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- 1From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAmong all the conditions in the world of health, mental health occupies a unique and paradoxical place. On the one hand is over-treatment and over-medicalization of mental health issues, often fueled by a...
- 2From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedContext In 2011, the World Health Organization (WHO) Essential Medicines Programme published a list of "priority medicines" they considered essential for countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in child...
- 3From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedConsiderable progress has been made in reducing maternal, newborn, and child mortality worldwide, but many more deaths could be prevented if effective interventions were available to all who could benefit from them....
- 4From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Facilitation of local women's groups may reportedly reduce neonatal mortality. It is not known whether facilitation of groups composed of local health care staff and politicians can improve perinatal...
- 5From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Colon cancer (CC) pathological staging fails to accurately predict recurrence, and to date, no gene expression signature has proven reliable for prognosis stratification in clinical practice, perhaps because...
- 6From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedVaccination coverage is an important public health indicator that is measured using administrative reports and/or surveys. The measurement of vaccination coverage in low- and middle-income countries using surveys is...
- 7From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThis is one article in a five-part series providing a global perspective on integrating mental health. Introduction As countries develop and progress, health priorities must expand beyond eradication of...
- 8From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedIn this week's PLOS Medicine, Stanton Glantz and colleagues have conducted detailed historical research on the involvement of the tobacco industry, or at least its influence, in the preparation of an important Institute...
- 9From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Domestic violence in the perinatal period is associated with adverse obstetric outcomes, but evidence is limited on its association with perinatal mental disorders. We aimed to estimate the prevalence and...
- 10From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Depression and suicide are responsible for a substantial burden of disease globally. Evidence suggests that intimate partner violence (IPV) experience is associated with increased risk of depression, but...
- 11From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedCommunity case management (CCM) is a strategy for training and supporting workers at the community level to provide treatment for the three major childhood diseases-diarrhea, fever (indicative of malaria), and...
- 12From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedIn this week's issue of PLOS Medicine, Collin Payne and colleagues report a study of the burden of physical limitations and disability in rural Malawi, with a focus on disability transitions and health expectancies for...
- 13From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedNationally representative household surveys are increasingly relied up onto measure maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) intervention coverage at the population level in low- and middle-income countries. Surveys...
- 14From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedHousehold surveys are the primary data source of coverage indicators for children and women for most developing countries. Most of this information is generated by two global household survey programmes--the...
- 15From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction While considerable progress has been made towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and childhood diarrheal diseases have reduced from 4.6 million to 0.8 million over the last three decades, the...
- 16From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedGlobal monitoring of intervention coverage is a cornerstone of international efforts to improve reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health. In this review, we examine the process and implications of selecting a...
- 17From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThis is one article in a five-part series providing a global perspective on integrating mental health. Introduction Mental, neurological, and substance use (MNS) disorders occur frequently in patients with HIV and...
- 18From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedBackground: To assess progress in the scale-up of rapid diagnostic tests and artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) across Africa, malaria control programs have increasingly relied on standardized national...
- 19From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThis is one article in a five-part series providing a global perspective on integrating mental health. Introduction In this final paper in a five-part series highlighting the opportunities for integrating mental...
- 20From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 10, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedPneumonia remains a major cause of child death globally, and improving antibiotic treatment rates is a key control strategy. Progress in improving the global coverage of antibiotic treatment is monitored through large...