Nigerian adolescents' exposure to fast food marketing via Instagram.

Objectives: To explore the promotion of fast food to lower-income adolescents on Instagram with the specific aims of (i) identifying the marketing strategies used by fast food brands on Instagram to promote fast food to Nigerian adolescents and (ii) examining the influence of these strategies on user engagement.

Design: A content analysis of posts from a 90-day period of the Instagram accounts of five fast-food brands in Nigeria was conducted. Overall, 576 posts were analysed, using a codebook developed based on the relevant literature, to identify adolescent-targeted strategies.

Barriers to Early Diagnosis of Breast Cancer amongst women in the Fiji Islands: A Qualitative Study.

Objective: To investigate the factors that may account for the delay in diagnosis and treatment in Fijian female breast cancer patients.

Methods: This study adopted a qualitative approach to gain an in-depth understanding of individual barriers and participants' experiences within the Fijian context. Utilising semi-structured interviews, the study interviewed breast cancer survivors, community women, healthcare professionals, and traditional healers.

Extracting functional connectivity brain networks at the resting state from pulsed arterial spin labeling data.

Introduction: Functional connectivity in the brain is often studied with blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI), but the BOLD signal is several steps removed from neuronal activity. Arterial spin labeling (ASL), particularly pulsed ASL (PASL), has also the capacity to measure the blood-flow changes in response to activity. In this paper, we investigated the feasibility of extracting major brain networks from PASL data, in contrast with rsfMRI analsyis.

A systematic review of the adolescent-directed marketing strategies of transnational fast food companies in low- and middle-income countries.

Introduction: Fast food consumption is associated with excessive intake of energy-dense foods; a major determinant of childhood obesity. The lack of data on the marketing strategies used to promote fast food to adolescents in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) acts as a barrier to global efforts to reduce the marketing of unhealthy foods to young people around the world.

Objectives: This systematic review aimed to identify the adolescent-directed marketing strategies of transnational fast food corporations in LMICs.

Vision screening outcomes of 4-5 year-olds reflect the social gradient.

Clinical Relevance: Children in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities often do not access follow-up eye care services when referred from vision screenings; whether this is due to lack of availability is not known. This paper highlights the need for vision and eye care for vulnerable children with practicing clinical optometrists well placed to provide vision care.

Background: Vision impairments develop from a young age and may inhibit learning experiences and impact life outcomes.