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Cost-effectiveness of portable-automated ABR for universal neonatal hearing screening in India

Frontiers in Public Health
The World Health Organization considers Universal Neonatal Hearing Screening (UNHS) essential to global public health. Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram has included newborn hearing screening in India since 2013.
Krushna Chandra Sahoo, Rinshu Dwivedi, Ramesh Athe, Akshay Chauhan, Shalu Jain, Rakesh Kumar Sahoo, Debdutta Bhattacharya, Kavitha Rajsekhar, Sanghamitra Pati   +8 more
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Development of an advisory system that supports good animal welfare in organic production in Norway [PDF]

, 2004
Organic agriculture wishes to emphasise animal welfare, and aims to be at the forefront with regard to promoting the welfare of farm animals. It is therefore important to increase the expertise in the field of animal welfare in organic farming systems ...
Henriksen, Britt I. F.
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Outcomes of Live Virus Vaccination in Patients With Vascular Anomalies Being Treated With Sirolimus

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Live vaccination in patients with vascular anomalies (VA) receiving sirolimus remains controversial due to immunosuppressive effects and theoretical risks. Procedure This single‐center retrospective study included patients with VA less than 4 years old at the start of sirolimus therapy who were incompletely vaccinated.
Svatava Merkle, Kiersten Ricci, Kelly Blache, Rebecca A. Marsh, Adrienne M. Hammill, Elissa Engel   +5 more
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Characteristics of multiple-diseased elderly in Swedish hospital care and clinical guidelines

International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, 2009
In Sweden, an expected growing gap between available resources and greater potential for medical treatment has brought evidence-based guidelines and priority setting into focus.
Niklas Ekerstad, Annika Edberg, Per Carlsson   +2 more
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Measuring Social Welfare Gains in Social Assistance Programs: An Application to European Countries [PDF]

, 2019
This paper aims to provide a framework for a complete assessment of the overall welfare gains resulting from social assistance programs. We make use of a social welfare function that satisfies several properties that must be considered when measuring the
Ayala Cañón, Luis, Barcena-Martin, Elena Maria   +1 more
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Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright, Morgan A. Paul, Selena Murcia Mendez, Emily Jones, Lucille Lokko, Chelsea Heneghan, Nicholas Purol, Morgan Arnold, Rahela Aziz‐Bose, Colleen A. Kelly, Sandi L. Pruitt, Joanne Wolfe, Kira Bona, Puja J. Umaretiya   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Establishing comprehensive oral assessments for children with safeguarding concerns. [PDF]

, 2015
The dental profession is well placed to contribute important information in child protection cases but no previous research has been reported that assesses the volume or impact of this information.
A. Cairns, AC Mezzich, AM Cairns, C. M. Park, CM Harris, DB Becker, G Olivan, J. Herbison, JC Harris, MA da Fonseca, N Valencia-Rojas, NB Pitts, PE Greene, PP Montecchi, R. Welbury, RE Malecz, RW ten Bensel, SA Jessee, TG Weiser, VJ Fontana   +19 more
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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Official and private animal welfare inspectors’ perception of their own on-site inspections

Frontiers in Veterinary Science
The presence of a trustworthy and effective animal welfare control system is important both for animal welfare and for public and consumer trust. The inspectors’ main task, regardless of whether they are official inspectors or private auditors, is to ...
Frida Lundmark Hedman, Ivana R. Ewerlöf, Ivana R. Ewerlöf, Jenny Frössling, Jenny Frössling, Charlotte Berg   +5 more
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Challenges in Assessing Fish Welfare [PDF]

ILAR Journal, 2009
Descriptions of feeling states in nonhuman animals have relied on indirect evidence from empirical data. Assumptions that fish do not experience suffering lack evidence and in fact contradict a large body of indirect scientific evidence and ethical concern.
openaire   +3 more sources