Screening family planning needs: an operations research project in Guatemala [0.03%]
筛选避孕需求:危地马拉的一个操作研究项目
Francisco Mendez,Felipe Lopez,Carlos Brambila et al.
Francisco Mendez et al.
BACKGROUND: Public sector health care providers in rural Guatemala have infrequently offered family planning information and services in routine visits. This operations research project tested a strategy to modify certain practices that pre...
Following in the footsteps of smallpox: can we achieve the global eradication of measles? [0.03%]
走天花之后尘,麻疹会成为下一个被消灭的传染病吗?
Oliver WC Morgan
Oliver WC Morgan
BACKGROUND: Although an effective measles vaccine has been available for almost 40 years, in 2000 there were about 30 million measles infections worldwide and 777,000 measles-related deaths. The history of smallpox suggests that achieving m...
Care for perinatal illness in rural Nepal: a descriptive study with cross-sectional and qualitative components [0.03%]
尼泊尔农村围产期疾病的照护情况:具有横断面和质性研究成分的描述性研究
Natasha Mesko,David Osrin,Suresh Tamang et al.
Natasha Mesko et al.
BACKGROUND: Maternal, perinatal and neonatal mortality rates remain high in rural areas of developing countries. Most deliveries take place at home and care-seeking behaviour is often delayed. We report on a combined quantitative and qualit...
Global plagues and the Global Fund: Challenges in the fight against HIV, TB and malaria [0.03%]
全球疫情与全球基金:对抗艾滋病、肺结核和疟疾的挑战
Darrell HS Tan,Ross EG Upshur,Nathan Ford
Darrell HS Tan
BACKGROUND: Although a grossly disproportionate burden of disease from HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria remains in the Global South, these infectious diseases have finally risen to the top of the international agenda in recent years. Ideal strategi...
An Australian Aboriginal birth cohort: a unique resource for a life course study of an Indigenous population. A study protocol [0.03%]
一个澳大利亚土著人的出生队列:一生纵向研究土著人群的一个独特资源。一项研究方案
Susan M Sayers,Dorothy Mackerras,Gurmeet Singh et al.
Susan M Sayers et al.
BACKGROUND: The global rise of Type 2 diabetes and its complications has drawn attention to the burden of non-communicable diseases on populations undergoing epidemiological transition. The life course approach of a birth cohort has the pot...
William Boyce,Michael Koros,Jennifer Hodgson
William Boyce
BACKGROUND: Certain features of peace-building distinguish it from peacekeeping, and make it an appropriate strategy in dealing with vertical conflict and low intensity conflict. However, some theorists suggest that attempts, through peace-...
Policy mapping for establishing a national emergency health policy for Nigeria [0.03%]
尼日利亚国家级紧急卫生政策的制定策略分析映射表
Zakari Y Aliyu
Zakari Y Aliyu
BACKGROUND: The number of potential life years lost due to accidents and injuries though poorly studied has resulted in tremendous economic and social loss to Nigeria. Numerous socio-cultural, economic and political factors including the cu...
Paediatric referrals in rural Tanzania: the Kilombero District Study - a case series [0.03%]
坦桑尼亚农村地区的儿科转诊——基洛莫贝罗地区研究:一系列病例报告
Fidel Font,Llorens Quinto,Honoraty Masanja et al.
Fidel Font et al.
BACKGROUND: Referral is a critical part of appropriate primary care and of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy. We set out to study referrals from the aspect both of primary level facilities and the referral hospi...
Solomon R Benatar
Solomon R Benatar
BACKGOUND: The concept of Human Rights has become the modern civilising standard to which all should aspire and indeed attain. DISCUSSION: In an era characterised by widening disparities in health and human rights across the world and spect...
Cross-sectional study of morbidity, morbidity-associated factors and cost of treatment in Ngaoundere, Cameroon, with implications for health policy in developing countries and development assistance policy [0.03%]
喀麦隆纳贡德地区的疾病、致病因素和治疗费用的横断面研究及对发展中国家卫生政策和发展援助政策的影响研究
Knut Holtedahl,Harald Hurum
Knut Holtedahl
BACKGROUND: In a population-based epidemiological study in Ngaoundere, Cameroon, we studied cross-sectional child morbidity and the cost of necessary investigation and treatment. METHODS: Three teams of two to three health workers visited h...