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Why and When Are Evidence‐Based Interventions Adopted in Paediatric Supportive Care? A Qualitative Exploration of the Determinants of Photobiomodulation Implementation

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Oral mucositis is a common and debilitating side effect of childhood cancer and stem cell transplant treatments. It affects the quality of life of children and young people (CYP) and places a strain on services. Photobiomodulation is recommended for oral mucositis prevention in international guidance but is poorly implemented in UK ...
Claudia Heggie, Kara A. Gray‐Burrows, Peter F. Day, Bob Phillips, Carl A. Thompson   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Surveillance of anti-tuberculosis drug resistance in the world: an updated analysis, 2007-2010

Bulletin of the World Health Organization
OBJECTIVE: To present a global update of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) and explore trends in 1994-2010. METHODS: Data on drug resistance among new and previously treated TB patients, as reported by countries to the World Health Organization, were ...
Matteo Zignol, Wayne van Gemert, Dennis Falzon, Charalambos Sismanidis, Philippe Glaziou, Katherine Floyd, Mario Raviglione   +6 more
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‘What gets measured gets managed’: revisiting the indicators for maternal and newborn health programmes

Reproductive Health, 2018
Background The health of women and children are critical for global development. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda and the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s, and Adolescent’s Health 2016–2030 aim to reduce maternal and newborn deaths ...
A. C. Moran, A. B. Moller, D. Chou, A. Morgan, S. El Arifeen, C. Hanson, L. Say, T. Diaz, I. Askew, A. Costello   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Health promotion by communities and in communities: current issues for research and practice. [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: This paper explores contemporary issues around community-based health promotion in the light of international health policies reaffirming the central role of community action within broader efforts to achieve health equity.
Foot J, Friedli L, Kickbusch I, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, South J, White J, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization   +8 more
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Personalized Selumetinib Dosing in Pediatric Neurofibromatosis Type 1: Insights From a Pilot Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate selumetinib exposure using therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) in pediatric patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and plexiform neurofibromas (PN), assess interpatient pharmacokinetic variability, and explore the relationship between drug exposure, clinical response, and adverse effects.
Janka Kovács, Zoltán Köllő, Balázs Gellért Karvaly, Mahmoud Obeidat, Rita Nagy, Péter Hegyi, Brigitta Teutsch, Eszter Tuboly, Miklós Garami   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Outpatient treatment of children with severe acute malnutrition within the health care system in a humanitarian crisis: a cross-sectional study in Uganda during the Horn of Africa drought response

BMC Nutrition
Background Uganda, situated within the Greater Horn of Africa, is currently facing a severe food insecurity crisis with the Karamoja sub-region and its neighboring districts being the most severely impacted.
Florence Mary Turyashemererwa, Charles Njuguna, Tola Habteyes Hailu, George Opong, Ssekitoleko Richard, Kwikiriza Nicholas Magambo, Nabunya Phoebe, Kisibuka Richard, Gidongo Derrick, Andrew Bakainaga Niwagaba, Edson Katushabe, Bodo Bongomin, Ouedraogo NikiemaLaetitia, Wekesa Julius, Namukose Samalie, Timothy Mateeba, Yonas Tegegn Woldemariam   +16 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stopping circulatory vaccine-derived poliovirus in Kaduna state by scaling up special interventions in local government areas along rivers of interest- kamacha basin experience, 2013–2015

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background The Kamacha river is one of the five polio environmental surveillance sites in Kaduna State where 13 circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPDs) were isolated between 2014 and 2015. Kamacha river accounted for 5 of all reported cVDPVs in
Audu I. Musa, Faisal Shuaib, Fiona Braka, Pascal Mkanda, Richard Banda, Charles Korir, Sisay G. Tegegne, Suleiman Abdullahi, Gregory C. Umeh, Terna I. Nomhwange, Hadiza Aliyu Iyal, Sambo Ishaku, Usman Adamu, Eunice Damisa, Murtala Bagana, Victor Gugong, Hadiza Balarabe, Peter Nsubuga, Rui G. Vaz   +18 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysing the implementation of infection prevention and control measures in health care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic in the African Region

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2023
Background The declaration of SARS-CoV-2 as a public health emergency of international concern in January 2020 prompted the need to strengthen infection prevention and control (IPC) capacities within health care facilities (HCF).
Landry Kabego, Thierno Balde, Deborah Barasa, Babacar Ndoye, Okou-Bisso Hilde, Tendai Makamure, Guy Ohirweoluhya Mulumeoderwa, Trevor Kanyowa, Rashidatu Fouad Kamara, Boiro Hamadou, Opeayo Ogundiran, Joseph Okeibunor, George Williams, Jayne Byakika Tusiime, Phionah Lynn Atuhebwe, Boniface Oyugi, Elande-Taty Mawanda, Andry Razakamanantsoa, Fiona Braka, Dick Chamla, Abdou Salam Gueye   +20 more
doaj   +1 more source

World Report on Disability, Chapter 8: Work and Employment [PDF]

, 2011
Across the world, people with disabilities are entrepreneurs and selfemployed workers, farmers and factory workers, doctors and teachers, shop assistants and bus drivers, artists, and computer technicians (1).
Cornell University, World Health Organization, World Bank
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Comparison of Medicine Availability Measurements at Health Facilities: Evidence from Service Provision Assessment Surveys in Five Sub-Saharan African Countries. [PDF]

, 2013
With growing emphasis on health systems strengthening in global health, various health facility assessment methods have been used increasingly to measure medicine and commodity availability.
A Cameron, A Demirchyan, AK Rowe, J Robertson, Ministry of Health and Social Services, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Paul Ametepi, The Glbal Fund: Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, Yoonjoung Choi   +11 more
core   +2 more sources