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View article: Perception of affordable diet is associated with pre-school children’s diet diversity in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: the EAT Addis survey
Perception of affordable diet is associated with pre-school children’s diet diversity in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: the EAT Addis survey Open
Background Despite improvements in food access and nutrition security over the last few decades, malnutrition remains a major public health problem. One of the significant contributors to these problems is affordability of nutritious food.…
View article: Time after time: failure to identify and support females with ADHD – a Swedish population register study
Time after time: failure to identify and support females with ADHD – a Swedish population register study Open
Background Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with risk taking and negative health‐related outcomes across the lifespan. Due to delay in referral and diagnostics, young females with ADHD may not be identified, no…
View article: Determinants and Outcomes of Suicidal Behavior Among Patients With Major Depressive Disorder
Determinants and Outcomes of Suicidal Behavior Among Patients With Major Depressive Disorder Open
Importance Major depressive disorder (MDD) is an important risk factor of suicidal behavior, but the added burden of suicidal behavior and MDD on the patient and societal level, including all-cause mortality, is not well studied. Also, the…
View article: Perception of affordable diet is associated with pre-school children’s diet diversity in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: the EAT Addis survey
Perception of affordable diet is associated with pre-school children’s diet diversity in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: the EAT Addis survey Open
Background Despite improvements in food access and nutrition security over the last few decades, malnutrition remains a major public health problem. One of the significant contributors to these problems is affordability of nutritious food.…
View article: Dietary patterns and indicators of cardiometabolic risk among rural adolescents: A cross-sectional study at 15-year follow-up of the MINIMat cohort
Dietary patterns and indicators of cardiometabolic risk among rural adolescents: A cross-sectional study at 15-year follow-up of the MINIMat cohort Open
Background Diet being a modifiable factor, its relationship with cardiometabolic risk is of public health interest. The vast majority of studies on associations of dietary patterns with cardiometabolic risk indicators among adolescents are…
View article: Mid-upper arm circumference for identifying adult overweight in large-scale population-based surveys: empirical evaluation using data of the EAT Addis study, Ethiopia
Mid-upper arm circumference for identifying adult overweight in large-scale population-based surveys: empirical evaluation using data of the EAT Addis study, Ethiopia Open
Objectives The present study evaluates body circumferences as a nutrition screening tool for women of reproductive age with children less than 5 years of age to improve the detection of overweight and obesity in a community setting. Design…
View article: Trends and factors related to adolescent pregnancies: an incidence trend and conditional inference trees analysis of northern Nicaragua demographic surveillance data
Trends and factors related to adolescent pregnancies: an incidence trend and conditional inference trees analysis of northern Nicaragua demographic surveillance data Open
Background We aimed to identify the 2001–2013 incidence trend, and characteristics associated with adolescent pregnancies reported by 20–24-year-old women. Methods A retrospective analysis of the Cuatro Santos Northern Nicaragua Health and…
View article: Association between Pre- and Post-Migration Wellbeing Factors with Integration among Russian, Somali, and Kurdish Origin Women in Finland
Association between Pre- and Post-Migration Wellbeing Factors with Integration among Russian, Somali, and Kurdish Origin Women in Finland Open
Pre- and post-migration related factors are likely to influence integration outcomes of migrants. This study aimed to investigate which pre-migration factors (basic education and potentially traumatic experiences) and post-migration wellbe…
View article: Correction: Shifting perceptions of female genital cutting in a Swedish migration context
Correction: Shifting perceptions of female genital cutting in a Swedish migration context Open
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0225629.].
View article: Assessing the Multiple Dimensions of Poverty. Data Mining Approaches to the 2004–14 Health and Demographic Surveillance System in Cuatro Santos, Nicaragua
Assessing the Multiple Dimensions of Poverty. Data Mining Approaches to the 2004–14 Health and Demographic Surveillance System in Cuatro Santos, Nicaragua Open
We identified clusters of multiple dimensions of poverty according to the capability approach theory by applying data mining approaches to the Cuatro Santos Health and Demographic Surveillance database, Nicaragua. Four municipalities in no…
View article: Shifting perceptions of female genital cutting in a Swedish migration context
Shifting perceptions of female genital cutting in a Swedish migration context Open
Swedish Somalis motivation to continue or discontinue with the practice of FGC may be influenced by perceptions of what other Swedish Somalis prefer. How FGC is being portrayed, in for example media reports, could therefore have an impact …
View article: Accessibility of basic paediatric emergency care in Malawi: analysis of a national facility census
Accessibility of basic paediatric emergency care in Malawi: analysis of a national facility census Open
Background Emergency care is among the weakest parts of health systems in low-income countries with both quality and accessibility constraints. Previous studies estimated accessibility to surgical or emergency care based on population trav…
View article: Time trends and sociodemographic determinants of preterm births in pregnancy cohorts in Matlab, Bangladesh, 1990–2014
Time trends and sociodemographic determinants of preterm births in pregnancy cohorts in Matlab, Bangladesh, 1990–2014 Open
Introduction Preterm birth is the major cause of under-five mortality. Population-based data on determinants and proportions of children born preterm are limited, especially from low-income countries. This study aimed at assessing time tre…
View article: Relative importance of prenatal and postnatal determinants of stunting: data mining approaches to the MINIMat cohort, Bangladesh
Relative importance of prenatal and postnatal determinants of stunting: data mining approaches to the MINIMat cohort, Bangladesh Open
Introduction WHO has set a goal to reduce the prevalence of stunted child growth by 40% by the year 2025. To reach this goal, it is imperative to establish the relative importance of risk factors for stunting to deliver appropriate interve…
View article: Stunting, recovery from stunting and puberty development in the MINIMat cohort, Bangladesh
Stunting, recovery from stunting and puberty development in the MINIMat cohort, Bangladesh Open
Aim This paper aimed to analyse the association between small for size at birth, stunting, recovery from stunting and pubertal development in a rural Bangladeshi cohort. Methods The participants were 994 girls and 987 boys whose mothers pa…
View article: Accessibility of basic paediatric emergency care in Malawi: analysis of a national facility census
Accessibility of basic paediatric emergency care in Malawi: analysis of a national facility census Open
Background Emergency care is among the weakest parts of health systems in low-income countries. Previous studies estimated accessibility to emergency care based on population travel times to nearest hospital with no assessment of hospital …
View article: PSICA: Decision trees for probabilistic subgroup identification with categorical treatments
PSICA: Decision trees for probabilistic subgroup identification with categorical treatments Open
Personalized medicine aims at identifying best treatments for a patient with given characteristics. It has been shown in the literature that these methods can lead to great improvements in medicine compared to traditional methods prescribi…
View article: Assessing the multiple dimensions of poverty. Data mining approaches to the 2004-14 Health and Demographic Surveillance System in Cuatro Santos, Nicaragua
Assessing the multiple dimensions of poverty. Data mining approaches to the 2004-14 Health and Demographic Surveillance System in Cuatro Santos, Nicaragua Open
We aimed to describe multiple dimensions of poverty according to the capability approach theory by applying data mining approaches to the Cuatro Santos Health and Demographic Surveillance databases, Nicaragua. Four municipalities in northe…
View article: PSICA: decision trees for probabilistic subgroup identification with categorical treatments
PSICA: decision trees for probabilistic subgroup identification with categorical treatments Open
Personalized medicine aims at identifying best treatments for a patient with given characteristics. It has been shown in the literature that these methods can lead to great improvements in medicine compared to traditional methods prescribi…
View article: Secular trend, seasonality and effects of a community-based intervention on neonatal mortality: follow-up of a cluster-randomised trial in Quang Ninh province, Vietnam
Secular trend, seasonality and effects of a community-based intervention on neonatal mortality: follow-up of a cluster-randomised trial in Quang Ninh province, Vietnam Open
Background Little is know about whether the effects of community engagement interventions for child survival in low-income and middle-income settings are sustained. Seasonal variation and secular trend may blur the data. Neonatal mortality…
View article: Cohort Profile: The Maternal and Infant Nutrition Interventions in Matlab (MINIMat) cohort in Bangladesh
Cohort Profile: The Maternal and Infant Nutrition Interventions in Matlab (MINIMat) cohort in Bangladesh Open
Cohort Profile : The Maternal and Infant Nutrition Interventions in Matlab (MINIMat) Cohort in Bangladesh
View article: Cost-effectiveness of prenatal food and micronutrient interventions on under-five mortality and stunting: Analysis of data from the MINIMat randomized trial, Bangladesh
Cost-effectiveness of prenatal food and micronutrient interventions on under-five mortality and stunting: Analysis of data from the MINIMat randomized trial, Bangladesh Open
When both favourable and unfavourable outcomes were included in the analysis, early prenatal food and multiple micronutrient interventions remained highly cost effective and seem to be meaningful from a public health perspective.
View article: Prenatal exposure to preeclampsia is associated with accelerated height gain in early childhood
Prenatal exposure to preeclampsia is associated with accelerated height gain in early childhood Open
Prenatal exposure to preeclampsia is associated with accelerated height gain in early childhood. The association seemed independent on SGA-status, but partly related to shorter gestational age at birth.
View article: MOESM2 of Can malaria rapid diagnostic tests by drug sellers under field conditions classify children 5Â years old or less with or without Plasmodium falciparum malaria? Comparison with nested PCR analysis
MOESM2 of Can malaria rapid diagnostic tests by drug sellers under field conditions classify children 5Â years old or less with or without Plasmodium falciparum malaria? Comparison with nested PCR analysis Open
Additional file 2. The calculations of sensitivity, specificity, predictive values and likelihood ratios of the diagnostic strategies and respective formulae used.
View article: Factors associated with the support of pricking (female genital cutting type IV) among Somali immigrants – a cross-sectional study in Sweden
Factors associated with the support of pricking (female genital cutting type IV) among Somali immigrants – a cross-sectional study in Sweden Open
Values known to be associated with FGC in general are also related to pricking. Hence, there seems to be a change in what types of FGC are supported rather than in their perceived values.
View article: Prenatal early food and multiple micronutrient supplementation trial reduced infant mortality in Bangladesh, but did not influence morbidity
Prenatal early food and multiple micronutrient supplementation trial reduced infant mortality in Bangladesh, but did not influence morbidity Open
Aim A previous maternal and infant nutrition intervention in rural Matlab, Bangladesh, showed that prenatal nutrient supplements improved child survival, but had no effect on size at birth. This secondary analysis examined whether prenatal…