233 papers
This pilot study demonstrates that at-home capillary blood collection using the Tasso+ device yields serum proteome results comparable to standard venous draws when processed immediately, provided that pre-processing delays are kept under 48 hours and samples are maintained at refrigeration temperatures to minimize protein level changes.
This study of Nigeria's 2023 Demographic and Health Survey data reveals that zero-dose children status is primarily driven by deep structural exclusion and fragmented early health system contact—specifically the lack of antenatal care visits, maternal education, and facility-based delivery—rather than isolated individual preferences, with regional disparities largely mediated through these systemic pathways.
This study developed and validated a predictive nomogram model based on five independent factors—male sex, positive proteinuria, elevated creatinine, decreased heart rate, and conjunctival congestion—to effectively differentiate hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome from scrub typhus in southwestern China.
This modeling analysis demonstrates that integrating maternal immunization into antenatal care services in five low- and middle-income countries could significantly improve maternal and child health outcomes, particularly among the poorest populations, by enhancing engagement with essential health services such as facility delivery, postnatal care, and childhood vaccinations.
This study of over 130,000 newborns in Kenya reveals that referred infants face nearly three times higher mortality odds than inborn infants, a disparity driven by greater clinical vulnerability and systemic challenges in the referral process that underscores the urgent need for strengthened pre-referral stabilization and transport systems.
This randomized controlled trial conducted in Tanzania demonstrates that the Essential Coaching for Every Mother Tanzania (ECEM-TZ) text message program significantly improves newborn care knowledge, reduces postpartum depression symptoms, and increases postnatal visit attendance among mothers during the immediate six-week postpartum period compared to standard care.
Analysis of over 227,000 nights of real-world data from nearly 6,000 adults reveals that higher sleep consistency is inversely associated with nocturnal glucose variability, demonstrating that simple sleep regularity serves as a reliable, low-cost indicator of cardio-metabolic health.
This pre-post pilot study in Ethiopia demonstrates that a family-led postnatal care model significantly increased the coverage of postnatal checks for mothers and newborns within the first week after birth, rising from approximately 9% to 96% and improving the detection of maternal danger signs.
This study leverages an expanded All of Us Research Program dataset and machine learning to confirm that annual income, family history, and various lifestyle factors are robust, multi-level determinants of Alcohol Use Disorder, with Random Forest models achieving 81% accuracy in predicting AUD status.
This 2022 cross-sectional study at Kenyatta National Hospital identifies significant patient and health system delays in tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment among adults, driven by factors such as facility distance, socioeconomic constraints, fear, and stigma, thereby underscoring the urgent need for decentralized services and improved health system responsiveness to accelerate case detection.
This study of nearly 29,000 Nigerian children reveals that while polluting cooking fuels are initially linked to acute respiratory infections, the risk is predominantly shaped by intersecting structural and geographic inequalities rather than fuel type alone, necessitating equity-focused subnational policies to effectively reduce the disease burden.
This study reveals that Nigerian media coverage of the 2024 cholera outbreak was predominantly reactive and crisis-driven, disproportionately focusing on mortality reports while neglecting preventive WASH solutions, thereby highlighting the urgent need for a strategic shift toward sustained, solution-oriented risk communication.
This study reveals that while Large Language Models produce homogeneous readability at baseline, their output complexity becomes significantly variable when grounded in external sources like Wikipedia, and that readability metrics are not interchangeable, necessitating transparent, metric-specific, and language-aware evaluation protocols for accessible health communication.
This study demonstrates that achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in France by 2050 through contrasting dietary shifts toward more plant-based foods could prevent 19% to 24% of all-cause mortality, highlighting a significant convergence between climate mitigation and public health benefits.
This study demonstrates that the monovalent rotavirus vaccine (Rotarix) in Malawi provided moderate, age-dependent protection against hospitalisation for diarrhoea over seven years, with significant impact limited to infants and no measurable influence from the concurrent switch from trivalent to bivalent oral poliovirus vaccine.
This longitudinal study of 47,046 children in England reveals that achieving a Good Level of Development on the Ages and Stages Questionnaire-3 at age two is a strong predictor of similar success on the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile at age five, highlighting the critical need for early intervention to address developmental inequities among boys, children in deprived areas, and specific ethnic groups.
This paper presents a multi-scale computational framework demonstrating that integrating aircraft wastewater surveillance with clinical ICU monitoring can significantly accelerate the early detection of emerging respiratory pathogens, reducing detection times by up to 37.7 days and identifying outbreaks with far fewer cases compared to traditional healthcare-based methods.
Based on Swiss data from 2016 to 2024, this study finds that individuals with a migration background report less racial discrimination in healthcare than the majority population, suggesting that such reports may sometimes reflect unmet general healthcare expectations rather than actual discrimination.
This study challenges the monolithic view of Asian enclaves by demonstrating that residence in East Asian versus South Asian neighborhoods differentially impacts cardiometabolic health outcomes among foreign-born Asian Americans, with East Asian enclaves associated with lower obesity risk and South Asian enclaves linked to higher risks of diabetes and hypertension.
This study analyzes global disparities in telemedicine research from 2018 to 2022, revealing that while High-Income Countries consistently produce more output than Low- and Middle-Income Countries, the publication gap narrowed after the COVID-19 pandemic and research patterns in wealthier nations are strongly correlated with socioeconomic indicators, health expenditure, and ICT infrastructure.