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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lucas Vinícius de Lima, Gabriel Pavinati, Pedro Augusto Bossonario, Aline Aparecida Monroe, Daniele Maria Pelissari, Kleydson Bonfim Andrade Alves, Gabriela Tavares Magnabosco
OBJECTIVE: To analyze the geospatialization of tuberculosis-HIV coinfection in Brazil, from 2010 to 2021, and the correlation with socioeconomic, housing, and health indicators. METHODS: An ecological study of Brazilian municipalities and states, with data from HIV and tuberculosis information systems, previously reported by the Ministry of Health. The crude and smoothed coefficients were calculated by the local empirical Bayesian method of incidence of coinfection per 100,000 inhabitants in the population aged between 18 and 59 years...
2024: Revista de Saúde Pública
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Jessica L Dozier, Anne E Burke, Hayley V McMahon, Blair O Berger, Madeline Quasebarth, Carolyn Sufrin, Suzanne O Bell
OBJECTIVE: To understand the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on abortion care-seeking in Maryland, a state with Medicaid coverage for abortion, high service availability, and laws supporting abortion rights. METHODS: We conducted semi-structured telephone interviews with 15 women who had an abortion between January 2021 and March 2022 at a hospital-based clinic in a mid-sized Maryland city. We purposively recruited participants with varied pandemic financial impacts...
April 24, 2024: Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Parisa A ShamaeiZadeh, Carmen Villamizar Jaimes, Maria Deloria Knoll, Emmanuelle Espié, Rebecca E Chandler
BACKGROUND: Evidence of COVID-19 vaccine safety relied upon the global vaccine monitoring infrastructure due to shortened clinical development timelines and emergency use licensure. Differences in AVSS capacity between high-income countries (HICs) versus low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) were known prior to the pandemic. OBJECTIVE: To assess the global landscape of COVID-19 vaccine AVSS activities to identify gaps in safety evidence generation across vaccine products and populations with a focus on LMICs...
June 2024: Vaccine: X
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Alina Kuandyk Sabitova, Miguel-Angel Ortega, Magashi Joseph Ntegwa, Antonio Sarria-Santamera
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a multifaceted impact on maternal and child services and adversely influenced pregnancy outcomes. This systematic review aims to determine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on access to and delivery of maternal and child healthcare services in low- and middle-income countries. METHODS: The review was reported following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines. A primary search of electronic databases was performed using a combination of search terms related to the following areas of interest: "impact' AND 'COVID-19' AND 'maternal and child health services' AND 'low- and middle-income countries...
2024: Frontiers in Public Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Babatunde Adelekan, Lanre Ikuteyijo, Erika Goldson, Zubaida Abubakar, Oluwatomi Adepoju, Olaitan Oyedun, Gbenga Adebayo, Andat Dasogot, Ulla Mueller, Adesegun O Fatusi
BACKGROUND: COVID-19 pandemic widely disrupted health services provision, especially during the lockdown period, with females disproportionately affected. Very little is known about alternative healthcare sources used by women when access to conventional health services became challenging. This study examined the experiences of women and adolescent girls regarding access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services during the COVID-19 lockdown in Nigeria and their choices of alternative healthcare sources...
April 23, 2024: BMC Public Health
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Huayong Chen, Mimi Xiao
BACKGROUND: Influenza-like illness (ILI) imposes a significant burden on patients, employers and society. However, there is no analysis and prediction at the hospital level in Chongqing. We aimed to characterize the seasonality of ILI, examine age heterogeneity in visits, and predict ILI peaks and assess whether they affect hospital operations. METHODS: The multiplicative decomposition model was employed to decompose the trend and seasonality of ILI, and the Seasonal Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average with exogenous factors (SARIMAX) model was used for the trend and short-term prediction of ILI...
April 23, 2024: BMC Infectious Diseases
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Yingfeng Lu, Qinghui Chen, Shaolong Ren, Youyi Zhang, Liping Yi, Chen Qian, Jiaming Shen, Xiaofei Liu, Miao Jiang, Biying Wang, Jian Song, Xuejun Shao, Tao Zhang, Jianmei Tian, Genming Zhao
BACKGROUND: Nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) targeted at SARS-CoV-2 have remarkably affected the circulation of other respiratory pathogens, including respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). This study aimed to assess the changes in epidemiological and clinical characteristics of RSV infections in hospitalized children before and during the pandemic in Suzhou, China. METHODS: We prospectively enrolled children aged < 18 years who were hospitalized in Soochow University Affiliated Children's Hospital with acute lower respiratory infection (ALRIs) from January 2018 to July 2022...
April 2024: Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses
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Camryn Garrett, Atefeh Aghaei, Abhishek Aggarwal, Shan Qiao
BACKGROUND: The extant literature suggests that women are more vulnerable to COVID-19 infection and at higher risk for developing long COVID. Due to pandemic mitigation recommendations, social media was relied upon for various aspects of daily life, likely with differences of usage between genders. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to explore the role and functions of social media in the lives of long-hauler women. METHODS: Participants were purposively snowball-sampled from an online health promotion intervention for long-hauler women with COVID-19 from March to June 2021...
April 23, 2024: JMIR Human Factors
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Rugare Mugumbate, Vinod Gopaldasani, Paul Kidson, Jioji Ravulo
This paper investigates the impact on Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities in Australia of government and community responses to the coronavirus pandemic of 2019 in the domains of education, employment, housing, social connectedness, and public health communication. Most of the examples are drawn from the state of New South Wales. In Australia, CALD refers to people from countries not classified as main English speaking. Most CALD communities reported in this article are from refugee backgrounds, are recently arrived migrants or do not use English in most of their communication...
April 23, 2024: Social Work in Public Health
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Lais Ceschini Machado, Filipe Zimmer Dezordi, Gustavo Barbosa de Lima, Raul Emídio de Lima, Lilian Caroliny Amorim Silva, Leandro de Mattos Pereira, Alexandre Freitas da Silva, Antonio Marinho da Silva Neto, André Luiz Sá de Oliveira, Anderson da Costa Armstrong, Rômulo Pessoa-E-Silva, Rodrigo Moraes Loyo, Barbara de Oliveira Silva, Anderson Rodrigues de Almeida, Maira Galdino da Rocha Pitta, Francisco de Assis da Silva Santos, Marilda Mendonça Siqueira, Paola Cristina Resende, Edson Delatorre, Felipe Gomes Naveca, Fabio Miyajima, Tiago Gräf, Rodrigo Feliciano do Carmo, Michelly Cristiny Pereira, Tulio de Lima Campos, Matheus Filgueira Bezerra, Marcelo Henrique Santos Paiva, Gabriel da Luz Wallau
SARS-CoV-2 virus emerged as a new threat to humans and spread around the world, leaving a large death toll. As of January 2023, Brazil is among the countries with the highest number of registered deaths. Nonpharmacological and pharmacological interventions have been heterogeneously implemented in the country, which, associated with large socioeconomic differences between the country regions, has led to distinct virus spread dynamics. Here, we investigate the spatiotemporal dispersion of SARS-CoV-2 lineages in the Pernambuco state (Northeast Brazil) throughout the distinct epidemiological scenarios that unfolded in the first 2 years of the pandemic...
April 23, 2024: Microbiology Spectrum
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Kaspar Staub, Tala Ballouz, Milo Puhan
Objectives: Some people do not fully recover from an acute viral infection and experience persistent symptoms or incomplete recovery for months or even years. This is not unique to the SARS-CoV-2 virus and history shows that post-viral conditions like post COVID-19 condition, also referred to as Long Covid, are not new. In particular, during and after pandemics caused by respiratory viruses in which large parts of the population were infected or exposed, professional and public attention was increased, not least because of the large number of people affected...
2024: Public Health Reviews
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Benjamin Ukert, Mark Lawley, Hye-Chung Kum
BACKGROUND: Utilization of telemedicine care for vulnerable and low income populations, especially individuals with mental health conditions, is not well understood. The goal is to describe the utilization and regional disparities of telehealth care by mental health status in Texas. Texas Medicaid claims data were analyzed from September 1, 2012, to August 31, 2018 for Medicaid patients enrolled due to a disability. METHODS: We analyzed the growth in telemedicine care based on urban, suburban, and rural, and mental health status...
April 22, 2024: BMC Health Services Research
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Rosalba Miceli, Hanna Eriksson, Giuseppe Lo Russo, Salvatore Alfieri, Maria Moksnes Bjaanæs, Filippo Pietrantonio, Loris De Cecco, Arsela Prelaj, Claudia Proto, Johan Franzén, Deirdre McDonnell, José Javier Berenguer Pina, Teresa Beninato, Laura Mazzeo, Patrizia Giannatempo, Elena Verzoni, John Crown, Åslaug Helland, Alexander Eustace
BACKGROUND: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have significantly improved outcomes in various cancers. ICI treatment is associated with the incidence of immune-related adverse events (irAEs) which can affect any organ. Data on irAEs occurrence in relation to sex- differentiation and their association with gender-specific factors are limited. AIMS: The primary objective of the G-DEFINER study is to compare the irAEs incidence in female and male patients who undergo ICI treatment...
April 21, 2024: Acta Oncologica
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Catherine Wilson, Emma C Thomson
This opinion piece emphasies the critical role of translational research in enhancing the UK's resilience against future pandemics. The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the lifesaving potential of scientific innovation, including genomic tracking of SARS-CoV-2, vaccine development, data linkage, modelling, and new treatments. These advances, achieved through collaborations between academic institutions, industry, government, public health bodies, and the NHS, occurred at an unprecedented pace. However, the UK's pandemic preparedness planning, as reflected in the 2016 Exercise Cygnus report, notably lacked provision for scientific innovation...
March 2024: Future Healthcare Journal
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Dara Schlueter, Yamisha Bermudez, Karen F Debrot, Leslie W Ross, Manal Masud, Stephanie Melillo, Peggy A Hannon, Jacqueline W Miller
OBJECTIVE: During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP) funded programs (recipients) experienced significant declines in breast and cervical cancer screening volume. However, 6 recipients maintained breast and/or cervical cancer screening volume during July-December 2020 despite their states' high COVID-19 test percent positivity. We led a qualitative multi-case study to explore these recipients' actions that may have contributed to screening volume maintenance...
April 30, 2024: Heliyon
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
The Three Rs of Fear Messaging in a Global Pandemic: Recommendations, Ramifications and Remediation.
Laura Dodsworth, Gemma Ahearne, Robert Dingwall, Lucy Easthope, Michael Riordan, Ellen Townsend
INTRODUCTION: We consider the UK Independent Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours' (SPI-B) support for fear messaging during the global COVID-19 pandemic, evaluate the consequences and make recommendations for the future. ANALYSIS: Using evidence from published documents, we show that SPI-B supported the use of fear messaging during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is inconsistent with the extant psychological literature and contrary to the disaster planning literature...
2024: Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Vivien Kin Yi Chan, Yi Chai, Sandra Sau Man Chan, Hao Luo, Mark Jit, Martin Knapp, David Makram Bishai, Michael Yuxuan Ni, Ian Chi Kei Wong, Xue Li
BACKGROUND: Most studies on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on depression burden focused on the earlier pandemic phase specific to lockdowns, but the longer-term impact of the pandemic is less well-studied. In this population-based cohort study, we examined the short-term and long-term impacts of COVID-19 on depression incidence and healthcare service use among patients with depression. METHODS: Using the territory-wide electronic medical records in Hong Kong, we identified all patients aged ≥ 10 years with new diagnoses of depression from 2014 to 2022...
April 22, 2024: BMC Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Koji Yasuda, Masaki Naito, Koki Kawakami, Ayana Kishimoto, Kimimasa Narita, Yoshihiro Moriwaki, Jun Otani
BACKGROUND: The novel coronavirus disease(corona virus disease 2019: COVID-19)has calmed down worldwide, and the severity of the disease is decreasing. On the other hand, due to the emergence of strain mutations, the number of infected people shows a wavy course. I have experienced a case of gastric cancer that underwent chemotherapy including an immune checkpoint inhibitors(ICI) early after COVID-19, so I will report it including a discussion. CASE: A 71-year-old man...
April 2024: Gan to Kagaku Ryoho. Cancer & Chemotherapy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sophie Logan, Christine A Riedy, Kadriye Hargett, Negin Katebi
BACKGROUND: Did the COVID-19 pandemic affect orthodontists' use of remote monitoring platforms? The goal of this research was to examine orthodontists' experiences implementing remote monitoring platforms before, during, and after the initial COVID-19 lockdown. METHODS: In this descriptive cross-sectional survey study, an electronic, anonymous questionnaire consisting of a series of 31 short-answer and multiple-choice questions was administered to an international sampling of practicing orthodontists...
April 20, 2024: BMC Oral Health
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BACKGROUND: Detailed, comprehensive, and timely reporting on population health by underlying causes of disability and premature death is crucial to understanding and responding to complex patterns of disease and injury burden over time and across age groups, sexes, and locations. The availability of disease burden estimates can promote evidence-based interventions that enable public health researchers, policy makers, and other professionals to implement strategies that can mitigate diseases...
April 15, 2024: Lancet
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