Submissions from 2014
Erratum: The neglected burden of caregiving in low- and middle-income countries (Disability and Health Journal (2014) 7:3 (262-272) DOI: 10.1016/j.dhjo.2014.01.003), Aaron Thrush and Adnan Hyder
The neglected burden of caregiving in low- and middle-income countries, Aaron Thrush and Adnan Hyder
Ten lessons in public health: Inspiration for tomorrow's leaders, James M. Tielsch
Designs of two randomized, community-based trials to assess the impact of alternative cookstove installation on respiratory illness among young children and reproductive outcomes in rural Nepal, James M. Tielsch, Joanne Katz, Scott L. Zeger, Subarna K. Khatry, Laxman Shrestha, Patrick Breysse, William Checkley, Luke C. Mullany, and Steven C. LeClerq
Seatbelt wearing rates in middle income countries: A cross-country analysis, Andres I. Vecino-Ortiz, David Bishai, Aruna Chandran, Kavi Bhalla, Abdulgafoor M. Bachani, Shivam Gupta, Ekaterina Slyunkina, and Adnan A. Hyder
The use of cost-Benefit analysis in road assessments: A methodological inquiry, Andres I. Vecino-Ortiz and Adnan A. Hyder
Demonstrating the use of high-volume electronic medical claims data to monitor local and regional influenza activity in the US, Cecile G. Viboud, Vivek Charu, Donald R. Olson, Sebastien Ballesteros, Julia R. Gog, Farid Khan, Bryan T. Grenfell, and Lone Simonsen
A Systems approach to implementation of elearning in medical education: Five MEPI Schools' Journeys, Yianna Vovides, Selamawit Bedada Chale, Rumbidzayi Gadhula, Masego B. Kebaetse, Netsanet Animut Nigussie, Fatima Suleman, Dativa Tibyampansha, Glory Ramadhan Ibrahim, Moshi Ntabaye, Seble Frehywot, and Oathokwa Nkomazana
Afghanistan's health system: Moving forward in challenging circumstances 2002-2013, Ronald J. Waldman and William Newbrander
Trauma training course: innovative teaching models and methods for training health workers in active conflict zones of Eastern Myanmar, Charles H. Washington, Francis J. Tyler, Julia Davis, Douglas R. Shapiro, Adam Richards, Matthew Richard, Thomas J. Lee, Taryn L. Colton, Louis Berk, Loren Rauch, Eh Kalu Shwe Oo, Richard Hahn, and Lawrence M. Stock
Is the Kampala Trauma Score an effective predictor of mortality in low-resource settings? A comparison of multiple trauma severity scores, Sharon R. Weeks, Catherine J. Juillard, Martin E. Monono, Georges A. Etoundi, Marquise K. Ngamby, Adnan A. Hyder, and Kent A. Stevens
The cost of injury and trauma care in low-and middle-income countries: A review of economic evidence, Hadley K.H. Wesson, Nonkululeko Boikhutso, Abdulgafoor M. Bachani, Karen J. Hofman, and Adnan A. Hyder
The time trend temperature-mortality as a factor of uncertainty analysis of impacts of future heat waves: Wu et al. Respond, Jianyong Wu, Ying Zhou, Yang Gao, Joshua S. Fu, Brent A. Johnson, Cheng Huang, Young Min Kim, and Yang Liu
Estimation and uncertainty analysis of impacts of future heat waves on mortality in the Eastern United States, Jianyong Wu, Ying Zhou, Yang Gao, Joshua S. Fu, Brent A. Johnson, Cheng Huang, Young-Min Kim, and Yang Liu
The implications of demographic change on the future of medicare: Racial and gender disparities in longevity, physical stature, and lifetime medicare expenditures, Zhou Yang and Cheng Huang
Medicare eligibility age, health disparities, and Medicare reform, Zhou Yang, Cheng Huang, and Victoria Phillips
Bicyclist mortality between 2006 and 2010 in China: Findings from national disease surveillance points (DSP) data, Maigeng Zhou, Guoqing Hu, Lijun Wang, Sai Ma, Lin Wang, Qingfeng Li, and Adnan A. Hyder
Medicare eligibility age, health disparities, and Medicare reform, Yang Zhou, Cheng Huang, and Victoria Phillips
Submissions from 2013
The use of non-standard motorcycle helmets in low- and middle-income countries: A multicentre study, Williams Ackaah, Francis Afukaar, Williams Agyemang, Trinh Thuy Anh, A. R. Hejar, Ghaffar Abdul, Gopalkrishna Gururaj, Hidalgo Solórzano Elisa, Híjar Martha, Adnan A. Hyder, Cristina Inclán-Valadez, Subramaniam Kulanthayan, Robyn Norton, Wilson Odero, Eme T. Owoaje, Margie Peden, Krishnan Rajam, and Junaid Abdul Razzak
A call to teach medical students clinical human rights, Ramin Asgary
Bring global health and global medicine home., Ramin Asgary
To the Editor, Ramin Asgary
Perceived stigma and discrimination towards people living with HIV and AIDS in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A qualitative approach, Ramin Asgary, Shyam Amin, Zoya Grigoryan, Ramesh Naderi, and Jane Aronson
Socio-medical challenges of asylum seekers prior and after coming to the US, Ramin Asgary, Beth Charpentier, and Delia C. Burnett
Systematic review of prevention and management strategies for the consequences of gender-based violence in refugee settings., Ramin Asgary, Eleanor Emery, and Marcia Wong
Hypertension, pre-hypertension, and associated risk factors in a subsistent farmer community in remote rural central India, Ramin Asgary, Sophie Galson, Hari Shankar, Caitlin O'Brien, and Shobha Arole
Comprehensive on-site medical and public health training for local medical practitioners in a refugee setting, Ramin Asgary and Karen Jacobson
New trends of short-term humanitarian medical volunteerism: Professional and ethical considerations, Ramin Asgary and Emily Junck
Domestic Global Health: A Curriculum Teaching Medical Students to Evaluate Refugee Asylum Seekers and Torture Survivors, Ramin Asgary, Pamela Saenger, Loretta Jophlin, and Delia C. Burnett
Ethical and Professional Considerations Providing Medical Evaluation and Care to Refugee Asylum Seekers, Ramin Asgary and Clyde L. Smith
Teaching Immigrant and Refugee Health to Residents: Domestic Global Health, Ramin Asgary, Clyde Lanford Smith, Blanca Sckell, and Gerald Paccione
Trends in prevalence, knowledge, attitudes, and practices of helmet use in Cambodia: Results from a two year study, Abdulgafoor M. Bachani, Casey Branching, Chariya Ear, Douglas R. Roehler, Erin M. Parker, Sotheary Tum, Michael F. Ballesteros, and Adnan A. Hyder
Prevalence, knowledge, attitude and practice of speeding in two districts in Kenya: Thika and Naivasha, Abdulgafoor M. Bachani, Yuen Wai Hung, Stephen Mogere, Daniel Akungah, Jackim Nyamari, Kent A. Stevens, and Adnan A. Hyder
Drinking & driving in Viet Nam: Prevalence, knowledge, attitudes, and practices in two provinces, Abdulgafoor M. Bachani, Nasreen S. Jessani, V. Cuong Pham, La Ngoc Quang, Phuong N. Nguyen, Jonathon Passmore, and Adnan A. Hyder
Income shocks and adolescent mental health, Sarah Baird, Jacobus de Hoop, and Berk Özler
The regressive demands of demand-driven development, Sarah Baird, Craig McIntosh, and Berk Özler
The prevalence of speeding and drink driving in two cities in China: A mid project evaluation of ongoing road safety interventions, Kavi Bhalla, Qingfeng Li, Leilen Duan, Yuan Wang, David Bishai, and Adnan A. Hyder
Latitudinal variations in seasonal activity of influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV): A global comparative review, Kimberly Bloom-Feshbach, Wladimir J. Alonso, Vivek Charu, James Tamerius, Lone Simonsen, Mark A. Miller, and Cecile Viboud
Prevalence of glaucoma in an urban west african population: The tema eye survey, Donald L. Budenz, Keith Barton, Julia Whiteside-De Vos, Joyce Schiffman, Jagadeesh Bandi, Winifred Nolan, Leon Herndon, Hanna Kim, Graham Hay-Smith, and James M. Tielsch
Author reply, Donald L. Budenz, Julia Whiteside-De Vos, and James Tielsch
The burden of pediatric diarrhea: A cross-sectional study of incurred costs and perceptions of cost among Bolivian families, Rachel M. Burke, Paulina A. Rebolledo, Sally R. Embrey, Laura Danielle Wagner, Carter L. Cowden, Fiona M. Kelly, Emily R. Smith, Volga Iñiguez, and Juan S. Leon
Health systems supports for community case management of childhood illness: Lessons from an assessment of early implementation in Malawi, Jennifer A. Callaghan-Koru, Kate Gilroy, Adnan A. Hyder, Asha George, Humphreys Nsona, Angella Mtimuni, Bernie Zakeyo, Josiah Mayani, Cristina V. Cardemil, and Jennifer Bryce
Impact of Road Traffic Deaths on Expected Years of Life Lost and Reduction in Life Expectancy in Brazil, Aruna Chandran, Geoffrey Kahn, Tanara Sousa, Flavio Pechansky, David M. Bishai, and Adnan A. Hyder
Disseminating childhood home injury risk reduction information in Pakistan: results from a community-based pilot study., Aruna Chandran, Uzma Rahim Khan, Nukhba Zia, Asher Feroze, Sarah Stewart de Ramirez, Cheng Ming Huang, Junaid A. Razzak, and Adnan A. Hyder
Mortality burden of the 2009-10 influenza pandemic in the United States: improving the timeliness of influenza severity estimates using inpatient mortality records, Vivek Charu, Lone Simonsen, Roger Lustig, Claudia Steiner, and Cecile Viboud
Risk of childhood undernutrition related to small-for-gestational age and preterm birth in low- and middle-income countries, Parul Christian, Sun Eun Lee, Moira Donahue Angel, Linda S. Adair, Shams E. Arifeen, Per Ashorn, Fernando C. Barros, Caroline H.D. Fall, Wafaie W. Fawzi, Wei Hao, Gang Hu, Jean H. Humphrey, Lieven Huybregts, Charu V. Joglekar, Simon K. Kariuki, Patrick Kolsteren, Ghattu V. Krishnaveni, and Enqing Liu
Development of a transmission model for dengue virus, Rebecca C. Christofferson, Michael K. McCracken, Ann Marie Johnson, Daniel M. Chisenhall, and Christopher N. Mores
Behavioral correlates of fruit and vegetable intake in Puerto Rico: Results from the health information national trends survey, Vivian Colón-López, Geetanjoli Banerjee, Alida María Gertz, Ana Patricia Ortiz, William Calo, Lila J. Finney-Rutten, Uriyoán Colón-Ramos, Bradford W. Hesse, and Guillermo Tortolero
Socio-demographic, behavioral, and health correlates of nutrition transition dietary indicators in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Uriyoan Colón-Ramos, Cynthia Pérez-Cardona, and Rafael Monge-Rojas
Behavior change and community participation: Assessing causal pathways affecting neonatal mortality, Gary L. Darmstadt and Wolfgang Munar
Diarrhea as a risk factor for acute lower respiratory tract infections among young children in low income settings, Christa L. Fischer Walker, Jamie Perin, Joanne D. Katz, James M. Tielsch, and Robert Black
Does comorbidity increase the risk of mortality among children under 3 years of age?, Christa L. Fischer Walker, Jamie Perin, Jodi L. Liu, Joanne Katz, James M. Tielsch, and Robert Black
E-learning in medical education in resource constrained low- and middle-income countries, Seble Frehywot, Yianna Vovides, Zohray Talib, Nadia Mikhail, Heather Ross, Hannah Wohltjen, Selam Bedada, Kristine Korhumel, Abdel Karim Koumare, and James Scott
A systematic review of the epidemiology of unintentional burn injuries in South Asia, Ashkan Golshan, Cyra Patel, and Adnan A. Hyder
Opposing roles for two molecular forms of replication protein A in Rad51-Rad54-mediated DNA recombination in Plasmodium falciparum, Anusha M. Gopalakrishnan and Nirbhay Kumar
Novel nanosomes for gene delivery to plasmodium falciparum-infected red blood cells, Anusha M. Gopalakrishnan, Anup K. Kundu, Tarun K. Mandal, and Nirbhay Kumar
Global health experiences of U.S. Physicians: A mixed methods survey of clinician-researchers and health policy leaders, S. Ryan Greysen, Adam K. Richards, Sidney Coupet, Mayur M. Desai, and Aasim I. Padela
Ten-year change in self-rated quality of life in a type 1 diabetes population: Wisconsin Epidemiologic Study of Diabetic Retinopathy, Flavio E. Hirai, James M. Tielsch, Barbara E.K. Klein, and Ronald Klein
Seatbelt use and speeding on three major roads in Egypt: A brief report, Connie Hoe, Prasanthi Puvanachandra, M. Hafizur Rahman, Hesham El Sayed, Soad Eldawy, Ayman El-Dabaa, Mourid Albert, and Adnan A. Hyder
Smoking behaviours and cessation services among male physicians in China: Evidence from a structural equation model, Cheng Huang, Chaoran Gao, Shaohua Yu, Yan Feng, Julia Song, Michael Erikson, Pam Redmon, and Jeffrey Koplan
Smoking experimentation among elementary school students in China: Influences from peers, families, and the school environment, Cheng Huang, Jeffrey Koplan, Shaohua Yu, Changwei Li, Chaoran Guo, Jing Liu, Hui Li, Michelle Kegler, Pam Redmon, and Michael Eriksen
Cognition and behavioural development in early childhood: The role of birth weight and postnatal growth, Cheng Huang, Reynaldo Martorell, Aiguo Ren, and Zhiwen Li
Malnutrition in early life and adult mental health: Evidence from a natural experiment, Cheng Huang, Michael R. Phillips, Yali Zhang, Jingxuan Zhang, Qichang Shi, Zhiqiang Song, Zhijie Ding, Shutao Pang, and Reynaldo Martorell
The challenges of injuries and trauma in Pakistan: An opportunity for concerted action, A. A. Hyder and J. A. Razzak
Injuries in low- and middle-income countries: A neglected disease in global public health, Adnan A. Hyder
Large-scale road safety programmes in low- and middle-income countries: An opportunity to generate evidence, Adnan A. Hyder, Katharine A. Allen, David H. Peters, Aruna Chandran, and David Bishai
Structural approaches for unintentional injury prevention, Adnan A. Hyder and Jeffrey C. Lunnen
Evaluating institutional capacity for research ethics in Africa: A case study from Botswana, Adnan A. Hyder, Waleed Zafar, Joseph Ali, Robert Ssekubugu, Paul Ndebele, and Nancy Kass
The effect of umbilical cord cleansing with chlorhexidine on omphalitis and neonatal mortality in community settings in developing countries: A meta-analysis, Aamer Imdad, Luke C. Mullany, Abdullah H. Baqui, Shams El Arifeen, James M. Tielsch, Subarna K. Khatry, Rasheduzzaman Shah, Simon Cousens, Robert E. Black, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Non-communicable diseases and injuries in Pakistan: Strategic priorities, Tazeen H. Jafar, Benjamin A. Haaland, Atif Rahman, Junaid A. Razzak, Marcel Bilger, Mohsen Naghavi, Ali H. Mokdad, and Adnan A. Hyder
IDSR as a platform for implementing IHR in African countries., Francis Kasolo, Zabulon Yoti, Nathan Bakyaita, Peter Gaturuku, Rebecca Katz, Julie E. Fischer, and Helen N Perry
Mortality risk in preterm and small-for-gestational-age infants in low-income and middle-income countries: A pooled country analysis., Joanne D. Katz, Anne C.C. Lee, Naoko Kozuki, Joy E. Lawn, Simon N. Cousens, James M. Tielsch, and +28 additional authors
Home injury risks to young children in Karachi, Pakistan: A pilot study, Uzma Rahim Khan, Aruna Chandran, Nukhba Zia, Cheng Ming Huang, Sarah Stewart De Ramirez, Asher Feroze, Adnan Ali Hyder, and Junaid Abdul Razzak
Feasibility intervention trial of two types of improved cookstoves in three resource-limited settings: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial, Elizabeth Klasen, J. Jaime Miranda, Subarna Khatry, Diana Menya, Robert H. Gilman, James M. Tielsch, Caitlin Kennedy, Robert Dreibelbis, Neha Naithani, Sylvester Kimaiyo, Marilu Chiang, E. J. Carter, Charles B. Sherman, Patrick N. Breysse, William Checkley, Angela Huaman, Mariela Levano, and Delia Haustein
The associations of parity and maternal age with small-for-gestational-age, preterm, and neonatal and infant mortality: A meta-analysis, Naoko Kozuki, Anne Cc Lee, Mariangela F. Silveira, Ayesha Sania, Joshua P. Vogel, Linda Adair, Fernando Barros, Laura E. Caulfield, Parul Christian, Wafaie Fawzi, Jean Humphrey, Lieven Huybregts, Aroonsri Mongkolchati, Robert Ntozini, David Osrin, Dominique Roberfroid, James Tielsch, and Anjana Vaidya
Functional evaluation of malaria Pfs25 DNA vaccine by in vivo electroporation in olive baboons, Rajesh Kumar, Ruth Nyakundi, Thomas Kariuki, Hastings Ozwara, Onkoba Nyamongo, Godfree Mlambo, Barry Ellefsen, Drew Hannaman, and Nirbhay Kumar
A chemiluminescent-western blot assay for quantitative detection of Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein, Sanjai Kumar, Hong Zheng, Davison T. Sangweme, Babita Mahajan, Yukiko Kozakai, Phuong T. Pham, Merribeth J. Morin, Emily Locke, and Nirbhay Kumar
National and regional estimates of term and preterm babies born small for gestational age in 138 low-income and middle-income countries in 2010, Anne C.C. Lee, Joanne D. Katz, Hannah Blencowe, Simon Cousens, Naoko Kozuki, James M. Tielsch, and +30 additional authors
Hospital ships adrift? Part 1: A systematic literature review characterizing US Navy hospital ship humanitarian and disaster response, 2004-2012., Derek J. Licina
Hospital ships adrift? Part 2: The role of U.S. Navy hospital ship humanitarian assistance missions in building partnerships, Derek J. Licina, Sangeeta Mookherji, Gene Migliaccio, and Cheryl Ringer
Detection and species identification of malaria parasites by isothermal tHDA amplification directly from human blood without sample preparation, Ying Li, Nirbhay Kumar, Anusha Gopalakrishnan, Christine Ginocchio, Ryhana Manji, Maureen Bythrow, Bertrand Lemieux, and Huimin Kong
Use of anti-aedes aegypti salivary extract antibody concentration to correlate risk of vector exposure and dengue transmission risk in colombia, Berlin Londono-Renteria, Jenny C. Cardenas, Lucio D. Cardenas, Rebecca C. Christofferson, Daniel M. Chisenhall, Dawn M. Wesson, Michael K. McCracken, Daisy Carvajal, and Christopher N. Mores
Development and pilot implementation of a locally developed Trauma Registry: Lessons learnt in a low-income country, Amber Mehmood, Junaid Abdul Razzak, Sarah Kabir, Ellen J. MacKenzie, and Adnan A. Hyder
Changes in dietary intake and food sources of saturated and cis and trans unsaturated fatty acids in Costa Rican adolescents: 1996 versus 2006, Rafael Monge-Rojas, M. Catalina Aragon, Anne Chinnock, Hannia Campos, and Uriyoan Colón-Ramos
Psychosocial factors influencing the frequency of fast-food consumption among urban and rural Costa Rican adolescents., Rafael Monge-Rojas, Vanessa Smith-Castro, Uriyoan Colón-Ramos, M. Catalina Aragon, and Francisco Herrera-Raven
Ethical considerations for vaccination programmes in acute humanitarian emergencies, Keymanthri Moodley, Kate Hardie, Michael J. Selgelid, Ronald J. Waldman, Peter Strebel, Helen Rees, and David N. Durrheim
Strategies to maximize generalization from multiple case studies: Lessons from the Africa Routine Immunization System Essentials (ARISE) project., Sangeeta Mookherji and Anne LaFond
Injections during labor and intrapartum-related hypoxic injury and mortality in rural southern Nepal, Luke C. Mullany, Subarna K. Khatry, Joanne Katz, Cynthia K. Stanton, Anne C.C. Lee, Gary L. Darmstadt, Steven C. Leclerq, and James M. Tielsch
An examination of postpartum family planning in western Kenya: "I want to use contraception but I have not been told how to do so", Violet Naanyu, Joyce Baliddawa, Emily Peca, Julie Karfakis, Nancy Nyagoha, and Beatrice Koech
Stakeholder analysis for a maternal and newborn health project in Eastern Uganda, Gertrude Namazzi, Suzanne N. Kiwanuka, Waiswa Peter, Bua John, Okui Olico, Katharine A. Allen, Adnan A. Hyder, and Kiracho Elizabeth Ekirapa
Developmental effects of micronutrient supplementation and malaria in Zanzibari children, Deanna K. Olney, Patricia K. Kariger, Rebecca J. Stoltzfus, Sabra S. Khalfan, Nadra S. Ali, James M. Tielsch, Sunil Sazawal, Robert Black, Lindsay H. Allen, and Ernesto Pollitt
Reassessing Google flu trends data for detection of seasonal and pandemic influenza: A comparative epidemiological study at three geographic scales, Donald R. Olson, Kevin J. Konty, Marc Paladini, Cecile G. Viboud, and Lone Simonsen
Intimate partner violence, abortion, and unintended pregnancy: Results from the WHO multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence, Christina C. Palitto, Claudia Garcia-Moreno, Henrica Jansen, Lori Heise, Mary Ellsberg, and Charlotte Watts
Household wealth and neurocognitive development disparities among school-aged children in Nepal., Shivani A Patel, Laura E Murray-Kolb, Steven C LeClerq, Subarna K Khatry, James M. Tielsch, Joanne Katz, and Parul Christian
The use of seatbelts and child restraints in three Mexican cities, Ricardo Pérez-Núñez, Aruna Chandran, Martha Híjar, Alfredo Celis, Ma Socorro Carmona-Lozano, Jeffrey C. Lunnen, and Adnan A. Hyder
The Global Road Safety Programme: Work in progress, Prasanthi Puvanachandra, David Bishai, and Adnan A. Hyder
Identification of biochemically distinct properties of the small ubiquitin-related modifier (SUMO) conjugation pathway in Plasmodium falciparum, Katherine Reiter, Debaditya Mukhopadhyay, Hong Zhang, Lauren E. Boucher, Nirbhay Kumar, Jürgen Bosch, and Michael J. Matunis
An Explosive Epidemic of DENV-3 in Cairns, Australia, Scott A. Ritchie, Alyssa T. Pyke, Sonja Hall-Mendelin, Andrew Day, Christopher N. Mores, Rebecca C. Christofferson, Duane J. Gubler, Shannon N. Bennett, and Andrew F. van den Hurk
Motorcycle helmet attitudes, behaviours and beliefs among Cambodians, Douglas R. Roehler, Socheata Sann, Pagna Kim, Abdulgafoor M. Bachani, Stefano Campostrini, Michael Florian, Mirjam Sidik, Claire Blanchard, David A. Sleet, Adnan A. Hyder, and Michael F. Ballesteros
Sex differences in neonatal mortality in Sarlahi, Nepal: The role of biology and environment, Summer Rosenstock, James D. Katz, Luke C. Mullany, Subarna K. Khatry, Steven C. LeClerq, Gary L. Darmstadt, and James M. Tielsch