Prevailing Food Intake, Physical Activity and Health Beliefs in a Rural Agricultural Community in the Philippines: Factors to Consider Prior to a Diabetes Prevention Program.

Objective: A diabetes prevention program is being proposed in the rural agricultural town of San Juan, Batangas, Philippines. This study aims to determine the prevailing level of food intake, physical activity, and health beliefs prior to any intervention.

Methodology: Adults were recruited via random sampling with proportional allocation.

Crowdfunding for health research: a qualitative evidence synthesis and a pilot programme.

Background: Many low-income and middle-income country (LMIC) researchers have disadvantages when applying for research grants. Crowdfunding may help LMIC researchers to fund their research. Crowdfunding organises large groups of people to make small contributions to support a research study.

Description of global innovative methods in developing the WHO Community Engagement Package.

Objectives: Development of a Community Engagement Package composed of (1) database of community engagement (CE) experiences from different contexts, (2) CE learning package of lessons and tools presented as online modules, and (3) CE workshop package for identifying CE experiences to enrich the CE database and ensure regular update of learning resources. The package aims to guide practitioners to promote local action and enhance skills for CE.

Setting And Participants: The packages were co-created with diverse teams from WHO, Social Innovation in Health Initiative, UNICEF, community practitioners, and other partners providing synergistic contributions and bridging existing silos.

Joint international consensus statement on crowdsourcing challenge contests in health and medicine: results of a modified Delphi process.

Objectives: To develop a consensus statement to provide advice on designing, implementing and evaluating crowdsourcing challenge contests in public health and medical contexts.

Design: Modified Delphi using three rounds of survey questionnaires and one consensus workshop.

Setting: Uganda for face-to-face consensus activities, global for online survey questionnaires.

High TB burden and low notification rates in the Philippines: The 2016 national TB prevalence survey.

Setting: The 3rd national tuberculosis (TB) survey in the Philippines in 2007 reported a significant decline in the prevalence of TB. Since then, more significant investments for TB control have been made, yet TB burden estimates from routine surveillance data remain relatively stable.

Objective: To estimate the prevalence of bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary TB in the Philippines amongst individuals aged ≥15 years in 2016.

Quality of life of patients with traumatic brachial plexus injuries.

Background: Traumatic brachial plexus injuries are devastating injuries with lifelong disability and pain. The objective of this paper was to determine the functional disability of adult patients with traumatic brachial plexus injuries.

Patients And Methods: A cross-sectional study was done to determine the functional disability of patients using the FIL-DASH (Filipino Disability of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand) and the BPI (Brief Pain Inventory) Severity Pain Score (Tagalog version) questionnaires to determine the functional disability and quality of life of patients with traumatic brachial plexus injuries.

Crowdsourcing to identify social innovation initiatives in health in low- and middle-income countries.

Background: Crowdsourcing is a distributed problem-solving and production mechanism that leverages the collective intelligence of non-expert individuals and networked communities for specific goals. Social innovation (SI) initiatives aim to address health challenges in a sustainable manner, with a potential to strengthen health systems. They are developed by actors from different backgrounds and disciplines.

Fostering social innovation and building adaptive capacity for dengue control in Cambodia: a case study.

Background: The social-ecological systems theory, with its unique conception of resilience (social-ecological systems & resilience, SESR), provides an operational framework that currently best meets the need for integration and adaptive governance as encouraged by the Sustainable Development Goals. SESR accounts for the complex dynamics of social-ecological systems and operationalizes transdisciplinarity by focusing on community engagement, value co-creation, decentralized leadership and social innovation. Targeting Social Innovation (SI) in the context of implementation research for vector-borne diseases (VBD) control offers a low-cost strategy to contribute to lasting and contextualized community engagement in disease control and health development in low and middle income countries of the global south.

Universities as catalysts of social innovation in health systems in low-and middle-income countries: a multi-country case study.

Background: Social innovation (SI) in health holds potential to contribute to health systems strengthening and universal health coverage (UHC). The role of universities in SI has been well described in the context of high-income countries. An evidence gap exits on SI in healthcare delivery in the context of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) as well as on the engagement of universities from these contexts.

The Validity, Reliability and Internal Consistency of the Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the FIL-DASH (Filipino Version of the Disability of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand) Questionnaire in Patients with Traumatic Brachial Plexus Injuries.

The objective of this paper was to determine the validity, reliability and internal consistency of the translated FILIPINO DASH (FIL-DASH) questionnaire in patients with traumatic brachial plexus injuries. Thirty-five adult patients with traumatic brachial plexus injury were enrolled in the validation stage. The same questionnaire was given to the patient between 7 to 14 days for the .

Effectiveness of a community-based diabetes self-management education (DSME) program in a rural agricultural setting.

Unlabelled: Introduction The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of diabetes self-management education (DSME) in a rural agricultural town.

Methods: In this prospective, education-intervention trial, 85 adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus from villages randomly assigned to DSME and 70 from villages assigned to standard care participated. The DSME group underwent a curriculum delivered by peer educators; those in the standard group received usual advice.

Texting-Based Reporting of Adverse Drug Reactions to Ensure Patient Safety: A Feasibility Study.

Background: Paper-based adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting has been in practice for more than 6 decades. Health professionals remain the primary source of reports, while the value of patients' reporting is yet unclear. With the increasing popularity of using electronic gadgets in health, it is expected that the electronic transmission of reports will become the norm within a few years.

Assessing the residual risk for transfusion-transmitted infections in the Philippine blood supply.

Due to a USAID-funded study on blood banks, a national policy was instituted in 1994 that set standards for Philippine blood services, promoted voluntary donation, and led to a ban on commercial blood banks. In this follow-up study, we assess the safety of the supply by determining the residual risk for transfusion-transmitted infections (syphilis, hepatitis B and C, HIV). We also identified unsafe facility practices and generated policy recommendations.

Knowledge, attitudes and practices of persons with type 2 diabetes in a rural community: phase I of the community-based Diabetes Self-Management Education (DSME) Program in San Juan, Batangas, Philippines.

Aims: 1. To determine the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of persons with type 2 diabetes in the rural community of San Juan, Batangas, Philippines. 2.