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Food Insecurity and Children’s Mental Health: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study
Food insecurity (which can be defined as inadequate access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets individuals’ dietary needs) is concurrently associated with... -
Beyond a dichotomous view of the concepts of 'sex' and 'gender' focus group d...
Introduction: The concepts of 'sex' and 'gender' are both of vital importance in medicine and health sciences. However, the meaning of these concepts has seldom been discussed... -
Multidimensional Poverty and Child Survival in India
Background: Though the concept of multidimensional poverty has been acknowledged cutting across the disciplines (among economists, public health professionals, development... -
The impact of clinical social franchising on health services in low- and midd...
Background The private sector plays a large role in health services delivery in low- and middle-income countries; yet significant gaps remain in the quality and accessibility... -
Aging, transition, and estimating the global burden of disease.
Background The World Health Organization's Global Burden of Disease (GBD) reports are an important tool for global health policy makers, however the accuracy of estimates for... -
All nations depend on the global knowledge pool--analysis of country of origi...
Background Health Technology Assessments (HTAs) are used to inform decision-making and their usefulness depends on the quality and relevance of research and specific studies... -
Scaling Up Towards International Targets for AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria:...
OBJECTIVE: The paper projects the contribution to 2011-2015 international targets of three major pandemics by programs in 140 countries funded by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,... -
The Mental Health Consequences of the Recession: Economic Hardship and Employ...
Objectives A period of economic recession may be particularly difficult for people with mental health problems as they may be at higher risk of losing their jobs, and more... -
Coauthorship and institutional collaborations on cost-effectiveness analyses:...
BACKGROUND: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA) has been promoted as an important research methodology for determining the efficiency of healthcare technology and guiding medical... -
Implementation of web-based respondent-driven sampling among men who have sex...
Objective: Lack of representative data about hidden groups, like men who have sex with men (MSM), hinders an evidence-based response to the HIV epidemics. Respondent-driven... -
The role of gender in scholarly authorship.
Gender disparities appear to be decreasing in academia according to a number of metrics, such as grant funding, hiring, acceptance at scholarly journals, and productivity, and... -
Perceptions and Experiences of Research Participants on Gender-Based Violence...
Objective To explore how survey respondents perceived their experiences and the impact of participating in a survey, and to assess adverse consequences resulting from... -
A Conceptual Muddle: An Empirical Analysis of the Use of ‘Sex’ and ‘Gender’ i...
Background: At the same time as there is increasing awareness in medicine of the risks of exaggerating differences between men and women, there is a growing professional... -
Lifting the Veil of Morality: Choice Blindness and Attitude Reversals on a Se...
Every day, thousands of polls, surveys, and rating scales are employed to elicit the attitudes of humankind. Given the ubiquitous use of these instruments, it seems we ought to... -
Community intelligence in knowledge curation: an application to managing scie...
Harnessing community intelligence in knowledge curation bears significant promise in dealing with communication and education in the flood of scientific knowledge. As knowledge... -
Comparative Survival and Economic Benefits of Deceased Donor Kidney Transplan...
Background: Deceased donor kidneys for transplantation are in most countries allocated preferentially to recipients who have limited co-morbidities. Little is known about the... -
A Systematic Review of Research on the Meaning, Ethics and Practices of Autho...
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this systematic review was to evaluate evidence about authorship issues and provide synthesis of research on authorship across all research fields.... -
Academic Impact of a Public Electronic Health Database: Bibliometric Analysis...
Background Studies that use electronic health databases as research material are getting popular but the influence of a single electronic health database had not been well... -
Social media release increases dissemination of original articles in the clin...
A barrier to dissemination of research is that it depends on the end-user searching for or 'pulling' relevant knowledge from the literature base. Social media instead 'pushes'... -
Negatively-Marked MCQ Assessments That Reward Partial Knowledge Do Not Introd...
Multiple-choice question (MCQ) examinations are increasingly used as the assessment method of theoretical knowledge in large class-size modules in many life science degrees....
