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Strengthening community actions to improve diabetes mellitus care optimising public health facilitators.
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January 2025
Department of Population and Behavioural Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Hohoe, Ghana.
Background: Diabetes mellitus is the second leading cause of death in South Africa, and almost 90,000 people died from diabetes-related causes in the year 2019. This study aimed to investigate facilitators that can be harnessed to strengthen community actions and barriers that should be redressed in structured public health and health promotion programs for people with diabetes mellitus at a primary healthcare level.
Methods: An exploratory qualitative study was conducted using face-to-face interviews among 20 conveniently sampled participants.
The association between Guardian Cap use during practices and sport-related concussion risk in high school American football players.
Br J Sports Med
January 2025
Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Objective: Guardian Caps (GCs) have been widely implemented at all levels of American football participation based on laboratory evidence that they may reduce head impact forces. The purpose of this study was to determine if GC use during practice was associated with a lower risk of sport-related concussion (SRC) during practices and games among high school football players.
Methods: Data were collected on 2610 athletes from 41 Wisconsin schools that self-selected into GC or Non-GC cohorts.
A successful initial management of a penetrating head trauma in a rural district hospital: Case report.
Trauma Case Rep
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Faculty of Health Sciences, Comparative Anatomy and Experimental Histopathology and Surgery, Université des Montagnes, Bangangté, West Cameroon, Cameroon.
Penetrating head trauma is the most fatal form of head injury. Although many cases of penetrating head trauma have been reported in the literature, its management remains complex, requiring a multidisciplinary team, which makes it a challenge in district hospitals where human resources and technical equipment are limited. We aim to present a successful initial management of a case of penetrating head trauma in a rural district hospital before a transfer to a first category hospital.
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BJOG
January 2025
Gender and Women's Health Unit, Nossal Institute for Global Health, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia.
Objective: To explore factors affecting participation of pregnant women in randomised clinical trials in Belagavi, Karnataka, India.
Design: A qualitative study using semi-structured in-depth interviews and focus group discussions as data collection methods.
Setting: Primary, secondary and tertiary health facilities and their community catchment areas in Belagavi district.
Assessment of Four Essential Features of the Alive & Thrive Initiative to Improve Maternal, Infant, Young Child, and Adolescent Nutrition.
Matern Child Nutr
January 2025
ELEVATE Nutrition, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
Alive & Thrive has been a major global nutrition initiative that aimed to learn how to improve maternal, infant, young child, and adolescent nutrition and health on a large scale. During 2009-2014, Alive & Thrive developed and implemented interventions to improve infant and young child feeding at scale in three countries. Subsequently, Alive & Thrive expanded its work to more than 15 geographies, including six country-specific and two regional programs, to additionally address maternal and adolescent nutrition while adding agriculture and social protection programs to improve maternal, infant, and young child nutrition.
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