Mukund Palat Rao, Edward R. Cook, Benjamin I. Cook, Rosanne D’Arrigo et al.
Abstract The lower Brahmaputra River in Bangladesh and Northeast India often floods during the monsoon season, with catastrophic consequences for people throughout the region. While most climate models predict an intensified monsoon and increase in flood risk with warming, robust baseline estimates ...
Christine P. Stewart, Kathryn G. Dewey, Audrie Lin, Amy J. Pickering et al.
Background: Anemia in young children is a global health problem. Risk factors include poor nutrient intake and poor water quality, sanitation, or hygiene. Objective: We evaluated the effects of water quality, sanitation, handwashing, and nutrition interventions on micronutrient status and anemia amo...
Rakhi Maiwall, Satender Pal Singh, Paolo Angeli, Richard Moreau et al.
Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a syndrome that is characterized by the rapid development of organ failures predisposing these patients to a high risk of short-term early death. The main causes of organ failure in these patients are bacterial infections and systemic inflammation, both of wh...
Benjamin Flesch, Ravi Vatrapu, Raghava Rao Mukkamala, Abid Hussain
Current state-of-the-art in big social data analytics is largely limited to graph theoretical approaches such as social network analysis (SNA) informed by the social philosophical approach of relational sociology. This paper proposes and illustrates an alternate holistic approach to big social data ...
Ayşe Ercümen, Andrew Mertens, Zachary Butzin-Dozier, Da Kyung Jung et al.
Antibiotics can trigger antimicrobial resistance and microbiome alterations. Reducing pathogen exposure and undernutrition can reduce infections and antibiotic use. We assess effects of water, sanitation, handwashing (WSH) and nutrition interventions on caregiver-reported antibiotic use in Banglades...
Benjamin N. Rao, Nicola Quinn, Andrzej S. Januszewski, Tünde Pető et al.
AIMS To evaluate the risk algorithm by Aspelund et al. for predicting sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy (STDR) in Type 2 diabetes (T2D), and to develop a new STDR prediction model. METHODS The Aspelund et al. algorithm was used to calculate STDR risk from baseline variables in 1012 participants...
Ayşe Ercümen, Andrew Mertens, Zachary Butzin-Dozier, Da Kyung Jung et al.
Abstract Frequent antibiotic use in areas with high infection burdens can lead to antimicrobial resistance and microbiome alterations. Reducing pathogen exposure and child undernutrition can reduce infections and subsequent antibiotic use. We assessed effects of water, sanitation, handwashing (WSH) ...
Paul Spiegel, Esperanza Martinez, Orit Abrahim, Chi‐Chi Undie et al.
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Donnie Mategula, Bakary Conteh, Christine J. McGrath, Erika L. Feutz et al.
Background Shigella is a leading cause of diarrheal illness in children in low- and middle-income countries, with evidence of contribution to prolonged diarrhoea, hospitalization, and impaired growth. Methods In this prospective cohort study, we analysed data from 8756 children aged 6–35 months with...
Qulu Zheng, Andrew S. Azman, Elizabeth C. Lee, Rebecca Shade et al.
Abstract Background Cholera is often used as a model of the effect of climate and weather on infectious diseases. Yet the empirical evidence remains inconsistent, and the few existing reviews have not provided a synthesis of evidence nor systematically assessed sources of heterogeneity. Our objectiv...
Samantha J. Bents, François Rerolle, Pearl Anne Ante-Testard, Everlyn Kamau et al.
Global health programs have traditionally focused on single diseases. There is potential for synergy through integrated intervention delivery, particularly in areas with overlapping geographic disease burden, but there is limited methodology developed for assessing potential efficiency gains through...
Gene G. Ho, Beryl S. Achando, Shahjahan Ali, Caitlin Hemlock et al.
BACKGROUND: Environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) may worsen undernutrition, with potential adverse effects on the developmental trajectories of millions of children in low-resource settings. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to assess associations between EED biomarkers and subsequent child developmen...
Stephen Young
Ananya Roy , Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development , London : Routledge , 2010 . ISBN 978-0-415-87673-5 (paper), ISBN 978-0-415-87672-8 (cloth) . Support for “financial inclusion” has gained incredible political traction across the world over the past two decades. The formal en...