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- publication . Article . 2014Open Access EnglishAuthors:Ziad A. Memish; Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq; Saber Yezli;Persistent IdentifiersPublisher: Oxford University Press
- publication . Article . 2012Open Access EnglishAuthors:Katherine Gass; Madsen Beau De Rochars; Daniel A. Boakye; Mark Bradley; Peter Fischer; John O. Gyapong; Makoto Itoh; Nese Ituaso-Conway; Hayley Joseph; Dominique Kyelem; ...Persistent IdentifiersPublisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Successful mass drug administration (MDA) campaigns have brought several countries near the point of Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) elimination. A diagnostic tool is needed to determine when the prevalence levels have decreased to a point that MDA campaigns can be discontinu...
- publication . Article . 2012Open Access EnglishAuthors:Lucelly López; Zulma Vanessa Rueda; Lázaro Vélez; M.R. Giraldo; Diana Marín; E. Zapata; Gloria Isabel Mejía; J. Robledo; María Patricia Arbeláez;Persistent IdentifiersPublisher: Published by Elsevier Ltd.
- publication . Article . Other literature type . 2018Open Access EnglishAuthors:Leyvraz, Magali; Mizéhoun-Adissoda, Carmelle; Houinato, Dismand; Moussa Baldé, Naby; Damasceno, Albertino; Viswanathan, Bharathi; Amyunzu-Nyamongo, Mary; Owuor, Jared; Chiolero, Arnaud; Bovet, Pascal;Persistent Identifiers
International audience; High salt intake is a major risk factor of hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Improving knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) related to salt intake in the general population is a key component of salt reduction strategies. The objectiv...
- publication . Article . Other literature type . 2016Open Access EnglishAuthors:Ginsburg, Ophira; Bray, Freddie; Coleman, Michel P; Vanderpuye, Verna; Eniu, Alexandru; Kotha, S Rani; Sarker, Malabika; Huong, Tran Thanh; Allemani, Claudia; Dvaladze, Allison; ...Persistent IdentifiersPublisher: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University LibrariesProject: CIHR
Each year, more than 2 million women are diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer, yet where a woman lives largely determines whether she will develop one of these cancers, have access to timely and effective diagnostic and treatment services, and ultimately survive. Pr...
- publication . Article . 2020Open Access EnglishAuthors:Mickey Chopra; Zulfiqar A Bhutta; Diana Chang Blanc; Francesco Checchi; Abhishek Gupta; Ephrem Tekle Lemango; Orin S. Levine; Dafrossa Lyimo; Robin Nandy; Katherine L. O’Brien; ...Persistent IdentifiersPublisher: WHO Press
A key focus of the health-related sustainable development goal (SDG) 3 is universal health coverage (UHC), including access to safe, effective, quality, and affordable essential medicines and\ud vaccines. However, the challenges to achieving UHC are substantial, especia...
- publication . Article . 2014Open Access Spanish; CastilianAuthors:Dargent Bocanegra, Eduardo;Publisher: Universidad del Pacífico
The capacity of state agencies varies greatly among Latin American states, but this significant variation remains largely understudied in political science. The few studies that do analyze this phenomenon primarily concentrate on domestic causes as explanations for the ...
- publication . Article . 2021Authors:Kirsten Bell; Judith Green; Lindsay McLaren; Oliver Mweemba;Persistent IdentifiersPublisher: Informa UK Limited
What are academic journals for? In a digital era, we access single articles; personal subscribers are few, and those who skim or read whole issues of scholarly periodicals are likely even fewer. So...
- publication . Article . 2019Open Access EnglishAuthors:Shoemaker, Erica A.; Dale, Kelly; Cohn, Daniel A.; Kelly, Maureen P.; Zoerhoff, Kathryn L.; Batcho, Wilfrid E.; Bougouma, Clarisse; Nko’Ayissi, Georges B.; Meite, Aboulaye; Marfo, Benjamin; ...Persistent IdentifiersPublisher: Public Library of Science
BackgroundDelivery of preventive chemotherapy (PC) through mass drug administration (MDA) is used to control or eliminate five of the most common neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The success of an MDA campaign relies on the ability of drug distributors and their supe...
- publication . Article . 2020Authors:Nagendra Monangi; Huan Xu; Rasheda Khanam; Waqasuddin Khan; Saikat Deb; Jesmin Pervin; Joan T. Price; Abdullah Al Mahmud; Yue-Mei Fan; Le Quang Thanh; ...Persistent Identifiers
doi: 10.2139/ssrn.3723454
Publisher: Elsevier BVBackground: Selenium (Se), an essential trace mineral, has been implicated in preterm birth (PTB). We aimed to determine the association of maternal Se concentrations during pregnancy with PTB risk and gestational duration in a large number of samples collected from div...