Vardavas, Constantine Odani, Satomi Nikitara, Katerina El Banhawi, Hania Kyriakos, Christina Taylor, Luke Becuwe, Nicholas
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Preventive medicine reports
The COVID-19 pandemic poses a threat to global health and security inciting governments with the responsibility to respond with measures that ensure the health and safety of their communities. We assessed public attitudes towards governmental actions to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in the G7 countries. Data were collected during 19th-21st March 202...
Lang, Adina Y Harrison, Cheryce L Barrett, Geraldine Hall, Jennifer A Moran, Lisa J Boyle, Jacqueline A
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Women and birth : journal of the Australian College of Midwives
The preconception period provides a significant opportunity to engage women in healthy behaviour change for improved maternal and child health outcomes. However, there is limited research exploring women's pregnancy planning in Australia. This study investigated associations between pregnancy planning, socio-demographics and preconception health be...
Bryant, Maria Collinson, Michelle Burton, Wendy Stamp, Elizabeth Schofield, Holly Copsey, Bethan Hartley, Suzanne Webb, Edward Farrin, Amanda J.
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Pilot and Feasibility Studies
Background Community-based obesity prevention interventions are often commissioned despite the limited evidence base. HENRY (Health, Exercise, Nutrition for the Really Young) is a programme delivered to parents of preschool children across the UK. Early evidence suggests that it may be effective, but a robust evaluation has not been conducted. We i...
Butt, Mohsin F. Younis, Sidra Wu, Zhenqiang Hadi, Syed H. Latif, Abdullah Martineau, Adrian R.
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BMC Infectious Diseases
Background Pakistan ranks amongst the top 20 highest burden tuberculosis (TB) countries in the world. Approximately 369,548 cases of TB (all forms) were notified in 2018, with an estimated incidence of 265 per 100,000 people per year. In other settings, TB has been shown to demonstrate seasonal variation, with higher incidence in the spring/summer ...
Rajpal, Sunil Kim, Julie Joe, William Kim, Rockli Subramanian, S. V.
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Scientific Reports
In India, districts serve as central policy unit for program development, administration and implementation. The one-size-fits-all approach based on average prevalence estimates at the district level fails to capture the substantial small area variation. In addition to district average, heterogeneity within districts should be considered in policy ...
Vasconcelos, Giovani L. Macêdo, Antônio M. S. Duarte-Filho, Gerson C. Brum, Arthur A. Ospina, Raydonal Almeida, Francisco A. G.
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Scientific Reports
We apply a versatile growth model, whose growth rate is given by a generalised beta distribution, to describe the complex behaviour of the fatality curves of the COVID-19 disease for several countries in Europe and North America. We show that the COVID-19 epidemic curves not only may present a subexponential early growth but can also exhibit a simi...
Björkstedt, Satu-Maarit Kautiainen, Hannu Tuomi, Ulla Gissler, Mika Pennanen, Pirjo Eriksson, Johan G. Laine, Merja K.
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Scientific Reports
Our aim was to evaluate maternal use of sedative drugs before, during, and after pregnancy and to assess the influence of use of these drugs on pregnancy outcomes. The study cohort (N = 6231) consists of all primiparous women, who lived in the city of Vantaa, Finland, and who delivered a singleton between 2009 and 2015. Data were obtained from Finn...
de Vlas, Sake J. Coffeng, Luc E.
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Scientific Reports
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the entire world causing substantial numbers of cases and deaths in most countries. Many have implemented nationwide stringent control to avoid overburdening the health care system. This has paralyzed economic and social activities and may continue to do so until the large-scale availability of a vaccine. We propo...
Anderson-Carpenter, Kaston D. Neal, Zachary P.
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Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
Racial disparities have been observed in the impacts of COVID-19 in the USA. In the present paper, we used a representative sample of adults in Michigan to examine differences in COVID-19 impacts on Blacks and Whites in four domains: direct, perceived, political, and behavioral. We found that in the initial wave of the outbreak in May 2020, Blacks ...
Ameyaw, Edward Kwabena Dickson, Kwamena Sekyi Adde, Kenneth Setorwu
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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
Background To achieve the Sustainable Development Goal target 3.1, the World Health Organisation recommends that all pregnant women receive antenatal care (ANC) from skilled providers, utilise the services of a skilled birth attendant at birth and receive their first postnatal care (PNC) within the first 24 h after birth. In this paper, we examined...
