Saverio Stranges, William Tigbe, F. Xavier Gómez‐Olivé, Margaret Thorogood et al.
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of sleep problems and the effect of potential correlates in low-income settings from Africa and Asia, where the evidence is lacking. DESIGN: Cross-sectional. SETTING: Community-wide samples from 8 countries across Africa and Asia participating in the INDEPTH WHO...
Nga Thi Thuy, Huong T L Vu, Chuc T K Nguyen, Sureeporn Punpuing et al.
BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial misuse is common in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), and this practice is a driver of antibiotic resistance. We compared community-based antibiotic access and use practices across communities in LMICs to identify contextually specific targets for intervention...
Paul Kowal, Kathleen Kahn, Nawi Ng, Nirmala Naidoo et al.
BACKGROUND: Globally, ageing impacts all countries, with a majority of older persons residing in lower- and middle-income countries now and into the future. An understanding of the health and well-being of these ageing populations is important for policy and planning; however, research on ageing and...
Nawi Ng, Paul Kowal, Kathleen Kahn, Nirmala Naidoo et al.
BACKGROUND: Declining rates of fertility and mortality are driving demographic transition in all regions of the world, leading to global population ageing and consequently changing patterns of global morbidity and mortality. Understanding sex-related health differences, recognising groups at risk of...
Peter Kim Streatfield, Wasif Ali Khan, Abbas Bhuiya, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi et al.
BACKGROUND: Mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is a major global issue, as other categories of mortality have diminished and life expectancy has increased. The World Health Organization's Member States have called for a 25% reduction in premature NCD mortality by 2025, which can only be...
Peter Kim Streatfield, Wasif Ali Khan, Abbas Bhuiya, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi et al.
BACKGROUND: As the HIV/AIDS pandemic has evolved over recent decades, Africa has been the most affected region, even though a large proportion of HIV/AIDS deaths have not been documented at the individual level. Systematic application of verbal autopsy (VA) methods in defined populations provides an...
Peter Kim Streatfield, Wasif Ali Khan, Abbas Bhuiya, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi et al.
BACKGROUND: Malaria continues to be a major cause of infectious disease mortality in tropical regions. However, deaths from malaria are most often not individually documented, and as a result overall understanding of malaria epidemiology is inadequate. INDEPTH Network members maintain population sur...
F. Xavier Gómez‐Olivé, Julia Schröders, Isabella Aboderin, Peter Byass et al.
BACKGROUND: Disability and quality of life are key outcomes for older people. Little is known about how these measures vary with age and gender across lower income and middle-income countries; such information is necessary to tailor health and social care policy to promote healthy ageing and minimis...
Heiman Wertheim, Nguyễn Thị Kim Chúc, Sureeporn Punpuing, Wasif Ali Khan et al.
In many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), a poor link between antibiotic policies and practices exists. Numerous contextual factors may influence the degree of antibiotic access, appropriateness of antibiotic provision, and actual use in communities. Therefore, improving appropriateness of a...
Saverio Stranges, William Tigbe, F. Xavier Gómez‐Olivé, Margaret Thorogood et al.
Background Several studies have reported downward trends in the average duration of sleep and an increasingly higher prevalence of sleep problems across different Western populations. However, the evidence from low-income countries is limited. This study aims to fill this gap by examining the preval...
Annelie A Monnier, Nga Thi Thuy, Kwaku Poku Asante, Samuel Afari-Asiedu et al.
In this Viewpoint, we discuss how the identification of oral antibiotics and their distinction from other commonly used medicines can be challenging for consumers, suppliers, and health-care professionals. There is a large variation in the names that people use to refer to antibiotics and these ofte...
Samuel Afari-Asiedu, Annelie A Monnier, Nga T., Kwaku Poku Asante et al.
BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is largely attributable to inappropriate antibiotic use particularly in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs). Misidentification of antibiotics could contribute to inappropriate use, as people may use the wrong drugs for their conditions. Misidentificatio...
Soter Ameh, Lucia D’Ambruoso, F. Xavier Gómez‐Olivé, Kathleen Kahn et al.
Abstract Background: An integrated chronic disease management (ICDM) model was introduced by the National Department of Health in South Africa to tackle the dual burden of HIV/AIDS and non-communicable diseases. One of the aims of the ICDM model is to reduce HIV-related stigma. There is a dearth of ...