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    • Breastfeeding patterns and its determinants among mothers living with Human Immuno-deficiency Virus -1 in four African countries participating in the ANRS 12174 trial 

      Some, Nagaonle Eric; Engebretsen, Ingunn Marie S.; Nagot, Nicolas; Meda, Nicolas; Lombard, Carl; Vallo, Roselyne; Peries, Marianne; Kankasa, Chipepo; Tumwine, James K; Hofmeyr, G. Justus; Singata, Mandisa; Harper, Kim; Van De Perre, Philippe; Tylleskär, Thorkild (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-05-02)
      Background:  HIV-1 transmission rates have been reduced over the last decade, an estimated 2 million new infections per year arise, including 220,000 paediatric cases. The main post-natal HIV exposure is through breastfeeding, ...

    • Breastfeeding patterns and mothers’health in an HIV context in Sub Saharan Africa 

      Some, Nagaonle Eric (Doctoral thesis, 2019-04-12)
      Introduction It has been estimated that breastfeeding is a healthier alternative than replacement feeding because of its nutritional and immunological values. If optimally implemented it has the potential to save children’s ...

    • Breastfeeding practices and health facility births in South Sudan 

      Tongun, Justin Bruno (Doctoral thesis, 2020-01-09)
      Introduction: Studies on the determinants of breastfeeding practices and health facility utilization have not been conducted in South Sudan. This thesis assessed the prevalence and determinants of suboptimal breastfeeding ...

    • Breathlessness across generations: results from the RHINESSA generation study 

      Ekström, Magnus; Johannessen, Ane; Abramson, Michael J.; Benediktsdóttir, Bryndís; Franklin, Karl A.; Gislason, Thorarinn; Real, Francisco Gomez; Holm, Mathias; Janson, Christer; Jogi, Rain; Lowe, Adrian J.; Malinovschi, Andrei; Martínez-Moratalla, Jesús; Oudin, Anna; Sánchez-Ramos, José Luis; Schlünssen, Vivi; Svanes, Cecilie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Background Breathlessness is a major cause of suffering and disability globally. The symptom relates to multiple factors including asthma and lung function, which are influenced by hereditary factors. No study has evaluated ...

    • Bridging the Gap between Primary Care and Specialized Mental Health Care. A mixed method study of the quality of referral information and the referral letters’ potential impact on quality of care 

      Hartveit, Miriam (Doctoral thesis, 2016-06-22)
      Background. A major cause of adverse events in health care is insufficient information transference between health professionals. Despite the cardinal role of referral letters as the means of communication between primary ...

    • Bruk av Dynamisk Lycra Ortose hos førskulebarn med patologisk forseinka motorisk utvikling - ein multiple case studie 

      Lundal, Siv Helen (Master thesis, 2016-05-29)
      Background: Children with pathological delayed motor development, found with reduced postural control and hypotonia, were permitted to try out lycraorthose based on a multidisciplinary evaluation at a specialist habilitation ...

    • Bruk av elektroniske meldinger i pleie- og omsorgstjenesten 

      Simonsen, Astrid Margrethe Økland (Master thesis, 2014)
      Background: Information exchange between healthcare levels is seen upon as a critical factor to contribute to continuity of patient care. Authorities point out that the primary communication form should take place ...

    • Bruk av genetiske opplysninger utenfor helsevesenet 

      Tolo, Benedicte (Master thesis, 2012-09-02)
      Background: Genetic information entails information about future risk of disease or information about carrier status. The Human Medical use of Biotechnology Act (2003) § 5-8 prohibits the use of this form of genetic ...

    • Bruk av massiv parallell sekvensering for påvisning og identifikasjon av mikrober i galle hos pasienter med akutt kolangitt 

      Nygaard, Randi Monsen (Master thesis, 2017)
      De fleste infeksjonssykdommer som forårsakes av bakterier og sopp kan behandles med antimikrobielle midler. Kjennskap til hvilke mikrober som forårsaker sykdommene er viktig for å kunne gi pasienten riktig behandling. Den ...

    • Bruk av uspesifikke diagnosekoder på legevakt 

      Sandvik, Hogne; Hunskår, Steinar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      BAKGRUNN Primærlegene setter diagnosekoder på alle regningskort. Formålet med studien var å kartlegge bruk av uspesifikke diagnosekoder som kan svekke validiteten av statistikk og sykdomsovervåkning. MATERIALE OG ...

    • Budget impact analysis of using dihydroartemisinin–piperaquine to treat uncomplicated malaria in children in Tanzania 

      Mori, Amani Thomas; Norheim, Ole Frithjof; Robbestad, Bjarne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-03)
      Background and Objective: Dihydroartemisinin–piperaquine (DhP) is a very cost effective anti-malarial drug. The aim of this study was to predict the budget impact of using DhP as a first- or second-line drug to treat ...

    • Building a new master's and PhD programme in nutritional epidemiology in Kinshasa: How to face obstacles beyond the control of the project 

      Mapatano, Mala Ali; Horwood, Christiane; Hatløy, Anne (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019)

    • Building better tuberculosis control systems in a post-COVID world: learning from Pakistan during the COVID-19 pandemic 

      Fatima, Razia; Akhtar, Nasim; Yaqoob, Aashifa; Harries, Anthony D.; Khan, Mishal S. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Objectives All countries impacted by COVID-19 have had to change routine health service delivery. Although this has reversed some of the progress made in reducing the global burden of tuberculosis (TB) disease, there is ...

    • Building sustainable operational research capacity in Pakistan: starting with tuberculosis and expanding to other public health problems 

      Fatima, Razia; Yaqoob, Aashifa; Qadeer, Ejaz; Hinderaker, Sven Gudmund; Heldal, Einar; Zachariah, Rony; Harries, Anthony D.; Kumar, Ajay M.V. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Background: For many years, operational research capacity has been a challenge and has remained a low priority for the health sector in Pakistan. Building research capacity for developing a critical mass of researchers in ...

    • The burden of cardiovascular diseases in Ethiopia from 1990 to 2017: evidence from the Global Burden of Disease Study 

      Ali, Solomon; Misganaw, Awoke; Worku, Asnake; Destaw, Zelalem; Negash, Legesse; Bekele, Abebe; Briant, Paul Svitil; Johnson, Catherine O; Alam, Tahiya; Odell, Chris; Roth, Gregory A; Naghavi, Mohsen; Abate, Ebba; Mirkuzie, Alemnesh Hailemariam (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      In Ethiopia, evidence on the national burden of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) is limited. To address this gap, this systematic analysis estimated the burden of CVDs in Ethiopia using the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) ...

    • Burden of diarrhea in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 1990-2015: Findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study 

      Mokdad, Ali H.; Khalil, Ibrahim; El Bcheraoui, Charbel; Charara, Raghid; Moradi-Lakeh, Maziar; Afshin, Ashkan; Kassebaum, Nicholas J.; Collison, Michael; Chew, Adrienne; Krohn, Kristopher J.; Daoud, Farah; Colombara, Danny; Foreman, Kyle J.; Godwin, William W.; Kutz, Michael; Mirarefin, Mojde; Rao, Puja C.; Reiner, Robert; Troeger, Christopher; Wang, Haidong; Niguse Abraha, Haftom; Abu-Elyazeed, Remon; Abu-Raddad, Laith J.; Ahmad Kiadaliri, Aliasghar; Ahmadi, Alireza; Beshir Ahmed, Muktar; Alam, Khurshid; Alizadeh-Navaei, Reza; Al-Raddadi, Rajaa; Altirkawi, Khalid A.; Alvis-Guzman, Nelson; Anber, Nahla; Anwari, Palwasha; Mehari Atey, Tesfay; Avokpaho, Euripide Frinel G. Arthur; Bacha, Umar; Bazargan-Hejazi, Shahrzad; Bedi, Neeraj; Bensenor, Isabela M.; Berhane, Adugnaw; Obong Bessong, Pascal; Shunu Beyene, Addisu; Bhutta, Zulfiqar A.; Colin Buckle, Geoffrey; Butt, Zahid A.; Danawi, Hadi; Deribew, Amare; Djalalinia, Shirin; Dubey, Manisha; Endries, Aman Yesuf; Eshrati, Babak; Fereshtehnejad, Seyed-Mohammad; Fischer, Florian; Tewelde Gebrehiwot, Tsegaye; Chander Gugnani, Harish; Ribhi Hamadeh, Randah; Hamidi, Samer; Husseini, Abdullatif; James, Spencer Lewis; Jonas, Jost B.; Kasaeian, Amir; Saleh Khader, Yousef; Ahmad Khan, Ejaz; Khan, Gulfaraz; Khubchandani, Jagdish; Kissoon, Niranjan; Kopec, Jacek A.; Koyanagi, Ai; Kuate Defo, Barthelemy; Larson, Heidi J.; Abdul Latif, Asma; Lunevicius, Raimundas; Abd El Razek, Hassan Magdy; Abd El Razek, Mohammed Magdy; Majdzadeh, Reza; Majeed, Azeem; Malekzadeh, Reza; Memiah, Peter; Memish, Ziad A.; Mendoza, Walter; Tadese Mengistu, Desalegn; Mohammed, Shafiu; Murthy, Srinivas; Wanjiku Ngunjiri, Josephine; Akpojene Ogbo, Felix; Pourmalek, Farshad; Qorbani, Mostafa; Radfar, Amir; Rafay, Anwar; Rahimi-Movaghar, Vafa; Kumar Rai, Rajesh; Ram, Usha; Laith Rawaf, David; Rawaf, Salman; Renzaho, Andre M.N.; Rezaei, Satar; Roshandel, Gholamreza; Safdarian, Mahdi; Ali Sahraian, Mohammad; Salamati, Payman; Samy, Abdallah M.; Ramon Sanabria, Juan; Sartorius, Benn; Sepanlou, Sadaf G.; Ali Shaikh, Masood; Shigematsu, Mika; Sobaih, Badr H.A.; Sreeramareddy, Chandrashekhar T.; Sykes, Bryan L.; Tehrani-Banihashemi, Arash; Temsah, Mohamad-Hani; Sulieman Terkawi, Abdullah; Tiruye, Tenaw Yimer; Topor-Madry, Roman; Nnanna Ukwaja, Kingsley; Vollset, Stein Emil; Wakayo, Tolassa; Werdecker, Andrea; Shey Wiysonge, Charles; Workicho, Abdulhalik; Yaghoubi, Mohsen; Yaseri, Mehdi; Yenesew, Muluken; Yonemoto, Naohiro; Younis, Mustafa Z.; El Sayed Zaki, Maysaa; Zodpey, Sanjay; Zein, Bassel; Jumaan, Aisha O.; Vos, Theo; Hay, Simon I.; Naghavi, Mohsen; Murray, Christopher J.L. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-05)
      Objectives: Diarrheal diseases (DD) are an important cause of disease burden, especially in children in low-income settings. DD can also impact children’s potential livelihood through growth faltering, cognitive impairment, ...

    • The burden of disease among people with severe substance use disorders 

      Aas, Christer Frode (Doctoral thesis, 2021-06-14)
      Background: A substance use disorder (SUD) is a potentially severe clinical condition with high co-occurrence of somatic and mental disorders. The burden of disease attributable to substance use contributes to 11.8 million ...

    • The burden of disease for children born alive with Turner syndrome—A European cohort study 

      Andersen, Ann-Louise Rud; Urhoj, Stine Kjaer; Tan, Joachim; Cavero-Carbonell, Clara; Gatt, Miriam; Gissler, Mika; Klungsøyr, Kari; Khoshnood, Babak; Morris, Joan; Neville, Amanda J.; Pierini, Anna; Scanlon, Ieuan; de Walle, Hermien E. K.; Wellesley, Diana; Garne, Ester; Loane, Maria (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Background Turner syndrome is a rare congenital anomaly caused by complete or partial X chromosome monosomy that may affect mortality and morbidity in childhood. Methods This population-based data-linkage cohort study, ...

    • The burden of household out-of-pocket health expenditures in Ethiopia: estimates from a nationally representative survey (2015–16) 

      Kiros, Mizan; Dessie, Ermias; Tolla, Mieraf Taddesse; Johansson, Kjell Arne; Norheim, Ole Frithjof; Memirie, Solomon Tessema; Verguet, Stéphane; Jbaily, Abdulrahman (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      In Ethiopia, little is known about the extent of out-of-pocket health expenditures and the associated financial hardships at national and regional levels. We estimated the incidence of both catastrophic and impoverishing ...

    • The burden of injuries in Ethiopia from 1990-2017: evidence from the global burden of disease study 

      Ali, Solomon; Destaw, Zelalem; Misganaw, Awoke; Worku, Asnake; Negash, Legesse; Bekele, Abebe; Zergaw, Ababi; Walker, Ally; Odell, Chris; Naghavi, Mohsen; Abate, Ebba; Mirkuzie, Alemnesh Hailemariam (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Background Mortality caused by injuries is increasing and becoming a significant global public health concern. Limited evidence from Ethiopia on road traffic, unintentional and intentional injuries indicate the potential ...