Publications by authors named "R Whittaker"
Don't Forget the Humble Text Message: 25 Years of Text Messaging in Health.
J Med Internet Res
December 2024
Since the early studies exploring the use of SMS text messaging for health intervention, text messaging has played a pivotal role in the advancement of mobile health. As an intervention modality, text messaging has provided vital learnings for the design and delivery of interventions, particularly in low-resource settings. Despite the advances in technology over the last 25 years, text messaging is still being used in largely the same way to deliver health information, behavior change interventions, and support.
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- 45.9% of reported HIV cases were in migrants, with the majority (86.7%) coming from non-EU/EEA countries.
- A concerning 52.4% of migrants received a late HIV diagnosis, especially non-EU/EEA migrants through heterosexual transmission, highlighting the need for better prevention and testing strategies.
BackgroundHepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is targeted for elimination as a public health threat by 2030. The World Health Organization goal for treatment uptake is ≥ 80% among cases diagnosed with an active HCV infection (RNA- or core antigen-positive), maintained for 2 years.AimTo calculate treatment uptake, time from diagnosis to treatment start and complete treatment dispensation among notified cases of HCV infection in Norway.
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- Subdural hemorrhage along the optic nerve is an indicator of abusive head trauma (AHT) in infants, and the study investigates if this could result from a sudden spike in intracranial pressure affecting cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).
- The researchers created a theoretical model to examine how a brief but intense pressure change at the optic foramen transmits through the CSF-filled subarachnoid space around the optic nerve.
- The findings reveal that a rapid increase in CSF pressure can create a pressure wave that stretches this space, potentially causing tears in blood vessels and leading to hemorrhage—offering insights into the mechanisms behind AHT.
Humans have been driving a global erosion of species richness for millennia, but the consequences of past extinctions for other dimensions of biodiversity-functional and phylogenetic diversity-are poorly understood. In this work, we show that, since the Late Pleistocene, the extinction of 610 bird species has caused a disproportionate loss of the global avian functional space along with ~3 billion years of unique evolutionary history. For island endemics, proportional losses have been even greater.
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