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World Health Organization. Global health sector strategies 2022–2030. Available at: https://www.who.int/teams/global-hiv-hepatitis-and-stis-programmes/hiv/prevention/mother-to-child-transmission-of-hiv. Goga A, Singh Y, Jackson D, Pillay Y, Bhardwaj S, Chirinda W, Hayashi C, Essajee S, Idele P. Is elimination of vertical transmission of HIV in high prevalence settings achievable? BMJ. 2019;364:l687. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l687. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Wedderburn CJ, Weldon E, Bertran-Cobo … Read more
Wahlbeck K, Westman J, Nordentoft M, Gissler M, Laursen TM. Outcomes of Nordic mental health systems: Life expectancy of patients with mental disorders. Br J Psychiatry. 2011;119:453–8. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.110.085100. Article Google Scholar Lawrence D, Hancock KJ, Kisely S. The gap in life expectancy from preventable physical illness in psychiatric patients in Western Australia: retrospective analysis of … Read more
Datasets The participants of this study were drawn from Ivan City (https://ivancity.com/bbs/login.php), Korea’s largest online portal for the gay community, managed by LGBT KOREA since 1999. “Ivan” in Korean is slang used by homosexuals to distinguish themselves from “ilvan” (heterosexuals), and approximately 95% of its members are men who have sex with men (MSM). The … Read more
This study provides powerful evidence indicating the complicated relationship between smoking behaviors and obesity among Taiwanese males. Our findings reveal that smoking is significantly related to the risk of overall and abdominal obesity. Light- and moderate-intensity smokers are at particularly high risks of exhibiting increased BMI and waist circumference. This comprehensive study of smoking behaviors … Read more
The global challenge of cancer. Nat Cancer, 2020. 1(1): pp. 1–2. Bray F, et al. Global cancer statistics 2022: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries. CA Cancer J Clin. 2024;74(3):229–63. Article PubMed Google Scholar Siegel RL, Giaquinto AN, Jemal A. Cancer statistics, 2024. CA Cancer J Clin. 2024;74(1):12–49. … Read more
Global level In 2021, the worldwide number of CKD cases was 673,722,703 (95% UI: 629,095,119–722,364,096), with an age-standardized prevalence rate (ASPR) of 8006.00 per 100,000 persons (7482.12–8575.62). The global incidence of CKD involved 19,935,038 cases (18,702,793–21,170,794), with an age-standardized incidence rate (ASIR) of 233.56 per 100,000 persons (220.02–247.24). The number of deaths was 1,527,639 (1,389,377–1,638,914), … Read more
This paper explores sanitation behaviours in rural Indonesia and further assesses contextual and psychosocial factors predicting them. The respondents in rural Luwu reported a low frequency of defecating in the latrine, shown by the tendency to respond with ‘never’ and ‘rarely’ when being asked how often or how regularly they defecate in the latrine. Our … Read more
The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines mental health as ‘a state of mental well-being that enables people to cope with the stresses of life, realise their abilities, learn well and work well, and contribute to their community’ [1]. It suggests that mental health is experienced on a continuum, is more than an absence of mental … Read more
Participant description From the quantitative study, 84 out of 93 participants had indicated their willingness to participate in follow-up research. All 84 were contacted by the researchers. Finally, 21 people participated in this qualitative study. One participant preferred not to continue after a few questions. This interview was excluded from the analysis, bringing the total … Read more