middle-income countries

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2019
In collaboration with development partners, the World Bank Group (WBG) has been working to strengthen civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems in low- and middle-income countries through lending operations, technical assistance projects ...
Samuel Mills, Jane Kim Lee, Bahie Mary Rassekh   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Born Dead or Alive? Revisiting the Definition of Stillbirths in Norway

Historical Life Course Studies, 2021
Since 1947 there has been a common understanding among Norwegian historians and demographers that stillbirths registered in the country prior to 1839 included infants who were born alive but died within 24 hours. This paper shows that a revision of this
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
doaj   +1 more source

Reliable mortality statistics in Myanmar: a qualitative assessment of challenges in two townships

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background The vital registration system is universally recognized as the main source of mortality data which is essential for policy formulation, proper interventions and resource allocation to address priority health challenges. To improve availability
Myitzu Tin Oung, Kerry Richter, Pramote Prasartkul, Yadanar Aung, Kyaw Thu Soe, Thuzar Chit Tin, Viroj Tangcharoensathien   +6 more
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Have inequalities in completeness of death registration between states in India narrowed during two decades of civil registration system strengthening?

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2021
Background In India the number of registered deaths increased substantially in recent years, improving the potential of the civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) system to be the primary source of mortality data and providing more families of ...
Jayanta Kumar Basu, Tim Adair
doaj   +1 more source

Clinical Course and Impact of Breaks in Therapy for Children With Relapsed/Refractory Solid Tumors

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Pediatric relapsed or refractory (R/R) solid tumors carry a dismal prognosis, and postrelapse patient experiences are not well described. We present postrelapse outcomes, including number of R/R events and subsequent therapy regimens.
Matthew T. McEvoy, Elizabeth L. Seashore, W. Susan Cheng, Shondra Clay, Jessica A. Casas, Jennifer H. Foster   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source