Linking Hospital and Tax data to support research on the economic impacts of hospitalization by Claudia Sanmartin, Alexander Reicker, Allan Garland, Theodore Iwashyna, Randy Fransoo, Damon Scales, Hannah Wunsch, Evelyn Forget, Hanqing Qiu

“…(Error estimates to be reported) Conclusion This project has created a unique linked database that will support research on the economic consequences of ‘health shocks’ for individuals and their families, and the implications for income, labour and health policies. This database represents a new and unique resource that will fill an important national data gap, and enable a wide range of relevant research.…”
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Caesarean Section Delivery Is Associated with Childhood Overweight and Obesity, Low Childbirth Weight and Postnatal Complications: A Cross-Sectional Study by Sousana K Papadopoulou, Maria Mentzelou, Eleni Pavlidou, Georgios K Vasios, Maria Spanoudaki, Georgios Antasouras, Anastasia Sampani, Evmorfia Psara, Gavriela Voulgaridou, Gerasimos Tsourouflis, Maria Mantzorou, Constantinos Giaginis

“…Caesarean section independently increased childhood overweight/obesity in pre-school age, highlighting the emergent need to promote health policies and strategies to inform future mothers about its short and long-term risks and that this mode of delivery should preferably be performed only when there are strong medical recommendations in emergency obstetric conditions.…”
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Assessment of Remote Sensing Data to Model PM10 Estimation in Cities with a Low Number of Air Quality Stations: A Case of Study in Quito, Ecuador by Cesar I. Alvarez-Mendoza, Ana Claudia Teodoro, Nelly Torres, Valeria Vivanco

“…The monitoring of air pollutant concentration within cities is crucial for environment management and public health policies in order to promote sustainable cities. …”
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Intake and food sources of sodium in the population residing in urban areas of Ecuador: results from ELANS study by Mónica Villar, Martha Cecilia Yépez García, María Belén Ocampo, Georgina Gómez

“…This data is important to formulate public health policies and interventions in Ecuador, especially in the population at risk.…”
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Prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in overweight and obese children seeking ambulatory healthcare in Nairobi, Kenya by Ahmed Laving, William M Macharia, Anne Njeri Mburu, Joyce Sande

“…Establishing the prevalence of NAFLD in overweight and obese Kenyan children would guide in public health policies aimed at early screening and intervention.Objectives To investigate prevalence of NAFLD in overweight and obese children aged 6–18 years using liver ultrasonography.Methodology This was a cross-sectional survey. …”
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Risky sexual practices and hepatitis C viremia among HIV-positive men who have sex with men in Taiwan by Miao-Hui Huang, Guan-Jhou Chen, Hsin-Yun Sun, Yi-Ting Chen, Li-Hsin Su, Shu-Yuan Ho, Sui-Yuan Chang, Sung-Hsi Huang, Yi-Chia Huang, Wang-Da Liu, Kuan-Yin Lin, Yu-Shan Huang, Yi-Ching Su, Wen-Chun Liu, Chien-Ching Hung

“…Background: Understanding the risk behaviors associated with sexually-transmitted hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among men who have sex with men (MSM) may inform the public health policies and interventions aiming to achieve HCV microelimination. …”
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Humoral response and neutralising capacity at 6 months post-vaccination against COVID-19 among institutionalised older adults in Argentina by Pamela E. Rodriguez, Andrea P. Silva, Esteban A. Miglietta, Pablo Rall, Carla A. Pascuale, Christian Ballejo, Lucía López Miranda, Antonella S. Ríos, Lila Ramis, Jimena Marro, Verónica Poncet, Bianca Mazzitelli, Melina Salvatori, Ana Ceballos, María M. Gonzalez Lopez Ledesma, Diego S. Ojeda, María F. Aguirre, Yanina Miragaya, Andrea V. Gamarnik, Andrés H. Rossi, Laboratorio SeVa Group, PAMI Group, Diana R. Rodriguez García, Magalí G. Bialer, María José de Leone, Natalí B: Rasetto, Shirley D. Wenker, Luciana Bianchimano, Maria Soledad Treffinger Cienfuegos, C. Esteban Hernando, Daniel A. Careno, Corina Garcia

“…This data could be useful for pandemic management in defining public health policies, highlighting the need to apply reinforcements after a complete vaccination schedule.…”
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Availability of subfertility management services in Colombo District, Sri Lanka by Gayani Gunawardhana, Sanjeeva Godakandage, Manuj Weerasinghe

“…Notably, the ART services were available in the private sector hospitals predominantly. Rational public health policies need to be developed regarding the provision of field level and advanced care. …”
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Cervical Cancer Prevention Knowledge (Cckp-64) among Female Students in Novi Sad, Serbia during COVID-19 Pandemic by Sanja D Tomić, Andrijana Ćorić, Slobodan Tomić, Ermina Mujičić, Jelena Malenković, Armin Šljivo, Goran Malenković

“…These findings have implications for public health policies in Serbia to promote cervical cancer prevention among young women.…”
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2160 Does maternal schistosomiasis affect the humoral and cellular vaccine responses of infants? by Deborah Bloch, Taryn McLaughlin, Cheryl Day, W. Evan Secor, Govert van Dam, Paul Corstjens, Heather B. Jaspan, Grace John-Stewart, Saad B. Omer, Lisa Cranmer

“…Additionally, our results will inform public health policies to consider integration of antischistosomal agents in antenatal care.…”
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A Hybrid Architecture (CO-CONNECT) to Facilitate Rapid Discovery and Access to Data Across the United Kingdom in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Development Study by Emily Jefferson, Christian Cole, Shahzad Mumtaz, Samuel Cox, Thomas Charles Giles, Sam Adejumo, Esmond Urwin, Daniel Lea, Calum Macdonald, Joseph Best, Erum Masood, Gordon Milligan, Jenny Johnston, Scott Horban, Ipek Birced, Christopher Hall, Aaron S Jackson, Clare Collins, Sam Rising, Charlotte Dodsley, Jill Hampton, Andrew Hadfield, Roberto Santos, Simon Tarr, Vasiliki Panagi, Joseph Lavagna, Tracy Jackson, Antony Chuter, Jillian Beggs, Magdalena Martinez-Queipo, Helen Ward, Julie von Ziegenweidt, Frances Burns, Joanne Martin, Neil Sebire, Carole Morris, Declan Bradley, Rob Baxter, Anni Ahonen-Bishopp, Paul Smith, Amelia Shoemark, Ana M Valdes, Benjamin Ollivere, Charlotte Manisty, David Eyre, Stephanie Gallant, George Joy, Andrew McAuley, David Connell, Kate Northstone, Katie Jeffery, Emanuele Di Angelantonio, Amy McMahon, Mat Walker, Malcolm Gracie Semple, Jessica Mai Sims, Emma Lawrence, Bethan Davies, John Kenneth Baillie, Ming Tang, Gary Leeming, Linda Power, Thomas Breeze, Duncan Murray, Chris Orton, Iain Pierce, Ian Hall, Shamez Ladhani, Natalie Gillson, Matthew Whitaker, Laura Shallcross, David Seymour, Susheel Varma, Gerry Reilly, Andrew Morris, Susan Hopkins, Aziz Sheikh, Philip Quinlan

“…Analysis of these data has underpinned the United Kingdom’s response to the pandemic, and informed public health policies and clinical guidelines. However, these data are held by different organizations, and this fragmented landscape has presented challenges for public health agencies and researchers as they struggle to find relevant data to access and interrogate the data they need to inform the pandemic response at pace. …”
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Assessment of organization of cervical and breast cancer screening programmes in the Latin American and the Caribbean states: The CanScreen5 framework by Isabel Mosquera, Clara B. Barajas, Li Zhang, Eric Lucas, Sara Benitez Majano, Mauricio Maza, Silvana Luciani, Partha Basu, Andre L. Carvalho

“…CELAC governments need pragmatic public health policies and strengthened health systems. They should guarantee sustainable funding, and universal access to cancer diagnosis and treatment. …”
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Exploring different health care providers´ perceptions on the management of diarrhoea in cholera hotspots in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A qualitative content analysis. by Mattias Schedwin, Aurélie Bisumba Furaha, Helena Hildenwall, Kelly Elimian, Espoir Bwenge Malembaka, Marc K Yambayamba, Birger C Forsberg, Wim Van Damme, Tobias Alfvén, Simone E Carter, Placide Welo Okitayemba, Mala Ali Mapatano, Carina King

“…Drug shops and traditional health practitioners should be considered for inclusion in health policies for cholera and other diarrhoeal diseases. …”
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Prostate cancer polygenic risk score and prediction of lethal prostate cancer by Robert J. Klein, Emily Vertosick, Dan Sjoberg, David Ulmert, Ann-Charlotte Rönn, Christel Häggström, Elin Thysell, Göran Hallmans, Anders Dahlin, Pär Stattin, Olle Melander, Andrew Vickers, Hans Lilja

“…These findings have implications for public health policies for delivery of prostate cancer screening. …”
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Assessing climate change impacts on public health in Haiti: a comprehensive study of disease distribution, modeling, and adaptation strategies by Ibrahima Diouf, Ibrahima Sy, Moussa Diakhaté

“…These findings will inform the implementation of context-specific early-warning systems and adaptation strategies for climate-sensitive diseases while acknowledging the challenges of integrating climate-altered data into health policies.…”
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Elective Spine Surgery—A Single Center Experience by Nenad Koruga, Anamarija Soldo Koruga, Silva Butković Soldo, Robert Rončević, Tatjana Rotim, Tajana Turk, Domagoj Kretić, Sonja Škiljić, Nenad Nešković, Alen Rončević

“…Our results suggest that public health policies in the early pandemic period reduced elective surgical procedures, which was followed by a compensatory increase in the following period.…”
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Adoption and Deadoption of Medications to Treat Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19 by Ian J. Barbash, MD, MS, Billie S. Davis, PhD, John S. Minturn, MAS, Jeremy M. Kahn, MD MS

“…The COVID-19 pandemic was characterized by rapidly evolving evidence regarding the efficacy of different therapies, as well as rapidly evolving health policies in response to that evidence. Data on adoption and deadoption are essential as we learn from this pandemic and prepare for future public health emergencies. …”
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Diet, physical activity, and UV protection comprehensively influenced vitamin D status in college students: a cross-section study from China by Yingyi Luo, Chunbo Qu, Rui Zhang, Jingyi Zhang, Dan Han, Qingwen Zhang, Jiaxing Li, Lixin Na

“…Milk and yogurt intake and outdoor activity should be encouraged while candy intake should be limited for preventing vitamin D deficiency. Public health policies should focus on these changeable lifestyles and consider well-balanced guidelines on UV protection and vitamin D supplementation.…”
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Correlation between Escherichia coli resistant gene isolated from stool samples of children under five years and that from consumed water by Titus Suge, Dennis Magu, Peter Wanzala

“…The findings help to shape public health policies and initiatives.…”
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SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence Following a Large-Scale Vaccination Campaign in Portugal: Results of the National Serological Survey, September - November 2021 by Irina Kislaya, Paulo Gonçalves, Sara Ramalhete, Marta Barreto, Ana Rita Torres, Vânia Gaio, Verónica Gómez, Carla Manita, João Almeida Santos, Sofia Soeiro, Rita de Sousa, Aryse Melo, Camila Henriques, Raquel Guiomar, Ana Paula Rodrigues, on Behalf of ISNCOVID-19 Group

“…It is important to continue to monitor the distribution of specific SARS-COV-2 antibody at the population level to further inform public health policies. …”
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