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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Connor S Wagner, Michaela K Hitchner, Natalie M Plana, Carrie Z Morales, Lauren K Salinero, Carlos E Barrero, Matthew E Pontell, Scott P Bartlett, Jesse A Taylor, Jordan W Swanson
OBJECTIVE: Recent investigations focused on health equity have enumerated widespread disparities in cleft and craniofacial care. This review introduces a structured framework to aggregate findings and direct future research. DESIGN: Systematic review was performed to identify studies assessing health disparities based on race/ethnicity, payor type, income, geography, and education in cleft and craniofacial surgery in high-income countries (HICs) and low/middle-income countries (LMICs)...
May 3, 2024: Cleft Palate-craniofacial Journal
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REVIEW
Ingrid M Wilson, Bree Willoughby, Amany Tanyos, Kathryn Graham, Mary Walker, Anne-Marie Laslett, Leane Ramsoomar
BACKGROUND: Global evidence shows that men's harmful alcohol use contributes to intimate partner violence (IPV) and other harms. Yet, interventions that target alcohol-related harms to women are scarce. Quantitative analyses demonstrate links with physical and verbal aggression; however, the specific harms to women from men's drinking have not been well articulated, particularly from an international perspective. AIM: To document the breadth and nature of harms and impact of men's drinking on women...
December 31, 2024: Global Health Action
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Katerina Chapman, Sergio Torres-Rueda, Mutsumi Metzler, Bethany Young Holt, Elijah Kahn-Woods, Douglas Thornton, Gabriela B Gomez
Product development is a high-risk undertaking, especially so when investments are prioritized for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where markets may be smaller, fragile, and resource-constrained. New HIV prevention technologies, such as the dapivirine vaginal ring (DVR) and long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA), are being introduced to these markets with one indication, meeting different needs of groups such as adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) and female sex workers (FSWs) in settings with high HIV burden...
2024: Front Reprod Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hafiz Sohail Ahmad, Shahryar Zafer, Haseeb Mehmood Qadri, Asif Bashir
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
2024: Brain Spine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Diana Banaru, Dana Boyd, Melanie Halevy, Angel Oliver, Kayla Orsat-Parker, Marie Brien, Dinesh Krishna, Franzina Coutinho, Tatiana Ogourtsova
AIM: To investigate the social capital of families with children with neurodevelopmental disabilities in South India receiving a community-based early intervention (Enabling Inclusion®) program and to explore determinants and associations between social capital and program duration, socio-demographic factors, family empowerment, and caregiver burden. METHOD: Using purposive sampling in a cross-sectional study design, 217 families (n = 71 received short Enabling Inclusion [<5 months]; n = 146 received long Enabling Inclusion [>9 months]) were recruited and completed the Short Adapted Social Capital Tool (SASCAT: cognitive, structural), measures of family empowerment, and caregiver strain...
May 2, 2024: Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Shiqi Liu, Asami Anzai, Hiroshi Nishiura
BACKGROUND: The Japanese government has instituted border control measures against COVID-19, including entry and exit screening of people arriving from overseas. We sought to evaluate the effectiveness of the exit screening policy in Japan in reducing the risk of importing COVID-19 cases among travelers from Asian and Pacific countries. METHODS: The study period was stratified based on the timing of exit screening: (i) the control period (the pre-exit screening period from 25 October 2020 to 16 January 2021), (ii) the time period with the Alpha variant from 17 January to 10 April 2021, and (iii) the time period with the Delta variant from 2 May to 2 October 2021...
May 2, 2024: BMC Infectious Diseases
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hasina Akhter Chowdhury, Anju E Joham, Ashraful Kabir, A K M Fazlur Rahman, Liaquat Ali, Cheryce L Harrison, Baki Billah
BACKGROUND: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a global public health crisis impacting low-income and middle-income countries such as Bangladesh. While self-management is encouraged for individuals with T2DM, there is a significant lack of knowledge regarding the factors of facilitators, barriers and expectations associated with T2DM self-management in Bangladesh. This research aims to investigate the potential elements that support, impede and are anticipated in the effective practice of self-management for T2DM in rural areas of Bangladesh...
May 2, 2024: BMJ Open
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Roy Small, Rachel Nugent, Douglas Webb, Brian Hutchinson, Garrison Spencer, Carrie Ngongo, Roman Chestnov, Dudley Tarlton
BACKGROUND: More than 80% of the world's 1.3 billion tobacco users live in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), where progress to address tobacco and its harms has been slow. The perception that tobacco control detracts from economic priorities has impeded progress. The Secretariat of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is leading the FCTC 2030 project, which includes technical assistance to LMICs to analyse the economic costs of tobacco use and the benefits of tobacco control...
May 2, 2024: Tobacco Control
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Garrison Spencer, Rachel Nugent, Nathan Mann, Brian Hutchinson, Carrie Ngongo, Dudley Tarlton, Roy Small, Douglas Webb
BACKGROUND: Across time, geographies and country income levels, smoking prevalence is highest among people with lower incomes. Smoking causes further impoverishment of those on the lower end of the income spectrum through expenditure on tobacco and greater risk of ill health. METHODS: This paper summarises the results of investment case equity analyses for 19 countries, presenting the effects of increased taxation on smoking prevalence, health and expenditures. We disaggregate the number of people who smoke, smoking-attributable mortality and cigarette expenditures using smoking prevalence data by income quintile...
May 2, 2024: Tobacco Control
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nathan Mann, Garrison Spencer, Brian Hutchinson, Carrie Ngongo, Dudley Tarlton, Douglas Webb, Daniel Grafton, Rachel Nugent
BACKGROUND: Tobacco control investment cases analyse the health and socioeconomic costs of tobacco use and the benefits that can be achieved from implementing measures outlined in the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). They are intended to provide policy-makers and other stakeholders with country-level evidence that is relevant, useful and responsive to national priorities and policy context. METHODS: This paper synthesises findings from investment cases conducted in Armenia, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Chad, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Eswatini, Georgia, Ghana, Jordan, Laos, Madagascar, Myanmar, Nepal, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Tunisia and Zambia...
May 2, 2024: Tobacco Control
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rachel Nugent, Brian Hutchinson, Nathan Mann, Carrie Ngongo, Garrison Spencer, Daniel Grafton, Roy Small
BACKGROUND: This article describes an investment case methodology for tobacco control that was applied in 36 countries between 2017 and 2022. METHODS: The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) investment cases compared two scenarios: a base case that calculated the tobacco-attributable mortality, morbidity and economic costs with status quo tobacco control, and an intervention scenario that described changes in those same outcomes from fully implementing and enforcing a variety of proven, evidence-based tobacco control policies and interventions...
May 2, 2024: Tobacco Control
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EDITORIAL
John A Tauras
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May 2, 2024: Tobacco Control
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kyle R Busse, Nanette L Mayol, Alice S Ammerman, Christy L Avery, Stephanie L Martin, Linda S Adair
BACKGROUND: Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are associated with elevated risk of non-communicable disease, but little is known about UPF intake and the individual-, household-, and community-level factors associated with it among adolescents in low- or middle-income countries. OBJECTIVES: We estimated the association of UPF intake across adolescence with sociodemographic characteristics and maternal UPF intake in a Filipino cohort. METHODS: Data were from four waves (1994-2005) of the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey (n=2,068); participants were 11, 15, 18, and 21 years old...
April 30, 2024: Journal of Nutrition
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ikechukwu Adigweme, Mohammed Yisa, Michael Ooko, Edem Akpalu, Andrew Bruce, Simon Donkor, Lamin B Jarju, Baba Danso, Anthony Mendy, David Jeffries, Anne Segonds-Pichon, Abdoulie Njie, Stephen Crooke, Elina El-Badry, Hilary Johnstone, Michael Royals, James L Goodson, Mark R Prausnitz, Devin V McAllister, Paul A Rota, Sebastien Henry, Ed Clarke
BACKGROUND: Microneedle patches (MNPs) have been ranked as the highest global priority innovation for overcoming immunisation barriers in low-income and middle-income countries. This trial aimed to provide the first data on the tolerability, safety, and immunogenicity of a measles and rubella vaccine (MRV)-MNP in children. METHODS: This single-centre, phase 1/2, double-blind, double-dummy, randomised, active-controlled, age de-escalation trial was conducted in The Gambia...
April 29, 2024: Lancet
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Slavica Kochovska, Rajam Iyer, Sungwon Chang, Diana Ferreira, Vanessa N Brunelli, Irina Kinchin, Danny J Eckert, Joseph Clark, Jacob Sandberg, Magnus Ekström, David Currow, Sujeet Rajan
There are no known estimates of the prevalence, severity and impacts from breathlessness in low- and middle-income countries. This study aimed to explore the prevalence, severity, self-attributed underlying conditions and impacts of breathlessness limiting exertion in community-dwelling adults in India. This exploratory, population-based online survey recruited a pre-planned sample of 3,000 adult respondents stratified by age, sex and rurality (quotas as per the 2011 Indian National Census). Measures included: demographics; breathlessness limiting exertion (modified Medical Research [mMRC] scale); health-related quality of life (EQ-5D-5L); and disability (World Health Organisation's Disability Assessment Schedule 2...
2024: PLOS Glob Public Health
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COMPARATIVE STUDY
Ying Li, XiaoGuang Li, Haseeb Ahmad
Given the importance of ICT diffusion in the development of the financial sector, this analysis is an effort to analyze the transmission channels between the two in high-income and middle and low-income economies over 2001-2019. We have used three variables, including the ICT index, individuals using the internet, and mobile subscribers, to represent ICT and three indices, including the financial development index, financial institution index, and financial market index, to make our results reliable and robust...
2024: PloS One
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MULTICENTER STUDY
Suman Kanungo, Uttaran Bhattacharjee, Aslesh O Prabhakaran, Rakesh Kumar, Prabu Rajkumar, Sumit Dutt Bhardwaj, Alok Kumar Chakrabarti, Girish Kumar C P, Varsha Potdar, Byomkesh Manna, Ritvik Amarchand, Avinash Choudekar, Giridara Gopal, Krishna Sarda, Kathryn E Lafond, Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner, Siddhartha Saha, Lalit Dar, Anand Krishnan
BACKGROUND: Limited data exists regarding risk factors for adverse outcomes in older adults hospitalized with Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) in low- and middle-income countries such as India. This multisite study aimed to assess outcomes and associated risk factors among adults aged ≥60 years hospitalized with pneumonia. METHODS: Between December 2018 and March 2020, we enrolled ≥60-year-old adults admitted within 48 hours for CAP treatment across 16 public and private facilities in four sites...
2024: PloS One
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Aryan Gupta, Justin Yu, Elio J Challita, Janet Standeven, M Saad Bhamla
High-cost DNA extraction procedures pose significant challenges for budget-constrained laboratories. To address this, we introduce OpenCell, an economical, open-source, 3-in-1 laboratory device that combines the functionalities of a bead homogenizer, a microcentrifuge, and a vortex mixer. OpenCell utilizes modular attachments that magnetically connect to a central rotating brushless motor. This motor couples to an epicyclic gearing mechanism, enabling efficient bead homogenization, vortex mixing, and centrifugation within one compact unit...
2024: PloS One
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Flavia Ismael, Artur Ramos, Rafael Erik de Menezes, Regina Maura Zetone Grespam, Cibele Cristine Remondes Sequeira, Jair de Jesus Mari, João Mauricio Castaldelli-Maia
São Caetano do Sul, a city in southeastern Brazil, boasts exemplary social indicators and healthcare services, with a population of 162,763 and a density of 9,736.03 inhabitants/km². Allocating 25% of its budget to healthcare, the city's mental healthcare services adhere to the National Mental Health Policy. Structured services include a CAPS-II, CAPS-AD, outpatient teams, and teams in various locations. Initiatives since 2000 include inaugurating a CAPS-AD in 2006, a psychiatric emergency service in 2010, and a CAPS-II in 2016, relocating CAPS-AD in 2019, and establishing the Cuca Legal Project in 2022...
May 2, 2024: Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
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REVIEW
Raj Kalaria, Gladys Maestre, Simin Mahinrad, Daisy M Acosta, Rufus Olusola Akinyemi, Suvarna Alladi, Ricardo F Allegri, Faheem Arshad, David Oluwasayo Babalola, Olusegun Baiyewu, Thomas H Bak, Tarek Bellaj, David K Brodie-Mends, Maria C Carrillo, Kaputu-Kalala-Malu Celestin, Albertino Damasceno, Ranil Karunamuni de Silva, Rohan de Silva, Mamuka Djibuti, Anna Jane Dreyer, Ratnavalli Ellajosyula, Temitope H Farombi, Robert P Friedland, Noe Garza, Antoine Gbessemehlan, Eliza Eleni-Zacharoula Georgiou, Ishtar Govia, Lea T Grinberg, Maëlenn Guerchet, Seid Ali Gugssa, Joy Louise Gumikiriza-Onoria, Eef Hogervorst, Michael Hornberger, Agustin Ibanez, Masafumi Ihara, Thomas Gregor Issac, Linus Jönsson, Wambui M Karanja, Joseph H Lee, Iracema Leroi, Gill Livingston, Facundo Francisco Manes, Lingani Mbakile-Mahlanza, Bruce L Miller, Christine Wayua Musyimi, Victoria N Mutiso, Noeline Nakasujja, David M Ndetei, Sam Nightingale, Gabriela Novotni, Primrose Nyamayaro, Solomon Nyame, Julius A Ogeng'o, Adesola Ogunniyi, Maira Okada de Oliveira, Njideka U Okubadejo, Martin Orrell, Stella-Maria Paddick, Margaret A Pericak-Vance, Zvezdan Pirtosek, Felix Claude Victor Potocnik, Rema Raman, Mie Rizig, Mónica Rosselli, Marufjon Salokhiddinov, Claudia L Satizabal, Diego Sepulveda-Falla, Sudha Seshadri, Claire E Sexton, Ingmar Skoog, Peter H St George-Hyslop, Claudia Kimie Suemoto, Prekshy Thapa, Chinedu Theresa Udeh-Momoh, Victor Valcour, Jeffery M Vance, Mathew Varghese, Jaime H Vera, Richard W Walker, Henrik Zetterberg, Yared Z Zewde, Ozama Ismail
Two of every three persons living with dementia reside in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The projected increase in global dementia rates is expected to affect LMICs disproportionately. However, the majority of global dementia care costs occur in high-income countries (HICs), with dementia research predominantly focusing on HICs. This imbalance necessitates LMIC-focused research to ensure that characterization of dementia accurately reflects the involvement and specificities of diverse populations...
May 2, 2024: Alzheimer's & Dementia: the Journal of the Alzheimer's Association
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