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Towards a needs-based design of the physical rehabilitation workforce in South Africa: trend analysis [1990–2017] and a 5-year forecasting for the most impactful health conditions based on global burden of disease estimates

  • Autores: Quinette Louw, Karen Grimmer, Karina Berner, Thandi Conradie, Diribsa Tsegaye Bedada, Tiago Silva Jesus
  • Ano de Publicação: 2021
  • Journal: BMC Public Health, vol 21, art 913
  • Link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10962-y

ABSTRACT ‘Background:’ Rehabilitation can improve function in many people with chronic health conditions. It is important to consider priority conditions requiring rehabilitation, so it can be realistically positioned and costed in national health financing systems like South Africa (SA)‘s proposed National Health Insurance (NHI). This paper describes temporal trends of top-ranked conditions on years lived […]
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Behavioral changes before lockdown and decreased retail and recreation mobility during lockdown contributed most to controlling COVID-19 in Western countries

  • Autores: Anne-Mieke Vandamme, Jurgen Vercauteren, Koen Deforche, Viktor Müller
  • Ano de Publicação: 2021
  • Journal: BMC Public Health, 21, art 654
  • Link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10676-1

ABSTRACT ‘Background:’ The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a lockdown in many countries to control the exponential spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, hereby reducing the time-varying basic reproduction number (Rt) to below one. Governments are looking for evidence to balance the demand of their citizens to ease some of the restriction, against the fear of a […]
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Assessment of a Brazilian public policy intervention to address schistosomiasis in Pernambuco state: The SANAR program, 2011-2014

  • Autores: da Silva JAM, da Silva Junior JB, Facchini LA, Felisberto E, Nunes BP, Tomasi E
  • Ano de Publicação: 2018
  • Journal: BMC Public Health
  • Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30359232

BACKGROUND: Brazil is an endemic country for schistosomiasis in the Latin American and Caribbean countries. Pernambuco is a higher-endemic Brazilian state among the 19 states reporting the disease in the country; schistosomiasis affects 102 (55%) of its 185 municipalities. Our objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of the treatment cycles of the SANAR Program (Plan […]
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Are schoolchildren less infected if they have good knowledge about parasitic worms? A case study from rural Côte d’Ivoire

  • Autores: Palmeirim MS, Ouattara M, Essé C, Koffi VA, Assaré RK, Hürlimann E, Coulibaly JT, Diakité NR, Dongo K, Bonfoh B, Utzinger J, N'Goran EK, Raso G
  • Ano de Publicação: 2018
  • Journal: BMC Public Health
  • Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30071839

BACKGROUND: Parasitic worms (helminths) are common infections in low- and middle-income countries. For most helminth species, school-aged children are at highest risk of infection and morbidity, such as impaired cognitive and physical development. Preventive chemotherapy is the current mainstay for helminthiases control. Sanitation improvement and hygiene-related education are important complementary strategies, which act by altering […]
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Low potassium and high sodium intakes: A double health threat to Cape Verdeans

  • Autores: Alves D, Santos Z, Amado M, Craveiro I, Delgado AP, Correia A, Gonçalves L
  • Ano de Publicação: 2018
  • Journal: BMC Public Health
  • Link: https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-018-5911-x

Background Cape Verde presents a high rate of cardiovascular diseases. Low potassium and high sodium intakes are related to cardiovascular diseases. However, studies regarding these two micronutrients continue to be rare in African urban settings. This work aims to estimate potassium and sodium intakes and to analyse the self-reported salt intake by gender and by […]
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