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Air quality and attributable mortality among city dwellers in Kampala, Uganda: results from 4 years of continuous PM2.5 concentration monitoring using BAM 1022 reference instrument
BackgroundAir pollution is a known risk factor for non-communicable diseases that causes substantial premature death globally. Rapid urban growth,...
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Attitude of mental healthcare providers toward tele-psychiatry services and associated factors at public referral hospitals in Addis Ababa city, Ethiopia
IntroductionHealth systems around the world are struggling with the massive numbers of people with mental disorders who require professional care....
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Analysing the global and local spatial associations of medical resources across Wuhan city using POI data
BackgroundThere is a sharp contradiction between the supply and demand of medical resources in the provincial capitals of China. Understanding the...
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Cohort study of postural sway and low back pain: the Copenhagen City Heart Study
PurposeLow back pain is a significant health problem with a high prevalence. Studies of smaller cohorts of low back pain patients have indicated...
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Leveraging network analysis to determine sex differences in factors associated with frailty among older adults living alone
BackgroundFrailty is a complex geriatric syndrome typically characterized by multiple underlying etiological factors. We determined the contributing...
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Haitian women in New York City use global food plants for women’s health
BackgroundDespite the availability of mainstream biomedical healthcare in New York City (NYC), community-based ethnomedicine practices remain a...
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Staff resilience and innovation essential to New York City diabetes prevention programs going virtual during COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns
BackgroundCOVID-19 lockdowns in March 2020 forced National Diabetes Prevention Programs (DPPs) to pause, cancel or reformulate. This qualitative...
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Congenital Zika syndrome and living conditions in the largest city of northeastern Brazil
BackgroundThe Zika virus (ZIKV) epidemic hit Brazil in 2015 and resulted in a generation of children at risk of congenital Zika syndrome (CZS). The...
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Spatial accessibility and inequality analysis of rabies-exposed patients to rabies post-exposure prophylaxis clinics in Guangzhou City, China
BackgroundThe incidence of rabies exposure is high and increasing in China, leading to an urgent demand of rabies post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP)...
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A network system for the prevention and treatment of mushroom poisoning in Chuxiong Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China: implementation and assessment
BackgroundMushroom poisoning is a major public health issue in China. The integration of medical resources from different institutes of different...
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The Intersection of Age and HIV Status for Black Sexual Minority Men (BSMM): A Social Network Analysis
Advancements in treatment have resulted in increased life expectancy for individuals living with HIV. However, there is a dearth of literature...
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Noise Pollution and Associated Hearing Loss in a Metropolitan City—a Preliminary Report
To measure the amount of noise produced in busy parts of a metropolitan and also to assess the audiological status of the civilians exposed to such...
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Inter-individual relationships within a Canadian SPOR research network: a social network study
BackgroundEfforts have been made by health research granting agencies to bring research closer to patients’ concerns. In Canada, such efforts were...
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Neighborhood deprivation, built environment, and overweight in adolescents in the city of Oslo
BackgroundEven though the social and built environment characteristics of neighborhoods have been studied as potential determinants of social...
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Personalized functional network map** for autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are two typical neurodevelopmental disorders that have a long-term...
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The comorbid network characteristics of anxiety and depressive symptoms among Chinese college freshmen
BackgroundThis study aimed to investigate the interplay between anxiety and depressive symptoms in Chinese college freshmen using the causal system...
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Interdisciplinary network care collaboration in Parkinson’s disease: a baseline evaluation in Germany
BackgroundThe strengthening of interdisciplinary care collaboration in Parkinson's disease is taking on increasing importance in daily medical...
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Database derived from an electronic medical record-based surveillance network of US emergency department patients with acute respiratory illness
BackgroundFor surveillance of episodic illness, the emergency department (ED) represents one of the largest interfaces for generalizable data about...
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Mental resources, mental health and sociodemography: a cluster analysis based on a representative population survey in a large German city
BackgroundMental resources such as optimism and social support are important to face different stressors. The aim of this study is to identify groups...
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Imagining and implementing healthy city interventions: Combined results from parallel concept map** exercises in Montreal with community members and stakeholders
ObjectiveBuilt environment interventions provide structural solutions to complex urban challenges. Though community voices are part of municipal...
