Rotheram-Borus, Mary Jane Tomlinson, Mark
Published in
International Journal of Maternal and Child Health and AIDS
High quality maternal and child health (MCH) programs are needed to meet the global Sustainable Development Goals 1, 2, 3, and 10. Yet, the vast majority of MCH programs are small, lack capacity and personnel, and are judged based on their relationships with funders, rather than their performance in the field. Adopting principles common among priva...
Wollner, Elliot Nourian, Maziar M Booth, William Conover, Sophia Law, Tyler Lilaonitkul, Maytinee Gelb, Adrian W Lipnick, Michael S
BACKGROUND:Capnography is universally accepted as an essential patient safety monitor in high-income countries (HICs) yet is often unavailable in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Increasing capnography availability has been proposed as one of many potential approaches to improving perioperative outcomes in LMICs. This scoping review summari...
Hogan, A Jewell, B Sherrard-Smith, E Watson, O Whittaker, C Hamlet, A Smith, J Winskill, P Verity, R Baguelin, M
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Background: COVID-19 has the potential to cause substantial disruptions to health services, including by cases overburdening the health system or response measures limiting usual programmatic activities. We aimed to quantify the extent to which disruptions in services for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), tuberculosis (TB) and malaria in low- and...
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BACKGROUND: Universal access to safe drinking water and sanitation facilities is an essential human right, recognised in the Sustainable Development Goals as crucial for preventing disease and improving human wellbeing. Comprehensive, high-resolution estimates are important to inform progress towards achieving this goal. We aimed to produce high-re...
Pititto, Bianca de Almeida Ferreira, Sandra Roberta G
Published in
Revista de saude publica
The coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) pandemic has caused a public health emergency worldwide. Risk, severity and mortality of the disease have been associated with non-communicable chronic diseases, such as diabetes mellitus. Accumulated evidence has caused great concern in countries with high prevalence of this morbidity, such as Brazil. This t...
Lewnard, Joseph A Lo, Nathan C Arinaminpathy, Nimalan Frost, Isabel Laxminarayan, Ramanan
Vaccines may reduce the burden of antimicrobial resistance, in part by preventing infections for which treatment often includes the use of antibiotics1-4. However, the effects of vaccination on antibiotic consumption remain poorly understood-especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where the burden of antimicrobial resistance is grea...
Reiner, RC Wiens, KE Deshpande, A Baumann, MM Lindstedt, PA Blacker, BF Troeger, CE Earl, L Munro, SB Abate, D
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Background Across low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), one in ten deaths in children younger than 5 years is attributable to diarrhoea. The substantial between-country variation in both diarrhoea incidence and mortality is attributable to interventions that protect children, prevent infection, and treat disease. Identifying subnational r...
Drago, Fabrizio Scharf, Rebecca J. Maphula, Angelina Nyathi, Emanuel Mahopo, Tjale C. Svensen, Erling Mduma, Estomih Bessong, Pascal Rogawski McQuade, Elizabeth T.
Published in
BMC Public Health
BackgroundApproximately 66% of children under the age of 5 in Sub-Saharan African countries do not reach their full cognitive potential, the highest percentage in the world. Because the majority of studies investigating child cognitive development have been conducted in high-income countries (HICs), there is limited knowledge regarding the determin...
Smith, Gordon Nakimuli, Annettee
Gestational age is one of the most important features of a pregnancy when making clinical decisions. In particular, decision-making around delivery, such as timing pre-labour caesarean section and induction of labour, is crucially informed by knowledge of gestational age. Over-estimation of gestational age may lead to iatrogenic prematurity and und...
Le, Son Thi Kim
Identification of potential innovation efforts plays an important role in evaluating the innovation process. The innovation efforts of firms in developing countries might be different to those of western enterprises. This paper evaluates innovation processes in developing countries, especially the relationship between innovation efforts and innovat...
