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The University of Memphis
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World Health Organization
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University of BaGHDAD
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University of London
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Royal College of Physicians
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University College Dublin
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Imperial College London
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Alexandria University Faculty of Medicine
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Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2017
Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2018
Are local development plans mainstreaming climate-smart agriculture? A mixed-content analysis of medium-term development plans in semi-arid Ghana
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-04-2021
Global Mortality From Firearms, 1990-2016
Publisher: American Medical Association (AMA)
Date: 28-08-2018
Erratum: Measuring progress and projecting attainment on the basis of past trends of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries: an analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 (The Lancet (2017) 390(10100) (1423–1459) (S014067361732336X) (10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32336-X))
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2017
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global B
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2018
Prioritization of climate change adaptation strategies by smallholder farmers in semi-arid savannah agro-ecological zones: insights from the Talensi District, Ghana
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-11-2022
Global, regional, and country-specific lifetime risks of stroke, 1990 and 2016
Publisher: Massachusetts Medical Society
Date: 20-12-2018
Burden of diarrhea in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 1990–2015: Findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-08-2017
Global, regional, and national burden of traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2019
Learning style preferences of undergraduate nursing students
Publisher: RCN Publishing Ltd.
Date: 18-04-2007
Primary care healthcare policy implementation in the Eastern Mediterranean region; experiences of six countries: Part II
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2019
A digital turn for urban management? Residents' perception and utilisation of the digital property address system in Accra, Ghana
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2023
Lessons on the COVID-19 pandemic, for and by primary care professionals worldwide
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-09-2020
Diabetes mellitus and chronic kidney disease in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-08-2017
Burden of cardiovascular diseases in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 1990–2015: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-08-2017
Burden of cancer in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 2005–2015: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 Study
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-08-2017
Fire risk communication in the urban informal sector: Evidence from traditional marketplaces in Accra, Ghana
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-09-2022
DOI: 10.1002/RHC3.12259
Abstract: Urban marketplace fires in Ghana are chronic, devasting in economic losses and disproportionately impacting informal sector workers. Yet, the scholarly works on urban disasters have focused on hydrometeorological and other man‐made disasters to the neglect of marketplace fires, particularly the challenges in risk communication between emergency management agencies and urban marketplace workers. In seeking to extend the emerging but scant work on urban marketplace fires in Ghana, this paper analysed fire risk communication to understand how socio‐cultural factors influence the perceptions and protective behavioral strategies of traders in two traditional urban marketplaces of Accra. In‐depth interviews with both public agencies and traders showed that traders’ social networks and interactions are important sources and channels for fire risk communication, albeit unharnessed by formal emergency management agencies. It also revealed how cultural elements such as religious beliefs about fire risks affect proactiveness in fire risk preparedness and response. To ensure effective risk communication about marketplace fires, this paper calls attention to and mainstreaming of socio‐cultural aspects of everyday life in marketplaces into disaster risk planning and management.
Global mortality of snakebite envenoming between 1990 and 2019
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 25-10-2022
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-022-33627-9
Abstract: Snakebite envenoming is an important cause of preventable death. The World Health Organization (WHO) set a goal to halve snakebite mortality by 2030. We used verbal autopsy and vital registration data to model the proportion of venomous animal deaths due to snakes by location, age, year, and sex, and applied these proportions to venomous animal contact mortality estimates from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 study. In 2019, 63,400 people (95% uncertainty interval 38,900–78,600) died globally from snakebites, which was equal to an age-standardized mortality rate (ASMR) of 0.8 deaths (0.5–1.0) per 100,000 and represents a 36% (2–49) decrease in ASMR since 1990. India had the greatest number of deaths in 2019, equal to an ASMR of 4.0 per 100,000 (2.3—5.0). We forecast mortality will continue to decline, but not sufficiently to meet WHO’s goals. Improved data collection should be prioritized to help target interventions, improve burden estimation, and monitor progress.
Burden of vision loss in the Eastern Mediterranean region, 1990–2015: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-08-2017
Intentional injuries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 1990–2015: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-08-2017
Burden of obesity in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-08-2017
The burden of mental disorders in the Eastern Mediterranean region, 1990–2015: findings from the global burden of disease 2015 study
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-08-2018
Maternal mortality and morbidity burden in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-08-2018
Burden of lower respiratory infections in the Eastern Mediterranean Region between 1990 and 2015: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-08-2017
Changes in health in the countries of the UK and 150 English Local Authority areas 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2018
Global, Regional, and National Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life-Years for 29 Cancer Groups, 1990 to 2016
Publisher: American Medical Association (AMA)
Date: 11-2018
Digitalisation for whom: the determinants of residents' use of the digital property address system in Accra, Ghana
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 27-09-2022
DOI: 10.1108/SASBE-06-2022-0121
Abstract: There is an emerging digital turn in urban management in Africa, undergirded by efforts to address the challenges of rapid urbanisation. To ensure that this digitalisation agenda contributes to smart and sustainable communities, there is a need to trace residents' use of emerging digital technologies and address any impediments to broader utilisation. To this end, this paper aims to examine the determinants of residents' use of Ghana's digital property address system (DPAS) in suburban communities in Accra. Drawing on a detailed literature review of digital technologies and the factors that affect their use, this paper uses data from a cross-sectional survey of three suburban communities in Accra. A binary logistic regression model was then utilised to identify the significant factors that affect residents' use of the DPAS. The findings showed that socioeconomic, housing, and psychosocial factors were the main determinants of residents' use of the DPAS. Specifically, house ownership, education and expected benefits had a positive relationship with residents' use of the DPAS. Findings highlight the need for urban policymakers to pay attention to systemic issues in Ghana's digital culture to ensure that digitalisation initiatives do not widen the digital ide and thus impede progress towards smart and sustainable urban development goals. The growing scholarship on digitalisation in Africa has emphasised conditions, potentials and challenges in deploying digital technologies with little attention to the determinants of residents' use of these technologies. This paper contributes to filling this knowledge gap by bringing foundational issues critical to engendering equitable digitalisation agenda in Ghanaian cities and beyond.
Drinking and smoking as concurrent predictors of illicit drug use and positive drug attitudes in adolescents
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2000
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-8716(00)00113-7
Abstract: The study investigates the relationship between smoking and drinking, and the use of illicit drugs in a cohort of London adolescents. A high prevalence of drug experimentation and positive attitudes to illicit drug use were characteristic of those who both drank alcohol and smoked cigarettes on a regular basis. There was then a clear hierarchy in which lower prevalence of use and more negative attitudes marked those who only smoked, then those who only drank, while non-smokers and non-drinkers (the largest group) had lowest lifetime and recent drug use prevalence and the most negative attitudes about drug use.
The influence of learning styles preference of undergraduate nursing students on educational outcomes in substance use education
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2008
DOI: 10.1016/J.NEPR.2008.02.001
Abstract: This paper reports a study identifying the learning styles preference of undergraduate nursing students and examining its influence on educational outcomes. There are limited recent studies in the UK on the learning styles preference of undergraduate and its influence on educational outcomes. A purposive s le of 110 undergraduate nursing students completed a demographic questionnaire and the Honey and Mumford's learning styles inventory. A pre-post-test design was used to evaluate the educational outcomes. Reflector learning styles preference was the dominant learning styles among the majority of undergraduate nursing students. An interesting phenomenon about the distribution of the learning styles preference is the additional "dual" learning style category. The hypothesis that learning styles preference will determine knowledge acquisition, changes in attitude and intervention confidence skills was rejected. However, as this is a multi-layered hypothesis the findings showed that only the dual learning styles preference group was found to have a significant influence in intervention confidence skills. Further research is warranted to replicate this study using the same methodology but with several different population s les specialising in different branch of nursing. As there are limited literature on the dual learning styles preferences, this dual preference phenomenon needs further investigation to establish its acceptability in nursing education.
Educational intervention of undergraduate nursing students’ confidence skills with alcohol and drug misusers
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2008
DOI: 10.1016/J.NEDT.2007.06.001
Abstract: There is a paucity literature on the educational interventions and evaluation programmes in alcohol and drug with undergraduate nursing students in the United Kingdom and this study intends to add a body of knowledge to this area. The aim of the study was to assess the intervention confidence skills of undergraduate nursing students before and after an educational intervention on alcohol and drug misuse. The research study is a quasi-experimental, pre- and post-test design. The s le was made of four cohorts of undergraduate nursing students (n=110) enrolled at a course leading to a diploma or BSc in nursing from three educational institutions. A visual analogue scale was used to measure intervention confidence skills before and after the educational programme in alcohol and drug. The findings showed an improvement in the level of intervention confidence skills of undergraduate nursing students. Further research is needed to examine effectiveness of educational interventions in working with substance misusers and whether substance misuse education is the key predictor of changing in changing intervention confidence skills.
Ethnic and Gender Differences in Drinking and Smoking among London Adolescents
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2001
Abstract: The study examines stages of drinking and smoking careers and transitions from initiation to regular use among adolescents, as a function of ethnic status and gender. The data were collected using a confidential, self-completion questionnaire assessing onset and frequency of drinking and smoking. The s le consisted of 1777 adolescents, between the ages of 11 and 14, drawn from eight secondary schools in south-west London. For both smoking and drinking, white children were more likely to have ever smoked tobacco and drunk alcohol, and were also more likely to progress from initiation to regular use than were either black or Asian children. Asian children reported the latest onset and the lowest prevalence rates for both drinking and smoking. Males reported experimenting with both cigarettes and alcohol at an earlier age than females, although a lower proportion of males report regular and lifetime involvement with both alcohol and tobacco. Furthermore, a significantly higher proportion of females who try smoking go on to do so regularly. The importance of sociocultural factors in relation to race and gender in predicting onset and escalation of substance use is discussed. The fact that age of onset does not appear to be a significant determinant of transition rate from initiation to regular use is also explored.
Transport injuries and deaths in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 Study
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-08-2017
Flooding in mega-cities: using structural equation modeling to assess flood impact in Dhaka
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 28-12-2020
DOI: 10.1108/IJDRBE-08-2020-0094
Abstract: This paper aims to bring the more recent discourse on the multilayered and interconnected dimensions of flood vulnerability, damage and risk reduction at the microlevel of global south cities to Dhaka, by looking at multiple factors and their relationships. A cross-sectional research design was used to generate data from 315 respondents in five neighborhoods in Eastern Dhaka, located in high flood damage zones with previous flood experience, using a structural equation model to test nine hypothetical relationships. The model confirms that low socioeconomic conditions often lead households to use social capital to traverse flood vulnerabilities in cities. It also advances this notion to show that flood impact unleashes social capital through collective activities in responding to flooding. Further, it reveals that while socioeconomic conditions influence flood impacts, these also engender the necessary mechanisms to unleash collective responses to flooding. This paper suggests the need for context-specific interventions that transcend physical and infrastructural responses to integrate socioeconomic conditions as a basis of understanding and addressing flood vulnerabilities. To achieve this requires transcending generic participatory mechanisms to use frameworks that encourage genuine participation and partnerships using coproduction. This paper engages both the inner city and peri-urban areas of Dhaka to extend current conversations on the various conditions underlying flood impact to offer entry points for integrated flood management interventions at the microlevel. This paper contributes to fill the research gap in Dhaka where very few studies have examined flood damages to residential buildings and its driving factors at the neighborhood level.
Adolescent psychological health problems and delinquency among volatile substance users in a school sample in South London
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2004
Toward Citizen-Led Planning for Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Ghana: Hints from Japanese ‘Machizukuri’ Activities
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2019
The burden of disease in Greece, health loss, risk factors, and health financing, 2000–16: an analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2018
Global, regional, and national deaths, prevalence, disability-adjusted life years, and years lived with disability for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2017
Trends in HIV/AIDS morbidity and mortality in Eastern Mediterranean countries, 1990–2015: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-08-2017
Predictors of educational outcomes of undergraduate nursing students in alcohol and drug education
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2008
DOI: 10.1016/J.NEDT.2007.11.005
Abstract: This paper reports a study which aimed to evaluate the impact of an educational programme on alcohol and drug on knowledge acquisition, changes in attitude and intervention confidence skills of undergraduate nursing students and identify the influence of selected demographic variables on educational outcomes. Despite the high levels of morbidity and mortality resulting from substance misuse, few nurses have been adequately prepared to respond effectively. There remains a dearth of evidence on the educational interventions in alcohol and drug with undergraduate nursing students and this study intends to add a body of knowledge to this field. A quasi-experimental, pre-post-test design was used using with a purposive s le of four cohorts of undergraduate nursing students (n=110) in England. Pre-tests and post-tests after the educational intervention on alcohol and drug were administered to measure the educational outcomes. The data was collected between March 2002 and September 2003. The results showed the educational intervention on alcohol and drug had a significant impact on educational outcomes. There were significant differences between the pre-test and post-test knowledge mean score (t=-.4.61, d.f.=109, p=0.000), attitude (t=-2.36, d.f.=109, p=0.02) and intervention confidence skills (t=-9.75, d.f.=109, p=0.000). Within the multi-layered hypothesis, the results indicate that only ethnicity was found to have a significant influence on both knowledge acquisition (F(2,106)=6.59, p=0.002) and intervention confidence skills (F(2,106)=15.0, p=0.000). The study provides some evidence that a short intensive educational programme on alcohol and drug can be effective in improving educational outcomes. Further research should be undertaken with undergraduate nurses specialising in different branch of nursing.
Global, Regional, and National Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases for 10 Causes, 1990 to 2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2017
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University Of London
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Royal College Of Physicians
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Imperial College London
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Merton, Sutton And Wandsworth Teaching Health Authorities And Teaching Primary Care Trust In South West London
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