Stone, Briana Sambo, Júlia Sawadogo-Lewis, Talata Roberton, Timothy
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BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundClimatic conditions and seasonal trends can affect population health, but typically, we consider the effect of climate on the epidemiology of communicable diseases. However, climate can also have an effect on access to care, particularly in remote rural areas of low- and middle-income countries. In this study, we investigate associations ...
Amu, Hubert Seidu, Abdul-Aziz Agbemavi, Wonder Afriyie, Bernard Owusu Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku Ameyaw, Edward Kwabena Kissah-Korsah, Kwaku
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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
BackgroundPoor mental health remains the leading cause of disability, with considerable negative impacts in low- and middle-income countries. In this study, we examined the prevalence and correlates of psychosocial distress among in-school adolescents in Mozambique.MethodsThis was a cross-sectional study of 1918 in-school adolescents, using data fr...
Bomfim, Emiliana Mupueleque, Martins Abudo dos Santos, Delmar Mário Mutereda Abdirazak, Ahmed Bernardo, Regina de Arminda Zakus, David Pires, Paulo Henrique das Neves Martins Siemens, Ron Belo, Celso Fernando
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The Pan African Medical Journal
Introduction despite the Mozambican Ministry of Health's efforts to deliver family planning to all girls of childbearing age, the adolescent pregnancy rate remains high. The Adolescent and Youth Friendly Service (AYFS), integrated into overall primary health care programs throughout the country, aims to reverse this situation. Our study objective w...
Ricolfi, Lorenzo Barbieri, Maurizio Muteto, Paulino Vicente Nigro, Angela Sappa, Giuseppe Vitale, Stefania
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Environmental geochemistry and health
Concentrations of trace elements in drinking water affect its safety and acceptability for use. Potentially toxic element (PTE) contaminations are considered extremely hazardous because of toxicity, persistence, and bioaccumulative behaviour. Many areas in the Southern African Development Community are data poor and have poor accessibility. The res...
Menendez, Yara Alonso Cambaco, Olga Mindú, Carolina Nhantumbo, Hoticha Uamusse, Titos Matsinhe, Graça Matsinhe, Benigna Manjate, Rosa Marlene Bardají, Azucena Menendez, Clara
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Reproductive Health
BackgroundMozambique has one of the highest cervical cancer incidence rates in the world. Health interventions are still being conceived solely from a non-communicable disease standpoint despite that it is also a sexual and reproductive health problem. The objective of this study was to assess the extent to which lay perceptions of cervical cancer ...
Torres, Neusa F. Solomon, Vernon P. Middleton, Lyn E.
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Pharmacy Practice
Background: Antibiotics are the most frequently used medicines worldwide with most of the countries defining these as prescription-only medicines. Though, dispensing non-prescribed antibiotics represent one of the chief causal factors to the irrational use of antibiotics that paves the way to the development of antimicrobial resistance. Objective: ...
Agbadi, Pascal Nutor, Jerry John Darkwah, Ernest Duah, Henry Ofori Duodu, Precious Adade Alhassan, Robert Kaba Baltzell, Kimberly
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
We examined the factors associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) screening and developed a HIV screening prevalence surface map using spatial interpolation techniques to identify the geographical areas with the highest and lowest rates of HIV screening in Mozambique. We analyzed the cross-sectional 2015 Mozambique AIDS Indicator Surveys w...
Agbadi, Pascal Nutor, Jerry John Darkwah, Ernest Duah, Henry Ofori Duodu, Precious Adade Alhassan, Robert Kaba Baltzell, Kimberly
We examined the factors associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) screening and developed a HIV screening prevalence surface map using spatial interpolation techniques to identify the geographical areas with the highest and lowest rates of HIV screening in Mozambique. We analyzed the cross-sectional 2015 Mozambique AIDS Indicator Surveys w...
Cau, Boaventura M
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Journal of interpersonal violence
Violence against women is considered a serious public health problem. It is estimated that about 30% of women who have been in a relationship in the world have experienced some form of physical or sexual violence from their intimate partners. In sub-Saharan Africa, one of the regions in the world with the highest prevalence of intimate partner viol...
Cambaco, Olga Alonso Menendez, Yara Kinsman, John Sigaúque, Betuel Wertheim, Heiman Do, Nga Gyapong, Margaret John-Langba, Johannes Sevene, Esperança Munguambe, Khátia
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundAntibiotic misuse and other types of unnecessary use of antibiotics can contribute to accelerate the process of antibiotic resistance, which is considered a global concern, mostly affecting low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). In Mozambique there is limited evidence on community knowledge and practices regarding antibiotics and antibi...
