Véronique Filippi, Carine Ronsmans, Oona M. R. Campbell, Wendy Graham et al.
In this paper, we take a broad perspective on maternal health and place it in its wider context. We draw attention to the economic and social vulnerability of pregnant women, and stress the importance of concomitant broader strategies, including poverty reduction and women's empowerment. We also con...
David P. Schmitt, Lidia Alcalay, Melissa Allensworth, Jüri Allïk et al.
As part of the International Sexuality Description Project, a total of 17,804 participants from 62 cultural regions completedthe RelationshipQuestionnaire(RQ), a self-reportmeasure of adult romanticattachment. Correlational analyses within each culture suggested that the Model of Self and the Model ...
Dina Balabanova, Anne Mills, Lesong Conteh, Baktygul Akkazieva et al.
In 1985, the Rockefeller Foundation published Good health at low cost to discuss why some countries or regions achieve better health and social outcomes than do others at a similar level of income and to show the role of political will and socially progressive policies. 25 years on, the Good Health ...
Shyama Kuruvilla, Julian Schweitzer, David Bishai, Sadia Chowdhury et al.
Reducing maternal and child mortality is a priority in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and will likely remain so after 2015. Evidence exists on the investments, interventions and enabling policies required. Less is understood about why some countries achieve faster progress than other compa...
Shyama Kuruvilla, Julian Schweitzer, David Bishai, Sadia Chowdhury et al.
Reducing maternal and child mortality is a priority in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and will likely remain so after 2015. Evidence exists on the investments, interventions and enabling policies required. Less is understood about why some countries achieve faster progress than other compa...
Caroline B. Brettell, Carolyn Sargent
(NOTE: Eachnew reading is bolded and indicated with an asterisk.) I. BIOLOGY, GENDER, AND HUMAN EVOLUTION. Animal Models and Gender, Marlene Zuk. Role of Women in Human Evolution, Margaret Ehrenberg. Gender and War: Are Women Tough Enough for Military Combat? Lucinda J. Peach. Lifeboat Ethics: Mothe...
Helen Burchett, Sandra Mounier‐Jack, Ulla Griffiths, Robin Biellik et al.
As more new and improved vaccines become available, decisions on which to adopt into routine programmes become more frequent and complex. This qualitative study aimed to explore processes of national decision-making around new vaccine adoption and to understand the factors affecting these decisions....
Shyama Kuruvilla, Julian Schweitzer, David Bishai, Sadia Chowdhury et al.
Introduction Worldwide, accelerated progress is required to achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 (reduce child mortality) and 5 (improve maternal health) as highlighted in the United Nations Secretary-General's Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health. (1) There have been substanti...
Till Bärnighausen, Seth Berkley, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, David Bishai et al.
In May, 1974, WHO launched the Expanded Programme on Immunization—the global programme to immunise children worldwide with a set of (at the time) six core vaccines. 40 years on, the GAVI Alliance has brought us together, a group of 29 leading technical experts in health and development economics, co...
Maxine Tran, B. Bibby, Lingjian Yang, Franklin Lo et al.
BACKGROUND: Therapeutic targeting of the androgen signaling pathway is a mainstay treatment for prostate cancer. Although initially effective, resistance to androgen targeted therapies develops followed by disease progression to castrate-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Hypoxia and HIF1a have been ...
Eric Finkelstein, Anirudh Krishnan, Aliya Naheed, Imtiaz Jehan et al.
BACKGROUND: COBRA-BPS (Control of Blood Pressure and Risk Attenuation-Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka), a multi-component hypertension management programme that is led by community health workers, has been shown to be efficacious at reducing systolic blood pressure in rural communities in Bangladesh...
Yoel Lubell, Shunmay Yeung, Arjen M. Dondorp, Nicholas Day et al.
OBJECTIVE: To explore the cost-effectiveness of artesunate against quinine based principally on the findings of a large multi-centre trial carried out in Southeast Asia. METHODS: Trial data were used to compare mortality of patients with severe malaria, treated with either artesunate or quinine. Thi...
Andrew Mills, D. Hawthorne, Anne Graham, K. A. Lawrie
The novel time-temperature indicator label comprises an ammonia sensitive indicator layer film pressed onto a second film, comprising an ammonia-generating, adhesive layer. When separated the blue-coloured indicator film reverts back to its original (ammonia free) yellow form at a controllable, temp...
Evan Groover, Elizabeth Njuguna, K. C. Bansal, Anne Ndanu Muia et al.
Anne Mills
To demonstrate the principles of economic evaluation of health programs 6 studies are described in detail with the aim of illustrating the methodology and considering the policy relevance of the studies. The studies are classified according to the objective of health intervention investigated and th...