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Emergency Preparedness for the Health Sector and Communities Challenges and the Way Forward. Issues, Conclusions, and Recommendations

Marvin L. Birnbaum World Health Organization (WHO) (2006)

Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders of early onset

J. Starling; I. Feijo IACAPAP (2012) C2

Other disorders Chapter H.5

Prevalence of TB/HIV Co-Infection in Countries Except China: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

J. Gao; P. Zheng; Hua Fu PLOS One; PMC (2013) CC

School of Public Health, Fudan University, Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety, Ministry of Education, Shanghai, China PLOS ONE | www.plosone.org 1, May 2013 | Volume 8 | Issue 5 | e64915

Guías de diagnóstico, tratamiento y prevención de la tuberculosis

Palmero, D.; Muñiz F. J., de Casado G. C. , et al. (2011) CC

Humanitarian Health Ethics Analysis Tool: HEAT Handbook

Fraser V, Hunt MR, Schwartz L, and de Laat S (2014)

You can download the handbook, worksheets and quick reference cards from the website! The HHEAT is an ethical analysis tool designed to help humanitarian healthcare workers make ethical decisions. It consists of 3 components: (1) a summary card highlighting key questions, (2) a handbook providing a... more

Spirituality and Spiritual Care in Nursing

Dalutira, G.D.; J.P.Valenzuela and E. Palaganas (2020) CC

A rapid advice guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infected pneumonia (standard version)

Y.-H. Jin; L. Cai; Z.-S. Cheng; et al. Military Medical Research; Bio Med Central (2020) CC

Jin et al. Military Medical Research (2020) 7:4 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40779-020-0233-6 Position Article und Guideline

Youth act for safe abortion: A training guide for future health professionals

Börjesson, E., Pedersen, K., & Villa Torres, L. Ipas (2014)

This guide is a resource for future health professionals who want to learn about and engage in abortion issues. Abortion is a critical but often neglected area of women’s rights, women’s health and health science education. The guide ences students was developed for health sciences students -inc... more

Ebola Virus Disease in Africa: Epidemiology and health facility related transmission

Shears, Paul, T.J.D. O'Dempsey (2015)

A review of current literature and up date data from the field, April 2015. This report has been published in part in J Hosp Inf. 2015;90:1-9. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=ebola+nosocomial+shears

More time or more money to improve nutrition in Benin Republic?

M. C. D. N. Vodouhe, L. Fakambi Institut National des Recherches Agricoles du Bénin (INRAB) (2015) C2

Children malnutrition eradication in developing countries is a real challenge, especially among vulnerable population. There are so many effort towards women (who are the main care providers) socio-economic situation in order to improve their children nutrition. This article aims to identify the ... more

Pedoman Tatalaksana Dislipidemia

Erwinanto, A. Santoso, J. N. E. Putranto, et al., Indonesian Heart Association (2013) C1

Guidelines for Management and Treatment of Dyslipidemia in Indonesia

Epidemiological and clinical aspects of urogenital schistosomiasis in women, in Burkina Faso, West Africa

Zida, A.; Briegel, J.; Kabré, I. et al. BioMed Central (2016) CC

Human schistosomiasis, a parasitic and often chronic illness, is one of the major neglected tropical diseases worldwide. It is estimated that 240 million people suffer from schistosomiasis, with more than 200000 fatalities recorded each year. Schistosomiasis is caused by an infection of the blood fl... more

Infrastructure, policy and regulatory interventions to increase physical activity to prevent cardiovascular diseases and diabetes: a systematic review

Durão, S.; Burns, J.; Schmidt, B. et al. BMC Public Health (2023) CC

Background Noncommunicable diseases are major contributors to morbidity and mortality worldwide. Modifying the risk factors for these conditions, such as physical inactivity, is thus essential. Addressing the context or circumstances in which physical activity occurs may promote physical activity a...t a population level. We assessed the effects of infrastructure, policy or regulatory interventions for increasing physical activity. Methods We searched PubMed, Embase and clinicaltrials.gov to identify randomised controlled trials (RCTs), controlled before-after (CBAs) studies, and interrupted time series (ITS) studies assessing population-level infrastructure or policy and regulatory interventions to increase physical activity. We were interested in the effects of these interventions on physical activity, body weight and related measures, blood pressure, and CVD and type 2 diabetes morbidity and mortality, and on other secondary outcomes. Screening and data extraction was done in duplicate, with risk of bias was using an adapted Cochrane risk of bias tool. Due to high levels of heterogeneity, we synthesised the evidence based on effect direction. Results We included 33 studies, mostly conducted in high-income countries. Of these, 13 assessed infrastructure changes to green or other spaces to promote physical activity and 18 infrastructure changes to promote active transport. The effects of identified interventions on physical activity, body weight and blood pressure varied across studies (very low certainty evidence); thus, we remain very uncertain about the effects of these interventions. Two studies assessed the effects of policy and regulatory interventions; one provided free access to physical activity facilities and showed that it may have beneficial effects on physical activity (low certainty evidence). The other provided free bus travel for youth, with intervention effects varying across studies (very low certainty evidence). Conclusions Evidence from 33 studies assessing infrastructure, policy and regulatory interventions for increasing physical activity showed varying results. The certainty of the evidence was mostly very low, due to study designs included and inconsistent findings between studies. Despite this drawback, the evidence indicates that providing access to physical activity facilities may be beneficial; however this finding is based on only one study. Implementation of these interventions requires full consideration of contextual factors, especially in low resource settings. more

Primary and Secondary Prevention of Ischemic Stroke

Paciaroni, M.; Bogousslavsky, J. European Neurology (2010) CC

Prevention of stroke and transient ischemic attack includes both conventional approaches to vascular risk factor management (blood pressure lowering, cholesterol reduction with statins, smoking cessation and antiplatelet therapy) and more specific interventions, such as carotid revascularization or... more

A household-based community health worker programme for non-communicable disease, malnutrition, tuberculosis, HIV and maternal health: a stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trial in Neno Distr

Wroe, E.B.; Nhlema, B.; Dunbar, E.L. et al. BMJ Global Health (2021) CC

Background: Community health worker (CHW) programmes are a valuable component of primary care in resource-poor settings. The evidence supporting their effectiveness generally shows improvements in disease-specific outcomes relative to the absence of a CHW programme. In this study, we evaluated expan... more

Migration of South African health workers: the extent to which financial considerations influence internal flows and external movements

George, G., Atujuna, M. & Gow, J. BMC Health Services Research (2013) CC

Research Article