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- 1From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Indigenous people face poor health outcomes in comparison with the Canadian population [1,2]. In remote indigenous communities, the health impacts of historical and systemic disadvantage are compounded by...
- 2From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Neonatal mortality accounts for 43% of global under-five deaths and is decreasing more slowly than maternal or child mortality. Donor funding has increased for maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH), but...
- 3From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Recommendations about scaling up HIV testing and counseling highlight the need to provide key services and to protect clients' rights, but it is unclear to what extent different modes of testing differ in...
- 4From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Households from vulnerable groups experiencing epidemiological transitions are known to be affected concomitantly by under-nutrition and obesity. Yet, it is unknown to what extent this double burden affects...
- 5From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Early diagnosis and intervention for people with dementia is increasingly considered a priority, but practitioners are concerned with the effects of earlier diagnosis and interventions on patients and...
- 6From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedHealth equity--the absence of avoidable and unfair differences in health, including access to health care--is relevant to virtually the whole of medicine and public health and encompasses much more than inequality...
- 7From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Randomized controlled trials have shown the importance of tight glucose control in type 1 diabetes (T1DM), but few recent studies have evaluated the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause...
- 8From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 10) Peer-Reviewed
Serious and life-threatening pregnancy-related infections: opportunities to reduce the global burden
Introduction Infection is an important, potentially preventable, and yet often overlooked cause of maternal mortality and morbidity as well fetal and neonatal well-being. Puerperal sepsis, narrowly defined by the... - 9From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBackground: it has been suggested that outcomes of antidepressant treatment for major depressive disorder could be significantly improved if treatment choice is informed by genetic data. This study aims to test the...
- 10From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedThis case study is part of the PLOS Medicine series on Global Mental Health Practice. Introduction Mental disorders are a significant public health issue due to their high prevalence and considerable contribution...
- 11From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBackground: To minimize potential risk of intussusception, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended in 2009 that rotavirus immunization should be initiated by age 15 weeks and completed before 32 weeks. These...
- 12From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedThis is one article in an occasional PLOS Medicine series on research integrity that examines issues affecting the ethics of health research worldwide. Introduction An increasing number of public and commercial...
- 13From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Health equity and social determinants of health remain high on international and national agendas. Recently, the report of the World Conference on Social Determinants of Health (October 2011) recognized...
- 14From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBackground: HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), the use of antiretroviral drugs by uninfected individuals to prevent HIV infection, has demonstrated effectiveness in preventing acquisition in a high-risk population of...
- 15From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBackground Human rights violations play an important role as determinants of, or structural barriers to, health [1-6]. Research, investigation, and documentation focused on human rights have led to the development of...
- 16From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 9, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Medical product regulatory systems are central to health systems; they ensure high quality and safe interventions like drugs, vaccines, and medical devices for patients who need and count on them. The...