Background The best management strategy for moderate acute malnutrition (MAM; weight-for-height z-score<-2) in low- & middle- income countries is unclear. Recently there has been a growth in the use ...
1 Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, Kingston University & St George's, University of London, UK 2 School of Applied Social Sciences, University of Brighton, Sussex, UK Correspondence to ...
The 2008 global financial crisis, precipitated by high-risk, under-regulated financial practices, is often seen as a singular event. The crisis, its recessionary consequences, bank bailouts and the ...
OBJECTIVE: Methodological review of evaluations of interventions intended to help health professionals provide more effective and efficient health care, motivated by the current experience of NHS ...
1 Nutritional Epidemiology Group, School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK 2 Division of Biostatistics, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Leeds, ...
Background Prescribing is the most common intervention made by healthcare professionals. Our study aimed to compare prescribing between general practitioner (GP) practices with the highest and lowest ...
Background Dengue fever represents a serious public health issue in Brazil. Araraquara is a city, in state of São Paulo that has been having serious outbreaks of dengue fever in the last decade, in ...
In order to assess the need for community health services in different neighbourhoods within Greater Glasgow, it was decided to present a wide variety of health information for each community as a set ...
Background Influenza vaccines are crucial in reducing the risk of influenza symptoms. We aimed to: (1) estimate the ...
Background: Avoidable Mortality (AM) describes causes of death that should not occur in the presence of high-quality and timely medical treatment and from causes that can be influenced at least in ...