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    • A geographical cluster of konzo in Tanzania 

      Howlett, William P.; Brubaker, G.; Mlingi, Nicholaus; Rosling, H. (Journal article, 1992)
      Konzo, an upper motor neuron disease, was diagnosed in 116 subjects in a community-based survey of 28,500 inhabitants in the Tarime District in Tanzania. All cases had a uniform clinical picture with isolated non-progressive ...

    • Gestational Age Patterns of Fetal and Neonatal Mortality in Europe: Results from the Euro-Peristat Project 

      Mohangoo, Ashna D.; Buitendijk, Simone E.; Szamotulska, Katarzyna; Chalmers, Jim; Irgens, Lorentz M.; Bolumar, Francisco; Nijhuis, Jan G.; Zeitlin, Jennifer (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011-11-16)
      Background: The first European Perinatal Health Report showed wide variability between European countries in fetal (2.6– 9.1%) and neonatal (1.6–5.7%) mortality rates in 2004. We investigated gestational age patterns of ...

    • Gestational diabetes mellitus and interpregnancy weight change: A population-based cohort study 

      Sørbye, Linn Marie; Skjaerven, Rolv; Klungsøyr, Kari; Morken, Nils-Halvdan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-08-01)
      Background: Being overweight is an important risk factor for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM), but the underlying mechanisms are not understood. Weight change between pregnancies has been suggested to be an independent ...

    • Gestational diabetes mellitus by maternal country of birth and length of residence in immigrant women in Norway 

      Strandberg, Ragnhild Bjarkøy; Iversen, Marjolein M.; Jenum, Anne Karen; Sørbye, Linn Marie; Vik, Eline Skirnisdottir; Schytt, Erica; Aasheim, Vigdis; Nilsen, Roy Miodini (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Aims: Immigrant women are at higher risk for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) than non-immigrant women. This study described the prevalence of GDM in immigrant women by maternal country of birth and examined the ...

    • Gestational weight gain charts for different body mass index groups for women in Europe, North America, and Oceania 

      Santos, Susana; Eekhout, Iris; Voerman, Ellis; Eggesbø, Merete Åse; Magnus, Per; Papadopoulou, Eleni Zoumpoulia; Stoltenberg, Camilla; Jaddoe, Vincent W V (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-11-05)
      Background Gestational weight gain differs according to pre-pregnancy body mass index and is related to the risks of adverse maternal and child health outcomes. Gestational weight gain charts for women in different ...

    • Getting Physically Active by E-Bike : An Active Commuting Intervention Study 

      Mildestvedt, Thomas; Hovland, Olav Johannes; Berntsen, Sveinung; Bere, Elling Tufte; Fegran, Liv (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Introduction: Increased physical activity (PA) is a major component in promoting public health, and active commuting could make an important contribution. Using an electric bicycle (e-bike) is reported to be of at least ...

    • "Getting rid of the plague": jiggers removal program in Bungoma, Kenya. Community and health workers perspectives on tungiasis in a high prevalence area. 

      Mørkve, Åse (Master thesis, 2013-06-02)
      Objectives: Tungiasis is caused by a flea, tunga penetrans/ jiggers, which enters the epidermis of humans/ animals. The skin gets painful and itchy, and if untreated, bacterial infection occurs. Jiggers are easily transmitted ...

    • The Gezira Family Medicine Project (GFMP). A scientific evaluation of a Master program for family physicians in Gezira, Sudan 

      Mohamed, Khalid Gaffer (Doctoral thesis, 2019-03-27)
      Background: Family medicine based health systems are accepted worldwide as the best suitable model to provide integrated, high quality health services. In Sub-Saharan Africa, there is a recent movement towards implementing ...

    • Giardiasis in Bergen. Outbreak and clinical consequences. 

      Wensaas, Knut-Arne (Doctoral thesis, 2011-11-25)
      Background Giardia lamblia is a common cause of waterborne disease. It is endemic in many parts of the world, especially where sanitation is poor, but in Europe and North America it is most often encountered in outbreaks ...

    • Gir vi pasienttilfredshetsundersøkelser nok oppmerksomhet? Kartlegging av pasienterfaringer, har det betydning for kvaliteten på tjenester som tilbys? 

      Nilssen, Janne Kristin (Master thesis, 2018-12-10)
      Background: In order to improve the quality of health care services provided to patients, patient satisfaction surveys are conducted in the health services. These surveys can be a management tool for quality improvement ...

    • Global burden of acute lower respiratory infection associated with human metapneumovirus in children under 5 years in 2018: a systematic review and modelling study 

      Wang, Xin; Li , You; Deloria-Knoll, Maria; Madhi, Shabir A.; Cohen, Cheryl; Ali, Asad; Basnet, Sudha; Bassat, Quique; Brooks, W Abdullah; Chittaganpitch, Malinee; Echavarria, Marcela; Fasce, Rodrigo A.; Goswami, Doli; Hirve, Siddhivinayak; Homaira, Nusrat; Howie, Stephen R.C.; Kotloff, Karen L.; Khuri-Bulos, Najwa; Krishnan, Anand; Lucero, Marilla G.; Lupisan, Socorro P.; Mira-Iglesias, Ainara; Moore, David P; Moraleda, Cinta; Nunes, Marta; Oshitani, Histoshi; Owor, Betty E.; Polack, Fernando P; O'Brien, Katherine L.; Rasmussen, Zeba A.; Rath, Barbara A; Salimi, Vahid; Scott, J Anthony G; Simões, Eric A F; Strand, Tor A; Thea, Donald M; Treurnicht, Florette K; Vaccari, Linda C; Yoshida, Lay-Myint; Zar, Heather J.; Campbell, Harry; Nair, Harish (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Background Human metapneumovirus is a common virus associated with acute lower respiratory infections (ALRIs) in children. No global burden estimates are available for ALRIs associated with human metapneumovirus in children, ...

    • Global burden of acute lower respiratory infection associated with human parainfluenza virus in children younger than 5 years for 2018: a systematic review and meta-analysis 

      Wang, Xin; Li, You; Deloria-Knoll, Maria; Madhi, Shabir A.; Cohen, Cheryl; Arguelles, Vina Lea; Basnet, Sudha; Bassat, Quique; Brooks, W Abdullah; Echavarria, Marcela; Fasce, Rodrigo A.; Gentile, Angela; Goswami, Doli; Homaira, Nusrat; Howie, Stephen R.C.; Kotloff, Karen L.; Khuri-Bulos, Najwa; Krishnan, Anand; Lucero, Marilla G.; Lupisan, Socorro P.; Mathisen, Maria; McLean, Kenneth A; Mira-Iglesias, Ainara; Moraleda, Cinta; Okamoto, Michiko; Oshitani, Histoshi; O'Brien, Katherine L.; Owor, Betty E.; Rasmussen, Zeba; Rath, Barbara A.; Salimi, Vahid; Sawatwong, Pongpun; Scott, J. Anthony; Simões, Eric A F; Sotomayor, Viviana; Thea, Donald M; Treurnicht, Florette K; Yoshida, Lay-Myint; Zar, Heather J.; Campbell, Harry; Nair, Harish (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Background Human parainfluenza virus (hPIV) is a common virus in childhood acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI). However, no estimates have been made to quantify the global burden of hPIV in childhood ALRI. We aimed ...

    • Global burden of chronic respiratory diseases and risk factors, 1990–2019: an update from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 

      Momtazmanesh, Sara; Moghaddam, Sahar Saeedi; Ghamari, Seyyed-Hadi; Rad, Elaheh Malakan; Rezaei, Negar; Shobeiri, Parnian; Aali, Amirali; Abbasi-Kangevari, Mohsen ; Abbasi-Kangevari, Zeinab ; Abdelmasseh, Michael ; Abdoun, Meriem ; Abdulah, Deldar Morad ; Abdullah, Abu Yousuf Md; Abedi, Aidin ; Abolhassani, Hassan ; Abrehdari-Tafreshi, Zahra ; Achappa, Basavaprabhu ; Adane, Denberu Eshetie Adane; Adane, Tigist Demssew ; Addo, Isaac Yeboah ; Adnan, Mohammad ; Adnani, Qorinah Estiningtyas Sakilah; Ahmad, Sajjad ; Ahmadi, Ali ; Ahmadi, Keivan ; Ahmed, Ali ; Ahmed, Ayman ; Rashid, Tarik Ahmed ; Hamad, Hanadi Al; Alahdab, Fares ; Alemayehu, Astawus ; Alif, Sheikh Mohammad; Aljunid, Syed Mohamed ; Almustanyir, Sami ; Altirkawi, Khalid A.; Alvis-Guzman, Nelson; Dehkordi, Javad Aminian ; Amir-Behghadami, Mehrdad; Ancuceanu, Robert; Andrei, Catalina Liliana ; Andrei, Tudorel ; Antony, Catherine M.; Anyasodor, Anayochukwu Edward ; Arabloo, Jalal ; Arulappan, Judie ; Ashraf, Tahira; Dadras, Omid; Kisa, Adnan; Kisa, Sezer; Ostojic, Sergej (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Background Updated data on chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs) are vital in their prevention, control, and treatment in the path to achieving the third UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a one-third reduction in ...

    • Global burden of peripheral artery disease and its risk factors, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 

      Kim, Min Seo; Hwang, Jimin; Yon, Dong Keon; Lee, Seung Won; Jung, Se Yong; Park, Seoyeon; Johnson, Catherine Owens; Stark, Benjamin A.; Razo, Christian; Abbasian, Mohammadreza; Abbastabar, Hedayat; Abhari, Amir Parsa; Aboyans, Victor; Adane, Denberu Eshetie Adane; Adebayo, Oladimeji M.; Alahdab, Fares; Almustanyir, Sami; Aly, Hany; Ameyaw, Edward Kwabena; Anderson, Jason A.; Andrei, Catalina Liliana; Aryan, Zahra; Aujayeb, Avinash; Bagherieh, Sara; Baltatu, Ovidiu Constantin; Banach, Maciej; Bayileyegn, Nebiyou Simegnew; Bearne, Lindsay M.; Behnoush, Amir Hossein; Bensenor, Isabela M.; Bhaskar, Sonu; Bhat, Ajay Nagesh; Bhat, Vivek; Bikbov, Boris; Bintoro, Bagas Suryo; Burkart, Katrin; Cámera, Luis Alberto; Catapano, Alberico L.; Chandrasekar, Eeshwar K.; Charan, Jaykaran; Chattu, Vijay Kumar; Chi, Gerald; Chukwu, Isaac Sunday; Chung, Sheng-Chia; Cirillo, Massimo; Coberly, Kaleb; Costa, Vera Marisa; Dadras, Omid; Dai, Xiaochen; Do, Thanh Chi; Doshi, Rajkumar; Ekholuenetale, Michael; Elgendy, Islam Y.; Elhadi, Muhammed; Fagbamigbe, Adeniyi Francis; Feizkhah, Alireza; Fekadu, Ginenus; Gill, Paramjit Singh; Goldust, Mohamad; Golechha, Mahaveer; Guan, Shi-Yang; Gupta, Vivek Kumar; Hadei, Mostafa; Hadi, Najah R.; Hammoud, Ahmad; Hankey, Graeme J.; Harlianto, Netanja I.; Hasaballah, Ahmed I.; Hassan, Shoaib; Hassen, Mohammed Bheser; Heidari, Golnaz; Hostiuc, Mihaela; Ilesanmi, Olayinka Stephen; Iwagami, Masao; Jokar, Mohammad; Jonas, Jost B.; Joshua, Charity Ehimwenma; Jozwiak, Jacek Jerzy; Kazemian, Sina; Keykhaei, Mohammad; Khalaji, Amirmohammad; Khan, Moien A.B.; Khateri, Sorour; Kibret, Biruk Getahun; Korzh, Oleksii; Koulmane Laxminarayana, Sindhura Lakshmi; Krishan, Kewal; Kumar, Akshay; Kumar, Manoj; Kuttikkattu, Ambily; Laksono, Tri; Larijani, Bagher; Le, Thao Thi Thu; Lim, Stephen S.; Liu, Xuefeng; Lorkowski, Stefan; Magdy Abd El Razek, Hassan; Malhotra, Kashish; Manla, Yosef; Maugeri, Andrea; Mentis, Alexios-Fotios A.; Mestrovic, Tomislav; M. Gomide Nogueira de Sá, Ana Carolina; Mirica, Andreea; Mirrakhimov, Erkin M.; Misganaw, Awoke; Mishra, Manish; Mohammad, Yousef; Mokdad, Ali H.; Moni, Mohammad Ali; Montasir, Ahmed Al; Moradi, Yousef; Moraga, Paula; Morovatdar, Negar; Mousavi-Aghdas, Seyed Ali; Murray, Christopher J.L.; Naghavi, Mohsen; Nair, Tapas Sadasivan; Nassereldine, Hasan; Natto, Zuhair S.; Nguyen, Dang H.; Nguyen, Hien Quang; Nguyen, Van Thanh; Noubiap, Jean Jacques; Oancea, Bogdan; Oliveira, Gláucia Maria Moraes; Owolabi, Mayowa O.; Padron-Monedero, Alicia; Perico, Norberto; Petcu, Ionela-Roxana; Radfar, Amir; Rafferty, Quinn; Rahman, Mosiur; Rahman, Muhammad Aziz; Ram, Pradhum; Rashedi, Sina; Rashid, Ahmed Mustafa; Rawaf, Salman; Remuzzi, Giuseppe; Renzaho, Andre M.N.; Rezaee, Malihe; Roever, Leonardo; Saad, Aly M.A.; Saadatagah, Seyedmohammad; Sadeghi, Masoumeh; Sahebkar, Amirhossein; Saleh, Mohamed A.; Samy, Abdallah M.; Santric-Milicevic, Milena M.; Sepanlou, Sadaf G.; Seylani, Allen; Sharfaei, Sadaf; Shorofi, Seyed Afshin; Singh, Jasvinder A.; Singh, Paramdeep; Spartalis, Michael; Sundström, Johan; Tan, Ker-Kan; Teramoto, Masayuki; Tharwat, Samar; Tyrovolas, Stefanos; Valadan Tahbaz, Sahel; Van den Eynde, Jef; Vart, Priya; Wang, Cong; Wang, Fang; Westerman, Ronny; Xia, Juan; Xu, Suowen; Yada, Dereje Y.; Yamagishi, Kazumasa; Yonemoto, Naohiro; Zahir, Mazyar; Zangiabadian, Moein; Zarrintan, Armin; Zastrozhin, Mikhail Sergeevich; Zastrozhina, Anasthasia; Zoladl, Mohammad; Hay, Simon I.; Shin, Jae Il; Roth, Gregory A. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Background Peripheral artery disease is a growing public health problem. We aimed to estimate the global disease burden of peripheral artery disease, its risk factors, and temporospatial trends to inform policy and ...

    • Global challenges related to use of dental amalgam: Can health complaints be reduced after removal of amalgam restorations? Analysis of data from a Norwegian prospective cohort study comprising experimental treatment 

      Sinha, Nivedita (Master thesis, 2022-06-15)

    • Global health financing towards 2030 and beyond 

      Ottersen, Trygve; Evans, David B.; Mossialos, Elias; Røttingen, John-Arne (Journal article, 2017-04)
      Universal health coverage and healthy lives for all are now widely shared goals and central to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Despite significant progress over the last decades, the world is still far from ...

    • Global Health in the Age of COVID-19 Responsive Health Systems Through a Right to Health Fund 

      Friedman, Eric A; Gostin, Lawrence O; Maleche, Allan; Ruano, Ana Lorena; Rusike, Itai; Alwan, Ala; Flores, Walter; Mulumba, Moses; Pūras, Dainius (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      We propose that a Right to Health Capacity Fund (R2HCF) be created as a central institution of a reimagined global health architecture developed in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Such a fund would help ensure the ...

    • Global Moments in the Levant. A Unifob Global Research Project 

      Manger, Leif; LaBianca, Øystein (Research report, 2009)
      Global moments are breakthrough events that change people’s lives and their futures. They are developments that typically call for significant adaptation leading to new forms of cooperation or conflict. Few places on earth ...

    • Global policies and the provision of birth care in Burkina Faso 

      Melberg, Andrea (Doctoral thesis, 2020-08-20)
      Targets and indicators set at global level are powerful measures that influence health systems in low-income countries. Facility-based births have been promoted as the main strategy for reducing maternal and neonatal death ...

    • Global research priorities on COVID-19 for maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health 

      Ahmed, Nawshad Uddin; Maamri, Abdellatif; Falade, Adegoke G; Ayede, Adejumoke Idowu; Bhutta, Adnan; Gambhir, Ajay; Tagarro, Alfredo; Abdelmegeid, Ali; Ahmadi, Ali Reza; Barros, Aluísio J D; Mekasha, Amha; Srinivasaiyer, Anantha Kumar; da Silva, André Ricardo Araujo; Schultz, Andreas; Fatima, Batool; Dhar, Bishnupada; Magowan, Brian; Wills, Bridget; Raynes-Greenow, Camille; Homer, Caroline S.E.; Maclennan, Carolyn; Ward, Catherine L; Garcia, Daniel Martinez; Ross, David; Murdoch, David; Wilson, Deborah Joy; Adejuyigbe, Ebunoluwa A.; Stasii, Ecaterina; Scudde, Elaine; Sacks, Emma; McCollum, Eric D.; Althabe, Fernando; Russell, Fiona; Kumar, GS; Sommerfelt, Halvor; Graham, Hamish; Blencowe, Hannah; Tappis, Hannah; Saloojee, Haroon; Masaud, Hesham Abdussalam Ben; Tiwary, Hiresh; Asiodu, Ifeyinwa; Newton, James B; Bourdaire, Jessica; Adze, Joel Amwe; Martines, Jose Carlos; Lozano, Juan M; Walson, Judd; Bahl, Rajiv; Shamszai, Zainularab Zohra; Navabi, Zohreh Sadat (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Background This research prioritization aimed to identify major research gaps in maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (MNCAH) to help mitigate the direct and indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods We ...