Browsing by Subject "global health"
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Age appropriate treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa
(2017)Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is a threat to TB control globally. South Africa has the third highest epidemic of DR-TB – following only Russia and China, two much more populous countries. South Africa has stringent ... -
Building a safety culture in global health: lessons from Guatemala.
(BMJ global health, 2018-01)Programmes to modify the safety culture have led to lasting improvements in patient safety and quality of care in high-income settings around the world, although their use in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) ... -
Development of a Toolbox for Automated, Speculum-Free, Self-Cervical Cancer Screening with Applications to Resource-Limited Settings
(2019)Cervical cancer is the fourth most common female cancer in the world, primarily caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). It about 570, 000 women annually, killing more than half of those affected. Approximately 90% of cervical ... -
Evaluation of the prognostic value of GDF-15, ABC-AF-bleeding score and ABC-AF-death score in patients with atrial fibrillation across different geographical areas.
(Open heart, 2021-03)<h4>Objectives</h4>Growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF-15) is a biomarker independently associated with bleeding and death in anticoagulated patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). GDF-15 is also used as one component ... -
Evaluation of Transvaginal Colposcopy as a Screening Device for Cervical Cancer among International Physicians
(2015)Cervical cancer disproportionately burdens women in low-resource settings, with over 85% of cervical cancer deaths occurring in developing countries due to lack of access to effective, high-quality screening programs that ... -
Exploring the Link Between Mental Health of Caregivers and the Orphaned and Abandoned Children They Care for: An Investigation in Delhi, India
(2020-04)Alternative care models for orphaned and abandoned children (OACs) have recently become a priority, especially in nations like India, with high populations of OACs. Despite the shift from institutional care towards a family-based ... -
Family and Provider Perceptions of Barriers to NGO-Based Pediatric Surgical Care in Guatemala
(2014)Background: Globally, there is often a gap between medical need and access to care, and this is particularly true for surgical care for children. In Guatemala, for instance, families frequently pursue care outside of the ... -
Fearonomics and the Role of Nigeria's Private Sector in the Nigerian Ebola Response
(2016)Background: Outbreaks of infectious diseases such as Ebola have dramatic economic impacts on affected nations due to significant direct costs and indirect costs, as well as increased expenditure by the government to meet ... -
Global Chronic Disease Research Training for Fellows
(2010-03)The growing interest in global chronic disease research is not matched by workforce capacity at present.1 The dearth of researchers with global chronic disease backgrounds and training has led to the creation of novel funding ... -
Increasing Family Planning Uptake in Kenya Through a Digital Marketplace: A Case Study in Human Centered Design
(2017)Despite the clear benefits to women, families, and society, family planning is not universal. In 2015,12 percent of married or in-union women who want to prevent or delay pregnancy were are not currently using a method of ... -
Indian Toilets and Tanzanian Mosquito Nets: Understanding Households' Environmental Health Decisions in Developing Countries
(2008-04-25)Diarrhea and malaria are two of the most devastating public health threats in the developing world, resulting in millions of childhood deaths each year. Part of the challenge in addressing these threats arises from the ... -
Injectable Ablation Technique for Cancer Treatment Across Clinical Settings
(2023)Cancer treatment regimens often include surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. Though the World Health Organization (WHO) Essential Medicines List includes many globally accessible chemotherapies, surgery and radiation are ... -
Investing in People: Health System Strengthening Through Education
(2011)Health system strengthening is now recognized as a pressing global health priority. Motivated and productive health workers are a critical component of health systems. Low and middle-income countries need many more health ... -
Modelling Heat Transfer and Pathogen Disinfection in a Biogas-Powered Self-Sanitizing Toilet
(2014)The problem of inadequate sanitation in less developed countries has dire health consequences such as diarrheal diseases. A household-scale sanitation system consisting of an anaerobic digester, heat exchanger, and biogas-powered ... -
Perceived Facilitators and Barriers to Implementing a Technology Supported Primary Care Program for the Management of Type 2 Diabetes and Kidney Disease in India
(2018)Background: Low-income countries often face the challenge of being incapable toprevent, treat, and manage diseases that are becoming increasingly prevalent over recent years.An example of this is the rise of chronic kidney ... -
Probing Pathogen and Host Proteins in Plasmodium Infection
(2018-04-23)Malaria is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths annually and is a challenge to treat due to growing resistance to medications by the disease-causing parasite, Plasmodium. Therefore, it is necessary to expand the ... -
Program Evaluation of BRAC Uganda’s Community Health Sensitization Program
(2012-04-20)BRAC Uganda provided mentors in 12 adolescent groups with megaphones and short health sensitization announcements as part of a community health sensitization program. BRAC instructed mentors to make daily announcements based ... -
Quantification of the pace of biological aging in humans through a blood test, the DunedinPoAm DNA methylation algorithm.
(eLife, 2020-05-05)Biological aging is the gradual, progressive decline in system integrity that occurs with advancing chronological age, causing morbidity and disability. Measurements of the pace of aging are needed as surrogate endpoints ... -
Reworking Efficacy: The Social Life of Medicine in Northern Togo
(2013-04-23)When considering the local, indigenous, “traditional” healing practices of non-Western societies, Euro-Americans often ask whether or not they are efficacious – “do they work?” Posed from a biomedical paradigm, the concept ...
