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Identifying the content of home-based health behaviour change interventions f...
Background: Meeting the needs of the growing number of older people is a challenge for health and social care services. Home-based interventions aiming to modify health-related... -
The efficacy of varenicline in achieving abstinence among waterpipe tobacco s...
Abstract Background Waterpipe tobacco smoking has increased among youth across the globe including in the US, and it continues as a common and traditional form of smoking... -
Self-monitoring of health data by patients with a chronic disease: does disea...
Background: There is a growing emphasis on self-monitoring applications that allow patients to measure their own physical health parameters. A prerequisite for achieving... -
Substitution of care for chronic heart failure from the hospital to the gener...
Background: Shifting care from the secondary to the primary system may present an opportunity to ensure that the increasing number of patients with chronic heart failure (CHF)... -
Effects of oncological care pathways in primary and secondary care on patient...
Abstract Background The high impact of a cancer diagnosis on patients and their families and the increasing costs of cancer treatment call for optimal and efficient oncological... -
Prevalence of non-communicable diseases and access to care among non-camp Syr...
Abstract Background Tackling the high non-communicable disease (NCD) burden among Syrian refugees poses a challenge to humanitarian actors and host countries. Current response... -
Progress towards the UNAIDS 90-90-90 goals by age and gender in a rural area ...
Abstract Background The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has developed an ambitious strategy to end the AIDS epidemic. After eight years of antiretroviral... -
Expressive writing as a therapeutic intervention for people with advanced dis...
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Determinants of HIV, viral hepatitis and STI prevention needs among African m...
Background: Migrants from sub-Saharan Africa (MisSA) are a relevant sub-group for HIV-transmission in Germany. A total of 10-15 % of all newly diagnosed cases are MisSA, and... -
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Increased vaccine hesitancy presents challenges to public health and undermines efforts to eradicate diseases such as measles, rubella, and polio. The decline is partly... -
Characteristics of human encounters and social mixing patterns relevant to in...
Abstract Background Quantification of human interactions relevant to infectious disease transmission through social contact is central to predict disease dynamics, yet data from... -
Supporting shared decision making for older people with multiple health and s...
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