نتایج جستجو برای: african health systems

تعداد نتایج: 2173213  

Journal: :Health policy and planning 2017
Joy E Lawn Zulfiqar A Bhutta Steve N Wall Stefan Peterson Emmanuelle Daviaud

care for mothers and newborns from seven countries: implications for universal health coverage Joy E Lawn,* Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Steve N Wall, Stefan Peterson and Emmanuelle Daviaud Maternal Adolescent & Reproductive Health (MARCH) Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK, Center of Excellence in Women and Child Health, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan, Centre fo...

Journal: :Environmental and molecular mutagenesis 2006
Karen Huen Laura Gunn Paurene Duramad Michael Jeng Russell Scalf Nina Holland

Exposure to air pollution has been associated with adverse respiratory and cardiovascular health outcomes in both children and adults. In this study, we used geographic information systems (GISs) to explore possible associations between chromosomal damage in 65 African American children and their mothers from Oakland, California, and both proximity to traffic and regional ozone levels. Study pa...

Journal: :international journal of health policy and management 2015
bartholomew k. armah

the sustainable development goals (sdgs) offer a unique opportunity for policy-makers to build on the millennium development goals (mdgs) by adopting more sustainable approaches to addressing global development challenges. the delivery of health services is of particular concern. most african countries are unlikely to achieve the health mdgs, however, significant progress has been made particul...

Journal: :The American psychologist 2012
Lonnie R Snowden

Since publication of the U.S. Surgeon General's report Mental Health: Culture, Race and Ethnicity--A Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2001), several federal initiatives signal a sustained focus on addressing African American-White American disparities in mental health treatment access and quality and open the way to unpr...

Journal: :Review of Development Finance 2011

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Melinda C. Aldrich Rajesh Kumar Laura A. Colangelo L. Keoki Williams Saunak Sen Stephen B. Kritchevsky Bernd Meibohm Joshua Galanter Donglei Hu Christopher R. Gignoux Yongmei Liu Tamara B. Harris Elad Ziv Joseph Zmuda Melissa Garcia Tennille S. Leak Marilyn G. Foreman Lewis J. Smith Myriam Fornage Kiang Liu Esteban G. Burchard

BACKGROUND Smoking tobacco reduces lung function. African Americans have both lower lung function and decreased metabolism of tobacco smoke compared to European Americans. African ancestry is also associated with lower pulmonary function in African Americans. We aimed to determine whether African ancestry modifies the association between smoking and lung function and its rate of decline in Afri...

Journal: :Ethnicity & disease 2004
David Martins Naureen Tareen Susanne B Nicholas Loretta Jones Keith C Norris

African Americans suffer from high rates of hypertension and hypertension-related complications. While racial/ethnic differences in blood pressure response to pharmacologic therapy have been described, most randomized hypertension trials with substantial enrollment of African Americans receiving standardized medical care do not support class-specific racial/ethnic differences in key clinical ou...

Journal: :PLoS Medicine 2009
Mike English Hugh Reyburn Catherine Goodman Robert W Snow

BACKGROUND TO THE DEBATE Current guidelines recommend that all fever episodes in African children be treated presumptively with antimalarial drugs. But declining malarial transmission in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, declining proportions of fevers due to malaria, and the availability of rapid diagnostic tests mean it may be time for this policy to change. This debate examines whether enough evi...

Journal: :international journal of hospital research 2014
fateme sadeghi marjan ghazisaeedi reza safdari abdoljalil kalantarhormozi

fast and holistic access to the patients’ clinical record is a major requirement of modern medical decision support systems (dss). while electronic health records (ehrs) have replaced the traditional paper-based records in most healthcare organization, the data entry into these systems remains largely manual. speech recognition technology promises substitution of the more convenient speech-base...

David W. Brook, Judith S. Brook, Jung Yeon Lee, Kerstin Pahl,

Background In the United States (US), there are 19 million new sexually transmitted disease (STD) infections each year. Untreated STDs can lead to serious long-term adverse health consequences, especially for young women. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that undiagnosed and untreated STDs cause at least 24,000 women in the US each year to become infertile. This clearly is a...

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