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A pilot cluster randomised controlled trial of a support and training interve...
Background Secondary school teachers are at heightened risk of psychological distress, which can lead to poor work performance, poor quality teacher-student relationships and... -
Anti-tobacco control industry strategies in Turkey
Background Transnational tobacco companies (TTCs) penetrated the Turkish cigarette market due to trade and investment liberalization in the post-1980 period and eventually... -
A typology of community and stakeholder engagement based on documented exampl...
Background Despite broad consensus on the importance of community and stakeholder engagement (CSE) for guiding the development, regulation, field testing, and deployment of... -
Residential neighbourhood greenspace is associated with reduced risk of incid...
Background Three cross sectional studies suggest that neighbourhood greenspace may protect against incident diabetes. This study uses data from a longitudinal study with a large... -
Veteran-centered barriers to VA mental healthcare services use.
Background Some veterans face multiple barriers to VA mental healthcare service use. However, there is limited understanding of how veterans’ experiences and meaning systems... -
Treatable causes of fever among children under five years in a seasonal malar...
Fever remains a major public health problem. In Burkina Faso, more than half of febrile children are considered not to be infected by malaria. This study prospectively assessed... -
Vaginal washing and lubrication among female sex workers in the Mexico-US bor...
Background To assess the potential acceptability and inform the development of behaviorally-congruent vaginal douche- or gel-based HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) products,... -
Surgical referral coordination from a first-level hospital: a prospective cas...
Background: Patients in isolated rural communities typically lack access to surgical care. It is not feasible for most rural first-level hospitals to provide a full suite of... -
Advice from the health insurer as a channelling strategy: a natural experimen...
Background In a health care system based on managed competition it is important that health insurers are able to channel their enrolees to preferred care providers. However,... -
Cost of HPV screening at community health campaigns (CHCs) and health clinics...
Background Cervical cancer is the most frequent neoplasm among Kenyan women, with 4800 diagnoses and 2400 deaths per year. One reason is an extremely low rate of screening... -
Language-concordant automated telephone queries to assess medication adherenc...
Background Clinicians have difficulty accurately assessing medication non-adherence within chronic disease care settings. Health information technology (HIT) could offer novel... -
Diagnosis and mortality of emergency department patients in the North Denmark...
Background Emergency departments handle a large proportion of acute patients. In 2007, it was recommended centralizing the Danish healthcare system and establishing emergency... -
A rapid realist review
Community engagement is increasingly seen as crucial to achieving high quality, efficient and collaborative care. However, organisations are still searching for the best and... -
Comparison of multi-parallel qPCR and double-slide Kato-Katz for detection of...
There is growing interest in local elimination of soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infection in endemic settings. In such settings, highly sensitive diagnostics are needed to... -
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Background In 2011, the UK physical activity guidelines were updated to include recommendations for muscle strengthening and balance & coordination (at least two sessions of... -
Cost-effectiveness of a blended physiotherapy intervention compared to usual ...
Background Blended physiotherapy, in which physiotherapy sessions and an online application are integrated, might support patients in taking an active role in the management of... -
The weekend effect: does hospital mortality differ by day of the week? A syst...
Background The concept of a weekend effect, poorer outcomes for patients admitted to hospitals at the weekend is not new, but is the focus of debate in England. Many studies... -
Relation between health literacy, self-care and adherence to treatment with o...
Background Oral anticoagulants (OAC) are widely used in patients with cardiovascular diseases. However, for optimal OAC self-care patients must have skills, among which health... -
Deltagelse i 'Dit Liv-Din Sundhed' - en registerbaseret undersøgelse af patie...
Background Poor uptake among socio-economically disadvantaged and susceptible populations is a well-known challenge of general health check interventions, and is widely cited as... -
Calculating the prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth infection through poo...
Prevalence is a common epidemiological measure for assessing soil-transmitted helminth burden and forms the basis for much public-health decision-making. Standard diagnostic...
