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PLoS One
January 2025
School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda.
Introduction: The World Health Organization (WHO) has emphasized the importance of ensuring respectful and dignified childbirth experiences. However, many countries, including Rwanda, have documented negative experiences during childbirth. Identifying best practices can help uncover sustainable solutions for resource-limited settings rather than focusing solely on the challenges and negative aspects.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The COVID-19 pandemic exposed weaknesses in healthcare systems and disparities in healthcare access across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The insights of frontline healthcare professionals (HCPs), and healthcare researchers involved with the response to COVID in SSA are crucial to ensuring that health systems are optimally prepared for the next pandemic threat. Nonetheless, there is limited consensus as to what are the clinical and public health research priorities necessary to ensure that SSA is optimally prepared and responsive to future pandemics.
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January 2025
Department of Food and Resource Economics, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark.
Thousands of plants, fungi, and lichen species are traded every year. Although sustainable use is critical for livelihoods and biodiversity conservation, insufficient data prevent detailed sustainability assessments for most species. How can the sustainability of trade in such data-deficient species be enhanced? We considered a country-level example of 300 medicinal and aromatic plant, fungus, and lichen species traded in tens of thousands of tons worth tens of millions of US dollars in and from Nepal annually.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Glob Health
January 2025
School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Background: China has recently implemented a long-term prescription policy as a component of the family doctor system in order to strengthen chronic disease management. In this study, we evaluated the net policy impact on health care utilisation and costs at community health centres (CHCs) among hypertensive patients.
Methods: The study population included 164 857 hypertensive patients from a provincial capital city in Eastern China, with an average age of 69.
BMJ Open
January 2025
International Center for Equity in Health, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil.
Objective: Despite the Global Vaccine Action Plan's goal of at least 90% vaccine coverage for all children, Uganda has made limited progress in vaccination over the past decade. The objective of this study was to examine the subnational trends in the prevalence and inequalities in under-immunisation and zero-dose among children aged 12-23 months in Uganda.
Study Design: A retrospective national cross-sectional study.
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