Olbrich, laura;
Verghese, Valsan, P;
Smith, zoe franckling;
Sabi, issa;
Ntinginya, Nyanda E;
Mfinanga, alfred;
Banze, denise;
Viegas, sofia omar;
Khosa, celso;
Semphere, robina.
Background Childhood tuberculosis remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in part due to missed diagnosis. Diagnostic methods with enhanced sensitivity using easy-to-obtain specimens are needed. We aimed to assess the diagnostic accuracy of the Cepheid Mycobacterium tuberculosis Host Response pr...
Background: Despite growing interest in monitoring improvements in quality of care, data on service quality in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) is limited. While health systems researchers have hypothesized the relationship between facility readiness and provision of care, there have been f...
Introdução: As mortes em mulheres são consideradas um dos grandes desafios da saúde pública mundial, emespecial em países em desenvolvimento, uma vez que a maioria das mortes são por causas evitáveis. Pretende-secom este estudo identificar as principais causas biológicas e sociais das mortes de ...
Introdução: Morte materna é um indicador com enorme importância na saúde pública ao nível Mundial, 99% de mortes maternas ocorrem em países em desenvolvimento. Apesar dos avanços nos sistemas de informação, há
ainda relatos sobre subnotificações importantes em muitos países. Foi levado a ...
Advancements in global mental health implementation research have revealed promising strategies for improving access to evidence-based mental health care. These advancements have not translated, however, into a reduced prevalence of mental disorders. In this review we examine the relationships between de...
Damasceno, Albertino;
Gomes, Joana;
Azevedo, Ana;
Lobo, Victoria;
Lopes, Helder;
Madede, Tavares;
Pravinrai, Pius;
Silva-Matos, Carla;
Jalla, Sulemane;
Stewart, Simon;
Lunet, Nuno.
Already a major cause of death and disability in high-income countries, the burden of stroke
in sub-Saharan Africa is also expected to be high. However, specific stroke data are scarce from resource-poor countries.
We studied the incidence, characteristics, and short-term consequences of hospitalizations...
Hemorrhagic Stroke,
Stroke,
Cause of Death,
Cost of Illness,
Epidemiologic Studies,
Hypertension,
Hospitals,
Incidence,
World Health Organization,
Patients,
Developing Countries,
Population
Chronic malnutrition is a public health problem affecting mainly children under the age of five, particularly in developing countries, where about half of all deaths among children in this age group are attributed to malnutrition. The Government of Mozambique recognizes chronic malnutrition as the main n...
Mozambique,
Nutritional Sciences,
51572,
Malnutrition,
Government,
Age Groups,
Child Mortality,
Developing Countries,
Maternal Mortality,
Infant Mortality,
Chronic Disease,
Child Nutrition Disorders,
Public Health
Background: Deficiencies in the provision of evidence-based obstetric care are common in low-income countries, including Mozambique. Constraints relate to lack of human and financial resources and weak health systems, however limited resources alone do not explain the variance. Understanding the healthca...
Attitude of Health Personnel,
Developing Countries,
Family/psychology,
Maternal Health Services/standards,
Maternal Health Services/organization & administration,
Organizational Culture,
Perception,
Reproducibility of Results,
Surveys and Questionnaires/standards,
Workplace,
Mozambique
Contexte : L’épidémie du virus de l’immunodéficience humaine au Mozambique est un problème grave de santé publique et le Ministère de la Santé a étendu le traitement antirétroviral à tous les districts du pays. Cependant, on constate un nombre élevé d’abandon du traitement encore insuff...
Mozambique/epidemiology,
Anti-Retroviral Agents,
Anthropology, Cultural,
Medication Adherence,
HIV Infections/drug therapy,
Developing Countries,
Plants, Medicinal,
Epidemics/prevention & control,
Medicine, African Traditional,
Anti-Retroviral Agents/pharmacology,
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes/drug therapy,
HIV Infections/therapy,
Anti-HIV Agents/therapeutic use
Jessen , Neusa;
Damasceno, Albertino;
Silva-Matos, Carla;
Tuzine, Edite;
Madede , Tavares;
Mahoque , Raquel;
Padrão, Patrícia;
Mbofana , Francisco;
Polónia , Jorge;
Lunet , Nuno.
To assess the current prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of arterial hypertension in Mozambican population, including adolescents and young adults, and to appraise their trends over the past decade, for the 25–64 years old population.
Methods:
A cross-sectional study of a representative sam...
Antihypertensive Agents/therapeutic use,
Cross-Sectional Studies,
Developing Countries/statistics & numerical data,
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice,
Hypertension/drug therapy,
Hypertension/epidemiology,
Hypertension/physiopathology,
Prevalence,
Mozambique/epidemiology
