Half the children under the age of 5 years in Papua New Guinea (PNG) are undernourished, more than double the global average with rural areas disproportionately affected. This study examines factors ...
4 Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania 5 Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania Background Globally, critical ...
Little is known about the overall trend and prioritisations of past and current antimicrobial resistance (AMR) policies. Here we introduce a quantitative method to analyse AMR policies. The AMR-Policy ...
When making decisions about complex interventions, guideline development groups need to factor in the sociocultural acceptability of an intervention, as well as contextual factors that impact on the ...
Girls and women experience numerous types of vaginal bleeding. These include healthy reproductive processes, such as menstruation and bleeding after childbirth, but also bleeding related to health ...
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Background Cost-effectiveness evidence is a critical tool to support resource allocation decisions. There is growing recognition that the development of benefit packages for surgical care should be ...
Background Heterologous immunity is the induction of an immune response to an unrelated pathogen upon exposure to a different pathogen, involving memory T cells and B cells response. Studies showed ...
Background Malaria remains a major public health concern, especially in the tropics and subtropics where disproportionately high disease burden occurs annually. The World Health Organization ...
Objectives Smoking of cigarettes or bidis (small, locally manufactured smoked tobacco) in India has likely changed over the last decade. We sought to document trends in smoking prevalence among ...
Background While income and prices are key drivers of dietary choices, how their influence varies by food category, nation, and demographics is not well established. Based on intake data for 164 ...
Background The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recommend stratification of health indicators by ethnic group, yet there are few studies that have assessed if there are ethnic disparities in ...