Hanley-Cook, Giles T. Tung, Ji Yen A. Sattamini, Isabela F. Marinda, Pamela A. Thong, Kong Zerfu, Dilnesaw Kolsteren, Patrick W. Tuazon, Maria Antonia G. Lachat, Carl K.
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Nutrients
Minimum dietary diversity for women of reproductive age (MDD-W) was validated as a population-level proxy of micronutrient adequacy, with indicator data collection proposed as either list-based or open recall. No study has assessed the validity of these two non-quantitative proxy methods against weighed food records (WFR). We assessed the measureme...
Axelsson, Malin Schønning, Viktor Bockting, Claudi Buysse, Ann Desmet, Mattias Dewaele, Alexis Giovazolias, Theodoros Hannon, Dewi Kafetsios, Konstantinos Meganck, Reitske
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BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundMental healthcare is an important component in societies’ response to mental health problems. Although the World Health Organization highlights availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality of healthcare as important cornerstones, many Europeans lack access to mental healthcare of high quality. Qualitative studies exploring menta...
Dewitte, Ruben Dumont, Michel Merlevede, Bruno Rayp, Glenn Verschelde, Marijn
We propose a fully nonparametric framework to test to what extent technological change is factor-biased and heterogeneous. We show in a Monte Carlo simulation that our framework resolves the endogeneity issue between productivity and input choice and provides accurate estimates of firm-specific biases. For all Belgian manufacturing industries analy...
LIEVENS, YOLANDE Borras, Josep M. Grau, Cai
Radiation therapy is one of the core components of multidisciplinary cancer care. Although similar to 50% of all European cancer patients have an indication for radiotherapy at least once in the course of their disease, more than one out of four cancer patients in Europe do not receive the radiotherapy they need. There are multiple reasons for this...
Ohrnberger, J Fichera, E Sutton, M Anselmi, L
Background Mental health and poverty are strongly interlinked. There is a gap in the literature on the effects of poverty alleviation programmes on mental health. We aim to fill this gap by studying the effect of an exogenous income shock generated by the Child Support Grant, South Africa’s largest Unconditional Cash Transfer (UCT) programme, on me...
Puvanachandra, P Janmohammed, A Mtambeka, P Prinsloo, M Van As, S Peden, MM
Background: Child road traffic injuries are a major global public health problem and the issue is particularly burdensome in middle-income countries such as South Africa where injury death rates are 41 per 100,000 for under 5′s and 24.5 per 100,000 for 5–14-year-old. Despite their known effectiveness in reducing injuries amongst children, the rates...
Hanley-Cook, Giles Argaw, Alemayehu Dahal, Pradiumna Chitekwe, Stanley Rijal, Sanjay Bichha, Ram Padarath Parajuli, Kedar Raj Kolsteren, Patrick
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Maternal & child nutrition
Childhood linear growth faltering remains a major public health concern in Nepal. Nevertheless, over the past 20 years, Nepal sustained one of the most rapid reductions in the prevalence of stunting worldwide. First, our study analysed the trends in height-for-age z-score (HAZ), stunting prevalence, and available nutrition-sensitive and nutrition-s...
Bos, Linda; Schemer, Christian; Corbu, Nicoleta; Hameleers, Michael; Andreadis, Ioannis; Schulz, Anne; Schmuck, Desiree; 138865; Reinemann, Carsten; Fawzi, Nayla;
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Luo, XS Imai, N Dorigatti, I
Background No large-scale Zika epidemic has been observed to date in Southeast Asia following the 2015-16 Latin American and the Caribbean epidemic. One hypothesis is Southeast Asian populations’ partial immunity to Zika. Method We estimated the two conditions for a Zika outbreak emergence in Southeast Asia: (i) the risk of Zika introduction from L...
Medvedev, MM Brotherton, H Gai, A Tann, C Gale, C Waiswa, P Elbourne, D Lawn, JE Allen, E
BACKGROUND: 78% of neonatal deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia, among which, more than 80% are in low birthweight babies. Existing neonatal mortality risk scores have primarily been developed for high-resource settings. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a score that is practicable for low-income and middle-income c...
