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Adherence to the EAT-Lancet diet in midlife and development in weight or waist circumference after five years in a Danish cohort 丹麦队列中中年坚持EAT柳叶刀饮食和五年后体重或腰围的发展
Dialogues in health Pub Date : 2023-08-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.dialog.2023.100151
Fie Langmann , Daniel B. Ibsen , Anne Tjønneland , Anja Olsen , Kim Overvad , Christina C. Dahm
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Causes of dropout from health insurance program: An experience from Lumbini Province, Nepal 退出健康保险项目的原因:尼泊尔蓝毗尼省的经验
Dialogues in health Pub Date : 2023-08-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.dialog.2023.100150
Devaraj Acharya , Krishna Bahadur Thapa , Bhagawoti Sharma , Mohan Singh Rana
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Household food security, child dietary diversity and coping strategies among rural households. The case of Kole District in northern Uganda 家庭粮食安全、儿童饮食多样性和农村家庭应对策略。乌干达北部科勒区的案例
Dialogues in health Pub Date : 2023-07-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.dialog.2023.100149
Samuel Elolu , Alod Agako , Daniel Micheal Okello
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Migrant workers' health-related research in Nepal: A bibliometric study 尼泊尔外来务工人员健康相关研究:文献计量学研究
Dialogues in health Pub Date : 2023-07-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.dialog.2023.100147
Sharada P. Wasti , Ayushka Shrestha , Madhu Sudhan Atteraya , Vijay S. GC
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Awareness, practices and perspectives on ensuring access to ideally packaged iodized salt in Nigeria 在尼日利亚确保获得理想包装碘盐的认识、做法和观点
Dialogues in health Pub Date : 2023-07-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.dialog.2023.100148
Oluwaseun Ariyo , Opeyemi Akintimehin , Anuoluwapo Funmilayo Taiwo , Thelma Nwandu , Bukola Olanrewaju Olaniyi
{"title":"Awareness, practices and perspectives on ensuring access to ideally packaged iodized salt in Nigeria","authors":"Oluwaseun Ariyo ,&nbsp;Opeyemi Akintimehin ,&nbsp;Anuoluwapo Funmilayo Taiwo ,&nbsp;Thelma Nwandu ,&nbsp;Bukola Olanrewaju Olaniyi","doi":"10.1016/j.dialog.2023.100148","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dialog.2023.100148","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Salt iodization is a positive exemplar of a sustainable public-private partnership in promoting better nutrition outcomes in many countries. However, the gains in the past decades are gradually being eroded, following laxity in policy implementation, monitoring and regulatory roles resulting in increasing access to non-labelled salt in the Nigerian market. This study was designed to evaluate the awareness, practices and perspectives on salt iodization and regulations among salt marketers and consumers in Ibadan, Oyo state.</p><p>This mixed-method study was carried out in seven major markets across Ibadan metropolis. A three-stage sampling technique was used to select 77 salt users/clients, 103 salt vendors, 12 salt wholesalers and four regulators/producers. Interviewer-administered questionnaire was used to collect information on types/brands of salt, handling, retail practices, awareness, and salt purchase preference. Structured in-depth interview was used to elicit information on existing regulations, compliance level, and monitoring activities. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse quantitative data. Interviews were tape-recorded, transcribed verbatim and analyzed thematically.</p><p>Males constituted 66.7%, 1.0% and 14.3% of respondents among wholesalers, retail vendors, and clients, respectively, with 100.0%, 58.3% and 84.4% having at least primary education. All wholesalers and 30.1% of retail vendors used shaded structure. About 67% of the wholesalers and 58.3% of the retailers sold branded salt. Clients’ basis for the use of non-branded salt included cheapness and greater quantity (54.5%), higher intensiveness/saltiness and greater quantity (22.1%), and cheaper cost (18.2%). Only 3% of the consumers were aware of mandatory salt iodization, 3.9% were aware of guidelines on salt marketing and only 18.2% handled salt safely. Safe handling practices were found among all wholesalers and 44.7% of the retailers. Qualitative findings revealed the existence of regulation on the production, packing and marketing of salts in Nigeria, however, enforcement and monitoring at the market level is weak.</p><p>The demand and use of industrial salt in food preparation remain widespread among consumers in Ibadan, Nigeria following limited awareness of salt iodization programme and its benefits. Regulations on salt marketing should be enforced at all levels and nutrition education on salt iodization should be intensified.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72803,"journal":{"name":"Dialogues in health","volume":"3 ","pages":"Article 100148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45730610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Mid-level health providers (MLHPs) in delivering and improving access to primary health care services – a narrative review 中级卫生保健提供者提供和改善获得初级卫生保健服务的机会——叙述性审查
Dialogues in health Pub Date : 2023-07-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.dialog.2023.100146
Vishal Chauhan , Neha Dumka , Erin Hannah , Tarannum Ahmed , Atul Kotwal
{"title":"Mid-level health providers (MLHPs) in delivering and improving access to primary health care services – a narrative review","authors":"Vishal Chauhan ,&nbsp;Neha Dumka ,&nbsp;Erin Hannah ,&nbsp;Tarannum Ahmed ,&nbsp;Atul Kotwal","doi":"10.1016/j.dialog.2023.100146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dialog.2023.100146","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>For primary healthcare systems to bring care closer to the communities, the availability of appropriate human resources is crucial. The primary care workforce in the world is expanding to include non-physician health workers (NPHWs) to increase its capacity. Also, NPHWs as mid-level health providers (MLHPs) are currently being employed in high- and low-income countries to assist doctors and specialists to make up for the scarcity of health professionals. Given the wide prevalence in the deployment of NPHWs as mid-level health providers, this article collates recent evidence on the role of MLHPs in improving access to primary healthcare services, and their enablers and barriers in integrating them in primary care teams. The article also presents gaps in evidence and recommendations for the way forward.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>A systematic search of contemporary literature published from January 2012 to September 2022 was undertaken using two bibliographic databases (PubMed and Cochrane) and hand searching the reference list of retrieved papers. Duplicates, papers older than ten years, and whose focus was not on primary healthcare were excluded. The papers finalised for appraisal were scrutinised for key themes and their summaries were collated for analysis. The papers comprised of twenty-four quantitative, twenty-three qualitative, and nine mixed approach study designs (<em>n</em> = 56) due to which a narrative approach was conducted as per guidelines.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>The review identified and presents the following themes - task shifting and its effectiveness in service delivery, quality of care, enablers and barriers of NPHWs in primary health care in both HIC and LMIC settings.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>Task-shifting interventions need effective engagement and constant coordination with relevant stakeholders. For this, policymakers, public health researchers, healthcare professionals of all cadres and community members need to be involved across all stages of introduction and absorption of the cadre into the primary healthcare delivery system.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72803,"journal":{"name":"Dialogues in health","volume":"3 ","pages":"Article 100146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49777353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Mid-level health providers (MLHPs) in delivering and improving access to primary health care services - a narrative review. 中级保健提供者(MLHPs)在提供和改善初级保健服务方面的作用--叙述性综述。
Dialogues in health Pub Date : 2023-07-04 eCollection Date: 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.dialog.2023.100146
Vishal Chauhan, Neha Dumka, Erin Hannah, Tarannum Ahmed, Atul Kotwal
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Migrants workers health-related research in Nepal: A bibliometric review 尼泊尔移民工人健康相关研究:文献计量学综述
Dialogues in health Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.dialog.2023.100147
S. P. Wasti, Ayushka Shrestha, M. Atteraya, Vijay S Gc
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Perceptions of health care workers on maternal and child health services in Pakistan during COVID-19: A cross-sectional study COVID-19期间巴基斯坦卫生保健工作者对妇幼保健服务的看法:一项横断面研究
Dialogues in health Pub Date : 2023-06-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.dialog.2023.100145
Jamil Ahmed , Ramesh Kumar , Vikram Mehraj , Amer Almarabheh , Sadiq Ali Khowaja , Shahzad Ali Khan , Nawal Naeem , Sathirakorn Pongpanich
{"title":"Perceptions of health care workers on maternal and child health services in Pakistan during COVID-19: A cross-sectional study","authors":"Jamil Ahmed ,&nbsp;Ramesh Kumar ,&nbsp;Vikram Mehraj ,&nbsp;Amer Almarabheh ,&nbsp;Sadiq Ali Khowaja ,&nbsp;Shahzad Ali Khan ,&nbsp;Nawal Naeem ,&nbsp;Sathirakorn Pongpanich","doi":"10.1016/j.dialog.2023.100145","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dialog.2023.100145","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>Maternal and child healthcare service delivery in vulnerable and fragile health systems has suffered a tremendous impact owing to the shift in focus to curtail the COVID-19 pandemic. We aimed to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and child healthcare services to inform policy advice for a more resilient maternal and child healthcare service delivery in Pakistan.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted. A structured and validated questionnaire was transformed into an online version and a link was first sent to about 300 healthcare professionals to achieve a sample size of 203, including medical doctors, nurses, and other paramedical staff working in public sector health facilities of the four provinces of Pakistan. The questionnaire was responded to by 195 participants. The Chi-Square test was used to determine the statistical differences between the categorical variables.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Although about two-thirds of the participants reported a moderate adherence to protocols and procedures to prevent COVID-19 in their health facilities, the maternal and child health service delivery-related indicators declined during the pandemic. For instance, 66.8% and 62.4% of the participants, respectively, did not agree that a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and an Intensive Care Unit to admit sick newborns and women with obstetric complications during the COVID-19 pandemic were available during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, 23% and 20% of the participants, respectively, reported that staff availability and the provision of cesarean section were moderate to extremely affected. The association between job designation and the impact of COVID-19 was statistically significant (χ2 <em>p</em> = 0.038).</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>The study suggests that maternal and child healthcare services including C-Section, perinatal care, and inpatient care of newborns in Pakistan may have been moderately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72803,"journal":{"name":"Dialogues in health","volume":"3 ","pages":"Article 100145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45824484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Building capacity of healthcare professionals and community members to address climate and health threats in The Bahamas: Analysis of a green climate fund pilot workshop. 巴哈马医疗保健专业人员和社区成员应对气候和健康威胁的能力建设:绿色气候基金试点研讨会分析。
Dialogues in health Pub Date : 2023-06-17 eCollection Date: 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.dialog.2023.100141
William Hamilton, Calae Philippe, James Hospedales, Caleb Dresser, Bridgette Colebrooke, Nicola Hamacher, Kimberly Humphrey, Cecilia Sorensen
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