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Machine Learning for Injuries Cause of Death Assignment: A New Method for the Global Burden of Disease Study
Globally, injuries were responsible for 8% of deaths in 2017 and have been a neglected source of burden, especially in many low income countries.1,2 Effective public health interventions and decision making rely on accurate ... -
The magnitude of health managers turnover in Khartoum State Ministry of Health (KSMOH), Sudan 2005 - 2010.
(2012-09-13)Abstract The Magnitude of Health Managers Turnover in Khartoum State Ministry of Health (KSMOH), Sudan 2005 - 2010 Mohamed Ali Mohamed Alamin Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Assistant Clinical Professor Sarah Gimbel ... -
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 ... -
Malnutrition in Mesoamerica: The distribution and correlates of stunting, wasting, underweight, and anemia.
Background: In 2013, 1.5 million deaths attributable to malnutrition occurred globally to children younger than 5 years. Childhood malnutrition is strongly linked to child mortality, disease, and educational and later-life ... -
Mama AMMAAN (Safe Mother): A Community-Based Participatory Action Approach to Bridging Perinatal Care Gaps in the Seattle Somali Community
The Mama AMMAAN (Safe Mother) Project is a community-based participatory research project that was created to test the feasibility of a culturally adapted service model. It is based on extensive formative research with the ... -
Mapping child health: statistical applications for high-resolution estimation of child mortality and healthcare utilization
This dissertation is comprised of three distinct chapters which each aim to improve understanding of child health and survival in developing countries through novel applications of statistical modelling. In each case, ... -
Mapping childhood illness: Understanding the distribution of common symptoms in children under five in Africa, 2000 – 2015
After twenty years as the World Health Organization’s premier strategy for improving childhood health, the Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness (IMNCI) strategy is in the midst of an update. Increasing ... -
Mapping HIV mortality in six Latin American countries using incomplete vital registration systems
Background HIV remains a public health priority in Latin America, but across the region HIV mortality is not in universal decline. While it is known that the burden of HIV is concentrated in urban areas and high-risk groups, ... -
MAPPING THE POLICY LANDSCAPE FOR INTERRUPTING ANTI-BLACKNESS AND INDIGENOUS ERASURE: A social work public health equity analysis of reproductive health practice in Washington State during COVID-19 and beyond.
The failure of the United States government and medical system to equitably respond to the COVID-19 pandemic has further revealed the reality that our national information systems and response mechanisms are fractured, ... -
Maternal health behavior change: Women’s experiences as participants of an mHealth program in Timor-Leste
Background: Global maternal and neonatal mortality rates are unacceptably high. Programs that harness mobile technology represent a promising method to cost-effectively address profound maternal and neonatal health needs. ... -
Measuring effective coverage of measles immunization in low-resource settings: A method and application from the baseline evaluation of Salud Mesoamérica 2015
Background: Estimating vaccination coverage is challenging in resource-poor settings where accurate records are sparse. Household surveys, a key source of coverage information, typically capture data from child health cards ... -
Measuring Emergency Department Medical Care Spending in the US by Health Condition, Age, Sex, and Payer, 2006-2015
The emergency department (ED) plays a critical role in the US health care system, yet estimates surrounding ED health care spending are limited, and generally are unable to capture ED spending for patients who are ultimately ... -
Measuring Healthcare Value in OECD Countries
Background Identifying the most efficient healthcare delivery systems and the characteristics that are associated with them may inform the decisions that governments make regarding the structure and regulation of healthcare. ... -
Measuring inequities in health service delivery and their impact on health outcomes in low- to middle-income countries
Scientific evidence increasingly indicates that poor-quality health systems will slow down the tremendous improvements in health outcomes observed in low- to middle-income countries (LMICs) over the past several decades. ... -
Measuring maternal and child health in Uganda: a subnational analysis
Background Globally, countries are increasingly prioritizing the reduction of health inequalities and provision of universal health coverage. While national benchmarking has become more common, such work at subnational ... -
Measuring the Distribution of Education: Global Trends, Forecasts, and Inequality Metrics
As perhaps the single most important social determinant of health, the measurement of educational attainment is of paramount importance for health research. There is substantial reason to believe that estimates of the ... -
Measuring the geographic distribution of maternal education in Africa
International agendas have increasingly focused on education as a powerful social determinant of child and maternal health outcomes. However, comparable indicators of educational attainment only exist at the national level, ... -
Measuring the impact of development assistance on vaccination coverage: evidence from low- and middle-income recipient countries
Over the last decade, substantial amounts of development assistance have been invested among low and middle income countries to strengthen the performance and outcomes of the immunization program. Multiple development ... -
Measuring the Impact of Smoke-free Legislation on Population Health in Two Cities of China
Exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) increases the risk of morbidity and premature mortality. Smoke-free legislation is an effective way to protect the population from the harms of SHS and has been implemented nation wide ... -
Mechanisms for HIV persistence during effective treatment
Despite antiretroviral therapy (ART) that suppresses HIV replication to below the limit-of-quantification of commercial assays, small numbers of virions can often still be detected in the plasma, termed residual viremia ...