Silvia de Sanjosé, Wim Quint, Laia Alemany, D.T. Geraets et al.
Background Knowledge about the distribution of human papillomavirus (HPV) genotypes in invasive cervical cancer is crucial to guide the introduction of prophylactic vaccines. We aimed to provide novel and comprehensive data about the worldwide genotype distribution in patients with invasive cervical...
Sarah G. Moxon, Harriet Ruysen, Kate Kerber, Agbessi Amouzou et al.
BACKGROUND: The Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP), launched in 2014, aims to end preventable newborn deaths and stillbirths, with national targets of ≤12 neonatal deaths per 1000 live births and ≤12 stillbirths per 1000 total births by 2030. This requires ambitious improvement of the data on care at ...
Kay Bradford, Brian K. Barber, Joseph A. Olsen, Suzanne L. Maughan et al.
This study assessed the associations between interparental conflict (IPC), parenting, and individual functioning among data gathered from school-going adolescents in Bangladesh, China, India, Bosnia, Germany, Palestine, Colombia, United States and three ethnic groups within South Africa. Specificall...
Juana Willumsen, Suzanne Filteau, Andreas Coutsoudis, Kerry Uebel et al.
Subclinical mastitis, as diagnosed by an elevated sodium/potassium ratio in milk accompanied by an increased milk concentration of the inflammatory cytokine, interleukin-8 (IL8), was found to be common among breast feeding women in Bangladesh and Tanzania. Subclinical mastitis results in leakage of ...
Suzanne Cross, Giorgia Gon, Emma Morrison, Kaosar Afsana et al.
Hospital cleaning has been shown to impact on rates of healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) and good environmental hygiene is critical to quality care, yet those tasked with the role of ensuring a safe and clean environment often go unrecognised as members of the healthcare workforce. Sepsis is ...
Michelle A. Peck, Kimberly Sturk‐Andreaggi, Jacqueline Tyler Thomas, Robert S. Oliver et al.
Generating mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) data from reference samples in a rapid and efficient manner is critical to harnessing the greater power of discrimination of the entire mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) marker. The method of long-range target enrichment, Nextera XT library preparation, and Illum...
Stephan M. Wilson, Gary W. Peterson, Suzanne K. Steinmetz
* PART I. Parenting Styles in Diverse Perspectives * Introduction: Parenting Styles in Diverse Perspectives (Gary W. Peterson, Suzanne K. Steinmetz, and Stephan M. Wilson) * Cultural and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Parent-Youth Relations (Gary W. Peterson, Suzanne K. Steinmetz, and Stephan M. Wil...
Katarina Kamenar, Shakir Hossen, Akshay Gupte, Trishul Siddharthan et al.
Background Risk factors for COPD in high-income settings are well understood; however, less attention has been paid to contributors of COPD in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) such as pulmonary tuberculosis. We sought to study the association between previous tuberculosis disease and C...
Suzanne M. Skevington
Abstract Are existing health‐related quality of life (QoL) measures adequate for use in poverty? Focus groups of development researcher‐practitioners were convened to discuss QoL in the low–middle‐income countries of Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Peru and Thailand. Newly elicited themes were mapped onto the...
Suzanne Cross, Kaosar Afsana, Morsheda Banu, Dileep Mavalankar et al.
BACKGROUND: As the proportion of deliveries in health institutions increases in low- and middle-income countries, so do the challenges of maintaining standards of hygiene and preventing healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) in mothers and babies. Adequate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and...
Farzana Ferdous, Suzanne Filteau, Nanna Buhl Schwartz, Sehlulekile Gumede-Moyo et al.
Severe acute malnutrition may lead both concurrently and subsequently to malabsorption and impaired glucose metabolism from pancreatic dysfunction. We conducted a systematic review to investigate the associations of current and prior postnatal wasting malnutrition with pancreatic endocrine and exocr...
Faraz Siddiqui, Ray Croucher, Fayaz Ahmad, Zarak Husain Ahmed et al.
INTRODUCTION: Smokeless tobacco (ST) is a significant South Asian public health problem. This paper reports a qualitative study of a sample of South Asian ST users. METHODS: Interviews, using a piloted topic guide, with 33 consenting, urban dwelling adult ST users explored their ST initiation, conti...
Melanie N. Hug, Sabrina Keller, Talea Marty, Daniel Gygax et al.
Organs transplanted across donor-specific HLA antibodies (DSA) are associated with a variety of clinical outcomes, including a high risk of acute kidney graft rejection. Unfortunately, the currently available assays to determine DSA characteristics are insufficient to clearly discriminate between po...
Kay Bradford, Brian K. Barber, Joseph A. Olsen, Suzanne L. Maughan et al.
This study assessed the associations between interparental conflict (IPC), parenting, and individual functioning among data gathered from school-going adolescents in Bangladesh, China, India, Bosnia, Germany, Palestine, Colombia, United States and three ethnic groups within South Africa. Specificall...
Wendy Graham, Stephanie J. Dancer, I. Gould, William Stones
…it is a disagreeable declaration for me to mention that I myself was the means of carrying the infection to a great number of women. Alexander Gordon, 17951 The 2015 deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals is provoking many reflective exercises. This special issue of BJOG on women's...
Erin M. Gorden, Kimberly Sturk‐Andreaggi, Julia Warnke-Sommer, Amy Hazelwood et al.
STR artifacts are commonly observed in electrophoretic data and can complicate interpretation of the profiles produced. Even when a consensus approach is applied, reproducible artifacts have the potential to convolute the analysis. DNA obtained from historical bone samples is often heavily degraded ...
Suzanne Tanya Nethan, Vipin Kumar, Shashi Sharma, Roopa Hariprasad et al.
Background: Oral cancer is the third most common cancer in India which is attributed to the high tobacco burden especially due to a myriad of smokeless tobacco (SLT) products available in the market. Gul/Gul manjan is a commercially-produced, tobacco-based dentifrice, indigenous to rural India and B...
Alice Margherita Ornago, Elena Pinardi, María Cristina Ferrara, Suzanne Timmons et al.
PURPOSE: Delirium represents a significant healthcare challenge in long-term care settings. This study aims to investigate the epidemiology of delirium in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) across various countries, examining point prevalence and assessment methods. METHODS: This descriptive analysis...
Zeba Amir, Bruno De Meulder
AbstractThe paper explores how the nomadic community of Van Gujjars are engaged in reproductions of forest-based settlement forms and construction of the Himalayan landscape through contestation and adaptation of State Forest policies. The paper first elaborates on the traditional settlement system ...
Tara P. Menon, Jazlyn Selvasingh, Taral Kumar Jella, C. S. Pramesh et al.
10022 Background: Countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) are home to approximately 600 million children aged 0–14 years, representing a quarter of the global child population. We report incidence and mortality for childhood cancers among South Asia's eight nations ...