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Addressing Gender Equity in International Health Workforce Migration Policy and Practices
Gender equity in the health workforce has been gaining attention in recent years as evidence emerges of gender discrepancies in leadership opportunities, pay, and decent working conditions. While increased attention to ... -
Quantifying the mortality, health outcomes, and disability due to snakebite envenoming in India
Venomous snakebites cause substantial mortality and morbidity in India, despite the existence of antivenom treatment for the most common Indian venomous snakes. There have been few efforts to quantify the disease burden ... -
Modelling Dengue Transmission Risk in Central and South America using Climate Data
Objective: The principal objective of this project was an assessment of the seasonal change in the geographical risk and human population at risk of dengue virus (DENV) infection, which causes dengue fever (DF). This was ... -
The impact of an interactive education forum intervention on increasing East African mothers’ HPV vaccine-related knowledge, attitudes, and intentions to vaccinate their adolescent children
Introduction: HPV vaccine uptake in U.S. East African adolescents is low. We developed and evaluated a culturally targeted interactive educational intervention for East African immigrant mothers to increase HPV-vaccine-related ... -
Making Sense of Fractured lives: The Intersection of Migration, Culture, and Mental Health Among Vietnamese Americans
Refugee mental health is a critical global health problem. For refugees, exposure to war, violence, torture, and other forms of trauma can leave deep physical, psychological, and emotional imprints with long-term consequences ... -
Modeling the impact of geographic targeting of rotavirus vaccination in India on rotavirus diarrhea mortality in children under 5 years of age
Background: Rotavirus causes around 329,000 diarrhea deaths annually around the world, almost a third of which are in India. The rotavirus vaccine is a relatively recent but important vaccine; an India-manufactured rotavirus ... -
Evaluation of Local Government Policy Frameworks for Stunting Reduction in Uganda: A Case Study of Ntumgamo, Sheema and Kabale Districts
Background: Stunting continues to be the most prevalent form of under nutrition affecting over 149 million children under five year globally. The largest burden is faced by low and middle income countries (LMIC) where more ... -
Correlates of breastfeeding and infant growth in Kenya
The benefits of breast milk for infant nutrition are well established. Breastfeeding has been shown to reduce infant morbidity and promote optimal growth during infancy. However, the uptake of breastfeeding globally remains ... -
Factors Associated with Type of Method at Contraceptive Debut and Unwanted Pregnancy Among Current Contraceptive Users In Northwest Ethiopia
Background: Modern contraception prevented over 300 million unintended pregnancies worldwide in 2017. Long-acting, reversible contraception (LARC) is highly effective at pregnancy prevention than other modern reversible ... -
A Qualitative Analysis of Early Identification of Pediatric Hearing Loss and Early Intervention Services for Families in Mongolia
There are four equally important elements that must be in place in a continuum of care for successful outcomes in young children with hearing loss learning to listen and speak: a) early identification of hearing loss, b) ... -
The development of a graduate program in rehabilitation sciences in Ghana: A case report about a global health academic partnership
Introduction: Global Health Academic Partnerships (GHAP) involve complex and dynamic relationships between nations, people, and institutions (Citrin et al, 2017) and have the potential to leverage resources from the power ... -
Global Interventions for Children with Comorbid Diarrhea and Acute Malnutrition: a Systematic Review
Globally, more than half a million children die each year from diarrhea, mostly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Young children with acute malnutrition, are at particularly high-risk of death. Current diarrhea ... -
Race/Ethnicity and Geographic Disparities in Learning- Adjusted Years of Schooling in the United States, 2009-2016
Learning-adjusted years of schooling (LAYS) is a metric of education that tracks both schooling completion and schooling quality. It has been used to rank the development of countries, especially as it relates to human ... -
Bricked In: Occupational health and safety concerns of Cambodian brick kiln workers
While Cambodia’s economy is one of the fastest growing in Asia, there is a darker, more dangerous side mortared between the rapid proliferation of new, western style office buildings, shopping centers, and luxury condominiums. ... -
Investigating potential strategies to improve access to antenatal care in Western Kenya
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that pregnant women should initiate the first antenatal care (ANC) visit in the first trimester of pregnancy because early ANC access is central to identifying pregnancy ... -
Sexually Transmitted Infection Testing and Associated Factors Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in China
OBJECTIVE: Sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing allows timely diagnosis and treatment and is therefore an effective STI prevention strategy. Yet, little is known about sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing ... -
Usability and acceptability of electronic immunization registry (EIR) data-entry workflows from the healthcare worker perspective in Siaya, Kenya
Introduction: Digital health tools such as electronic immunization registries (EIRs) have the potential to improve patient care and alleviate challenges that arise from the use of paper-based clinic records for reporting. ... -
A multi-state evaluation of health system opportunities and challenges facing community-wide mass drug administration for the elimination of parasitic worms in India
An estimated 1.45 billion people are infected with Soil Transmitted Helminths (STH) globally, with a large proportion of the burden in India. At moderate to high infection intensity, STH is associated with a number of ... -
Impact of Inclusive Policies on Health and Clinical Outcomes of Noncitizen Migrants: A Systematic Review
Background: Globally, authorized international migration and unauthorized border crossings are on the rise, especially from developing countries to More Economically Developed Countries (MEDCs). This surge in immigration ... -
Factors Associated with Place of Birth Among Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Women in North Gondar, Ethiopia
Despite reductions in maternal mortality over the past decade in Ethiopia, at 412 deaths per 100,000 live births as of 2016, maternal deaths remain well above levels targeted by the Sustainable Development Goals.1,2 There ...
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