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Global, regional, and national progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 for neonatal and child health: all-cause and cause-specific mortality findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Background Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 has targeted elimination of preventable child mortality, reduction of neonatal death to less than 12 per 1000 livebirths, and reduction of death of children younger than 5 years ... -
Measuring routine childhood vaccination coverage in 204 countries and territories, 1980–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2020, Release 1
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Background Measuring routine childhood vaccination is crucial to inform global vaccine policies and programme implementation, and to track progress towards targets set by the Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) and Immunization ... -
Tobacco Use and Risk Factors for Hypertensive Individuals in Kenya
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Abstract: This study aimed to examine the association between hypertension and tobacco use as well as other known hypertensive risk factors (BMI, waist–hip ratio, alcohol consumption, physical activity, and socio-economic ... -
Use of multidimensional item response theory methods for dementia prevalence prediction: an example using the Health and Retirement Survey and the Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Background Data sparsity is a major limitation to estimating national and global dementia burden. Surveys with full diagnostic evaluations of dementia prevalence are prohibitively resource-intensive in many settings. ... -
Mapping subnational HIV mortality in six Latin American countries with incomplete vital registration systems
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Background Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) remains a public health priority in Latin America. While the burden of HIV is historically concentrated in urban areas and high-risk groups, subnational estimates that cover ... -
Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Background Regularly updated data on stroke and its pathological types, including data on their incidence, prevalence, mortality, disability, risk factors, and epidemiological trends, are important for evidence-based ... -
Global, regional, and national mortality among young people aged 10–24 years, 1950–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Background Documentation of patterns and long-term trends in mortality in young people, which reflect huge changes in demographic and social determinants of adolescent health, enables identification of global investment ... -
Global, regional, and national sex-specific burden and control of the HIV epidemic, 1990–2019, for 204 countries and territories: the Global Burden of Diseases Study 2019
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Background The sustainable development goals (SDGs) aim to end HIV/AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. Understanding the current state of the HIV epidemic and its change over time is essential to this effort. This ... -
Fatal police violence by race and state in the USA, 1980–2019: a network meta-regression
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Background The burden of fatal police violence is an urgent public health crisis in the USA. Mounting evidence shows that deaths at the hands of the police disproportionately impact people of certain races and ethnicities, ... -
Modeling Users’ Empowerment in E-Health Systems
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)In conventional e-health initiatives, customers (patients) are mostly perceived as recipients of medical care, where they play little roles in the process of health decision making. Empowerment in e-health enables individuals ... -
Clinical reasoning in traditional medicine exemplified by the clinical encounter of Korean medicine: a narrative review
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Background Clinical reasoning is generally defined as a way of thinking about diagnostic or therapeutic decision making in clinical practice. Different cognitive models have been proposed for the clinical reasoning process ... -
Anemia prevalence in women of reproductive age in low- and middle-income countries between 2000 and 2018
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Anemia is a globally widespread condition in women and is associated with reduced economic productivity and increased mortality worldwide. Here we map annual 2000–2018 geospatial estimates of anemia prevalence in women of ... -
Understanding the relationship between subjective health complaints and satisfaction with life for people in prevocational training in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Background and aim: In Norway, a large part of the population is dependent on disability benefits. The main reasons for this are related to long-term musculoskeletal pain and psychological complaints. Prevocational ... -
Historical perspectives on using sham acupuncture in acupuncture clinical trials
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Background: Trials of acupuncture in the West began before textbooks about acupuncture were generally available. This placed trials at risk of possible faulty assumptions about the practice of acupuncture and adoption of ... -
Ginseng for Erectile Dysfunction: A Cochrane Systematic Review
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The objectives of this study were to assess the effects of ginseng on erectile dysfunction. We searched multiple electronic databases from their inceptions to 30 January 2021 without restrictions by language. We included ... -
Subnational mapping of HIV incidence and mortality among individuals aged 15–49 years in sub-Saharan Africa, 2000–18: a modelling study
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Overview on pattern identification - History, nature and strategies for treating patients: A narrative review
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Acupuncture as a Treatment Within Integrative Health for Palliative Care: A Brief Narrative Review of Evidence and Recommendations
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
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