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The Ugandan Youth Quality of Life index: assessing the relevance of incorporating perceived importance into the quality of life measure and factors associated with the quality of life among youth in slum areas of Kampala, Uganda.

Global health action

Renzaho AM, Kamara JK, Kamanga G.
PMID: 27427302
Glob Health Action. 2016 Jul 15;9:31362. doi: 10.3402/gha.v9.31362. eCollection 2016.

BACKGROUND: While quality of life (QoL) has long been an explicit policy goal for international development programmes, no instruments have specifically been developed for measuring health-related QoL in resource-limited settings. The aim of this study was to develop and...

Bridging the gaps: a global review of intersections of violence against women and violence against children.

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Guedes A, Bott S, Garcia-Moreno C, Colombini M.
PMID: 27329936
Glob Health Action. 2016 Jun 20;9:31516. doi: 10.3402/gha.v9.31516. eCollection 2016.

BACKGROUND: The international community recognises violence against women (VAW) and violence against children (VAC) as global human rights and public health problems. Historically, research, programmes, and policies on these forms of violence followed parallel but distinct trajectories. Some have...

Corrigendum.

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[No authors listed]
PMID: 26310946
Glob Health Action. 2015 Aug 25;8:29398. doi: 10.3402/gha.v8.29398. eCollection 2015.

No abstract available.

Estimating the risk of type-2 diabetes using obese-years in a contemporary population of the Framingham Study.

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Abdullah A, Amin FA, Hanum F, Stoelwinder J, Tanamas S, Wolf R, Wong E, Peeters A.
PMID: 27369220
Glob Health Action. 2016 Jun 30;9:30421. doi: 10.3402/gha.v9.30421. eCollection 2016.

BACKGROUND: We have recently demonstrated that an obese-years construct is a better predictor of the risk of diabetes than the severity of body weight alone. However, these risk estimates were derived from a population cohort study initiated in 1948...

Health system reform in peri-urban communities: an exploratory study of policy strategies towards healthcare worker reform in Epworth, Zimbabwe.

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Taderera BH, Hendricks SJ, Pillay Y.
PMID: 27938630
Glob Health Action. 2016 Dec 09;9:32219. doi: 10.3402/gha.v9.32219. eCollection 2016.

BACKGROUND: Human resources for health (HRH) remains a critical challenge, according to the Kampala Declaration and Agenda for Global Action of 2008 and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. Available literature on health system reforms does not provide a detailed...

A systematic review of the status of children's school access in low- and middle-income countries between 1998 and 2013: using the INDEPTH Network platform to fill the research gaps.

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Kamanda M, Sankoh O.
PMID: 26562137
Glob Health Action. 2015 Nov 11;8:28430. doi: 10.3402/gha.v8.28430. eCollection 2015.

BACKGROUND: The framework for expanding children's school access in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has been directed by universal education policies as part of Education for All since 1990. In measuring progress to universal education, a narrow conceptualisation of...

Do the pre-service education programmes for midwives in India prepare confident 'registered midwives'? A survey from India.

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Sharma B, Hildingsson I, Johansson E, Prakasamma M, Ramani KV, Christensson K.
PMID: 26649550
Glob Health Action. 2015 Jan;8(1):29553. doi: 10.3402/gha.v8.29553.

Objective The graduates of the diploma and degree programmes of nursing and midwifery in India are considered skilled birth attendants (SBAs). This paper aimed to assess the confidence of final-year students from pre-service education programmes (diploma and bachelor's) in...

The impact of a livelihood program on depressive symptoms among people living with HIV in Cambodia.

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Shimizu M, Yi S, Tuot S, Suong S, Sron S, Shibanuma A, Jimba M.
PMID: 27511811
Glob Health Action. 2016 Aug 09;9:31999. doi: 10.3402/gha.v9.31999. eCollection 2016.

BACKGROUND: Psychological and social problems are major concerns in this era of successful antiretroviral therapy. Although livelihood programs have been implemented extensively to improve the daily living conditions of people living with HIV in Cambodia, no studies have yet...

A favorable outcome from dengue hemorrhagic fever: Teaching Hospital Kandy, Sri Lanka, May 2016.

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Ehelepola ND.
PMID: 27652805
Glob Health Action. 2016 Sep 22;9:33186. doi: 10.3402/gha.v9.33186. eCollection 2016.

No abstract available.

Health at the borders: Bayesian multilevel analysis of women's malnutrition determinants in Ethiopia.

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Delbiso TD, Rodriguez-Llanes JM, Altare C, Masquelier B, Guha-Sapir D.
PMID: 27388539
Glob Health Action. 2016 Jul 04;9:30204. doi: 10.3402/gha.v9.30204. eCollection 2016.

BACKGROUND: Women's malnutrition, particularly undernutrition, remains an important public health challenge in Ethiopia. Although various studies examined the levels and determinants of women's nutritional status, the influence of living close to an international border on women's nutrition has not...

Opportunities and challenges for implementing cost accounting systems in the Kenyan health system.

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Kihuba E, Gheorghe A, Bozzani F, English M, Griffiths UK.
PMID: 27357072
Glob Health Action. 2016 Jun 28;9:30621. doi: 10.3402/gha.v9.30621. eCollection 2016.

BACKGROUND: Low- and middle-income countries need to sustain efficiency and equity in health financing on their way to universal health care coverage. However, systems meant to generate quality economic information are often deficient in such settings. We assessed the...

Effect modification in the temperature extremes by mortality subgroups among the tropical cities of the Philippines.

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Seposo XT, Dang TN, Honda Y.
PMID: 27357073
Glob Health Action. 2016 Jun 28;9:31500. doi: 10.3402/gha.v9.31500. eCollection 2016.

BACKGROUND: Temperature-mortality relationships have been extensively probed with varying temperature range but with relatively similar patterns and in some instances are being modified by specific mortality groups such as causes of mortality, sex, and age.OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to...

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