Early childhood development coming of age: science through the life course

MM Black, SP Walker, LCH Fernald, CT Andersen… - The Lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Early childhood development programmes vary in coordination and quality, with inadequate
and inequitable access, especially for children younger than 3 years. New estimates, based …

Poverty and disability in low-and middle-income countries: A systematic review

LM Banks, H Kuper, S Polack - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Disability and poverty are believed to operate in a cycle, with each reinforcing
the other. While agreement on the existence of a link is strong, robust empirical evidence …

Access barriers to obstetric care at health facilities in sub-Saharan Africa—a systematic review

M Kyei-Nimakoh, M Carolan-Olah, TV McCann - Systematic reviews, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Background Since 2000, the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals, which
included a goal to improve maternal health by the end of 2015, has facilitated significant …

[HTML][HTML] Advancing Early Childhood Development: From Science to Scale 1: Early childhood development coming of age: Science through the life course

MM Black, SP Walker, LCH Fernald… - Lancet (London …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Early childhood development programmes vary in coordination and quality, with inadequate
and inequitable access, especially for children younger than 3 years. New estimates, based …

Chronic noncommunicable diseases in 6 low-and middle-income countries: findings from wave 1 of the World Health Organization's study on global Ageing and adult …

P Arokiasamy, Uttamacharya, P Kowal… - American journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
In this paper, we examine patterns of self-reported diagnosis of noncommunicable diseases
(NCDs) and prevalences of algorithm/measured test-based, undiagnosed, and untreated …

The socio-ecological model approach to understanding barriers and facilitators to the accessing of health services by sex workers: a systematic review

PHX Ma, ZCY Chan, AY Loke - AIDS and Behavior, 2017 - Springer
Inequities in accessing health care persist among sex workers. The purpose of the review is
to understand the health-seeking behaviours of sex workers and their access to health care …

[PDF][PDF] A systematic review of the literature on survey questionnaires to assess self-medication practices

D Limaye, V Limaye, G Krause… - … Medicine and Public …, 2017 - serwiss.bib.hs-hannover.de
Self-medication is of great public health importance as it often bypasses regulatory
mechanisms to assure quality of health care. Nevertheless there are no established …

Mobile health in the developing world: Review of literature and lessons from a case study

S Latif, R Rana, J Qadir, A Ali, MA Imran… - IEEE Access, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The mHealth trend, which uses mobile devices and associated technology for health
interventions, offers unprecedented opportunity to transform the health services available to …

Quality of antenatal care services and completion of four or more antenatal care visits in Ethiopia: a finding based on a demographic and health survey

KF Muchie - BMC pregnancy and childbirth, 2017 - Springer
Background Antenatal care (ANC) is one of the core interventions for improving maternal
outcomes. The average annual decline of maternal mortality rate from 1990 to 2013 was 5 …

A systematic review of strategies to increase access to health services among children in low and middle income countries

T Bright, L Felix, H Kuper, S Polack - BMC health services research, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Background Universal Health Coverage is widely endorsed as the pivotal goal in
global health, however substantial barriers to accessing health services for children in low …