Healthcare access and quality index based on mortality from causes amenable to personal health care in 195 countries and territories, 1990-2015: a... (Publications)
(HAQ) Index-on a scale of 0 to 100. The HAQ Index showed strong convergence validity as compared with other health-system indicators, including health expenditure per capita (r=0.88), an index of 11 universal [...] universal health coverage interventions (r=0.83), and human resources for health per 1000 (r=0.77). We used free disposal hull analysis with bootstrapping to produce a frontier based on the relationship between [...] lowest-SDI countries. While the global HAQ Index average rose from...
Healthcare access and quality index based on mortality from causes amenable to personal health care in 195 countries and territories, 1990-2015: a... (Publications)
(HAQ) Index-on a scale of 0 to 100. The HAQ Index showed strong convergence validity as compared with other health-system indicators, including health expenditure per capita (r=0.88), an index of 11 universal [...] universal health coverage interventions (r=0.83), and human resources for health per 1000 (r=0.77). We used free disposal hull analysis with bootstrapping to produce a frontier based on the relationship between [...] lowest-SDI countries. While the global HAQ Index average rose from...
aware of its impacts on stakeholders, especially also communities, they operate in. The Social Way 3.0, adapted in 2020, defines the Anglo American's governing framework for social performance and sets out [...] ; avoid, prevent, and, where appropriate, mitigate and remediate adverse impacts. The Social Way 3.0 requirement 4C "Community Health and Safety Management" deals with community health impacts and risks
Social networking site use in young adolescents: association with health-related quality of life and behavioural difficulties (Publications)
other devices was significantly associated with lower HRQOL in females (all p-values for linear trend < 0.01) but not males. Using SNS if awake at night was also significantly associated with lower HRQOL in [...] devices was associated with increased behavioural difficulties in both genders (p-value for trend < 0.001). Similarly, SNS use if awake at night was associated with greater behavioural difficulties (adjusted
Repeated mosquito net distributions, improved treatment, and trends in malaria cases in sentinel health facilities in Papua New Guinea (Publications)
effect, reducing the number of malaria cases with each round (incidence rate ratio ranging from 0.12 to 0.53 in five sites). No significant reduction was associated with ACT introduction. Plasmodium falciparum
A digital health algorithm to guide antibiotic prescription in pediatric outpatient care: a cluster randomized controlled trial (Publications)
was noninferior in ePOCT+ facilities compared to usual care facilities (adjusted relative risk 0.97, 95% CI 0.85 to 1.10). There was no difference in the secondary safety outcomes of death and nonreferred
COVID-19 screening in low resource settings using artificial intelligence for chest radiographs and point-of-care blood tests (Publications)
participants were included. In our cohort, AI for CXR images was a poor predictor of COVID-19 (AUC = 0.60), since the majority of positive cases had mild symptoms and no visible pneumonia in the lungs. AI [...] blood cell counts (WBC), or a combination of WBC and C-Reactive Protein (CRP) both achieved an AUC of 0.74 with a suggested optimal cut-off point at 83% sensitivity and 63% specificity. The antigen-RDT tests
Revised EU and WHO air quality thresholds: where does Europe stand? (Publications)
exposed to concentrations above the WHO annual thresholds was estimated at 62.5% (54.0, 70.9%) and at 29.6 (21.9, 37.0%) above the EU values, whereas for NO2, the estimates were at 67.4% (57.9, 75.8%) and
Life expectancy of <em>Anopheles funestus</em> is double that of <em>Anopheles arabiensis</em> in southeast Tanzania based on mark-release-recapture... (Publications)
An. arabiensis and 8.9 (SD ± 8.3) for An. funestus. Probability of daily survival was 0.76 for An. arabiensis and 0.86 for An. funestus translating into average life expectancy of 3.6 days for An. arabiensis
Strengthening primary healthcare in Kosovo requires tailoring primary, secondary and tertiary prevention interventions and consideration of mental... (Publications)
DASS-21) and undetected COPD (OR 1.07; 95% CI 1.00-1.15), but inversely with undetected diabetes (OR 0.95; 95% CI 0.91-1.00). Conclusions: Continued attention and tailored modifications to primary, secondary and
