Peter Reason, Hilary Bradbury
PART ONE: GROUNDINGS Introduction to Groundings - Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury Living Inquiry - Patricia Gaya Wicks, Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury Personal, Political and Philosophical Groundings of Action Research Practice Participatory Action Research as Practice - Marja Liisa Swantz Some T...
Katherine L. O’Brien, Henry C. Baggett, W. Abdullah Brooks, Daniel R. Feikin et al.
BACKGROUND: Pneumonia is the leading cause of death among children younger than 5 years. In this study, we estimated causes of pneumonia in young African and Asian children, using novel analytical methods applied to clinical and microbiological findings. METHODS: We did a multi-site, international c...
Rogelio Pérez‐Padilla, Justino Regalado, Sverre Vedal, Peter D. Paré et al.
A case-control study was performed in women older than 40 yr of age to evaluate the risk of cooking with traditional wood stoves for chronic bronchitis and chronic airway obstruction (CAO). The subjects were recruited from patients attending a referral chest hospital in Mexico City. We selected 127 ...
Patrick Munk, Christian Brinch, Frederik Duus Møller, Thomas Nordahl Petersen et al.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to global health. Understanding the emergence, evolution, and transmission of individual antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) is essential to develop sustainable strategies combatting this threat. Here, we use metagenomic sequencing to analyse ARGs in 7...
Emma Fulu, Stephanie Spaid Miedema, Tim Roselli, Sarah McCook et al.
BACKGROUND: Although childhood trauma and violence against women are global public health issues, few population-based data from low-income and middle-income countries exist about the links between them. We present data from the UN Multi-country Study on Men and Violence in Asia and the Pacific, exp...
Firdausi Qadri, Farhana Khanam, Xinxue Liu, Katherine Theiss-Nyland et al.
BACKGROUND: Typhoid fever remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in low-income and middle-income countries. Vi-tetanus toxoid conjugate vaccine (Vi-TT) is recommended by WHO for implementation in high-burden countries, but there is little evidence about its ability to protect against clini...
Abdullah H Baqui, Shams El Arifeen, Emma Williams, Saifuddin Ahmed et al.
BACKGROUND: : Infections account for about half of neonatal deaths in low-resource settings. Limited evidence supports home-based treatment of newborn infections by community health workers (CHW). METHODS: : In one study arm of a cluster randomized controlled trial, CHWs assessed neonates at home, u...
Pieter A. Zuidema, Flurin Babst, Peter Groenendijk, Valérie Trouet et al.
Nicholas Nisbett, Peter Davis, Sivan Yosef, Nazneen Akhtar
Bangladesh has made considerable progress in reducing child stunting and is lauded as a success story in global nutrition fora. This mixed-methods study considers available statistical and qualitative evidence to help reveal the critical factors behind Bangladesh's ‘story of change’ in nutrition. Mu...
Gary L. Darmstadt, Samir K. Saha, Yoonjoung Choi, Shams El Arifeen et al.
BACKGROUND: To devise treatment strategies for neonatal infections, the population-level incidence and antibiotic susceptibility of pathogens must be defined. METHODS: Surveillance for suspected neonatal sepsis was conducted in Mirzapur, Bangladesh, from February 2004 through November 2006. Communit...
Stella G. Muthuri, Sudhir Venkatesan, Puja Myles, Jo Leonardi‐Bee et al.
BACKGROUND: The impact of neuraminidase inhibitors (NAIs) on influenza-related pneumonia (IRP) is not established. Our objective was to investigate the association between NAI treatment and IRP incidence and outcomes in patients hospitalised with A(H1N1)pdm09 virus infection. METHODS: A worldwide me...
Kristine M. Peterson, Janice E. Buss, Rebecca Easley, Zhengyu Yang et al.
Background Undernutrition remains a significant problem worldwide, with environmental enteropathy implicated as a contributing factor. An understanding of the pathogenesis and identification of children at risk are critical to the design of more-effective interventions. Objective The stool regenerat...
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...
GM Monawar Hosain, David Atkinson, Peter Underwood
This study examined the impact of disability on the quality of life of disabled people in rural Bangladesh. A primary healthcare specialist conducted a door-to-door survey in two villages in Bangladesh to collect socioeconomic and demographic information on the villagers and for identification of di...
E. Mark Cummings, Christine E. Merrilees, Alice C. Schermerhorn, Marcie C. Goeke‐Morey et al.
Relations between political violence and child adjustment are matters of international concern. Past research demonstrates the significance of community, family, and child psychological processes in child adjustment, supporting study of interrelations between multiple social ecological factors and c...