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    Identifying emerging hot spots of road traffic injury severity using spatiotemporal methods: longitudinal analyses on major roads in Ghana from 2005 to 2020

    Although road traffic injuries and deaths have decreased globally, there is substantial national and sub-national heterogeneity, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Ghana is one of few co...

    Aldina Mesic, James Damsere-Derry, Caryl Feldacker, Stephen J. Mooney in BMC Public Health (2024)

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    Correction to: The prevalence of hypertension and its distribution by sociodemographic factors in Central Mozambique: a cross sectional study

    An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Mika Matsuzaki, Kenneth Sherr, Orvalho Augusto, Yoshito Kawakatsu in BMC Public Health (2020)

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    The prevalence of hypertension and its distribution by sociodemographic factors in Central Mozambique: a cross sectional study

    Hypertension (HTN) is a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, and its prevalence has been rising in low- and middle-income countries. The current study describes HTN prevalence in central Mozambique, ...

    Mika Matsuzaki, Kenneth Sherr, Orvalho Augusto, Yoshito Kawakatsu in BMC Public Health (2020)

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    Depressive symptoms, suicidal ideation, and mental health care-seeking in central Mozambique

    There is scant research on depressive symptoms (DS), suicidal ideation (SI), and mental health care-seeking in Mozambique.

    Sheldon Halsted, Kristjana H. Ásbjörnsdóttir in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemio… (2019)

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    Geographic distribution and determinants of mental health stigma in central Mozambique

    This study describes patterns of community-level stigmatizing attitudes towards mental illness (MI) in central Mozambique.

    Yue Zhang, Orvalho Augusto in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemio… (2019)

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    Develo** a representative community health survey sampling frame using open-source remote satellite imagery in Mozambique

    Lack of accurate data on the distribution of sub-national populations in low- and middle-income countries impairs planning, monitoring, and evaluation of interventions. Novel, low-cost methods to develop unbia...

    Bradley H. Wagenaar, Orvalho Augusto in International Journal of Health Geographics (2018)

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    Small area estimation of under-5 mortality in Bangladesh, Cameroon, Chad, Mozambique, Uganda, and Zambia using spatially misaligned data

    The under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) is an important metric of child health and survival. Country-level estimates of U5MR are readily available, but efforts to estimate U5MR subnationally have been limited, in pa...

    Laura Dwyer-Lindgren, Ellen R. Squires, Stephanie Teeple in Population Health Metrics (2018)

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    Effects of a health information system data quality intervention on concordance in Mozambique: time-series analyses from 2009–2012

    We assessed the effects of a three-year national-level, ministry-led health information system (HIS) data quality intervention and identified associated health facility factors.

    Bradley H Wagenaar, Sarah Gimbel, Roxanne Hoek, James Pfeiffer in Population Health Metrics (2015)