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Mohammed Al-Houqani, Raghib Ali, Cother Hajat • PLoS ONE
(2012)
IntroductionAccurate information about the prevalence and types of tobacco use is essential to deliver effective public health policy. We aimed to study the prevalence and modes of tobacco consumption in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), part...
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039189
Maryam Fakhrzad, Ali Akbar Fazaeli, Yadollah Hamidi • Journal of Health Sciences and Surveillance System
(2023)
Background: Catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) has been explained as a growth in spending for health care services that exceeds 40% of total household income. Therefore, devoting a large portion of household resources to health care serv...
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DOI: 10.30476/jhsss.2021.93369.1444
Roxane Silberman, Dana Mueller, Beate Lichtwardt • International Journal of Population Data Science
(2018)
With legal frameworks changing, administrative data can increasingly be utilised both for official statistics and to facilitate new research, enabling the development of evidence-based policy for the public benefit. Secure access conditions...
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DOI: 10.23889/ijpds.v3i5.1068
Haiting Jiang, Chengyu Wei • Frontiers in Public Health
(2024)
China, with the severe burden of hepatitis B, plays a significant role in the global efforts towards eliminating hepatitis B disease by 2030. Vaccination is recognized as the most effective measure to prevent infectious diseases. However, v...
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DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1286801
Joyce B. Der, Alison D. Grant, Daniel Grint, Clement T. Narh et al. • BMC Health Services Research
(2022)
Abstract Background Ghana’s national tuberculosis (TB) prevalence survey conducted in 2013 showed higher than expected TB prevalence indicating that many people with TB were not being identified and treated. Responding to this, we assessed ...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12913-022-07711-1
Parisa Darouei, Afsaneh Nazeri, Ali Zadeh Mohammadi, Mahdi Motia • پژوهشنامه روانشناسی مثبت
(2025)
This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of expressive art therapy package (based on visualizing memories with a unity-oriented approach) on the subjective well-being of middle-aged women. It was a quantitative, ...
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DOI: 10.22108/ppls.2026.131333.2222
Heather O’Mahen, Louise Howard, Helen Sharp, Antoinette Davey et al. • Health and Social Care Delivery Research
(2025)
Background Perinatal mental health disorders affect one in five mothers during pregnancy or within 2 years post childbirth. These disorders can lead to poor pregnancy and childbirth outcomes and maternal deaths. Additionally, they negativel...
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DOI: 10.3310/RRAP0011
Aisha Muhammad Din, Sadia Jabeen • AAOU Journal
(2014)
One of the biggest challenges faced by online learning systems is the absence of opportunities for the practical exposure of the students, especially in professional degree programmes. The theoretical knowledge they gain is undoubtedly more...
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DOI: 10.1108/AAOUJ-09-01-2014-B009
Hasnah Nasution, Muhammad S.A. Nasution, Wulan Dayu, Hasan Matsum et al. • HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
(2023)
The resistance of Muslims to shamanism began when lies of the shamans were exposed on social media. Many shamans practise fraud under the guise of religion. Magical objects such as luminous daggers or stones that emit smoke, used by shamans...
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DOI: 10.4102/hts.v79i1.8338
Dominic Doglikuu Be-Ikuu, Prudence Portia Mwini Nyaledzigbor, Alice Ayawine, Ebenezer Jones Amoah • BMC Public Health
(2025)
Abstract Background Food security and food hygiene practices can negatively influence health. Poor food hygiene and food insecurity risk poor health. Studies have investigated the direct associations of food security and food hygiene practi...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12889-025-25398-x
Temitayo Victor Lawal, Kehinde Adebola Atoloye, Ayo Stephen Adebowale, Adeniyi Francis Fagbamigbe • BMC Pediatrics
(2023)
Abstract Background Globally, child mortality and morbidity remain a serious health challenge and infectious diseases are the leading causes. The use of count models together with spatial analysis of the number of doses of childhood vaccine...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12887-023-04300-x
Olaghere Ivie L., Omotesho Olubunmi A., Muhammad-Lawal Abdulazeez • Journal of Agricultural Sciences (Belgrade)
(2018)
Liquid fertilizers in dry season vegetable production are applied using different cropping patterns with little or no empirical evidence on which pattern is the most profitable. This study, therefore, investigated the effect of cropping pat...
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Xiantao Zeng, Baoguo Yu, Lifang Liu, Xiaogang Qi et al. • IEEE Access
(2019)
Dynamic cluster network localization requires taking the following factors into consideration: 1) the localization time of network nodes; 2) the communication load among all cluster nodes, and; 3) the presence of the abnormal distance measu...
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DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2921364
A. Maiti, P. Acharya • The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
(2018)
The Indo-Gangetic basin is one of the productive rice growing areas in South-East Asia. Within this extensive flat fertile land, lower Gangetic basin, especially the south Bengal, is most intensively cultivated. In this study we map the ric...
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DOI: 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-5-271-2018
Renata Inglez de Souza Tej, Lilian Maria Lapa Montenegro, Wlisses Henrique Veloso de Carvalho Silva, Jéssica Lopes Teixeira et al. • Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
(2023)
Introdução/objetivo: A tuberculose (TB) mantém-se como um grave problema de saúde pública, sendo a principal causa de morte por doença infecciosa antes da COVID-19. Em 2022, foram notificados 78.057 novos casos de TB no Brasil, destes, 5.14...
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DOI: 10.1016/j.bjid.2023.103607
Alexandre Landry, Robert J. van den Hoogen • Universe
(2023)
A complete perturbation theory suitable for teleparallel gravity is developed. The proposed perturbation scheme takes into account perturbations of the coframe, the metric, and the spin-connection, while ensuring that the resulting perturbe...
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DOI: 10.3390/universe9050232
Margaret Wooddell PhD, MBA, Dong Dai PhD, Feng Lin PhD, Irene Pan MS et al. • Foot & Ankle Orthopaedics
(2024)
Category: Other Introduction/Purpose: Tenosynovial giant cell tumors (TGCT) are neoplastic, inflammatory lesions that arise within the synovium and can be locally aggressive. Patients with TGCT frequently experience pain and joint swelling,...
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DOI: 10.1177/2473011424S00422
Endalamaw Tesfa, Endalkachew Nibret, Solomon Tebeje Gizaw, Yohannes Zenebe et al. • PLoS ONE
(2020)
Introduction Hypertensive disorder of pregnancy is the second commonest causes of maternal death globally. Different public health studies were conducted on hypertensive disorder of pregnancy which presented inconsistent result. Therefore, ...
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Jo Howard, Sophie A. Lee, Baba Inusa, Man Ying Edith Cheng et al. • Trials
(2019)
Abstract Design This randomised crossover trial compared nocturnal auto-adjusting continuous positive airway pressure (APAP) and nocturnal oxygen therapy (NOT) in adults and children with sickle cell anaemia, with patient acceptability as t...
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DOI: 10.1186/s13063-019-3461-x
Radhakumari Maya, Muhammed Rasheed Irshad, Muhammed Ahammed, Christophe Chesneau • AppliedMath
(2023)
In this research work, a new three-parameter lifetime distribution is introduced and studied. It is called the Harris extended Bilal distribution due to its construction from a mixture of the famous Bilal and Harris distributions, resulting...
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DOI: 10.3390/appliedmath3010013