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      Global HealthMedicinePneumoniaLow and Middle Income Countries
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      GeographyDemographyEpidemiologyGlobal Health
Background Monitoring levels and trends in premature mortality is crucial to understanding how societies can address prominent sources of early death. The Global Burden of Disease 2016 Study (GBD 2016) provides a comprehensive assessment... more
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      DemographyClimate ChangeAfricaGlobal Health
Detailed assessments of mortality patterns, particularly age-specific mortality, represent a crucial input that enables health systems to target interventions to specific populations. Understanding how all-cause mortality has changed with... more
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      DemographyDeathGlobal HealthDeveloping Countries
National levels of personal health-care access and quality can be approximated by measuring mortality rates from causes that should not be fatal in the presence of effective medical care (ie, amenable mortality). Previous analyses of... more
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      GeographyDeathHealth CareGlobal Health
Background: This study analyzes the current and evolving physical rehabilitation needs of BRICS nations (Brazil, Russian Federation, India, China, South Africa), a coalition of large emergent economies increasingly important for global... more
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      GeographyRehabilitationGlobal HealthChina
The diagnosis of ocular allergy, which has become a real public health problem occurring in 25% of the general population and continues to rise, requires allergic testing. Skin and blood tests combined with interviewing the patient... more
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      MedicineAllergensOptometry and OphthalmologyConjunctivitis
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      PovertyGlobal HealthSocial JusticeSocial Determinants of Health
Background Diarrhoeal diseases claim more than 1 million lives annually and are a leading cause of death in children younger than 5 years. Comprehensive global estimates of the diarrhoeal disease burden for specific age groups of children... more
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      Environmental HealthRisk assessmentMedicineRisk Assessment
Background Population estimates underpin demographic and epidemiological research and are used to track progress on numerous international indicators of health and development. To date, internationally available estimates of population... more
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      GeographyDemographyEpidemiologyGlobal Health
Background Efforts to establish the 2015 baseline and monitor early implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) highlight both great potential for and threats to improving health by 2030. To fully deliver on the SDG aim... more
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      Sustainable DevelopmentGlobal HealthMedicineLancet
Understanding global variation in firearm mortality rates could guide prevention policies and interventions. To estimate mortality due to firearm injury deaths from 1990 to 2016 in 195 countries and territories. This study used... more
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      DemographyHomicideGlobal HealthGeneral Internal Medicine
Background Monitoring levels and trends in premature mortality is crucial to understanding how societies can address prominent sources of early death. The Global Burden of Disease 2016 Study (GBD 2016) provides a comprehensive assessment... more
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      DemographyClimate ChangeAfricaGlobal Health
Although the rising pandemic of obesity has received major attention in many countries, the effects of this attention on trends and the disease burden of obesity remain uncertain. We analyzed data from 68.5 million persons to assess the... more
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      EpidemiologyObesityGlobal HealthCancer
The burden of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remains unclear in many regions of the world. The GBD (Global Burden of Disease) 2015 study integrated data on disease incidence, prevalence, and mortality to produce consistent, up-to-date... more
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      DemographyCardiologyEpidemiologyGlobal Health
The Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factor study 2013 (GBD 2013) is the first of a series of annual updates of the GBD. Risk factor quantification, particularly of modifiable risk factors, can help to identify emerging... more
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      GeographyHealth BehaviorObesityGlobal Health
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      DemographyEpistemologyEpidemiologyDisability Studies
Background Alcohol use is a leading risk factor for death and disability, but its overall association with health remains complex given the possible protective effects of moderate alcohol consumption on some conditions. With our... more
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      Global HealthEnvironmental HealthGeneral Internal MedicineAdolescent
The importance of this paper is based on the change occurring in industries outside of healthcare based on the emergence of new capabilities and processes. Healthcare and public health are also undergoing changes to their delivery... more
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      BusinessRuralVaccinesHealth Care
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      SurgeryGlobal HealthCancerDeveloping Countries
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      SurgeryGlobal HealthSurgical OncologyMedicine
Appendicitis is the most common abdominal surgical emergency worldwide. Differences between high- and low-income settings in the availability of laparoscopic appendectomy, alternative management choices, and outcomes are poorly described.... more
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      SurgeryGlobal HealthGlobal Health PolicyMedicine
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      Global HealthVirologyMedicinePublic health systems and services research
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      PsychologyGlobal HealthCommunity HealthSierra Leone
We searched PubMed, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and Cochrane Library for randomised controlled trials (RCTs) up to 3 November 2022. We included participants aged ≥50 years diagnosed with cognitive impairment, with... more
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      DementiaCognitionGlobal HealthMedicine
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      Global HealthMedicine
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      MedicineRespiratory Care
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      MedicineRespiratory Care
From 1985 to 2016, the prevalence of underweight decreased, and that of obesity and severe obesity increased, in most regions, with significant variation in the magnitude of these changes across regions. We investigated how much change in... more
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      DemographyEpidemiologyObesityGlobal Health
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      NursingSurgeryEconomicsFamily Medicine
Abstract: Computational complexity theory is a branch of the theory of computation in theoretical computer science and mathematics that focuses on classifying computational problems according to their inherent difficulty, and relating... more
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Assessment of access to health products, technologies and services among the BRICS through their health indicators and their participation in global health policy CHAPTER 67 Assessment of access to health products, technologies and... more
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      Economic GrowthPolitical ScienceGlobal HealthDiplomacy
Background: Women are over 3 times more likely to die in childbirth in Peru compared to the United States. Peru has had considerable success in diminishing maternal mortality rate (MMR, defined as the annual number of female deaths per... more
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      GeographyGlobal HealthPublic HealthPublication
Background We estimated the prevalence and socio-demographic risk factors of hypertension among Ghanaian adults as per the Joint National Committee 7 and the 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Hypertension Association... more
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      Global HealthMedicineLogistic RegressionOdds ratio
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      Political ScienceAbortion
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      DemographyEconomic GrowthPolitical ScienceGlobal Health
Objectives. To examine divergences in the urban/rural disability among older adults in China and decompose these into variation represented by characteristics of individuals and communities and the different ways determinants impact on... more
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In September, 2015, the UN General Assembly established the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs specify 17 universal goals, 169 targets, and 230 indicators leading up to 2030. We provide an analysis of 33 health-related SDG... more
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      ManagementNeuroscienceMental HealthHealth Care
Rheumatic heart disease remains an important preventable cause of cardiovascular death and disability, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries. We estimated global, regional, and national trends in the prevalence of and... more
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      PediatricsImmunologyGlobal HealthDeveloping Countries
Overcoming childhood cancers is critically dependent on the state of research. Understanding how, with whom and what the research community is doing with childhood cancers is essential for ensuring the evidence-based policies at national... more
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      Global HealthCancerEuropean UnionMedicine
Background: Plasmodium falciparum malaria remains a major public health problem. A vital component of malaria control rests on the availability of good quality artemisinin-derivative based combination therapy (ACT) at the correct dose.... more
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      AfricaGlobal HealthMedical MicrobiologyMalaria
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      Human PhysiologyGlobal HealthPhysical ActivityMedicine
Leadership as a key building block of a health system plays a crucial role in achieving high performance and helps deliver change and shape the policy agenda and its implementation. Echoing the emerging need for effective leaders in... more
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      EducationCancer
Food systems need to produce enough of the essential trace element Se to provide regular adult intakes of at least 40 m g/d to support the maximal expression of the Se enzymes, and perhaps as much as 300 m g/d to reduce risks of cancer.... more
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      Nutrition and DieteticsSoilGlobal HealthBiology
Endemicity is not only a biological and health event but has several inter-dependencies cross-cutting with the management of the economy, including governance and policies. Within the context of the discourse on inequity, what does... more
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      Global HealthPublic Health PolicyPublic HealthDisease
Although the enteroviruses as a group are ubiquitous and not normally considered as "emerging pathogens," the many different serotypes circulate at different frequencies in any given year and the prevalence of a given serotype may... more
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      Global HealthMedical MicrobiologyBiologyPublic Health
Cardiac tumours are benign or malignant neoplasms arising primarily in the inner lining, muscle layer, or the surrounding pericardium of the heart. They can be primary or metastatic. Primary cardiac tumours are rare in paediatric practice... more
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      Computed TomographyGlobal HealthMedicineCardiac Surgery
Identification of variants in the acid α-glucosidase (GAA) gene in Pompe disease provides valuable insights and systematic overviews are needed. We report on the number, nature, frequency, and geographic distribution of GAA sequence... more
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      GeneticsPediatricsGlobal HealthBiology