You Li, Rachel M Reeves, Xin Wang, Quique Bassat et al.
BACKGROUND: Influenza virus, respiratory syncytial virus, parainfluenza virus, and metapneumovirus are the most common viruses associated with acute lower respiratory infections in young children (<5 years) and older people (≥65 years). A global report of the monthly activity of these viruses is nee...
David M. Reimers, Stephan Thernstrom
Groups and Definitions Acadians Marietta M. LeBreton Afghans David C. Champagne Africans Afro-Americans Thomas C. Holt Albanians Aleuts Dorothy M. Jones Alsatians Frederick C. Luebke American Indians Edward H. Spicer Amish John A. Hostetler Anglo-American Anglo-Saxon Appalachians Dwight Billings and...
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...
Ayaga A. Bawah, Brian Houle, Nurul Alam, Abdur Razzaque et al.
This paper contributes evidence documenting the continued decline in all-cause mortality and changes in the cause of death distribution over time in four developing country populations in Africa and Asia. We present levels and trends in age-specific mortality (all-cause and cause-specific) from four...
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...
Peter Kim Streatfield, Wasif Ali Khan, Abbas Bhuiya, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi et al.
BACKGROUND: Childhood mortality, particularly in the first 5 years of life, is a major global concern and the target of Millennium Development Goal 4. Although the majority of childhood deaths occur in Africa and Asia, these are also the regions where such deaths are least likely to be registered. T...
Peter Kim Streatfield, Nurul Alam, Yacouba Compaoré, Clémentine Rossier et al.
BACKGROUND: Women continue to die in unacceptably large numbers around the world as a result of pregnancy, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Part of the problem is a lack of accurate, population-based information characterising the issues and informing solutions. Population surveillance s...
Kathleen James‐Chakraborty
Louis Kahn is often credited with having in his National Assembly in Dhaka (1962–1983) introduced modern architecture to Bangladesh. In fact at least as technologically advanced construction as any he employed was already in use there. Nor was he the first to use a sophisticated abstract esthetic in...
Kathleen James‐Chakraborty
Louis Kahn’s office began work on the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, India, and the National Assembly in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1962. Rather than the work of a single architect, or even of that architect’s office, these buildings should more properly be credited as well to the many othe...
Martin Adjuik, Thomas A. Smith, Samuel J. Clark, Jim Todd et al.
Martin Adjuik, Thomas A. Smith, Samuel J. Clark, Jim Todd et al.
Resume Objectif Fournir des donnees comparables au niveau international sur la frequence des differentes causes de deces. Methodes Il s'agissait d'analyser les autopsies verbales transmises entre 1999 et 2002 par 12 sites de surveillance demographique en Afrique subsaharienne et au Bangladesh afin d...
Samuel J. Clark, Anupam Garrib, Kathleen Kahn, Honorati Masanja et al.
Resumen Tasas de mortalidad por causas especificas en el Africa subsahariana y en Bangladesh Objetivo Aportar datos comparables internacionalmente sobre la frecuencia de las distintas causas de defuncion. Metodos Analizamos las autopsias verbales obtenidas durante 1999–2002 en 12 sitios de vigilanci...
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 ...