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Effects of women’s economic empowerment interventions on antenatal care outcomes: a systematic review

Zoé Mistrale Hendrickson, Heezy Suh, Shiri Kalai, Niki Trivedi et al. • BMJ Open (2023)

Objectives Early and adequate antenatal care (ANC) has been shown to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality globally. Increasing evidence suggests that women’s economic empowerment (WEE) is a critical factor that may influence uptake of AN...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-061693

A field investigation of flight anxiety: Evidence of gender differences in consumer behaviors among Las Vegas passengers

Lindsey A Harvell, Tyler Stillman, Gwendelyn S Nisbett, Kyle Cranney et al. • Journal of Airline and Airport Management (2016)

Purpose: This study examines how anxious the Las Vegas public is through a case study of one local international airport. Design/Methodology/Approach: This study examines gender differences in consumer behaviors among the flying public in...

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Rethinking avian influenza control: a systems-oriented One Health perspective for family poultry

Robyn Alders, Robyn Alders, Brigitte Bagnol, Md. Ahasanul Hoque • Frontiers in Veterinary Science (2026)

Early detection and control of high- and low-pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI, LPAI) in family poultry flocks remain challenging in settings where mortality from enzootic diseases such as Newcastle disease (ND) and infectious bursal dise...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2026.1814751

Optimization of GDMT for patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction: can physiological and biological barriers explain the gaps in adherence to heart failure guidelines?

Marilyne Jarjour, Anique Ducharme • Drugs in Context (2023)

Heart failure is a growing epidemic with high mortality rates and recurrent hospital admissions that creates a burden on affected individuals, their caregivers and the whole healthcare system. Throughout the years, many randomized trials ha...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.7573/dic.2023-5-6

Case reports of latent HBV hepatitis in patients after neurosurgical treatment for hypothalamic and pituitary tumors

Kuniyasu Niizuma, Yoshikazu Ogawa, Takayuki Kogure, Teiji Tominaga • BMC Infectious Diseases (2020)

Abstract Background Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a major public health problem worldwide. More than 2 billion people have been exposed to HBV, and about 257 million individuals are chronic carriers of HBV. HBV reactivation has been ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12879-020-04971-2

Adverse skin reactions to antiepileptic drugs - a review

Michalina Gruszczyńska, Adam Jarzemski, Agnieszka Kolossa, Rafał Porzych • Journal of Education, Health and Sport (2023)

Introduction and objective: Treatment with antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) is frequently used all around the world. Just like in the course of all the drugs administration, side effects may appear, including characteristic side effects presentin...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.12775/JEHS.2023.21.01.002

Continuous positive airway pressure for children with undifferentiated respiratory distress in Ghana: an open-label, cluster, crossover trial

Dr Patrick T Wilson, MD, Frank Baiden, PhD, Joshua C Brooks, MPH, Marilyn C Morris, MD et al. • The Lancet Global Health (2017)

Background: In low-income and middle-income countries, invasive mechanical ventilation is often not available for children at risk of death from respiratory failure. We aimed to determine if continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), a for...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(17)30145-6

Epidemiology of Nosocomial Pneumonia

Donald Edward Craven, Kathleen A. Steger • CHEST Journal (1995)

"Keep an open mind toward pneumonia. Our grandchildren will be interested and are likely to have as many differences of opinion.. as we have." William Osier, circa 1900 As Osier predicted nearly a century ago, controversies ^* * persist ove...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc-nd DOI: https://doi.org/10.1378/chest.108.2_supplement.1s

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat/Cas12a Mediated Multiplexable and Portable Detection Platform for GII Genotype Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea Virus Rapid Diagnosis

Bingxu Qian, Bingxu Qian, Kai Liao, Dexin Zeng et al. • Frontiers in Microbiology (2022)

Porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus (PEDV) is a member of the genus Alphacoronavirus in the family Coronaviridae. It causes acute watery diarrhoea and vomiting in piglets with high a mortality rate. Currently, the GII genotype, PEDV, possesses...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.920801

Epidemiology of COPD

Chantal Rahérison, Pierre‐Olivier Girodet • European Respiratory Review (2009)

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is responsible for early mortality, high death rates and significant cost to health systems. The projection for 2020 indicates that COPD will be the third leading cause of death worldwide (from s...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1183/09059180.00003609

Predictors of Five Days Mortality in Diabetic Ketoacidosis Patients: a Prospective Cohort Study

Suhendro Suwarto, Bambang Sutrisna, Sarwono Waspadji, Herdiman T Pohan • Acta Medica Indonesiana (2014)

Aim: to determine the role of serum lactate and diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) severity as predictors for five-days mortality in DKA patients. Methods: a prospective cohort study was conducted in DKA patients admitted to emergency department (...

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Transcatheter heart valve interventions for patients with rheumatic heart disease

Hellmuth Weich, Philip Herbst, Francis Smit, Anton Doubell • Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine (2023)

Rheumatic heart disease [RHD] is the most prevalent cause of valvular heart disease in the world, outstripping degenerative aortic stenosis numbers fourfold. Despite this, global resources are firmly aimed at improving the management of deg...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2023.1234165

Trends in cervical cancer incidence and mortality in the United States, 1975–2018: a population-based study

Xianying Cheng, Ping Wang, Li Cheng, Feng Zhao et al. • Frontiers in Medicine (2025)

BackgroundCervical cancer incidence and mortality rates in the United States have substantially declined over recent decades, primarily driven by reductions in squamous cell carcinoma cases. However, the trend in recent years remains unclea...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2025.1579446

Epidemiology of ovarian cancer

Patricia Gaona-Luviano, Lourdes Adriana Medina-Gaona, Kassandra Magaña-Pérez • Chinese Clinical Oncology (2020)

Worldwide, ovarian cancer (OC) is the seventh most common type of malignant neoplasm in women and the eighth cause of mortality in them. The classification of OC is made by the possible origin of one of the three main components of the ovar...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc-nd DOI: https://doi.org/10.21037/cco-20-34

Introduction to Epidemiology

Sajid Suleman • Elsevier eBooks (1978)

This chapter introduces the foundational concepts of epidemiology as the scientific study of health and disease patterns in populations. It outlines the distinction between descriptive and analytical approaches, establishing the importance ...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-745250-0.50015-1

Epidemiology of Hepatitis C Virus in Bangladeshi General Population

Mamun Al-Mahtab, Salimur Rahman, Fazal Karim, Graham Foster et al. • Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Journal (2009)

Background: Hepatitis C virus is encountered sporadically in Bangladesh. It results in a wide range liver diseases, with asymptomatic acute hepatitis rarely at one end to HCC at the other end of the spectrum. Methods: 1018 individuals of ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3329/bsmmuj.v2i1.3705